NICOSIA - An early-morning bomb damaged a car parked outside a house in Strovolos, Nicosia.
The vehicle belongs to a 55-year-old woman but it used only by her 23-year-old son.
The explosion was caused bya device planted on the windscreen of the car which caused a fire that...

 NICOSIA - A disabled man, Costas Cambouris, 70, was found dead in his home in the Nicosia village of Denia early on Sunday afternoon after a fire. Residents in the village rushed to the scne and helped extinguish the fire with the help of a fire engine stationed in the village. Initial...

LIMASSOL - A 44 year old Romanian being held in police custody in connection with a suspected case of rape and incest was found dead in his cell on Sunday morning. Police said the man was found hanging from the door of his cell during a regular check at LImassol Police HQ. He had apparently used...

LARNACA - A man and a woman have been arrested in Larnaca in connection with a police drug investigation . The two suspects, aged 37 and 24, were not named. They were arrested on Saturday evening by drug squad officers who were staking out a location in the Larnaca district after a tip off. Around...

LIMASSOL -  Yiannis Kleanthous, 31, from Polemidhia was killed in a traffic accident that occurred on the Limassol-Platres road at 10.40 am on Sunday. Under conditions being investigated by police, the car he was driving was involved in a head on collision with a car coming from the opposite...

NICOSIA -  The price of basic goods such as milk and bread have soared in the past four years, a survey by Phileleftheros newspaper published on Sunday shows. Accordingt to the survey, external factors, particularly rising international  fuel prices, have had a knock on effect on basic...

PAPHOS - Police are looking for a man who robbed an 84 year old woman  at knife point  at her Moutallos home on Saturday afternoon. Police said a masked man had entered the woman's home in Moutallos and demanded she give him her money. The victim gave her purse which had some 10 euros in...

NICOSIA  -- Disy president Nicos Anastasiades was on Saturday named his party's candidate for the 2013 February presidential elections, easily trouncing rival Eleni Theocharous in a vote among the 1008 strong executive of theparty. More specifically, Anastasiades took 673 οf the 781 votes...

LONDON- British Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt, giving evidence to a House of Lords Select Committee regarding Iran's nuclear programme, has warned that the country already has weapons which could hit British forces in Cyprus and Afghanistan, and was now seeking to acquire the nuclear...

NICOSIA  - Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs Erato Kozakou Markoullis has concluded a working visit to Lebanon, during which she held a series of meetings with the Lebanese political leadership and reaffirmed the close relations between the two countries, while both sides agreed to...