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Cyprus records higher digital literacy in towns than in cities People living in European Union cities tend to have stronger information and data literacy skills than those in towns, suburbs ...

Two more people aged 26 and 25 were arrested late on Sunday night in connection with Friday’s shooting at a pharmacy in Yermasoyia, Limassol. A 57-year-old man had been arrested earlier ...

Mainly fine weather across the island can be expected on Monday with isolated showers and possibly a thunderstorm in the mountains. Temperatures will peak at 37C inland, 30C along the ...

Arm Holdings has announced the launch of its next-generation chip designs, called Lumex, which it has optimised for artificial intelligence to run on mobile devices such as smartphones and watches ...

Companies that accumulate and hoard bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have suffered sharp drops in their share prices as the crypto euphoria that has gripped investors recedes. These companies sell shares ...

Cyprus was bracing for a non-traditional type of war this week. A confrontation between employers and workers over the demand by Unions for restoring the Cost-of-Living Adjustment (CoLA or ATA ...

Germany pulled off a stunning 88-83 victory over Turkey on Sunday to win the EuroBasket title for the first time since 1993, with point guard Dennis Schroeder draining a late jump ...

Manchester City’s goal-scoring machine Erling Haaland struck twice in a 3-0 Premier League thrashing of Manchester United on Sunday, giving Pep Guardiola’s side bragging rights in the latest ...

Mohamed Salah’s dramatic stoppage-time penalty ensured Liverpool maintained their winning start to the Premier League season with a 1-0 victory at promoted side Burnley on Sunday. With British record ...

In a market crowded with pricey giants like Bitcoin and Ethereum, retail investors are once again asking the big question: what’s the best cheap crypto to buy now? The ...

There are three main criticisms of the proposed tax reform. First, it is not directed at meeting the medium to longer-term government revenue and expenditure needs of Cyprus and is ...

Dear editor, Since our government can’t manage the most basic care of our little island, Cyprus, how can we possibly take care of the EU? [Cyprus will assume the ...

In the editorial ‘Our View: Presidential platitudes will not see GSI progress’ [September 9] you state that “Cyprus, which will benefit the most from GSI, is refusing to play ball and ...

In response to article ‘Cyprus MEPs say ‘abandoned’ by the EU over Limassol wildfire’ on September 9: The single biggest issue in the handling of the fire was the failure in ...

Among many things, donkeys are one thing Cyprus is known for, but their wellbeing relies largely on the generosity of tourists, visitors and volunteers. Jo Welsby, is a regular visitor ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Sunday told Turkish Cypriots to “not embarrass” influential late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash when the Turkish Cypriot leadership election takes place next month. ...

Oblique Seville scorched to the world 100 metres gold in a personal best 9.77 seconds on Sunday, leading a Jamaican 1-2 ahead of Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson, second again in 9.82. Defending ...

There will be no problems with the Paphos district’s water supply next year, “regardless of the weather conditions”, the agriculture ministry’s permanent Andreas Gregoriou said on Sunday. Speaking ...

New research has identified yet another way that spaceflight tampers with the human body. A study involving samples flown on four SpaceX resupply missions to the International Space Station has ...

The world has been transfixed by the case of Erin Patterson: the Australian woman convicted of mass murder, having brutally killed three members of her family using death cap mushrooms, ...

A 57-year-old man was arrested on Sunday in connection with a shooting which took place at a pharmacy in the Limassol suburb of Yermasoyia on Friday. Evidence of a shooting ...

Autumn is a busy month for the island’s cultural agenda as festivals, markets, exhibitions and theatre productions return. Annual festivals make their comeback, and most of them are addressed ...

British boxer Ricky Hatton, a former two-division world champion, has died at the age of 46, the World Boxing Association said on Sunday. Nicknamed ‘the Hitman’, Hatton won the WBA, IBO ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday held a telephone call with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and said after the call that he had “stressed the importance to deescalate tensions”. He said ...