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On Monday, about eleven million kilometres from Earth, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will make the first attempt to divert an asteroid from its orbit. But forget ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE We don’t let our memories, senses and instincts serve us well if we willfully smother them. Natural mental functions, evolved over millennia, can be submerged ...

Which would be worse: a global nuclear war with all buttons pressed, or real, self-conscious artificial intelligence that goes rogue? You know, the central theme of the ‘Terminator’ movies. An ...

The dawn of social media has led to an alarming loosening of the general rules of what is acceptable in terms of column writing When in 2015 I decided to seek ...

There is no space for losers at the head of the Conservative party A week is a long time in politics but it was an eternity last week in the ...

I never thought I’d be writing a column in defence of Donald Trump, but a journalist has to go where the evidence leads. Over the years I have written ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Saudi Arabia has traditionally based its policies on exploiting its natural wealth. Its government/administrative structure rests on the power of the Saud family ...

Gas find in Cronos-1 provides another chance to solve the Cyprus problem You are probably aware that the Italian multinational oil and gas company Eni has recently made a significant ...

And no, she could not have reprieved Evagoras Pallikarides in 1956 Queen Elizabeth may have passed away but some of us of a certain age will remain Elizabethans until “we too ...

THE WAY THIINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Netflix viewers can watch The Byzantine Cat and Inside the Mind of a Cat, a 00s film, and a documentary. Set on ...

As a child, outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly said he wanted to be ‘King of the World’. He ended up in a somewhat humbler role, was rejected by ...

The EU has finally woken-up to the seriousness of the problem High energy prices are here to stay for many years to come. Last week, Shell’s CEO, Ben van ...

Cyprus borrowed heavily with low-cost bond issues to finance their excessive current expenditures Economic and financial crises in the euro area are fast developing. With supply-side problems most strikingly reflected ...

But there is no agreement on how to get there: an open letter to President Anastasiades I have carefully read your speech at the meeting of the Limassol Reserve Officers ...

It was Yeltsin that oversaw the break-up of the Soviet Union The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev is a good time to reset the West’s relationship with Russia. There is ...

You wait ages for the bus, and then three come along at once. Books are a bit like that, too, although in this case it’s only a pair of ...

It’s significant, but serious challenges remain With the world gripped by an ever-deteriorating energy crisis, with gas supplies and prices playing a central role, the discovery of a new ...

Whoever is elected as archbishop is the church’s affair, but likewise it should not meddle with the state It is known that the Archbishop Chrysostomos has reached the age ...

Rail staff, dockers, rubbish collectors, postal workers and now even criminal barristers are on strike or will be going on strike in Brexit Britain. If higher pay is not forthcoming ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Four Cypriots graced an OPAP sponsored supplement in the Sunday Mail on July 31. Renowned and respected, they have brought credit to Cyprus. ...

Last Tuesday, on the 75th anniversary of Indian independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to turn India into a developed country within the next 25 years. If all goes well, that ...

In the past, I believed that the malaise of Cyprus was primarily caused by the incompetence and frivolousness of its leaders. Recently however, I have embarked on a process of ...

And the courts can do something about it Greed is the unacceptable face of capitalism, and profiteering in times of pestilence and war a most loathsome and wicked kind of ...

It’s only one year since the fall of Kabul last August 15 and everybody in the countries that sent troops to Afghanistan has already forgotten about it (apart from journalists ...