Prime Minister Robert Abela is travelling to Libya for high-level talks on migration and security in the region. Abela and a team of political advisors are en route to Tripoli where they will meet with newly installed Prime Minister ...

Malta’s professional snooker player Alex Borg will start his bid to qualify for the televised stages of the World Championships on Tuesday when he takes on Rod Lawler in the first qualifying round in Sheffield. The World Championsh...

A group of bar, karaoke and mahjong parlour owners have gone on a symbolic hunger strike in Hong Kong over anti-coronavirus measures that have kept them shuttered for most of the last year. The four-day protest started on the pavemen...

Inspired by the Chinese colour of purity, Bentley Mulliner has created an elegant one-off Bentayga Hybrid specifically commissioned for a customer in China. The green-themed car is due to be showcased at the Shanghai Motor Show in Ap...

Mohamed Salah can silence the critics who question his loyalty to Liverpool by avenging the most painful moment of his career when the Egypt star faces Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday. Salah sparked howl...

American museums hit hard by the pandemic are selling paintings to bridge revenue gaps, with some going further and using the funds to diversify collections, but critics say the sales betray the institutions' mission of preserving ar...

The 1980s was meant to be the point of no return for the withdrawal of governments’ overbearing involvement in peoples’ lives. Thanks to strong-willed politicians, many Western democracies started to dismantle the welfare state t...

Greece on Monday relaxed a nationwide lockdown by opening most retail shops despite a steady level of COVID-19 infections and double-digit fatalities. By allowing people to "decompress" outside their homes as the weather improves, th...

Manual labourers, especially construction workers and carpenters, are twice as likely to be diagnosed with ALS, according to University of Malta research. Four years of analysing demographic data revealed that those engaged in heavy ...

The former prime minister’s chief of staff Keith Schembri returns to court on Monday, facing charges of financial corruption. Schembri denies a raft of charges including money laundering and fraud linked to a printing press deal wi...

Past pandemics and epidemics in Malta, their repercussions and eradication, will be the central theme of a feature in English entitled Plagues, Pandemics, Prevention and Mitigation – A Recurring History, that Heritage Malta will st...

The front pages of Times of Malta from 25 and 10 years ago.  Become a Times of Malta premium member to gain full access to our archive dating back to January 1930.

Britain will on Monday set out plans to restart international travel, using a "traffic-light" system as the country cautiously emerges from lockdown. The announcement comes as the UK has set a tentative date of May 17 to relaunch int...

A family court has annulled a woman’s marriage to a foreigner whom she had never seen before and whom she wed under the influence of drugs. The couple got married in a civil ceremony at the Marriage Registry nearly two decades ago,...

On Easter Monday last year the government of Malta coordinated an illegal push back. The refugees on the boat, including children, were returned to a war zone. Twelve people died. The Prime Minister assured us that he felt serene. As...

There is nothing like a crisis to bring out the best and the worst in people and organisations. Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, we have seen some good examples of altruism, pragmatic thinking, cooperation and solidarity am...

The Atlantic Monaco from Napoli to Tripoli, the Baltic Bridge from Piraeus to Genoa, the APL Mexico City from Singapore to Gioia Tauro, the CMA CGM Antoine De Saint Exupery from Rotterdam to Singapore, the Cartagena Trader from Algec...

Over the past few days we have witnessed what Infrastructure Malta has been up to in Dingli. Infrastructure Malta, or more likely ‘Destruction Malta’, continued butchering trees, some of which were 300 years old, taking away farm...

More than 75 people have died and dozens are still missing after flash floods and landslides hit Indonesia and neighbouring East Timor, officials said Monday. Floods sparked by torrential rain have wreaked havoc and destruction on is...

In this modern and technologically advanced world, we see that technology has taken over every field of our social and economic activity. Even religious activities are also being carried out through technological means. Different mod...