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The ministry of health has announced the locations for rapid tests on Monday that are available to all for free. They are: District Location Time Limassol Gregoris Afxentiou Square 8.30 am-5 ...

Hundreds of demonstrators took part in a protest drive from the GSP stadium to the presidential palace on Sunday afternoon. The protest was against the coronavirus measures, although those addressing ...

Tourism revenues fell by a whopping 84 per cent as a result of the coronavirus- By Jonathan Shkurko Of all the sectors hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic this year, none ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Sunday warned President Nicos Anastasiades to “not chase dreams that will not become a reality”, adding that a two-state solution is realistic. He was ...

With so many islands making up the entire city of New York, the number of bridges throughout the city is hardly a surprise… and it’s hard to believe there ...

Pope Francis condemned on Sunday people who had gone abroad on holiday to escape coronavirus lockdowns, saying they needed to show greater awareness of the suffering of others. Speaking after ...

The new variant of coronavirus identified in the UK has been found in Cyprus, the ministry of health said on Sunday after tests on people from the UK were completed. ...

Twelve cats have been found brutally beaten to death and the incident has been reported to the police by the CopsCats animal welfare group. The group said the dead cats ...

With hospitals around the island under strain, the state health services organisation Okypy has appealed to the private sector to come forward. “Things are difficult in hospitals,” Okypy spokesman Charalambous ...

Finding the perfect pair of glasses isn’t easy… and when it comes to stylish eyewear, the stakes are high! Optical designer Garrett Leight shows you how to find the ...

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 ...