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When a wildfire tore down a hillside towards Athens last month, its southernmost flank halted in a treeless area burned by fire two years before. A few miles west, however, ...

A 43-year-old man was charged with premeditated murder in court in Trikomo on Wednesday after having allegedly killed a man by dousing him in petrol and setting him and his ...

Akel on Thursday said it was organising a protest against the dismissal of now former Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides outside the presidential palace. The protest will take place on Sunday at 4...

A 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of having stolen a mobile phone and of living illegally in Cyprus, police in the Famagusta district announced on Thursday. Famagusta district police ...

A Cypriot expedition led by seasoned mountaineer Alexander Larin has successfully scaled Surya Peak in Nepal as part of their exploration of the sacred region of Kailas Manasorovar in Tibet. ...

The minimum wage in the north was set at a figure higher than that of the Republic of Cyprus at a meeting of the north’s minimum wage determination commission ...

Injuries at Barcelona are showing no signs of easing after midfielder Fermin Lopez suffered a new muscular problem in his right thigh while training on Tuesday. The 21-year-old, who was ...

Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard will be out “for a while” after suffering a significant ankle injury while playing for Norway last week, manager Mikel Arteta said on Wednesday. The 25-year-old ...

Talks over the interconnector were taking place in Athens on Thursday, as President Nikos Christodoulides was meeting Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The tete-a-tete slated for 11am was focusing ...

Larnaca is getting crafty as it welcomes local artists and art lovers at a pop-up event this Saturday. The Larnaca Agora will host another exciting initiative as it organises the ...

Israel bombed southern Lebanon on Thursday and said it had thwarted an Iran-backed assassination plot, a day after explosions of Hezbollah radios that came on the heels of blasts in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will take decisions to appoint a new auditor-general in the next few days, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Thursday. Odysseas Michaelides, who held the post for 10 ...

There is lots to do and stay busy with this weekend all around the island. From traditional festivals to pop-up markets to large music festivals with an international flair and ...

Inter Milan escaped Etihad Stadium with a surprise 0-0 draw against Manchester City in the Champions League on Wednesday, exacting a small measure of revenge for their narrow loss to ...

Hand-held radios used by armed group Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon’s south in the country’s deadliest day since cross-border fighting erupted between the militants and Israel nearly ...

Hellenic Bank provided an update on the bank’s achievements and developments since early 2024 during its annual general meeting on Wednesday. In a statement, the bank said that the meeting “...

Italian energy engineering group Saipem (SPMI.MI) said on Wednesday it had won an offshore contract worth around $2 billion for the development of the Marjan oil field in Saudi Arabia. ...

British house prices rose by an annual 2.2 per cent in July, the fifth monthly rise in a row but the pace of increase cooled and was below a revised 2.7 per ...

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has appointed Yoshi Katsuda as regional head for the Middle East based in Dubai, Japan’s largest bank by assets said in a statement released this ...

Scientists have uncovered a mystery surrounding the extinction of dwarf hippos and dwarf elephants that once roamed Cyprus before the arrival of the first humans. During the Late Pleistocene, Cyprus ...

It was inevitable that the decision by the Supreme Constitutional Council to sack Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides for inappropriate conduct would be met with anger and suspicion by many people who ...

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said on Wednesday that the union will not endorse any U.S. presidential candidate despite polling that showed a majority of members backed Republican candidate ...

Canada is further reducing the number of study permits it will grant to foreign students and tightening eligibility for work permits in a bid to cut down on the number ...

Germany has put a hold on new exports of weapons of war to Israel while it deals with legal challenges, according to a Reuters analysis of data and a source ...