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Britain said it would bring in tighter border controls next week against new variants of the coronavirus, requiring hotel quarantine for arrivals and threatening rule-breakers with up to 10 years in ...

There is no indication as to when secondary school pupils excluded from Monday’s reopening will be able to return to the classroom, the secondary school teachers’ unions Oelmek and ...

The Camino de Santiago, or Pilgrim Route, is the longest-established “tourist” route in Europe, and its final section through Galicia provides echoes of the medieval pilgrimage to the thousands who ...

The closure of the Cyprus grains commission after 67 years is inevitable because it is unviable, its chairman Kyriacos Kakouris told the House finance committee. With the exception of the 2010-2011 ...

The head of the World Health Organization-led team in the central Chinese city of Wuhan probing the origins of COVID-19 said on Tuesday that cold chain transmission of the virus ...

American artist and illustrator Norman Rockwell’s cover illustrations for the ‘Saturday Evening Post’ magazine were often of seasonal or topical subjects. His oil on canvas painting, ‘Going and Coming’, ...

A Turkish-made TV drama called ‘Once Upon a Time in Cyprus’ is set to focus on the events of 1963, a period when intercommunal strife intensified. The TV series – Bir Zamanlar ...

By Katie Wright Ahead of the launch of new series Your Garden Made Perfect on BBC Two, Irish presenter Angela Scanlon has spoken about how “wildly comforting” gardening can be ...

Geroskipou municipality on Tuesday harangued Interior Minister Nicos Nouris for singling them out in his drive to implement local government reform willy-nilly, saying their own ideas about merging with neighbouring ...

Britain is demanding the European Union agree to rework the post-Brexit trade rules governing trade with Northern Ireland, seeking more time, better solutions and, in some cases, a renegotiation of ...

Always exercise responsibly and safely. Ideally under the guidance of a trained fitness and/or medical professional, who can match the exercise or sports regimen to your present level of ...

Greek fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas served up a tennis masterclass to veteran Frenchman Gilles Simon during a 6-1 6-2 6-1 thrashing to open his Australian Open campaign on Tuesday. The 2019 ...

The department of electromechanical services on Tuesday warned the public it had identified a dangerous cable extension set in the market. According to the announcement, the WePLUG Model 66002, made in ...

Road works on the second section of Makarios Avenue will start on Monday, the Nicosia municipality has announced. From February 15 at 10am, Makarios Avenue, from Evagoras Avenue to Stasandrou Street, ...

Turkey is looking to buy a fourth drillship and has struck a preliminary deal, according to media reports. The drillship is the Bolette Dolphin, built in 2014 by South Korea’s ...

The Covid-19 AstraZeneca vaccine reduces but does not eliminate the risk of coronavirus infection, the health ministry said on Tuesday. In an announcement with instructions for the public concerning the ...

How do foxes know where to pounce when they can’t see their prey? There’s evidence to suggest they’re using the Earth’s magnetic field to help… View ...

TUI Group, the world’s biggest holiday company, needs a summer recovery to relieve pressure on its strained finances and is banking on vaccinated Britons going abroad in the peak ...

A woman was charged in Limassol after she refused to wear a mask on a bus and allegedly assaulted a police officer, reports said on Tuesday. Police intervened after receiving ...

The place and date of an informal five-party conference on Cyprus, which the UN Secretary-General intends to convene, remain uncertain, while Nicosia fears that Ankara is playing “games” with the ...

Landscaping works to improve the appearance of the Phinikoudes beach area were recently ordered by the Larnaca municipality and the local branch of the tourism development board (Etap). The project ...

Bitcoin extended gains on Tuesday to a record high as the afterglow of Tesla Inc’s $1.5 billion investment in the cryptocurrency had investors reckoning it would become a mainstream asset ...

This video showcases a dish from the Spanish province of Tarragona in the region of Catalunya, but more specifically, from the county of Priorat: Spanish cream of zucchini soup with ...

It is not yet clear whether the world needs a new set of vaccines to fight different variants of the novel coronavirus but scientists are working on new ones so ...