Aina Onyekachi was at work on December 23 when she received a call from a social worker informing her that she will not be spending Christmas with her two children, as she has done every year since their birth. The Nigerian woman was...

On January 21, 2021, the OECD issued updated guidance on tax treaties and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, revisiting its April 2020 guidance note.  Even though more than nine months have elapsed since then, COVID-19-related mea...

Singer-songwriter Michael Azzopardi has just released his debut EP, Pistola, and is making waves in the local alternative music scene. Lara Zammit speaks with the artist about his music and the poetic nature of his Maltese lyrics.  ...

Juan Corbalan has hailed the aggressive approach adopted by his Ħamrun Spartans team-mate in their top-of-the-table clash against Gżira United on Saturday and said that they fully deserved to leave the National Stadium with the thr...

Times of Malta has just launched timesmotors.com, a new website dedicated to cars, bikes and anything which fuels the passion of any motoring enthusiast.  Developed by a dedicated team, timesmotors.com is designed to keep enthusias...

A high-ranking police official who has been widely criticised for sleeping on the Panama Papers investigations into government officials is to be awarded a “long and efficient service” medal. Former Economic Crimes Unit head Ian ...

Czech free diver David Vencl has broken the world record in swimming under the ice on a single breath. On a lake in northern Czech Republic, he swam 80 metres without a wetsuit, a cap or weights on February 23. The previous record se...

The Vittoria shipyard in Italy has launched what will be Malta's biggest ever offshore patrol vessel (OFV). The hull of the 74.8-metre-long vessel was slipped into the water during a ceremony attended by the shipyard's president, Lui...

Monday 7.15am The president is interviewed on the programme TVAM at PBS Studios in Gwardamanġa. 10am The president presides over the Eco-Schools Award ceremony at San Anton Palace, Attard. Tuesday 9.30am The president receives a cou...

Cupra is a company which is quickly finding its feet in the world of motoring. It split apart from Seat to become its own brand back in 2018, but since then has been largely tasked with creating go-faster versions of the Spanish firm...

In recent weeks, one of the main talking points within financial circles has been the rise in inflation and its effects on the value of financial assets. After many years of substantial efforts by monetary and fiscal authorities to p...

Teatru Manoel’s recent production of Dido and Aeneas, brought to the stage between February 23 and 27, is certainly a worthy homage to what could be considered the first English opera. It revealed itself to be an unpretentious and ...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Fiat 132 was a very popular car in Malta, and many were attracted to the distinctive and innovative features of this large family saloon, which took it to the upmarket level. Among the owners wa...

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After a difficult year, the global economy is set to recover, but unequally and amid great uncertainty. The PwC network’s latest forecasts estimate that the global economy is set to expand by five per cent in FY2021, masking differ...

The public inquiry into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder and the evidence and information that emerged from it had started to allay fears among many that full justice will never be done. Vince Muscat’s decision to admit his involv...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Sunday. The Sunday Times of Malta leads with a reform of old rents announced by the prime minister on Saturday. It also reports how an appeals court has confirmed the respons...

Hundreds gathered in a violent anti-lockdown protest in Dublin on Saturday, with police charging the crowd and arresting 23 demonstrating against ongoing virus curbs in Ireland. Irish prime minister Micheal Martin condemned the prote...

I can’t even begin to imagine what Carmel Pace has been going through this past year. In his interview to this paper last week, he described his wife, Miriam, 54, as having been his life, his best friend, his adviser, his problem-s...

The rules on abuse of dominance in the EU and most other jurisdictions (apart from the US), protect against excessive pricing, which occurs when an undertaking, holding dominant market power, charges prices above the competitive pric...