CYPRUS popularity and CYPRUS trends

More than 83 per cent of British beaches received the top 'excellent' rating, with Cyprus, Croatia, Malta and Greece also praised, but the Netherlands was among the worst performers.

The news could have implications for many savers here after a push by the Bank of Cyprus, the country's biggest bank, in recent years to attract deposits from the UK with table-topping rates.

Turkish Cypriot leader calls Israeli ambassador, warns Israel not to send planes into the area, according to Turkish media outlet.

Cyprus attempts to reduce its vulnerability to the Greek debt crisis by moving to underwrite a €1.8bn share capital increase by Popular Bank

Turkey says it scrambled two military jets to chase away an Israeli plane which allegedly violated the airspace of Turkish-held northern Cyprus.

Turkey says it scrambled two military jets to chase away an Israeli plane which allegedly violated the airspace of Turkish-held northern Cyprus.

Michalis Sarris, chairman of the Cyprus Popular Bank, tells Stephen Sackur that a Greek exit from the euro is possible but not inevitable.

The oldest agricultural settlement ever found on a Mediterranean island has been discovered in Cyprus by a team of French archaeologists involving CNRS, the National Museum of Natural History, INRAP, EHESS and the University of Toulouse. Previously it was believed that, due to the island's geographic isolation, the first Neolithic farming societies did not reach Cyprus until a thousand years af...

WOODSIDE Petroleum boss Peter Coleman is pushing to diversify out of Australia, bidding for deepwater gas ground off Cyprus.

Earthquake felt as far north as Safed, in Jerusalem; epicenter near Cyprus; no injuries, damages reported after tectonic event.

Your pessimistic report on the state of the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia (Nature484, 14; 201210.1038/484014a) is based on a selection of distorted negative quotes. As chairman of the institute's trustees, I believe that this view is misleading and damaging

With a third of 2012 now behind us, the winners and losers among the world's benchmark stock markets are starting to emerge.

Panicos O. Demetriades, who will become governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus on Thursday, must confront a banking crisis that could add his country to the list of stricken euro zone nations.

Peggy McAlpine, who has two children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, leapt from a 2,400ft peak in northern Cyprus.

NICOSIA  - Cyprus on Saturday appointed a professor at an English university as its new central bank governor to replace Athanasios Orphanides at a time when the small EU member's economy is struggling. Panicos Demetriades, a former central bank official and currently professor of financial economics at the University of Leicester in central England, will take over as governor. Government ...

SINIRUSTU/SYGKRASI, Cyprus (AP) -- Turkey began exploratory drilling for oil and gas Thursday in the breakaway Turkish north of ethnically divided Cyprus, heightening a dispute over who is entitled to the Mediterranean island's potential fuel riches....

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay a Bombay High Court order permitting a Cyprus merchant vessel MW Nordlake, which allegedly rammed into and sank a Rs 1,058-crore Indian Navy Ship, to leave Indian shores after furnishing a bank guarantee of Rs 46.87 crore.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today informed the leaders of Cyprus Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities, Demetris Christofias and Derviþ Eroðlu, that there was not enough progress on key aspects of reunification talks to warrant holding an international conference on the divided Mediterranean island nation.

The rollout of Apple's new iPad continues apace, with the company bringing it to dozens of additional countries in the next two weeks.

Apple’s new iPad is coming to 12 additional countries on Friday, the company has announced. Countries in which new iPad will be available…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- Cyprus must stick to its deficit target of 2.5 percent of GDP this year to convince international investors that it can survive the European financial turmoil, the island's new finance minister said Thursday....

Cyprus Fakroddin hält sich eine Ziege als Haustier. Und er unternimmt immer mal wieder einen Ausflug mit ihr in die Großstadt, ins nahe New York.

Strip club boss Lolly Jackson's suspected killer, George Luca, who is in custody in Cyprus, appeared in court yesterday and the matter was postponed to April 23, the National Prosecuting Authority said.

The National Prosecuting Authority says George Luca appeared in court and the matter was postponed until the extradition application reaches Cyprus.

With a 3-0 lead secured from the first leg in Cyprus, Jose Mourinho names an experimental side for the second match at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday.

The whole island of Cyprus has been left without electricity after a problem at one of the island's power plants resulted in the entire grid shutting down.

AXED Essex girl has opened up on her 'romantic' trip to Cyprus with Jarvis Walters

Jose Mourinho will not be under-estimating Champions League upstarts APOEL Nicosia as Real Madrid prepare for their quarter-final first leg in Cyprus.

Business tycoon's trial for theft was abandoned for the day to allow him to rush to his wife's bedsideBusiness tycoon Asil Nadir's trial has been abandoned for the day at the Old Bailey to allow him to rush to his wife's bedside.The judge explained to the jury that Nadir, 70, was too distressed to continue with the case.Nur Nadir, 27, was taken to a central London hospital on Wednesday after be...

Real Madrid got a favourable draw, playing away first against surprise team APOEL of Cyprus

International credit ratings agency Moody's downgraded euro member Cyprus to junk status on Tuesday on heightened concerns over its banking sector's exposure to Greece.

Moody's Investors Service cut Cyprus's sovereign ratings to junk today, saying there was a heightened risk the government would have to support its banks, heavily exposed to Greek debt.

The South African national women's team have finished 10th in the Cyprus Cup after they lost to their Scottish counterparts.

ISTANBUL – Turkey would consider annexing northern Cyprus if talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots failed to reach a deal on reunification of the island, Turkey’s European affairs minister, Egemen Bagis, has told a Turkish Cypriot newspaper.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- Cyprus' attorney general has dropped gambling charges against about 40 elderly women, including a 98-year-old, whose weekly poker-and-bridge party had been raided by police....

BANK of Cyprus Australia Ltd (BOCA) has become wholly owned by Bendigo and Adelaide Bank after the regional bank's acquisition of the Hellenic lender was completed.

During its session of 22/23 February 2012, the International Committee of the Red Cross recognized the Cyprus Red Cross Society as the 188th National Society of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Bank of Cyprus, la première banque de Chypre, a annoncé mardi une perte d'un milliard d'euros pour 2011, en raison d'une dévaluation de son portefeuille d'obligations souveraines grecques. L'établissement bancaire a indiqué que, après une dévaluation de 60% de son portefeuille d'obligations...

Le Livret A a attiré en janvier 3,96 milliards d'euros de collecte, son plus haut niveau depuis trois ans.Articles en rapportBNP en discussions pour vendre ses 51% dans Klépierre-presseMES: l'abstention PS c'est "oui à la solidarité, non à l'austérité" (Aubry)L'euro monte un peu face au dollar, prudence malgré l'accord sur la GrèceWall Street franchit le seuil psychologique des 13.000 pointsCri...

"Iran has been exposed for being the most irresponsible power on earth today. The one that exports terror with abandon is murdering people and breaking all the rules," Netanyahu told reporters during a one-day visit to Cyprus.

The world's oldest living organism may not be that 43,000 year-old Tasmanian plant after all. Scientists have discovered giant patches of seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea that are thought to be up to 200,000-years-old, United Press International reports.The researchers determined the age of the seaweed patches using DNA sequencing at 40 different sites over a span of 2,000 miles, from Spain to...

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An anonymous reader writes "The reverberations from the SOPA fight continue to be felt in the U.S. and elsewhere, but it is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that has captured increasing attention this week. Several months after the majority of ACTA participants signed the agreement, most European Union countries formally signed the agreement yesterday (notable exclusions include Germany,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fitch Ratings on Friday downgraded the sovereign credit ratings for Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Belgium and Cyprus indicating there is a 1-in-2 chance of further downgrades in the next two years.

Fitch Ratings on Friday downgraded euro-zone members Italy, Spain, Belgium, Cyprus and Slovenia, while affirming Ireland's credit rating.

Quantum Energy suggests electric-power cable linking Israel, Cyprus and Greece to export electricity.

Asil Nadir, pictured, stole the cash through a complex series of transactions including being transferred to a bank he owned in Northern Cyprus, the Old Bailey heard today.

HUNKY romeo says Rhodri Giggs' wife exhausted him with Cyprus sex sessions

Rauf Denktas, the first president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, died Friday in Nicosia after a long illness, the self-declared republic's current leader announced.

France suffers 1-notch downgrade; Portugal, Italy, Spain, Cyprus drop 2 notches by Standard & Poor's rating agency.

France's PIP scandal raises a basic question: Are the risks of any aesthetic surgery acceptable?The faulty breast implants made by the French company Poly Implants Protheses, or PIP, have grabbed headlines around the world in recent weeks, and it's no wonder. The prostheses are more prone to rupture than other models, and they contain an industrial grade of silicone never intended for use in a ...

China and Cyprus celebrated the 40th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations at a reception held here on Friday.

Agency puts Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Italy, Ireland and Cyprus on negative watch

Release Time:  For Immediate Release Prime Minister’s Office Athens, Greece   12:06 P.M. (Local)   PRIME MINISTER PAPADEMOS:  (Opening remarks offered in Greek not translated.)   Now in today’s meeting, we will have the opportunity to have substantive and productive discussions on important issues of mutual interest, and a...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AFP/Reuters) - Deserters killed eight soldiers and members of the security forces and wounded 40 more in an attack on Saturday in Idlib in northwest Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said."A group of deserters attacked a squad of soldiers and security agents in a convoy of seven vehicles, including three all-terrain vehicles, on the road from Ghadka to Maaret Numan...

Soccer: Apoel Nicosia became the first Cypriot side to qualify for the knockout stage of the Champions League as they dug in for a goalless draw at Zenit St Petersburg.

Kenny Miller hailed his wonder strike in Scotland's 2-1 win over Cyprus as the best goal of his career. The Cardiff City striker made the first-half breakthrough for Craig Levein's men.