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Cyprus won its first gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Monday night, as judoka Georgios Balarjishvili beat Scotland’s Finlay Allan in the men’s 66kg category. ...

Police on Tuesday seized 17.7 kilos of cocaine and made two arrests in a drug bust carried out in cooperation with Greece’s police (Elas), Sovereign Base Area (SBA) police and ...

Cyprus-based research and development company SignalGeneriX announced its participation in three EU funded defence projects with a funding total of €65 million, describing this as a major success for itself and ...

It’s been a good month for bitcoin – and we haven’t said that for a while. After months of freefall, it jumped more than 17 per cent in July, its ...

The Gloria Jean’s Coffee franchise in Cyprus has been sold to Lanitis Entertainment. This marks the end of C.C. Coffee Company’s 16-year ownership of the coffee chain ...

Russia on Tuesday accused the United States of direct involvement in the Ukraine war while the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain to world markets since Moscow’s invasion headed towards ...

The first case of monkeypox was detected in Cyprus on Tuesday, according to a statement released by the health ministry. The person infected is a 40-year-old man, who tested positive ...

A 46-year-old man who was arrested on Monday in Spain, in connection with case of trafficking of 132kg of cannabis, was remanded in custody for four days by Limassol District ...

The energy ministry said on Tuesday it was accepting applications to help pay for the installation of photovoltaics to charge electrical or hybrid plug-in vehicles. Part of a programme to ...

KATIE WRIGHT asks the experts whether skin and hair-enhancing elixirs are worth the money. For some beauty enthusiasts, supplements are a way of life. Popping a couple of complexion-enhancing pills, ...

The Cyprus Marine Environment Protection Association (Cymepa) and the Bank of Cyprus have teamed up to test and analyse the waters in and around the Ayia Napa marina. They presented ...

Awarded for achieving the American Dream, one leading US Cypriot has spent the last 50 years instilling the culture of his ancestral home in his compatriots. PAUL LAMBIS meets him In 2019, ...

Cyprus is one of 14 EU member states to sign up to a joint procurement contract with Spanish pharmaceutical firm Hipra for its protein vaccine against Covid-19. The agreement was signed ...

The House of Representatives, in a hastily called session of the plenum on Tuesday, rejected the referral of three bills by President Nicos Anastasiades. Two of the bills – scrapping double ...

The committee charged with investigating potential conflict of interest among public officials said on Tuesday that it will look into the participation of the president and other members of the ...

A major affiliate of Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) falsified emissions data on some engines going back to at least 2003, more than a decade earlier than previously indicated, a ...

BP’s (BP.L) second quarter profit soared to $8.45 billion, its highest in 14 years, as strong refining margins and trading prompted it to boost its dividend and spending on new ...

Cypriot Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) powerhouse Andreas Tricomitis has been making history since his first steps into the octagon. After becoming the first Cypriot to win in Cage Warriors UFC ...

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a U.S. strike in Afghanistan over the weekend, the biggest blow to the militant group since its founder Osama bin Laden ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that any talks on a possible prisoner exchange involving U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner needed to be discreet and that “megaphone diplomacy” ...

Summer evenings take on a new spin as festivals will be held around the island next month. ELENI PHILIPPOU takes her pick Hello August, hello festivals! As the new month ...

It is a fact that, compared to winter, summer’s variety of fruits and vegetables is much greater. There is so much seasonal produce we miss and cannot enjoy all ...

Oil prices dropped again on Tuesday as investors absorbed a bleak outlook for fuel demand with data pointing to a global manufacturing downturn just as major crude producers meet this ...

Hundreds of Indonesian tourism workers were on strike on Tuesday over a hefty hike in ticket prices to see the country’s famous Komodo dragons, a move the government insists ...