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Soccer authorities in Cyprus say all fans will need to show state identity cards to buy tickets for domestic league matches in a bid to curb violence at games.
Police in Cyprus say a passenger bolted from an airliner after opening a rear exit and sliding down an emergency chute as it prepared for take off.
The two couples had never met each other, and probably never would. They had come from opposite sides of a border between longtime enemies.
Pope Benedict XVI will visit Cyprus next year, the Vatican said Thursday, bringing to four the number of foreign trips planned for the pontiff in 2010.
Officials say a U.S. Grammy Award-winning producer has died after sustaining massive head injuries in a fall.
From opposite sides of their divided island, Georgia Chappa and Murat Kanatli made it their mission to break down the ethnic hatreds by bringing rivals together.
The remains of five Greek Cypriot soldiers who appear in an iconic 1974 photo surrendering to invading Turkish troops were found in an abandoned well in the Turkish Cypriot north, officials said Monday.
Rival leaders in Cyprus have made "significant" progress in talks to reunite the island but pressure to reach a deal quickly could unravel what yearlong talks have achieved, a United Nations envoy said Wednesday.
Archaeologists have discovered a water well in Cyprus that was built as long as 10,500 years ago, and the skeleton of a young woman at the bottom of it, an official said Wednesday.
Turkish and Turkish Cypriot warships staged search and rescue drills off the island of Cyprus on Wednesday amid tensions over a disputed search for oil and gas.
Cypriot prosecutors formally charged five defendants Thursday during a trial over the crash of an airliner in Greece nearly four years ago.
Turkish Cypriot nationalists won a parliamentary election on Sunday, and their victory could stifle promising talks aimed at reuniting the ethnically divided island of Cyprus.
The leaders of Cyprus' two rival communities are making "real progress" at reunification talks after months of complex negotiations, U.N. envoy Alexander Downer said Friday.
Civil aviation authorities are only told about 20 percent of dangerous flight incidents because pilots and air traffic controllers are afraid of losing their jobs or being prosecuted, a top European air safety official said Tuesday.
An executioner's bullet left a coin-sized hole in the skull of Huseyin Mehmet Buba, a Turkish Cypriot army private whose remains were found in a well two years ago, a generation after his death.
The manslaughter trial into the crash of a Cypriot airliner nearly four years ago that killed 121 people was adjourned Thursday until next month and one of the defendants was mobbed by angry relatives of victims.
A Cypriot official says a ship suspected of transporting Iranian arms to Gaza is free to leave the island, as its cargo has been unloaded.
A ship suspected of transporting arms from Iran to Gaza had no weaponry aboard but was carrying material that could be used to make munitions, authorities in Cyprus said.
A ship suspected of carrying arms to Gaza will not be returned to Iran, Cypriot officials said Saturday, but they refused to say what exactly was found onboard the boat or whether the cargo contravened U.N. resolutions.
Cyprus says it will decide what to do with a ship suspected of carrying arms from Iran to Gaza once the U.N. rules on whether it broke a ban on Iranian arms exports.
A ship that was searched by U.S. forces in the Red Sea last week with a suspected Iranian arms shipment bound for Hamas militants in Gaza arrived in Cyprus on Thursday and was being searched by authorities, an official said.
Cyprus urged Turkey on Friday to account for some 1,500 people missing since its invasion of the island 35 years ago. The call came after a former Turkish army conscript described how he had executed a prisoner of war.
Cyprus' finance minister projected Friday that the economy's growth would fall to 2.1 percent this year, but said the economy is better shape to weather the global financial crisis than many other countries.
Cyprus' Fire Service says its crews have removed a suspicious package from U.S. Embassy grounds in the capital.
Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral service on Monday for Cyprus' former President Tassos Papadopoulos in the island's capital, Nicosia.
Israel says commandos intercept arms shipment with 60 tons of missiles, rockets bound for Hezbollah Israeli commandos seized a ship Wednesday that defense officials said was carrying more than 60 tons of missiles, rockets and anti-tank weapons bound for Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas.
10 Most Amazing Ghost TownsFascinating-- and the article is accompanied by some wonderful photos as well
Bluefin tuna in danger of extinction - 5 Sep 09For millions of years the giant bluefin tuna has been one of the most successful predators in the ocean. But serious overfishing is threatening to wipeout the species. Stocks in the Mediterranean have now fallen close to a level at which the tuna will be unable to breed.
Oil firms fined 42.5m EuroOil Companies found guilty for creating cartel and fixing oil prices.
Greek Cypriot POWs' remains identified in mass grave in occupied villageThe remains of five Greek Cypriot prisoners of war (POWs) missing since the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus that were found in exhumations being carried out by the Investigation Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) at a mass grave in the Turkish-occupied village of Tziaos, have bee …
Summer of '74 a dark time for our peacekeepersRobert Smol writing for the Toronto Star. Remembering Canadian soldiers who died in past peace missions, highlighting the most brutal which was in Cyprus and the Middle East in the summer of 1974, and how we've forgotten all about it.
Cypriots seeking love potions wear away saint's tomb Unhappy lovers in Cyprus have been chipping so much stone off of the tomb of Saint Agapitikos to use in love potions that soon there will be nothing left.
US lawmaker urges Turkish draw-down from CyprusA key US lawmaker called on Turkey Wednesday to facilitate the reunification of Cyprus by removing all of its troops from the divided island.
Greece fears tensions on the rise with TurkeyATHENS, Greece - Greece's foreign minister said Monday that Athens was concerned about increasing tension in its relations with neighboring Turkey over military flights in the Aegean Sea.
Cyprus reunification talks - drowned out by shouting?After months of Cyprus reunification talks, what comes out of the negotiating room more often than anything else, is shouting.
Cyprus protests new violations by Turkey Cyprus' Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Minas Hadjimichael, in a letter dated 4th June 2009 to the UN Secretary General, protested over a new incident of violation of Cyprus's sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as its air and maritime space, by Turk …
Turkey to build 21 mosques in Northern Cyprus Turkey will finance the construction of 21 mosques in northern part of Cyprus, controlled by the Cypriot Turks, Turkish Cypriot daily Ortam reads.
Eeyore plague: wild donkeys overrun Cyprus villagesLeft to roam after the Turkish invasion in 1974, the beasts have thrived.
Bridegroom Hailed as Hero After Saving Drowning Girl on His May 15 Wedding Day Todd Sweeney saved a drowning girl on his May 15 wedding day after seeing her from his room.
Underdogs of War: 6 Tiny Nations That Kicked AssYou've got to love the underdog. It doesn't matter who they are or whether or not they're good at all, we just want the little guy to win--because in the real world, he usually doesn't.
Archaeologist: Oldest Cyprus temple discoveredAn Italian archaeologist claimed Friday to have discovered Cyprus' oldest religious site, which she said echoes descriptions in the Bible of temples in ancient Palestine.
Cypriots and U.N. soldiers in asparagus standoffU.N. peacekeepers have upset traditional wild asparagus harvesters on the ethnically divided island of Cyprus by preventing them from entering a buffer zone to gather the tasty shoots.
Cyprus finds no arms on Iranian shipAt the time, Israeli media cited US military officials as claiming that the vessel was traveling from Iran to Syria while carrying weapons for the Hamas in Gaza and the Hezbollah in Lebanon -- a charge the Iranian Foreign Ministry has denied.
"Ancient" Syriac bible found in CyprusAuthorities in northern Cyprus believe they have found an ancient version of the Bible written in Syriac, a dialect of the native language of Jesus.
Cyprus: Palestine bound ship won't be returned to Iran"A ship suspected of carrying arms to Gaza will not be returned to Iran, Cypriot officials said Saturday, but they refused to say what exactly was found onboard the boat or whether the cargo contravened UN resolutions.
Turkey leads in human rights violations, says ECHR The Court has found Turkey guilty of human rights violations in Cyprus on several cases, as a result of its 1974 invasion of the island's northern part and its continuing occupation.
Cyprus urges Turkey to account for 1,500 missingActor Attila Olgac reportedly told a Turkish television program this week that while serving in the Turkish army during the 1974 invasion he shot at least one prisoner dead on orders from a superior.
Land mines and a perilous crossing into GreeceAn unstinting stream of the shortchanged - from Asia, Africa and other points in between - seeks each day to penetrate the borders of Europe, whose wealth holds out the promise of a future.
MEPs Demand EU Intervention in the Cyprus Gay Iranian Asylum CaseA group of Members of the European Parliament have expressed concern about the way the Cyprus government has handled a gay Iranian asylum case.
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