Archive 2026

A 75-year-old woman from Scotland has died following a traffic accident in a hotel car park in Paphos, police said on Saturday. The victim was named as Margery Balfour, while ...

Torrential rain caused hazardous driving conditions on Saturday, with police warning of water build-up and reduced visibility on major roads, while hail was reported in parts of Nicosia. Heavy rainfall ...

On 19 May Cyprus approved the Development and Production Plan of the Kronos gasfield in block 6 by the ENI-TotalEnergies consortium. This focuses on a fast-track, subsea tie-back to the existing Zohr ...

Fuel prices across the European Union surged in April, with Cyprus recording one of the steepest monthly increases in diesel costs, reflecting broader energy market pressures. According to a report ...

Cyprus Airways and flydubai have announced the launch of a new interline agreement, aimed at strengthening international connectivity and offering passengers seamless access to an expanded network across the Middle ...

A 61-year-old woman died in a workplace accident in Limassol on Friday evening, police said. The victim was named as Diana Tsilidou, a Georgian national. According to police, the incident ...

If I told you that a book started with weather-based small-talk and crisps at the pub and ended with speculations on the lifespan of a rickety boiler, you might feel ...

By Daniel Flynn Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a letter to EU leaders that a German proposal to grant Ukraine “associate” membership of the European Union was “unfair” because ...

At least 90 people were killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s northern province of Shanxi, the country’s deadliest mining accident since at least 2009. The ...

Along a meandering river in a warm and arid region that is now Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a plant-eating behemoth almost 90 feet (27 meters) ​long browsed on the treetops without ...

By Vasilios Silivistris Sports psychology is all about the mind behind the movement. It looks at how our thoughts, emotions and habits affect the way we train, compete and enjoy ...

A total of 6,425 voters have registered to cast their ballots abroad in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, with polling stations set up in the United Kingdom, Greece and Belgium. In the ...

Festival season is nearly upon us! Soon, the island’s weekend agenda will burst with festivals that celebrate music, culture, art and local life, spreading events from the villages, to ...

Election campaigning officially ended at midnight on Friday ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary elections, in line with electoral law. Pre-election rallies and all party political activities came to a close ...

A 55-year-old woman has died from injuries sustained in a road collision in Larnaca district on Friday afternoon. Police said Helga Tarcsai, a Hungarian national and resident of the Larnaca ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has alerted regulated entities to strengthened anti-money laundering guidelines and new risk reports, as data from the Financial Intelligence Unit (Mokas) pointed to ...

European air connectivity barely moved in 2025, with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) warning that the continent’s route network grew by just 1 per cent, underscoring the pressure facing airlines ...

Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) and ‌Blackstone (BX.N) said this week that they will form an artificial intelligence cloud business venture aimed at capitalising on an insatiable demand for ...

Asking prices for British homes in May rose by more than usual ​for the time of year, despite ‌uncertainty about the Iran war, and a key mortgage rate eased back, ...

In a nondescript building on Kirtland Air Force Base on ​the high desert of New Mexico, liquid-cooled supercomputers gurgle and hum their way through some of the most complex math ...

Eight hundred and eighty-nine buildings in the Larnaca district have been classified as dangerous under updated records compiled by the Larnaca district government organisation (EOA). Speaking on Friday, Larnaca EOA ...

It is impossible not to feel sympathy for the livestock farmers who are seeing everything they have worked for – their livelihoods – destroyed by foot and mouth disease. It is also ...

US President Donald Trump said on Friday he would not attend the wedding of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, to Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson, because he has to ...

Tulsi Gabbard said on Friday she is resigning from her job as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, saying her husband had been diagnosed with a rare form ...