Nicosia

A man from Cyprus shot his wife and young daughter to death before fatally turning the gun on himself on Wednesday. The man also shot his son who is being hospitalized in critical condition. The man was suffering psychological...

A disused airport stands like a ghost from another era. Shops that once thrived lay abandoned, and for some decades now. Welcome to the UN buffer zone in Cyprus, where the time stood still in 1974, and has barely flinched since. Reuters photographer...

Highway patrol plus drivers, equals tickets being issued most of the time. Drivers violating the law are faced with fines issued by highway patrol officers. This was also the case in Cyprus, at least until yesterday. On Thursday, the highway...

Until recently, space was considered an exotic destination that we all wanted to visit and explore, but few dared. Nowadays, it isn't an inaccessible world full of secrets. In recent years, not only are researchers and scientists interested in...

The Cyprus Department of Antiquities has launched a pilot tour program for the Blind, giving the opportunity to people with visual disabilities to visit various archeological sites of great importance. On Saturday, a group of people visited the famous House...

Eurozone finance ministers have approved a 1.5 billion euro loan tranche to Cyprus as part of that country's 10 billion euro bailout the government sought to keep its banks and economy from collapsing. “The Eurogroup welcomes the conclusion of the...

Representatives of Greek and Cypriot organizations abroad gathered for their annual conference on August 21 in Nicosia, Cyprus. According to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), they began their deliberations focusing on two main topics, the state of the economy and...

The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) is proceeding with the investigation of locating missing people in military zones in the regions of Nicosia and Kyrenia. According to a publication of the newspaper POLITIS, these are specific areas where,...

The history of Nicosia was the main subject of a ceremony which took place in the old Mayor’s House of Vienna. The event was organized by the Cypriot Cultural Centre of Vienna including book and documentary presentation, photograph exhibition...

Cypriot Androulla Vassiliou, the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, will address the 5th European Heritage Days Forum Oct. 15-16 in Nicosia. Launched in 1985,it has been organized annually every year since 1999 as a joint initiative between...