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Cheap and easy lockdown exercise: pandemic sees more people interested in cycling and shops can’t cope with the demand By Annette Chrysostomou Most agree the surge in cycling brought ...

Two goals apiece from Harry Kane and Gareth Bale helped a resurgent Tottenham Hotspur to beat Crystal Palace 4-1 and move into sixth spot in the Premier League on Sunday. ...

Manchester City’s 21-match winning streak was ended by rivals Manchester United on Sunday with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side enjoying a 2-0 Premier League derby win at the Etihad ...

One death and 303 new coronavirus cases were announced on Sunday. The death concerns an 89-year-old man with underlying health conditions. The total number of people who died from Covid-19 is ...

Rangers celebrated their first league triumph since 2011 after Celtic were frustrated by Dundee United in a 0-0 Premiership draw on Sunday to hand their bitter Glasgow rivals the title. Rangers ...

The health ministry announced the rapid testing sites for Monday, 57 in total. The testing sites are available for the wider population, workers and the self-employed but also pupils aged 12 and ...

COVID-19 insurance policies are increasingly joining passports and sunscreen as vacation staples, creating opportunities for insurers as more countries require mandatory coverage in case visitors fall ill from the coronavirus. ...

Scores of people gathered outside the district administration office in Limassol on Sunday afternoon to protest against the measures against the spread of coronavirus but also the obligatory testing in ...

A week-long campaign will start on Monday for the use of seat belts and booster seats, police said on Sunday. According to a police announcement, more than half (55,5 per cent) ...

Two German lawmakers have resigned from posts in chancellor Angela Merkel’s parliamentary group in a scandal over alleged kickback payments for state purchases of respiratory masks, in a blow ...

The Learning Refuge in Paphos is moving to a new house to operate from, which includes a stunning, contemporary chapel, which they will care for. “We have been fortunate to ...

Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei belongs to one of the richest royal clans in the entire world. While his brother, Sultan Hassan al Bolkiah, controls the family’s fortune, which ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides At regular intervals, the European Commission undertakes an assessment of the economies of the member countries of the EU. This process, known as ‘European ...

Myanmar’s major trade unions called on members to shut down the economy from Monday to support a campaign against last month’s coup, turning up the pressure on the ...

In this video, we take a pre-Covid trip to Perugia, the Italian region of Umbria’s largest and most cosmopolitan city, and famous for its pristine medieval centre. Other than ...

A series of steps that currently lead to nowhere have excited the imagination of people living nearby although treasure of legend has not been found there. But what has been ...

In this video we head to Lindau to visit an Opera house of a very special kind – one designed exclusively for performances by marionettes, founded and led by Bernhard Leismü...

Is the badly needed catharsis of the politically exposed persons in sight? By Christos P Panayiotides I am one of the three members of a team comprising Sir Christopher Pissarides, ...

By Elizabeth Piper British Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed his gratitude on Sunday to health workers, responding to criticism over his government’s pay proposal by saying he had tried ...

By Gwynne Dyer By now Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will have reached Correctional Facility No 2 (IK-2), where he will be spending the next two-and-a-half years in one of the ...

Women held 33 per cent of seats in national parliaments in the EU in 2020, according to data released on Sunday by Eurostat, the statistical service of the EU. Cyprus, at 22 per ...

A convoy of around 70 cars drove on Sunday in the streets of Limassol in an unusual carnival parade aimed at spreading cheer to the people. The idea was to hold ...

In this video, art historians Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris discuss the remarkable ‘Nike of Samothrace’, a marble Hellenistic sculpture of the Greek goddess of victory, created around 190 ...

By Savvakis C. Savvides A business today is like an orange that is forcibly squeezed from both sides under conditions of extreme debt and by being obliged to be operating ...