TV shows we love: Ginny and Georgia
Taylor Swift has beef with this show featuring Georgia, a young mother moving with her teenage daughter and nine-year-old son to a New England town for a new beginning after ...
NZ livestream catches albatross in awkward faceplant (Video)
A livestream camera at a New Zealand nature reserve has caught a Royal Albatross making an awkward landing, with the video of the faceplanting now propelling the bird to fame.
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Marseille: an ancient port city growing in cultural confidence
In this video, we head over to France’s Marseille for a Covid-free tour of its highlights.
One of Europe’s oldest cities, founded around 600 B.C.E. and known ...
‘Migrant president’ Biden stirs Mexican angst over boom time for gangs
Mexico’s government is worried the new U.S. administration’s asylum policies are stoking illegal immigration and creating business for organized crime, according to officials and internal assessments seen ...
‘Let kids be who they are, just focus on bringing the joy’ – Sadhguru (Cyprus)
In this video, yogi and mystic Sadhguru, counsels parents on the task of bringing up children, urging them to allow every kid to become their own person, and not merely ...
Work by a Cypriot artist on display at Venice International Art Exhibition
Cyprus-born multimedia artist Irene Kattou has been chosen to represent Cyprus at this year’s Venice exhibition, which is titled The Body Language.
Her work, titled Venus Vain is a ...
Four-day remand for suspected child groomer
The Nicosia district court remanded a man for four days on Wednesday on suspicion of grooming a child for sexual exploitation using social media, police said.
The suspect was arrested ...
Coronavirus: Famagusta hospital Covid beds 96 per cent full
The Famagusta reference hospital is currently 96 per cent full, its medical director Dr Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Wednesday.
She said that 72 patients were being treated at the hospital, with the ...
Three years, three Euro failures: What now for Ronaldo and Juve?
Juventus suffered an evening of agonising deja vu on Tuesday.
The Italian champions’ last-16 second leg against 10-man Porto provided enthralling entertainment for the neutral. But after 120 minutes of breathless ...
Japan to keep foreign spectators away from Olympics, sources say
Japan has decided to stage this summer’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics without overseas spectators due to public concern about COVID-19, two government sources with knowledge of the matter told ...
The jab and the gab
THE WAY THINGS ARE
Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou
If you are unfamiliar with Irishisms, ‘gab’ is equal to chat. We Gaels are supposed to have ‘the gift of the gab’. If ...
Cabinet approves bill for separate ministry of culture
The bill for the creation of a separate ministry of culture was approved by the cabinet on Wednesday, Education minister Prodromos Prodromou announced on Twitter.
Culture currently comes under the ...
Against all odds: the defiant art of Artemisia Gentileschi
In this video we view highlights of the works of Artemisia Gentileschi, an important Italian painter of the Baroque era and a follower of Caravaggio – as well as one of ...
EU announces launch of scholarships for Turkish Cypriots
The European Commission on Wednesday announced the launch of the ‘EU Scholarships for the Turkish Cypriot community Programme for the Academic Year 2021/22’ funded under the Aid Programme.
In this round, ...
EU purchases 4m BioNtech-Pfizer vaccine doses
The European Commission has reached an agreement with BioNTech-Pfizer for the supply of four million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines for Member States in the next two weeks in order ...
Housing costs for the disabled in Cyprus least burdensome in EU
People with a disability in Cyprus experienced the lowest rate of housing cost overburden in the EU in 2019, Eurostat has reported.
The housing cost overburden rate is defined as the ...
Comforting, gluten-free Shepherd’s Pie
Shepherd’s pie is a classic comfort food recipe that’s healthy, hearty and filling.
The bottom layer is a simple a mix of ground lamb and vegetables, simmered into ...
UK Covid-19 variant is far more deadly than previous strains
The highly infectious variant of COVID-19 that has spread around the world since it was first discovered in Britain late last year is between 30% and 100% more deadly than previous strains, ...
Coronavirus: two more children in Makarios hospital
Two more children aged four and seven have been transferred to the paediatric ward at Makarios hospital with coronavirus, director of the ward Avraam Elia said on Wednesday.
The two ...
Coronavirus: As Cyprus’ tourism hopes rise, Brits now told ‘hold off’ on booking (Updated)
Just as Cyprus began to raise its hopes of an influx of British tourists from the end of May, and with preparations underway to take bookings from April1, according to ...
Russia slows Twitter’s speed over failure to remove banned content
Russia’s state communications watchdog said on Wednesday it was restricting the use of Twitter by slowing down its speed, accusing the social media platform of repeatedly failing to remove ...
Fifteen caught driving under influence of drugs in past ten days
Driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs increases the risk of causing an accident, police said on Wednesday after they caught 15 people driving while on drugs in the last ...
How to re-purpose a man’s shirt into scented sachets
This video shows you how to repurpose men’s shirts to make scented sachets at home.
Because the only thing more satisfying than making a great crafts project from the ...
Pyla community leader on his unusual village
In the mayor of the mixed village of Pyla, THEO PANAYIDES finds a man who acts as a buffer to many sides, having seen his village move from petrol lamps ...