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1. Thursday weather: Cyprus heats up to 29°C, because autumn is just a suggestion

Weak high pressure is affecting the area. Weak, they say. Yet temperatures are heading towards 29°C. Imagine being so unbothered that you barely register as a weather system while still delivering beach-day temperatures in late October....

2. Cyprus’s architectural disorder tells the story of who we are

The diversity and variety found on our island are undoubtedly remarkable. Within a relatively narrow strip of land, the scenery changes almost endlessly, from one geographical landscape to another, and from one cultural and demographic setting to the next....

3. The fuel market paradox: Why is Paphos the most expensive?

The complexity and deep distortions of Cyprus’ fuel market become clearest when we shift our focus from the national picture to the differences between districts....

4. Macron refuses minister’s exit as France counts the cost of riots

France’s interior minister offered to resign. President Emmanuel Macron told him to stay. After a weekend of burning buildings, looted shops and thousands of arrests, the government begins Monday under pressure to explain how protests turned into widespread violence, and what it will do next....

5. Weekend warriors: Meet a queen, chase the wine and let someone else cook

You have all week to discuss what needs fixing around the house. This weekend, leave it broken for another 48 hours. There’s a queen expecting visitors in Pyrga, wine waiting in Kalo Chorio and enough happening in Nicosia to make “there’s nothing to do” a fairly difficult argument to defend....

6. British Museum chairman proposes shared display deal for Parthenon marbles

In an interview with Kathimerini Greece conducted by Alexis Papachelas, British Museum board chairman George Osborne said he remains optimistic that a long-running dispute over the Parthenon Sculptures can still be resolved through a shared arrangement that would see the 5th-century BC artefacts displayed in both Athens and London....

7. Vino Cultura Celebrates 20 Years of Wine, People and Hospitality

8. Max Nikias: ''Where you begin does not determine how far you can go''

From a small village in Cyprus to the presidency of one of the leading universities in the United States, Chrysostomos Loizos Nikias, better known as C.L. Max Nikias, has followed a path connecting science with leadership and education with innovation....

9. Ship sinks off Bulgaria as Black Sea drone attacks bring war closer to EU shores

Two ships were struck off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast early Tuesday, with one sinking, in another attack on civilian shipping close to the shores of an EU and NATO member....

10. What’s shaping Cyprus business this week

Key gatherings across Cyprus this week bring together leaders in artificial intelligence, corporate governance, and sustainable finance. Here is your quick look at the top conferences, networking events, and local industry milestones on the agenda....

11. BBC: Deloitte Cyprus helped falsify records to hide Abramovich’s wealth

Deloitte Cyprus helped falsify documents to conceal Roman Abramovich’s wealth and appears to have advised on a scheme that allowed one of his companies to evade millions in Cypriot taxes, according to a joint investigation by BBC Panorama and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism....

12. Her daughter came home after 471 days, learning to be her mother again came next.

''You weren’t there to hold my hand when I needed you.'' Romi Gonen said those words to her mother after coming home from 471 days in Hamas captivity....

13. This isn’t a story about a fish tavern…

The political storm battering the Democratic Rally (DISY) is simply the turmoil that had long been brewing beneath the surface at the party’s Pindarou headquarters, now erupting into the open....

14. Cyprus says it is fixing its waste problem. The EU has been waiting since 2013

Cyprus is back before the European Union’s highest court over its waste-management record, more than a decade after the last major ruling against the Republic....

15. Raising children shouldn’t mean retiring on less

The school runs, meals, washing and care don’t stop. But when a mother steps away from paid employment to raise her children, her pension contributions can....

16. More than 3,300 ordered to leave Cyprus, but orders don’t tell the whole story

Cyprus issued 3,385 orders for non-EU citizens to leave in the second quarter of 2026. But there is an important distinction behind that number: an order to leave does not mean someone has actually left....

17. 5 things you may not know about Cyprus’ independence

Perhaps the most “widely unknown” aspect of the troubled story of Cyprus’ independence is that the historic day on which the Republic of Cyprus was officially born was not October 1, but August 16, 1960, as a result of the infamous Zurich-London Agreements, which had been signed some time earlier....

18. Rare Mary Magdalene relic remains in Aglantzia through Sunday

As Cyprus marks Independence Day on Thursday, people looking for a quieter and more spiritual stop during the holiday can visit a rare Christian relic now being hosted in Aglantzia....

19. Twenty-one years later, Thanasis’ family finally reaches trial

Exactly 21 years after Thanasis Nikolaou was found dead beneath the Alassa bridge, his family returned to court Tuesday—still fighting for answers, but now one step closer to seeing the case fully heard....

20. C. L. Max Nikias presents his book 'American Trojan' in Nicosia

The historic Pancyprian Gymnasium will host the presentation of the memoirs of an immigrant, tracing the rise of USC and the renewal of American higher education. ...

21. PoliticsBlog: Averof, the prince and Churchill

Churchill described the modern Cypriot political scene rather vividly when he said, ''Political opponents are merely people with a different opinion. The real enemies sit on the back benches of your own party.''...

22. Hidden 4.1% rise in public-sector staff costs in 2027

While the government is cutting civil service positions in an effort to contain the public-sector wage bill, the picture presented by staffing expenditure tells a different story....

23. As Ambassador Anolik prepares to leave, he shares one last story of Cyprus and Israel

Aphrodite and King David may sound like unlikely travelling companions. One belongs to the mythology and shores of Cyprus; the other to the history and faith of the Jewish people....

24. Trump and Xi put on a show, but their rivalry could still hit your pocket

The red carpet was rolled out, the military band was ready and the two first ladies stood neatly beside their husbands....

25. Asylum claims fall across Europe, but Cyprus still carries twice the average load

Asylum applications may be falling across Europe, but the pressure is not being felt equally, and Cyprus remains close to the top of the list....

26. Man arrested over €89,000 ‘Prince of Gabon’ scam in Famagusta district

A 46-year-old man has been arrested in Cyprus over a bizarre 2022 scam in which a Famagusta businessman allegedly paid €89,000 to help “clean” €1 million in white-painted banknotes....

27. Royal Air Force to use Akrotiri to support Saudi Arabia against Houthis

RAF Akrotiri is being drawn into another Middle East security operation, with Britain preparing to deploy a refueling aircraft from Cyprus to support Saudi Arabia against missile and drone attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels....

28. Deloitte’s second “Cultivating Success Stories of Innovation” showcases the strength of Cyprus’ start-up ecosystem

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 programme and ARIS | A Really Inspiring Story (ARIS) accelerator brought together the next generation of technology entrepreneurs at a high-impact event in Limassol, celebrating the momentum, ambition and growing international reach of the start-up και scale-up ecosystem in Cyprus and the Middle East. ...

29. It’s alive!

When Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic and former OpenAI employee, resigned noisily on X, he warned that artificial intelligence companies were playing with the lives not simply of people, but of humanity itself, in a race to build self-improving models....

30. Same government building, €23 million more: What changed?

Cyprus is preparing to spend an estimated €68 million on a new headquarters for the Legal Service, €23 million more than the broadly similar project put forward three years ago....