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Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides We have recently written about global debt and the high levels of government borrowing, accumulated as a response to the global pandemic and aided by ...

Most of us living in Cyprus won’t experience snow, but occasionally it has been known to occur away from Troodos. There may be a few flurries in the hilly ...

By William James British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday that tougher lockdown restrictions were probably on the way as COVID-19 cases keep rising, but that schools were safe ...

A 24-year-old driver was spotted on the Larnaca-Kofinou highway on Sunday driving at 207 km/hr, twice the speed limit. According to police at 10.45 on Sunday morning, a traffic police patrol ...

In this video, Russian wakeboarding star Nikita Martyanov and Kamaz-Master team pilot Anton Shibalov break down the borders between two extreme disciplines: wakeboarding and truck-category motorsports. In wakeboarding, a rider ...

In this San Francisco Museum of Modern Art video, American artist John Divola reflects on how time and motion have influenced his artistic practice. His series ‘As Far as I ...

Well-known property developer Michalakis Leptos has died aged 84, it was announced on Sunday. He was born in Kyrenia and qualified as a civil engineer at the Metsovio Polytechnic in Athens. ...

Researching the impact of the 1918 flu pandemic offered a glimpse of a very different Cyprus By Theo Panayides Back in early March, with talk of coronavirus starting to ripple through ...

An Israeli official on Sunday dismissed as “nonsense” an allegation by the Iranian foreign minister that Israel was trying to trick the United States into waging war on Iran. It ...

US acting secretary of homeland security Chad Wolf will lay the foundation stone in Larnaca on Monday of the Cyprus Center for Land, Open Seas and Port Security (Cyclops), a ...

Police on Saturday night arrested a man who appeared to have damaged four cars while he was under the influence of drugs. According to police, the incident happened late on ...

Dr Yiorghos Leventis Seventy-six years ago, on Christmas Day of 1944, Winston Churchill set foot in Athens in an urgent political-military visit. The extraordinary arrival of the then British prime minister ...

Does your dog cry a lot and you don’t know why? This video covers the six possible reasons for your furry companion’s distress, and five tips to reassure ...

Nina Hamilton is a mother, gardener and wedding photographer living in the suburbs of Hobart, the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. When COVID-19 ...

Hosted by MasterChef contestant, Justine Schofield, this episode of Everyday Gourmet sees guest Kathy Tsaples, the Greek Australian owner of Melbourne’s Sweet Greek shop and author of two popular ...

A company car used by a foreign employee was the target of arsonists on Saturday night, police said. The car was set on fire at around midnight while it was ...

New Paris St. Germain manager Mauricio Pochettino is relishing the opportunity to take charge of a star-studded squad but has warned the club’s top players that they must prove ...

A father and son were beaten up by unknown people in Palodia, Limassol overnight on Saturday shortly after an explosion was heard in the area, police said on Sunday. On ...

American artist Jeff Koons is recognised for works inspired by popular culture and sculptures depicting everyday items, including balloon animals – produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. In this video, ...

Sharks are some of the animal kingdom’s most feared hunters, thanks to a special sixth sense… electroreception. There are two ways animals use electroreception. They either use their own ...

Police charged 99 people overnight from Saturday to Sunday for violating decrees to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. A police spokesman told the Cyprus News Agency these were a ...

Tesla Inc on Saturday reported better-than-expected 2020 vehicle deliveries, driven by a steady rise in electric vehicle adoption, but narrowly missed its ambitious full-year goal during a punishing year for the ...

Africa Rising may fast become Africa Uprising. After a decade of a debt-fuelled growth, the poorest continent always risked a difficult moment of reckoning. Depressed commodity prices and more circumspect ...

Ever since she dropped ‘Pure Heroine’ back in 2013, the ‘Royals’ singer, Lorde, took the world by storm. Her music undeniably shook up the pop music industry, as the heavy bass ...