Strong US demand for trucks and SUVs boosted General Motors’ fourth-quarter profits, and the company on Wednesday projected higher earnings despite up to a $2 billion (€1.65bn) hit from the global semiconductor shortage. The resu...

Russia's main Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was back in court Friday for allegedly defaming a World War II veteran, after being ordered to prison in another case that sparked global outrage and mass protests in his country. The heari...

Police are investigating leaked X-rated videos of a young Maltese woman who filed a report after she was shocked to learn that private material from her mobile phone was being shared without her consent.  As the circulation of the i...

EuroMillions’ jackpot is growing by the second as it experiences yet another rollover! This time around, its jackpot is worth €163,000,000, and one lucky player could possibly win it all. Wouldn’t you like to be the one to pote...

The health ministry has agreed that certain limitations imposed on foreign nurses need to be lifted if Malta is going to compete with other countries, the nurses’ union president, Paul Pace said. “The meeting was a positive first...

Authorities ordered a snap, five-day lockdown in Melbourne on Friday to contain a new coronavirus outbreak, meaning the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament, which began in the city this week, will have to go ahead without fa...

The MAPFRE MSV Life KO trophy remained on the Starlites’ shelves after the latter notched a repeat success after overcoming Hibernians’ resistance in the first major final in the senior categories this season. This is Starlites N...

Uber on Wednesday reported another hefty loss in the final three months of 2020, though the company’s food delivery operations partly offset the hit taken from the decline in ridesharing during the pandemic.  Thanks to that offset...

Chick Corea, the American jazz composer and electric keyboard trailblazer whose visionary fusion work stretched the traditional boundaries of genre, has died of a rare form of cancer. He was 79. Corea's illness "was only discovered ...

Zucchini, parsley, onions and a cocktail in hand: everything is set for the regular Sunday dinner Brandon and Mari have been holding over the past year. But more than 6,000 kilometres separate the lovers, who only see each other virt...

The health authorities will continue to give AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to people aged under 55, despite the World Health Organisation backing its use for the elderly. WHO vaccine experts said on Wednesday the AstraZeneca-Oxfor...

The fact that Italy’s government has resigned to make way for a new one may not come as a surprise at all as this has happened often enough during the country’s history since the end of World War II in 1945. The fact that the Ita...

The Italian Cultural Institute − Valletta is today presenting the story of one of the most beautiful and innovative Ferrari of all time in the docu-film Ferrari 312B: Where the Revolution Begins by Andrea Marini. The film pays trib...

The 2021 BOV Men KO Final, scheduled for March 19, will be contested by Starlites Naxxar GiG and Gżira Athleta after they both achieved quite big century wins in their respective semi-finals. BUPA Luxol                71Sta...

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US House prosecutors wrapped up their impeachment case against Donald Trump on Thursday with an impassioned appeal to the Senate to convict the former president of inciting the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol and bar him fr...

More than eight new members of the judiciary are needed to deal with the workload at the courts, Judiciary Malta, an association for judges and magistrates, said on Friday. Welcoming the news that at least four new judges and four ne...

Throughout his six years as prime minister, before he was forced to step down as the wind he sowed became an uncontrollable whirlwind, Joseph Muscat and his disgraced administration practised a policy of panem and circenses. He kept ...

The following are the main stories in Friday’s newspapers. Times of Malta says a 17-year-old hacker has been arrested in Malta following an international investigation led by Europol into a series of ‘SIM swapping’ attacks targ...

“I will give my all in your service thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of the public good. And, together, we shall write an American story of hope, not fear; of unity, not division; of light, n...