Two Spanish regions, Castilla and Leon and Valencia, urged the central government on Friday to impose night-time curfews quickly to stem the coronavirus spread after authorities failed to reach a decision on such restrictions on Thursday. The regions have a high degree of autonomy and are largely responsible for responding...
Five patients have each had to have one of their eyes removed after being infected during cataract surgery at Apollonion hospital, it emerged on Friday. “We had to do a corrective procedure on five of the patients on Thursday, to prevent the infection from spreading to their brain,” the ophthalmologist...
American Coco Gauff said she was inspired by Andy Murray after the former world number one highlighted a lack of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) board members at the Lawn Tennis Association and All England Club. Murray posted a screenshot on Instagram of an interview in which 1996 Wimbledon...
The chief negotiators of Britain and the European Union meet on Friday for intensive negotiations on a last-minute trade deal that would stave off a tumultuous finale to the five-year-old Brexit crisis. The United Kingdom left the EU in January but the two sides are trying to clinch a deal...
Lefkaritiko lace, a unique embroidery from Cyprus, may soon disappear. This centuries old art is a victim to modern times.
A 9,500 year old burial in Cyprus represents some of the oldest known evidence of human/cat companionships anywhere in the world. But when did this close relationship between humans and cats start? And how did humans help cats take over the world?
The Embassies of Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Goethe-Institut Cyprus will present a range of events under the Weeks of the German Language umbrella that will kick off on Saturday. Lasting until the end of November, events will take place related to the German language and the culture of the...
The health ministry on Friday published the names of the places where coronavirus cases had been detected in the past five days. The venues include five hospitals: German Oncology Centre, Mediterranean, and Ygeia, in Limassol, and Areteio and American Medical Centre in Nicosia. A case was also detected at Heraklis...
Cyprus is a great place to build innovation centres, software development labs and incubators, US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment Keith Krach told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA). In an interview during his visit earlier this week when he signed an MoU for cooperation...
The reproductive number (R number) of the coronavirus in the Republic was between 1.5 and two as of Tuesday, October 20, the health ministry said on Friday as authorities struggled to contain the spread of the disease which has recorded a huge spike in the past 10 days or so....
Few students showed up at the secondary schools in Polis Chrysochous on Friday morning after Thursday’s decision by the municipality, school board and parents’ association to close them for two weeks because of a surge in coronavirus cases. Mayor of Polis Giotis Papachristofi said the number of students is in...
Hackers sponsored by Russia have been trying to break into U.S. state and local government computer networks and in two instances were successful, U.S. government agencies said on Thursday – the second major warning over foreign hacking in as many days. In an alert less than two weeks before the...
Demand for gold from jewellers and central banks will remain sharply lower in 2021 than before coronavirus, but investors will keep prices high by stockpiling record amounts of bullion, Refinitiv Metals Research said. Gold prices are near record highs after surging to $2,072.50 an ounce in August as investors in...
Kylie Jenner, Ariana Grande, and Cardi B have shown us that eyeliner is no longer confined to the rims of eyelids. Forget playing it safe with your usual black liner, now it’s about being bright and bold with a slick along the socket line or just below the eyebrow. The...
A 32-year-old man was remanded in custody for eight days on Friday by the Larnaca District Court in connection with two armed robberies committed earlier in the day in Larnaca. The two robberies, at a hotel and a bakery in Larnaca, happened within ten minutes of each other on Thursday...
In an attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus police carried out 1,065 checks nationwide in 24 hours from Thursday until Friday. Officers booked four premises and 10 individuals during this time, most of them for not wearing face masks. In Nicosia, just one individual was fined as the...
Turkey’s central bank bucked expectations for a big interest rate hike on Thursday and sent the lira plunging to a record low or near 8 to the dollar, 9.38 to the euro, and 10.39 to the British pound. The central bank held its policy rate at 10.25 per cent, saying...
South Korea’s forensic agency has found no links between a 17-year-old boy’s death and a flu shot he had taken, the Yonhap news agency reported, amid rising concerns about the safety of the vaccines following the death of at least 32 people. The boy was among the first reported to...
Larnaca-based ARK36 announces its launch as a hedge fund focused on the cryptocurrency markets, delivering a risk-adjusted exposure to crypto-assets for professional investors. Grant Thornton Cyprus is fund administrator. Why a cryptocurrency hedge fund? “I believe that crypto-assets, as an asset class, is one of the things that has the...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden offered sharply contrasting views on the still-raging coronavirus pandemic at Thursday’s final presidential debate, seeking to persuade the few remaining undecided voters 12 days before their Nov. 3 contest. Trump, a Republican, adopted a more restrained tone than he did during...
Gareth Bale started for Tottenham Hotspur for the first time in seven years and helped them to a 3-0 win over Austria’s LASK in their first match of the Europa League group phase on Thursday. Lucas Moura opened the scoring after 18 minutes and Bale’s square pass was turned into his own...
