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The wearing of face coverings in England will become a personal choice and the data that will determine if lockdown restrictions can be lifted this month was looking “very positive”, ...

The future of Varosha is out of the government’s control The story of the fenced-off part of Famagusta highlights the enormous incompetence and lack of foresight by Greek Cypriot ...

Akel’s Stephanos Stephanou was elected on Sunday as the new secretary-general of the party, replacing Andros Kyprianou who has held the post since 2009. He was elected by the party’...

A 25-year-old man was remanded for five days at Limassol district court on Sunday in connection with a fire at the Pyrgos community on Saturday. The fire began an hour ...

The year 2020 may have felt like it lasted forever, but it was actually the shortest year in decades. In fact, it was 1.3 milliseconds shorter! The planet is now spinning faster ...

Climbers come to the fore With temperatures rising even more rapidly, this is a difficult time in our gardens. In high summer plants scarcely grow and it is not a ...

Americans mark their nation’s 245th birthday on Sunday with fireworks that may look brighter, hotdogs that may taste juicier and marching bands that may sound jauntier after the pandemic ...

Looking for a new beginning, a trio from Cameroon jumped from the Venetian walls into what they thought was Nicosia. They remain stuck in the buffer zone six weeks later ...

People have bought, sold, and used Bitcoin for over a decade now. The number of people accepting Bitcoin or investing in it is also increasing. When ready to convert your ...

The most blatant and revealing crisis of democracy plaguing our own country and its natives was unwittingly formulated by the UK’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who last week stepped ...

Skipper Harry Kane vowed England will use their World Cup heartbreak to reach the Euro 2020 final. The Three Lions thumped Ukraine 4-0 in Rome on Saturday to set up a ...

The ongoing fire in Cyprus is the worst tragedy the island has faced since the invasion, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday. The fire has a perimeter of more than 35...

By Matt Williams The US is edging closer by the day to seeing half of its population fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Although vaccination rates differ from state to state, the ...

Many people know they can receive Bitcoin payments by getting a digital wallet. Others know even how to purchase Bitcoins via crypto exchanges. However, some individuals don’t know how ...

Police have given out contact numbers to be used by those who are in immediate need and have to evacuate as fires continue to rage Saturday evening in communities of ...

A 67-year-old man was remanded at Limassol district court on Sunday for eight days in relation to the fire raging across Limassol and Larnaca that is now counting four people ...

The European Commission announced late on Sunday that Cyprus activated the EU Civil Protection Mechanism on 3 July 2021, requesting support to tackle forest fires in the Limassol district. The EU now ...

President Vladimir Putin signed legislation on Friday that will require businesses to report their greenhouse gas emissions and has been described as Russia’s first step towards carbon regulation to ...

Though authorities remained alert until all flames were obliterated, deputy government spokeswoman Niovi Parissinou said on Sunday that all communities were now deemed safe. “After the effective fight of Greek ...

Kremlin-controlled gas giant Gazprom has held off from booking additional capacity for gas supplies via Ukraine to meet surging demand in recent months, sending a clear sign it is waiting ...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said it was time to bust out the tequila. Standing by the seashore, the celebrity wrestler and film star put his arm around Jeff Bezos, Amazon....

Apparently Jennifer Aniston has a till-now-unknown double… To elaborate: TikTok user Lisa Tranel does an incredibly accurate portrayal of Aniston’s ‘Friends’ character, Rachel Green. The world found out about ...

The latest buzzword in wealth management these days is ‘decoupling,’ because most of us in the normal world are still dealing with the effects of the pandemic crisis. But the ...

The government’s latest Covid-19 measures, explicitly intended as incentives for people to get vaccinated, are problematic, both in themselves and what they represent. Firstly, of course, it’s unfair ...