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Many nations have used masks for ceremonial purposes… did you know that at 12-16 feet tall and several feet wide, the Igbo ijele mask is one of the largest such ...

It’s the world’s first online French-language film festival and it’s currently taking place for the 11th time. MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, which started a few days ago and will ...

Music superstar Justin Timberlake and Hollywood actress Jessica Biel are officially proud parents of two – a fact the couple had kept under wraps during the Covid-inflicted turbulence of 2020. Timberlake confirmed ...

Landslides triggered by heavy rain have left rocks and mud on several roads in the mountains, police warned on Tuesday morning. According to police, the affected roads are: Kakopetria – Pinewood – ...

British firms called on Tuesday for another £7.6 billion ($10.3 billion) of emergency government help, saying they cannot wait until finance minister Rishi Sunak’s March budget to learn if they will ...

The search for a 70-year-old woman who went missing while swimming in the Phinikoudes area in Larnaca on Sunday, resumed on Tuesday morning. Three police boats, a helicopter, search teams ...

Turkey has ordered the arrest of 238 people in an operation targeting suspects in the military allegedly linked to a Muslim preacher who Ankara says was behind a 2016 failed coup, state-owned ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck west-central Argentina late on Monday, followed by at least five aftershocks that shook buildings and sent products tumbling off supermarket shelves, but there were no ...

Photo shows Turkey’s Deputy Transport and Infrastructure Minister Omer Fatih Sayan “We will never allow digital fascism and anarchism to dominate in Turkey,” the country’s Deputy Transport and ...

From 6am on Monday until 6am on Tuesday police booked 111 individuals and two businesses for violating coronavirus decrees, Police said they had carried out 10,773 checks across the island. Forty people ...

Global energy majors including Royal Dutch Shell and Total are expected to benefit most from January’s gas price spike, beating rival trading houses and non-integrated producers thanks to their ...

Eurowings is hiring! Eurowings announced on Monday that it is preparing for its restart in summer 2021. In order to be able to cover the traditionally busiest travel period of the ...

The committee of inquiry into the citizenship-by-investment (CBI) programme will on Tuesday be holding its first public hearing, featuring former Finance Minister Harris Georgiades, to be followed by Archbishop Chrysostomos ...

Cheap housing in the old part of Nicosia has for years attracted low earners, mainly foreign workers. Several incentive schemes to attract young families and revitalise this historic centre of ...

Joe Biden is thrice blessed. Not only did he win the Democratic nomination and then the presidential election, but as a result of the events of January 6 he takes office ...

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang struck twice as Arsenal defeated Newcastle United 3-0 in the Premier League on Monday, condemning Steve Bruce’s side to a ninth game without a win in all ...

Guatemalan security forces on Monday cleared a road of hundreds of people in a mostly Honduran migrant caravan that had camped out overnight when authorities barred it from advancing toward ...

An existing Paphos hotel on the seafront of the town is earmarked for demolition with three nine-storey buildings due to take its place, the local green party announced on Monday. ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has told the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell that the EU should participate in the informal meeting on Cyprus, set to be convened by the UN ...

The secondary school parents’ association has called on the health ministry and government Covid-19 advisory team to allow for final-year students to return to school. Their call on Monday stated ...

Disneyland Paris said on Monday it was postponing its reopening by almost two months, to April 2, due to the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Due to the prevailing conditions in ...

The United States has informed European allies about plans to sanction Russian vessel “Fortuna”, which is involved in construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, German ...

Five deaths and 162 new cases of the coronavirus were announced on Monday, raising the total number of Covid deaths since the outbreak to 175. The health ministry said 199 people were in ...

Scientists have new biological evidence that the so-called South African coronavirus variant binds more readily and strongly to human cells, making it more infectious, top local epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim ...