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Oleg is Ukrainian, 33, and in finance. It’s 7pm on a Friday, the end of a long working week. You’d expect him to be in a bar, letting off ...

True crime and bloodbaths are not usually my cup of tea so it was a little surprising, even to myself, when my Netflix watch was Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. ...

On any given day, Nicosia and Limassol residents trade barbs online about all sorts of issues. Which has the worst congestion, the worst drivers, the most preferential treatment from the ...

Where do you live?I live in Lakatamia with my mother and siblings. What did you have for breakfast?I had a dark chocolate oat bar and an ice-cold frappe. ...

Who doesn’t love a good spy thriller? The high stakes, the cloak-and-dagger meetings, the top-secret files. The shadowy world of intelligence agencies has always been fertile ground for writers ...

When Aaya moved from France to Cyprus, she soon realised something was missing. While friends back home regularly bought and sold clothes through Vinted, one of Europe’s biggest second-hand ...

For newlyweds in Cyprus, a pomegranate was more than just a fruit. Following the wedding ceremony, the fruit would be broken on the threshold of the couple’s home, the ...

The deep connections between the islands of Ireland and Cyprus are being marked by the University of Cyprus’ Irish Studies Collective through a series of international collaborations, literary events and ...

Defending Jacob is a drama-thriller about family and justice and the challenging question of how well we know the people closest to us. What starts as a murder investigation turns ...

By Dina Gavarieva When we think about menopause, we tend to think about hot flushes, night sweats, insomnia and moods swings – but the gut can also go through ‘the change’. ...

Always up for a Saturday morning brunch, we spotted a new place on social media that looked rather good. Lavita is in Larnaca’s old town, tucked away down a ...

Where do you live and with whom?I live in Cyprus. I grew up in Palaichori, surrounded by nature and mountains, and I spend a lot of time travelling internationally ...

When I was a child, my father, brother and I used to go on daily long walks. We would end up at an arcade/ice cream shop, where we had ...

Breach Festival: October 9-10 Expanding the boundaries of music-making and encouraging improvisation and experimentation, the Breach Festival arrives soon at Ktirion 53 in Nicosia. Artists from Cyprus, the Netherlands, Lebanon and ...

For a journalist of Irish heritage living in Cyprus for decades, it might seem natural that reading a novel whose backdrop is both The Troubles in Northern Ireland and the ...

Most things people see in the skies above Cyprus have perfectly ordinary explanations. Every night, satellites pass overhead, meteors streak across the night sky, and aircraft fly back and forth ...

Ukraine at the Olympics is quite a recent development. For decades, its athletes were enfolded into other teams – tagging along with Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia in the 1930s, then as ...

After a recent report in the Cyprus Mail found the cost of eating out has shot up by 26 per cent over the last three years, it feels like the right ...

Where do you live?Larnaca, alone unfortunately 😛 What did you have for breakfast?Freddo Espresso Sketo Describe your perfect dayMy perfect day would be exploring with friends, road-tripping somewhere new, ...

The first half hour of Severance’s pilot may mislead the viewer to mistake the show as workplace satire for prestige television. However, should one commit, Dan Erickson’s magnum ...

Get out the jumpers – well, figuratively speaking, this island has beach weather up until the end of November – pop the kettle on and settle in! October is here and, as ...

Almost 3,000 years ago, someone in what is now Larnaca (and was then Kition) was buried with an extraordinary collection of gold jewellery. There were earrings, bracelets, rings, a necklace and ...

As I venture to the newly-located premises of one of our capital’s longest standing bookshops in the heart of the walled city, I wonder whether Al, online bookshops and ...

What/If is one of those shows that starts with a question that sounds simple enough and then takes things somewhere you really do not expect. What would you be ...