Jailed Chinese democracy activist Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for two decades of non-violent struggle for human rights, infuriating China, which called the award "an obscenity". The prize
Credit card payments in Cyprus rose 3% in the first nine months of 2010 compared to last year, clearing agency JCC said on Friday. Transactions worth 1.39 bln euros were processed using
A European Commissioner reassured Turkey on Friday that its membership bid was on track, days after Turkish leaders aired suspicions that some EU members were stalling the entry of a Muslim country
A popular Japanese cabinet minister apologised on Friday after a photo shoot she did in Japan's parliament building for the local edition of Vogue drew fire from opposition parties. Renho, a 42-year-old
Hollywood star Johnny Depp took "show and tell" to a new level at a London school when he turned up in full pirate regalia after a fan wrote to him seeking help
Experts in Cyprus are trying to unravel the identity of one of the island's older inhabitants, after a skeleton was discovered protruding from a cliff in one of the island's richest archaeological
The United States and EU said on Wednesday that U.N. climate talks were making less progress than hoped due to rifts over rising economies' emission goals, while China pushed back and put
The chief executive of Hellenic Exchanges, the operator of Greece's stock and futures markets, said on Wednesday he will step down at the end of October when his contract expires. Spyros Capralos,
Kuwait and Cyprus said on Tuesday they would explore reciprocal investment opportunities, such as in energy and services, as they signed a deal to avoid double taxation of companies operating in the
Two Russian-born scientists shared the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics for showing how carbon just one atom thick behaved, a discovery with profound implications from quantum physics to consumer electronics. Andre Geim
