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President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday that twice-yearly exams at schools have failed, and legal reforms need to be made to abolish them. Speaking after his visit to the Pefkios ...

A Virginia prosecutor said he would not seek charges against a six-year-old boy who police said shot his first-grade teacher at school earlier this year. Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney ...

Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has said his Mercedes team did not listen to him in developing their 2023 Formula One car. The Briton told reporters last week that Mercedes were ...

An Indonesian court handed prison sentences to two soccer match officials on Thursday after finding them guilty of negligence over one of the world’s deadliest stadium stampedes. The October 2022 ...

US Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has been hospitalised after tripping and falling at a hotel in Washington on Wednesday, his spokesperson said in a statement. “This evening, Leader McConnell ...

A rich natural environment and cultural heritage, in addition to its cherries, make this mountain village an ideal place to appreciate rural Cyprus life says PAUL LAMBIS The island of ...

Cyprus Airways on Thursday issued an apology for an incident involving a passenger with reduced mobility that took place on March 2. In the past days Rafaella Miltiades, the passenger in ...

By Helen Warner The third and final instalment of the Magic Mike series is still drawing enthusiastic audiences. Inspired by Channing Tatum’s real-life Magic Mike Live stage show, the ...

A 36-year-old man was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison after being convicted for assisting illegal entry into the government-controlled areas. Larnaca criminal court issued its sentence on Thursday after ...

Egypt’s annual urban consumer inflation rate in February leapt to a higher-than-expected 31.9 per cent, its highest in five and a half years, from 25.8 per cent in January, data from ...

What common elements do psychoanalysis and cinema have? That is what an upcoming event at Rialto Theatre will explore. The Cyprus Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, the Lab for Animation Research ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis apologised on Thursday for a train crash that killed 57 people, promising to fix long-standing deficiencies in the railway sector and support victims’ families as anti-government ...

China will deepen its cooperation with Russia to try to challenge the United States despite international condemnationof the invasion of Ukraine, the leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies said on ...

Drug addiction has been a topic that has been brought up more often than not over recent years. This can be due to several factors. One of them is the ...

Israeli actor Chaim Topol, best known for his role as Tevye in the 1971 classic musical Fiddler on the Roof, has died at the age of 87 in Israel, a statement from ...

Crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital Corp (SI.N) said on Wednesday it planned to wind down operations and voluntarily liquidate after it was hit with losses following the dramatic collapse of ...

Deputy government spokeswoman Doxa Komodromou has come under fire from auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, who said on Thursday she was in breach of her contract as she still retained her seat ...

Avalanche (AVAX) and Polygon (MATIC) have experienced a huge increase in trading volume lately. This proves once again that Avalanche (AVAX) and Polygon (MATIC) are catching the attention of more ...

The president said on Thursday that he will not get involved in a blame game with Ankara over the Cyprus problem, as he met with UN officials ahead of key ...

Archbishop Giorgos said there is nothing that separates Greek Cypriots from the Turkish people. The prelate gave a long interview to CNN Turk on Thursday, the first one to a ...

Former Edek party member and MEP Demetris Papadakis said on Thursday that he is looking to start a new political movement based on social-democratic values. According to Papadakis, his initiative ...

The government’s land registration’s website was down on Thursday morning, as a result of a hacker attack. According to reports the attack began on Wednesday evening and hackers ...

Equities revenue plummeted 95 per cent in the fourth quarter Bank earlier informally looked at options for unit Bank declines to comment on ‘rumours and speculation’ At the grandiose Fontainebleau Miami ...

Larnaca will in August and September become part of the Cyprus-Greece ferry service as the city’s port will share the timetable with Limassol. Larnaca mayor Andreas Vyras explained that ...