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The House for Volunteers was created with the aim to shelter and provide basic office equipment for volunteer organisations and NGOs, the volunteer commissioner’s office announced on Monday. The ...

Murex, the global leader in trading, risk management and processing solutions for capital markets, will bolster its regional footprint in the Europe-Middle East-Africa region with a new physical presence in ...

It was recently decided that the historic school of Phaneromeni is to be converted into an architecture school of the University of Cyprus. Some objected to this, but many including ...

Famagusta hospital, the reference hospital for coronavirus cases, is currently 99 per cent full, its medical director Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Monday. “Today 74 patients with coronavirus are being treated at the ...

Police booked more than 200 people and businesses for failing to comply with coronavirus measures from Sunday until Monday morning. A total of 207 individuals, including seven business owners were fined in 24 ...

Bitcoin, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, fell as much as 14 per cent to $51,541 on Sunday, reversing most of the big gains it made over the past week. Bitcoin was last ...

The move by 12 of Europe’s top clubs to launch a Super League on Sunday has kicked off what is likely to be a bitter struggle for control of the ...

Moscow expelled 20 Czech diplomats on Sunday in a confrontation over Czech allegations that two Russian spies accused of a nerve agent poisoning in Britain in 2018 were behind an earlier explosion ...

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, consumers around the world have saved an additional $5.4 trillion, and gained confidence that they can spend it as businesses reopen, Moody’s said ...

Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought and connect remote Colombian communities to the electricity grid before working for ...

Facebook (FB.O) will announce a series of products under the umbrella of “social audio” on Monday, including its take on audio-chat app Clubhouse and a push into podcast discovery ...

Cyprus Sustainable Tourism Initiative’s chairman outlines the importance of expanding the island product By Kyriacos Nicolaou Sustainable tourism has been a transformative force for the sector on the island ...

European football closed ranks on Sunday, threatening to ban any clubs that join a breakaway competition after the spectre of a European Super League re-emerged on the eve of a ...

Leicester City reached the FA Cup final for the first time in more than 50 years as Kelechi Iheanacho’s goal secured a 1-0 win over Southampton at Wembley on Sunday. ...

Three deaths and 852 coronavirus cases were announced on Sunday. The deaths concern three men aged 62, 65 and 92. The 65-year-old man had received the first dose of a vaccine. The other two ...

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won a chaotic and crash-halted Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola on Sunday with Lewis Hamilton second for Mercedes and retaining the lead in the ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides For most countries defence spending constitutes a percentage of their GDP which is not negligible. As a case in point, during 2020 the five nations ...

Ninety-seven people were injured on Sunday when some train carriages derailed in Egypt‘s Qalioubia province north of Cairo, the health ministry said in a statement. More than 50 ambulances rushed ...

From hunters to Varosha refugees, small new parties are attempting to woo a disillusioned electorate By George Psyllides As election day edges closer, it appears that the island’s political ...

British health officials are investigating a COVID-19 variant originating in India but as yet they do not have enough evidence to classify it is as a variant of concern, Susan ...

By Sarah N. Lynch President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that the U.S. government has told ...

Police on Sunday afternoon said there was traffic on the Larnaca to Nicosia motorway. Motorists are urged to drive at low speed and keep a safe distance from other vehicles. ...

The Cyprus LNG plant and the East Med pipeline under the spectre of the Turkish ‘blue homeland’ in the East Med’s energy game By Panayiotis Tilliros The geopolitical and ...

The health ministry announced the rapid testing sites for Monday, 55 in total. People need to present proof of identity such as ID card, driver’s license or passport, for identification ...