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The Monday night game between Anorthosis and Apollon in the first round of the championship playoff group was an incredibly incendiary affair, not so much the final result (2-2), but ...

One death and 288 new coronavirus cases were announced on Tuesday. The new cases were from 32,933 tests, PCR and rapid tests, with the positivity rate at 0.87 per cent. The death concerns ...

By Barbara Goldberg Six children’s books written by Dr. Seuss will no longer be published because they contain racist and insensitive imagery, the company set up to preserve the ...

Volvo’s entire car lineup will be fully electric by 2030, the Chinese-owned company said on Tuesday, joining a growing number of automakers planning to phase out fossil-fuel engines by the ...

€1.1bn was lost to the Cyprus economy as a result of the coronavirus, the statistical service (Cystat) announced on Tuesday. According to Cystat, Cyprus’ GDP shrank by 5.1 per cent in 2020 ...

By Kate Kelland A highly transmissible COVID-19 variant that emerged in Brazil and has now been found in at least 20 countries can re-infect people who previously recovered from the disease, ...

Police announced that accumulation of water at various points on the Larnaca to Nicosia highway, in both directions, especially in the Lympia area has been seen, with the result that ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says it is the “right time” for the United Kingdom and Ireland to launch a bid to host the 2030 soccer World Cup, while he added ...

During a period of forced confinement, a couple is isolated at home experiencing a new reality. Day by day, they converse, interact, fall in love, fight, break up, mourn and ...

Limassol’s Carnival King will be touring the streets of Limassol later this week on his chariot, starting from stinky Thursday in a bid to spread some festive cheer around ...

Coronavirus: Where to get tested on Wednesday The health ministry announced that 55 rapid test sites will operate nationwide on Wednesday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and ...

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has described the internationally accepted model of a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation as “a starting point” for a settlement to the Cyprus issue, urging “flexibility ...

The European Commission said on Tuesday that it was considering emergency approvals for COVID-19 vaccines as a faster alternative to more rigorous conditional marketing authorisations which have been used so ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis on Tuesday urged people who have been sexually abused or harassed to find the courage to report their cases to the authorities. Yiolitis met the assistant ...

In this video, we tour the elegant environment of Vienna’s famous Hotel Sacher. The Sacher has been a part of Viennese history since 1832, when Prince Metternich, then an Austrian ...

By Steve Holland and Arshad Mohammed The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions to punish Russia for what it described as Moscow’s attempt to poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said authorities were worried by the sudden spike in coronavirus infections despite expecting an uptick as restrictions were eased. Ioannou was speaking after a meeting with ...

In this video, we take a pre-Covid trip to Lima, where local resident Maria Clara shows us the sights of the Peruvian capital, from the Old Town – a UNESCO World ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was set to throw a Zoom party in quarantine to celebrate his 90th birthday on Tuesday, as President Vladimir Putin hailed him as an “...

Airport traffic in February fell to a paltry six per cent of that of the same month two years ago, although an uptick in air travel is expected – or hoped ...

By Katie Wright Whether you’ve stripped back your beauty regime recently, or taken time to indulge in some pandemic pampering, it’s easy to make mistakes when it comes ...

Drawing on their own lockdown realities, art critic Alastair Sooke and Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art department co-chairman Giovanna Bertazzoni discuss interior spaces in works by French Impressionist artists É...

Limassol police arrested a 23-year-old on Tuesday on suspicion of stealing a watch worth €120,000 from a gym locker at a hotel in the town’s centre. Police said the theft ...

A film called Nobody is to be released on Friday – it tells the story of an innocent person who inadvertently becomes the target of a vengeful drug lord. Know who’...