Cypriot girl to host major Australian show
It’s not every day that grown men ask their mothers for help in their love lives. For three contestants in Australia’s on Seven’s Please Marry My Boy, they’re swallowing their pride and letting mother...
View ArticleGreek island on sale, for just $14 million
An uninhabited private island off the coast of Greece will go on auction at a starting price of 10 million euros (AU$14,34 million) in September, the company organising the sale has announced. The...
View ArticleApollon thrashed by Fiorentina
Fiorentina 7 Apollon 0 The Europa League hopefuls from Cyprus received a sound beating thanks to Fiorentina’s promising depth in attack. While the pitch may have been waterlogged and the limbs may have...
View ArticleOccupied Cyprus Elections
The opposition Turkish Party-United Front (CTP-BG) emerged as the largest party in the occupied Cypriot elections on July 28 but will need to find a coalition partner on the right to command a...
View ArticleRussia renews request to set up air, naval operations in Cyprus
Russia quietly is renewing a request to set up an air and naval base in Cyprus with the goal of being better able to deploy troops to Syria to back the government of President Bashar al-Assad against...
View ArticleA top Cypriot woman business leader in the USA
I am the vice president of Nicholas Pools Inc., in Toms River, where I began my career when I was 16. My parents, brothers and I gathered in the family room one evening and it was decided that we would...
View ArticleApoel build up hopes for UEFA Champions League
APOEL FC have qualified for the UEFA Champions League group stage twice in the last four seasons, including a maiden quarter-final appearance in 2011/12, but club stalwart Marios Ilia has warned his...
View ArticleBank of Cyprus bail-in set at 47.5%
Cyprus and its international lenders have agreed to convert 47.5% of deposits exceeding 100,000 euros in Bank of Cyprus to equity to recapitalize the bank. Deputy Government Spokesman Victoras...
View ArticleCypriot Judge honoured
Cypriot judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union, George Arestis, has been awarded recently an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Kent, for his contribution to EU law. Arestis, who is...
View ArticleLondon economists ponder Τroika’s future
European Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding`s recent comments that the Troika`s time under its current shape is over has reignited the debate in Europe over whether the IMF and the Commission/ECB...
View ArticleLimassol:13 year old boy critical
A 13-year-old boy is on life support in critical condition in Limassol General Hospital after he suffered an electric shock while helping in his brother’s car repair workshop. The accident happened at...
View ArticleApoel make 8th signing
APOEL boss Paulo Sergio has made his eighth signing days before his side take on Maribor in their opening Champions League qualifier after agreeing terms with Nigerian striker Tony. The 24-year-old...
View ArticleCyprus: Motorists caught driving without insurance will have vehicles...
Motorists caught driving without insurance will have their vehicles taken off the road until they turn up with valid cover as part of a new police traffic squad campaign that began yesterday. Drivers...
View ArticleTremor shakes Northern Aegean
A tremor measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale struck just after 8.30 a.m. in the area between the islands of Samothraki and Imvros in the northern Aegean, the National Observatory reported on Tuesday....
View ArticleCypriot-Americans Remember The Cyprus invasion
Prayers for the departed and expressions of solidarity with the people of Cyprus dominated the July 21 services at the Church of St. Nicholas, with parishioners and guests from throughout the New York...
View ArticleMysterious double coffin found at King Richard III car park site
Archaeologists have discovered a mysterious coffin-within-a-coffin from the same Leicester car park where England’s King Richard III was famously buried for 500 years. Experts returned to the site of...
View ArticleAston Martin flown in jet from Glasgow to Cyprus
Its boot may be smaller than the average suitcase, but this baby-faced Aston Martin took up every inch of its baggage allowance to take a trip aboard a Boeing 777 passenger airliner. The new £30,000...
View ArticleTheo Paphitis: ‘Let young people recreate our high streets’
Dragon’s Den star Theo Paphitis thinks young people are the ideal candidates to help rejuvenate dying high streets. Photograph: Richard Saker Throughout the UK almost one in eight shops are vacant....
View ArticleCyprus U.N. envoy says peace talks could resume in October
The United Nations’ chief envoy for ethnically divided Cyprus said on Tuesday he anticipated a resumption of peace talks in October after a lull of more than a year. Reunification talks between...
View ArticleCyprus: New vehicle registrations fall by 36.6% in first half of 2013
New vehicle registrations fell by 36.6% in the first six months of the year data published on Tuesday by the Cyprus Statistical Service show. The total number of newly registered vehicles came to 9,258...
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