News Feed

Online sales accounted for nearly a fifth of total retail turnover last year as lockdowns to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic fuelled a boom in e-commerce, a United ...

A new company, based in Brussels, is creating a pan-European payments service that can be used to pay online as well as in stores, settle bills between individual consumers and ...

Cryptocurrency ether broke past $3,000 on Monday to set a new record high in a dazzling rally that has outshone the bigger bitcoin, as investors bet that ether will be of ...

Chinese researchers have identified a marine bacterial community capable of degrading plastic waste of poly (ethyleneterephthalate) and polyethylene. While the plastic-eating qualities of bacteria are already well known to the ...

An education ministry proposal on how the Pancyprian exams will be carried out is set to be presented during Wednesday’s Cabinet session. A report carried by daily Philelftheros said ...

Gareth Bale’s stunning hat-trick earned Tottenham Hotspur a 4-0 win over relegated Sheffield United to keep them in the hunt for a top-four finish in the Premier League on ...

Manchester United’s Premier League match against Liverpool was postponed on Sunday after United fans forced their way into the stadium and stormed the Old Trafford pitch to protest against ...

Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton overtook main rival Max Verstappen and Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas to win the Portuguese Grand Prix on Sunday and go eight points clear in ...

For the second year running, President Nicos Anastasiades told locked-down Cypriots he hoped this would be the last Easter that was overshadowed by the pandemic. In his Easter televised address ...

The health ministry announced one death and 58 positives for Covid-19 from 6,158 PCR and rapid tests on Sunday with a positivity rate of 0.94 per cent. Mass testing was not carried out ...

A tempest in a small teapot this week, as Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Israel of ‘apartheid’. That echoed the judgement of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, which ...

he U.S. State Department on Sunday denied reports of a prisoner swap with Iran after Tehran confirmed a Lebanese television report that an exchange was in the works. “Reports ...

Top quality honey is not easy to produce, especially in the face of local pesticide and antibiotic use and climate change By Annette Chrysostomou Projects such as the Achna bee ...

Mandatory face masks could not conceal their delight as clubbers in the Spanish city of Girona moved to the thumping beats of house music put on by a live DJ. ...

In this video, we walk through Rome to explore its many beautiful fountains and aqueducts, absorbing the role they played in the ancient metropolis’ struggles with enemies, its engineering innovations, ...

On May 17, 2019, I applied for Cyprus citizenship. I paid 300 euros (not a few millions). I was assured that in no more than 10 months I would have Cypriot citizenship. Obviously, two ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Until recent years, international financial organisations supported the view that narrowly defined fiscal discipline was an absolute prerequisite for long-term sustainable growth. The foundations ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced more allegations on Sunday about his expenditure on the refurbishment of his apartment and on childcare for his young son, which his foreign minister ...

While the world struggles to shift from petrol to electric vehicles, efforts to reclaim the economically costly hours of congestion, and cut down on accidents and CO2 emissions resulting from ...

I was shocked to learn of the survey that was taken showing that only four out of 10 people said they would get the Covid vaccine. Have they not been watching ...

The health ministry has released the testing locations for Monday as follows: Thus, employees may proceed to the testing units operating in all Districts, according to the plan designed by ...

George Orwell’s Big Brother, Stalin, Adolf Hitler and their ilk would be jealous of the level of Draconian state measures introduced by the Cyprus government. There is a virulent ...

A police officers’ association called Isotita (Equality) on Sunday warned it would have to take action before officers or firefighters were killed in the light of a series of violent ...

Myanmar security forces opened fire on some of the biggest protests against military rule in days, killing at least five people on Sunday, media reported, three months after a coup ...