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By Joshua McElwee Pope Leo celebrated the largest event yet of his nearly three-month tenure on Sunday, encouraging a crowd of more than a million Catholic young people gathered in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides “insulted” the Turkish Cypriots with his statements over the detention of five Greek Cypriots in the north, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Sunday. In a ...

The legacies left to us by Archbishop Makarios III are the only ones that will lead us out of the current impasse, Archbishop Georgios said on Sunday. He was speaking ...

Russia’s Ministry for Emergency Services lifted a tsunami warning for the Kamchatka Peninsula on Sunday after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the nearby Kuril Islands. The ministry had said earlier ...

A 23-year-old was remanded in custody for eight days by the Limassol district court on Sunday after he was found collecting a drugs-stuffed package from a courier office the previous ...

A mobile desalination unit with a capacity to output 10,000 cubic metres of water a day is in the process of being installed in the Potima area of Kissonerga, director general ...

Police are searching for a 34-year-old in Larnaca, who is believed to have created a series of fake credit cards and insurance documents. “Yesterday afternoon, after receiving information, Larnaca CID ...

Several towns in eastern Australia were blanketed with their thickest layer of snow in decades as wild weather swept the area this weekend, causing floods, stranding vehicles and cutting power ...

Cyprus must act fast to tackle a worrying rise in road deaths, especially among young men, motorcyclists and elderly pedestrians, transport engineer Neophytos Zavrides has said. Zavrides explained that recent ...

Every year, on “national” days of celebration and remembrance, marked separately in the northern and southern Cyprus, politicians regurgitate dusty old speeches that portray the island as still defined by ...

Police on Sunday urged Pafos FC fans planning to go to the airport to greet new player David Luiz to show respect for other airport users. The celebrated defender is ...

An injured person was found in the road in Latsia on Sunday morning and police are trying to work out who he is and what happened. Police called to the ...

A man was arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning after overturning a car in a field in Paphos, after which an alcotest showed he had been drinking. The ...

At around 2.20 on Sunday morning a six-year-old child was seriously injured after falling from a height of nine metres. The child was looking for his mother who was working at ...

Even though it is recognised as a state by 143 of the 197 states of the UN TV pictures of starving babies dying of hunger in Gaza was too much for France, ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting July 28: Eurobank has reported adjusted net profits of €711 million for the first half of 2025, marking a decline of 2.9 ...

HAVING failed to quieten the widespread public criticism of his government for its perceived inept firefighting policies with his pained looks and heart-felt apologetic words, Prezniktwo decided the only way ...

Defence Minister Vassilis Palmas announced on Tuesday that he would be submitting a declaration of interest to the European Commission with regard to the Security Action for Europe (SAFE), the ...

Emerging markets are basking in the glow of their surprise rally this year, but major investors warn things may get tougher as countries finally learn their US tariff fates and ...

ADNOC Drilling (ADNOCDRILL.AD), a unit of Abu Dhabi’s state oil giant, reported a 19 per cent rise in second-quarter profit this week, supported by strong performance in its oilfield ...

GSK (GSK.L) expects to deliver annual sales and profit growth towards the top end of its forecasts after beating second-quarter expectations earlier this week, in a boost to its ...

A rouble-backed stablecoin that could help Russia circumvent Western restrictions on payments has seen a jump in transaction volumes in July, with funds moved through the coin surging past $40 billion ...

Why do so many tenders for large public projects crash and burn? Sometimes the bidding competition gets bogged down in endless legal wrangling, eventually scrapped, and authorities have to go ...

The distinguished Cypriot-Australian poet, author and performer Koraly Demitriades is back on the island this August and will host a writing workshop in English. Taking place in Limassol (exact location ...