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There were two tragedies at sea in Cyprus last week. August is a most dangerous month in the sea around Cyprus, known in Greek as kakavgusties when the sea is ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting August 31: Euro area consumers became slightly more optimistic about inflation and economic growth in July, although the latest ...

WHO would have thought that the Prez of our tiny Republic would be driven around in an armoured limousine that cost a whopping €595,000?   This is a big step-up from the ...

Two weeks ago, just after the government had presented its superficial proposals for pension reform, which focused exclusively on the higher payments, we warned that this was far too serious ...

Airlines operated 6.9 million commercial flights across the European Union throughout 2025, according to a report from Eurostat. The annual total represents a 3.8 per cent increase compared with the 6.7 million flights recorded ...

Surging global demand for AI hardware kept Asia’s factories humming in August, private ‌surveys showed this week, brightening prospects for the export-reliant region even as the prolonged Middle East ...

British house prices rose in August, according to data from mortgage lender Nationwide ​Building Society that suggested demand held up ‌despite an uncertain economic outlook and the impact of the ...

More than 25 years after the stadium closed and 15 years after plans were drawn up for its redevelopment, the broad concrete terraces and stark steelwork of the old GSP stand like ...

Sofia Christodoulou Makri has been elected the new president of Edek, securing 53.5 per cent of the vote in the party’s leadership election on Saturday. According to the official results ...

A single person remains in hospital six days after a passenger ferry sank off the coast of Kyrenia, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Sunday, confirming that 131 of ...

Tottenham’s miserable start to the new Premier League season plunged to fresh depths yesterday as they were held to a goalless draw by Nottingham Forest – leaving Spurs without a ...

It is perhaps an unlikely combination when the sounds of Led Zeppelin and The Doors meet the classical melodies of Beethoven and Ennio Morricone, yet that is exactly what is ...

US ambassador-designate John Breslow has arrived in Cyprus to take up his post, becoming the first non-career political appointee to serve as Washington’s ambassador to the island. In a ...

French Formula One driver Pierre Gasly upset the favourites to grab a stunning career-first pole position with Renault-owned Alpine at the Italian Grand Prix on Saturday. Gasly, who won at ...

Two groups of researchers are defending the view that the Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile was occupied by ancient hunter-gatherers about 14,500 years ago after another ​study indicated it was ...

Bournemouth made Premier League history in a 2-2 draw at Newcastle United on Saturday by becoming the first club to score first in their opening three games of a season ...

UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy for Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin has cancelled her planned visit to the island on September 10 for health reasons, according to reports on Saturday. Sources told ...

A plan agreed by Britain’s populist Reform UK party and France’s National Rally, aimed at sending asylum seekers who arrive in Britain in small boats back to France, ...

A Greek two-seat F-4 Phantom fighter jet crashed on Saturday during an air show at Tanagra air base north of Athens, killing the pilots, two officials told Reuters. “Unfortunately the ...

A 61-year-old man in Paphos has lost more than €77,600 after falling victim to two linked cryptocurrency scams, police said on Saturday. According to a complaint filed with Paphos CID, the ...

By Jane Wood, Charlotte Barras and Elena Probert When trying to make more sustainable clothing choices, many consumers follow a simple rule: choose natural fibres over synthetic ones. Cotton instead ...

The trial of a Massachusetts woman who strangled her three children but argues she is not guilty by reason of insanity ended on Friday with a deadlocked jury. But defendant ...

Miriam Erne is in what might be called a transitional phase. At 36, “I have lived through some stuff,” she says – vivid stuff and sometimes terrible stuff, images she’ll carry ...

British ice dance greats Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean returned to the rink where their remarkable journey began to help launch the first Synchro9 World Championships, bringing a new Olympic ...