NICOSIA (Reuters) - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday. The men, a 31-year-old migrant from India and a 48-year-old Greek Cypriot, are suspected of being behind the bizarre crime, for which one of them ...

Cypriot authorities have found the body of former president Tassos Papadopoulos three months after it was snatched from his grave on the Mediterranean island, state-run media reported on Monday. Police said a body found in a Nicosia cemetery after a tip-off was likely to be that of Papadopoulos. "Acting on information that we have received, a body was found at ...

With his twice-weekly lessons, Elias Zonias is fighting to preserve the ancestral language of Cyprus's dwindling Maronite community, described by experts as a "treasure" but now threatened with extinction by rapid demographic change. Every year the number of children at the island's only Maronite school has been shrinking, he says, highlighting the difficulty of keeping alive his native ...