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By Hallam Stevens On November 12, United States president-elect Donald Trump announced he would appoint Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, to lead a newly constituted Department of Government Efficiency ...

How things change. Until a few years ago the mere mention of Nato in public debate was guaranteed to fuel indignant statements by most of the political parties and fiery ...

French borrowing costs rose above those of Greece for the first time on December 2, as Michel Barnier’s government teetered on the brink of collapse, underlining a dramatic shift in ...

Tesla’s (TSLA.O) market capitalisation increased by the most among top global companies in November, boosted by expectations the automaker will benefit from CEO Elon Musk’s close ties ...

Britain’s cyber security chief warned of a rise in hostile activity in the country’s cyberspace, with the number of incidents handled by officials rising by 16 per cent in 2024 ...

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Timour Azhari Syrian rebels declared they had ousted President Bashar al-Assad after seizing control of Damascus on Sunday, forcing him to flee and ending his family’...

Salesforce (CRM.N) beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue on December 3 and raised the lower end of its annual revenue forecast, helped by robust spending on its enterprise cloud ...

Cyprus acceding to Nato – easier said than done? If so, why did the government float the idea, with President Nikos Christodoulides sounding sanguine about the prospects? A trial balloon, intended ...

Manchester City’s Rico Lewis bagged a second-half goal and then was shown a red card in the dying minutes as his team salvaged a point in a 2-2 Premier ...

Muammar Al-Ali knew at once that the bearded man filmed after being freed by Syrian rebels from a prison in Hama when the city fell to them this week was ...

Hamas released a video claiming to show Israeli hostage Matan Zangauker in captivity on Saturday. In the video a man who introduces himself as Matan Zangauker, 24, can be seen pleading ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday remained non-committal over the possibility of a new hospital being built in Polis Chrysochous. He was asked about the matter while visiting the town as ...

Teenage sensation Gout Gout ran the 200 metres in 20.04 seconds at the Australian schools championships in Brisbane on Saturday to break the national record Peter Norman set at the 1968 Olympics. The ...

One person died, three were injured and an unknown number of people were missing after a building in The Hague collapsed on Saturday following explosions and a fire, the mayor ...

Lando Norris led a McLaren front row sweep in qualifying for the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Saturday with the team perfectly placed to win their first Formula One ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday said he does not accept the term “Cypriot” to refer to people from the island of Cyprus. Addressing the north’s Ataturk teachers’ ...

By Rosemary Trout The holidays are full of delicious and indulgent food and drinks. It’s hard to resist dreaming about cookies, specialty cakes, rich meats and super saucy side ...

The customs department on Saturday found a total of 1,395 litres of petrol which had been smuggled into the Republic from the north in a house. The petrol was stored in ...

A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the United States by early next year ...

An ancient Cypriot zoomorphic urn dating from the bronze age was on Saturday formally handed back to the Cyprus government in London. The urn was handed over by the director ...

Milan’s famed La Scala opera house kicks off its new season on Saturday with a Giuseppe Verdi drama adapted to the modern day to tell the tragedy of war, ...

A series of plans aimed at bolstering the environmental credentials of the Tillyria region were announced by President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday. He was visiting the region as part of ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol survived an impeachment motion in the opposition-led parliament on Saturday that was prompted by his short-lived attempt to impose martial law this week, after ...

Earth is an ocean world, with water covering about 71 per cent of its surface. Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, is sometimes called Earth’s twin based on their similar size ...