Egypt resumed its first free presidential election on Thursday after a first day of voting that passed off mostly calmly, apart from a stone-throwing attack on candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was premier
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Thursday that staging the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo would symbolise the country's recovery from last year's deadly tsunami after the city made the International Olympic
Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency (CIPA) ranks 5th out of 189 countries, according to the World Bank Global Investment Promotion Best Practices 2012 report. According to a CIPA press release issued here on
European Union leaders, advised by senior officials to prepare contingency plans in case Greece decides to quit the single currency, urged the country to stay the course on austerity and complete the
Asian shares eased on Thursday as markets were vulnerable to faltering factory orders in China and lack of concrete measures shown by European leaders to tackle the risk of Greece leaving the
The chief executive of German conglomerate Siemens AG said on Wednesday he expects the euro to survive the continent's debt crisis, but he said it is unclear if Greece will remain in
Greeks are notoriously reluctant to pay taxes, but even those that do are holding off at the moment until they are sure their country stays in the euro zone. State coffers are
Newspaper publishers and national newspaper associations from around Europe will hold a special debate in Nicosia on Thursday with the High Level Group on Freedom and Pluralism of the Media appointed by
Eleftheria Eleftheriou and Ivi Adamou will both be at the Eurovison 2012 final. The singers who represent Greece and Cyprus respectively amazed the crowds in Azerbaijan, where the contest is taking place,
European shares ended a two-day rally and safe-haven assets such as the dollar rose on Wednesday, as investors doubted any new measures to tackle the euro-zone debt crisis would emerge from a
