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President Nicos Anastasiadis finally arrived back in Cyprus early on Monday morning after a technical problem with his initial flight from New York on Saturday...
President’s plane forced to turn back for New York (updated)
President Nicos Anastasiades and other members of the delegation that has been in New York for the UN general assembly returned to New York overnight...
Video footage of Christodoulides-Cavusoglu encounter goes viral
Video footage of the chance encounter between the Cypriot and Turkish foreign ministers in New York made the rounds of social media on Tuesday showing...
Singer R. Kelly pleads not guilty to New York sex trafficking charges
Singer R. Kelly pleaded not guilty in New York on Friday to charges that he ran a criminal scheme that recruited women and underage girls...
Bright light in big city mystifies New Yorkers after transformer fire (V)
Dec 27 (Reuters) – A transformer explosion at an electric power substation in the New York City borough of Queens lit up the night sky...
Eleven lucky Somersby winners travelled to New York!
Eleven lucky people enjoyed a unique trip to New York city recently after taking part in a draw while enjoying their favourite Somersby cider. The...
New York City creates gender-neutral ‘X’ option for birth certificates
People who were born in New York City and do not identify as male or female can now opt for a third gender category of...
Anastasiades Cavusoglu meeting confirmed, ‘loose’ federation in the limelight (updt 2)
The government on Tuesday confirmed the president had met Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in New York last week, as a debate flared up over...
President to inform National Council on NY contacts
President Nicos Anastasiades will on Monday inform the National Council on his recent contacts in New York, where he held meetings with the UN Secretary...
Twenty killed in ‘horrific’ upstate N.Y. limousine crash
Twenty people were killed when a stretch limousine crashed into another vehicle and pedestrians in the parking lot of a store in rural upstate New...
Anastasiades to brief party leaders on New York contacts (Updated)
President Nicos Anastasiades will brief the political party leaders next week on his contacts in New York, it emerged on Wednesday. He will inform the...
Akinci meets Mogherini in New York (Updated)
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini discussed the Cyprus problem on Wednesday during a...
Akinci welcomes guarantors meeting (updated)
Expectations for a new dynamic on the Cyprus problem seemed low on Tuesday after a series of meetings on the side-lines of the UN General...
NY office of Cyprus representative to UN evacuated after fire
The offices housing Cyprus’ representative to the UN in New York were evacuated on Tuesday due to a fire. The flames broke out shortly after...
“Violent scourge” on London streets as murder figures overtake New York
London police investigated more murders than New York over the last two months, statistics show, as the mayor’s office condemned a “violent scourge” on the...
Agonising subway ride lands NY woman Worst Commute award
This is one contest no New York City subway rider wants to win. An advocacy group for city commuters on Tuesday awarded its first “Worst...
Brutal, dangerous cold grips U.S. East
Much of the U.S. East Coast will wake up on Saturday to brutally cold and dangerous temperatures as the region recovers from a powerful blizzard...
NY fire ‘started by child playing with stove’ kills 12 (Update)
A child playing with a stove may have caused the fire in a New York City apartment building that killed 12 people, including four children, Mayor Bill...
New York City murders seen dropping below 300 in 2017
New York City is on track to record fewer than 300 murders in 2017, marking a steep decline since the early 1990s when the annual death toll...
‘No evidence’ NY bomb suspect linked to Bangladesh militants
Bangladesh has found no evidence linking a Bangladeshi man charged with an attempted suicide bombing in New York with militants in Bangladesh, its counter-terrorism chief told Reuters on...