Heathrow mulls shorter third runway to cut expansion costs
Britain’s Heathrow Airport is weighing changes to its previous expansion blueprint in a bid to cut costs and has been evaluating options such as building a shorter third runway, ...
Limassol man arrested for promoting terrorism on the internet
A 21-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on suspicion of having promoted terrorism on social media platforms, police said on Saturday.
The man was arrested on Friday after the police ...
Anti-poaching squad find man with large quantity of smuggled tobacco
A 21-year-old man was arrested on Friday evening after being found by the anti-poaching squad in possession of a large quantity of tobacco which had been smuggled from the north.
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Police confiscate windscreen wipers
Police on Saturday announced they had confiscated windscreen wipers from a group of six men who were attempting to sell them in the Limassol suburb of Ayia Phyla.
The men ...
Christodoulides, Macron discuss interconnector
President Nikos Christodoulides and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the implementation of the Great Sea Interconnector on the sidelines of Thursday’s European Council summit, director of the president’s ...
US firm Firefly scores its first moon landing with Blue Ghost spacecraft
Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of ...
The imperative to be beautiful
By Jordan Foster
The internet is abuzz with talk of beauty and the lengths we’ll go to achieve it. From Lindsay Lohan’s recent transformation to Donatella Versace’s “...
Turkish Cypriot side will act ‘in constructive manner’, Tatar tells Doughty
The Turkish Cypriot side will act “in a constructive manner” at the forthcoming enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem to be held in the Swiss city of Geneva, Turkish Cypriot ...
What’s the best Crypto for new investors looking to make bigger returns than Ethereum and XRP can offer in 2025?
For new investors looking to capitalize on the next big thing in crypto, Rexas Finance (RXS) is the one to watch. The project is currently in its final stage of ...
Today’s weather: Mainly clear
Saturday’s weather will be mainly clear across the island, with temperatures set to rise to a balmy 24 degrees Celsius inland and on the south and east coasts, 22 degrees Celsius ...
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From grandmother’s kitchen to the Cyprus stage
Grandmothers, food, old black and white pictures on the wall, stories of a difficult past and a busy kitchen. In Cyprus, these things go hand in hand. If you come ...
How and where to learn to play chess in Cyprus
On 23 February, the Cyprus Open Chess Championship ended in Nicosia. It was attended by 90 players, 52 of whom were juniors. Chess is becoming more and more popular in Cyprus and its ...
Cyprus Business Now: real estate, Eurobank, German tourists, AI investment
Eurobank Cyprus on Friday announced that it posted a net profit after tax of €214 million in 2024, marking a €14.6 million increase from the previous year, corresponding to a rise of 7.3 per ...
Alphabet’s Google urges US government to avoid breaking up firm, source says
Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) met with President Donald Trump’s government last week and urged them to back away from a push to break up the search engine company, ...
Sony, Suntory build US stockpiles as Japan faces Trump tariff threat
Japanese electronics giant Sony and drinks maker Suntory are stockpiling inventory in the United States while their peers shift production or supply chains in efforts to fend off an evolving ...
UK watchdog urges private asset firms to improve valuation processes
Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has urged firms managing private assets to improve how they identify and disclose potential conflicts of interest in valuation processes, as retail investors increase their ...
Conscript death case findings to be submitted next week
The findings of an investigation carried out into the death of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou in 2005 will be submitted next week.
The case’s two investigators, lawyer Thanasis Athanasiou and retired ...
Our View: Is it the end of the line for voluntary exit schemes?
There is an unwritten law in Cyprus by which banks and semi-governmental organisations cannot make staff redundant. They can only offer a voluntary exit scheme by which it is up ...
UK government planning £6 billion in welfare savings, ITV News reports
The British government is planning to make more than £6 billion in welfare savings, ITV News reported on Friday, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves seeks to balance the books.
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Argentina storm leaves six dead in Bahia Blanca port city, media report says
Heavy rains in the Argentine port city of Bahia Blanca, southwest of capital Buenos Aires, led to six deaths and caused substantial flooding, local media and officials said on Friday.
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Scores killed as Syrian forces seek to crush Alawite insurgency
Syrian security forces battled for a second day on Friday to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect, with scores reported killed as the Islamist-led ...
Serbia’s students, citizens rally to support general strike
Tens of thousands of people marched through Belgrade on Friday to mark the deaths of 15 victims in a railway station disaster and to support a student-led call for a general ...
Drone strike kills two as Gaza ceasefire standoff continues
An Israeli drone strike killed two people in Gaza on Friday, local Palestinian medical authorities said, underscoring the uncertainty surrounding a fragile ceasefire deal that has halted fighting in the ...
Bill for gender policies in pipeline, president tells women’s event
A bill providing for drafting policies with respect to the impact they can have on gender is currently being promoted, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday evening, addressing an event ...