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Cyprus’ national cybersecurity team finished 24th out of 42 teams at the European Cybersecurity Challenge in Germany, improving on last year’s result as ten young competitors tested their skills against ...

Greece’s parliament approved a bill on Friday that bans the use of social media platforms for children under 15 amid growing concerns over their impact on the health and safety ...

Toyota has emerged as the clear favourite among motorists in Cyprus, accounting for almost one in four passenger cars registered during the first nine months of 2026, although Kia has taken ...

Workers across all education ministry support programmes – such as educational and technical courses – are on a 24-hour strike on Friday, citing the government’s failure to meet commitments and resolve ...

A lab-grown diamond is a real diamond. It has the same carbon, the same crystal structure and the same fire when it catches the light at dinner. What changes is ...

Japan said on Friday it will set up a team to simulate cyberattacks using AI to identify weaknesses in technology systems as organisations scramble to curtail risks from flaws in ...

A sixth suspect has been arrested in connection with the October 8 burglary of a couple at their home in Sfalagiotissa, Limassol, after gold believed to be stolen was discovered. Limassol ...

A fire caused extensive damage to equipment inside an enclosed residential garage in Paralimni on Thursday afternoon, authorities said on Friday. The fire service said it received a call at 5.20...

Suppose you transferred some important video from your camera or smartphone to your desktop, or from a friend’s phone to yours. But after a while, when you double-click the ...

Microsoft researchers say an AI tool that diagnoses patients step by step, as doctors do, was more than twice as accurate as general physicians at solving complex medical cases, according ...

A car caught fire in the yard of its owner’s home in Frenaros, Famagusta, at around 5.30am on Friday. The fire brigade responded and extinguished the blaze. Investigations into ...

Cyprus had the European Union’s lowest share of job advertisements disclosing salaries in August, with just 0.4 per cent of vacancies listing pay, according to an analysis by compensation benchmarking ...

Eight people were arrested on Thursday night for offences such as robbery, burglary, illegal residence, possession of duty-free tobacco and outstanding fines, the police said on Friday. Police stopped and ...

Ukraine is in talks with EU member states Poland and Slovakia about moving customs checks on lorries carrying grain exports from the border to inside those countries, to halt Russian ...

Reading the comments made by Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan about the construction work for the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), some might conclude that this opened the way for ...

European Union leaders have correctly identified high energy prices as a threat to households, industry and the wider economy, but their proposed response remains inadequate, energy systems expert Andreas Poullikkas ...

Friday brings mainly fine weather, with a few scattered clouds and fine dust in the atmosphere. Winds will be a northwest to northeast gentle to moderate breeze of 3 to 4 Beaufort, ...

British workers have seen another modest rise in the ​pace of pay growth and there were other hints of a small recovery in the jobs market, according to official data ...

Barclays (BARC.L) said it would cut around 5,000 jobs or 5 per cent of ‌its workforce this year, as it uses technology such as AI to slash fixed costs and improve ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) cut its annual capital expenditure forecast by a fifth and ​posted surprise positive free cash flow in the third quarter on Wednesday, after investing far less in ...

All banks in Cyprus will be closed on Wednesday, October 28, to mark Ohi Day, the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) has announced. The central bank informed the public that banking ...

A group of Greek Cypriot businessmen are suing a company in the occupied north of the island as well as soft drink makers Pepsi, seeking compensation to the tune of €140 ...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered Donald Trump to sit for a deposition by December 11 in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC, which has accused the US president of ...

Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least four people in the Gaza Strip in separate incidents on Thursday, health officials in the enclave said. In Gaza City, a strike on ...