Yorgen Fenech is back in court on Wednesday as the case against him for the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia continues. Fenech, who is pleading not guilty to charges of complicity in her October 2017 murder, has been in p...

A western Japanese city cancelled the Tokyo Olympics torch relay over spiking coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the second area to scrap the event as the clock ticks down to the postponed Games. The decision comes 100 days before the 2...

Filters to find your favourite game If you love online casinos and hate browsing, here is some good news for you. Most online casinos now have filters that can be used to choose a single game from a whole batch of slots or even tabl...

Following the November 2020 release of the track Simone’s, from the album Songs for Girls, Hearts Beating in Time, is launching a second single, titled Death is Cancelled.  Produced by David Vella at Temple Studios for record labe...

“Win everything,” said Kevin De Bruyne when asked of his ambitions for Manchester City after signing a new four-year contract to reportedly become the Premier League’s highest paid player last week. With less than two months of...

A worker died after falling several storeys in Marsascala on Wednesday morning.  Sources said the incident happened shortly before 8.30am in a building site at Triq il-Qrampuc. The worker, an Albanian national, fell six storeys dow...

A second company has announced plans to operate a fast ferry service between Valletta and Mgarr, Gozo. Gozo Fast Ferry Ltd said its catamarans will operate between Gozo and Valletta from June. The company, backed by Bianchi Group and...

A footballer whose contract ended just before his baby son was diagnosed with cancer, says he has been “overwhelmed” by the response to a fundraising campaign to help support his family. Patrick Maia, 32, was last week told that ...

In need of another famous Champions League fightback, Liverpool cannot rely on a wave of passion, colour and noise from the stands at Anfield to inspire a comeback from 3-1 down against Real Madrid on Wednesday. If the English champi...

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A staff strike cannot be considered as an ‘extraordinary circumstance’ for the purposes of exonerating an air carrier from its obligation to pay compensation to passengers whose flight has been cancelled, the Court of Justice (CJ...

The documentary The Giant Deep Reds, produced by Chris and Maurice Micallef, continued winning in international film festivals in these last months. The documentary, which highlights the importance of the bluefin tuna, was awarded be...

Ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, anti-financial crime regulators have intensified their oversight of any organisation that deals with considerable amounts of cash inflows and outflows. The way terrorist organis...

We lived a lie. We pretended all was fine when, in reality, it was not. We were taken for a ride. We were held hostage and deceived by the king of spin doctors who did his utmost to hide his real intent. And the worst feeling in the ...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Wednesday. Times of Malta reports that the Malta government has formally requested the European Commission's go-ahead for the provision of state aid to Air Malta over a perio...

It’s Monday, March 22: Infrastructure Malta reappears at dawn like a Panzer division outside Warsaw, tear through rubble and party walls and commences its much-awaited butchering of an area in Dingli earmarked for roadbuilding some...

Obituaries DEBONO. On April 13, at his home, LAWRENCE, aged 70, passed away peacefully, comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He goes to join his beloved daughter Corinne and leaves to greatly mourn his loss his beloved wife Maria, ...

People aged under 60 who have been given a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in Germany will receive a different jab for their second dose, federal and regional health ministers agreed Tuesday.  Germany announ...

Malta has asked Brussels for permission to pump €290 million into Air Malta in a last-ditch attempt to save the ailing airline. In a hefty document sent to the European Commission on Monday, the government suggested a five-year sta...

Għarb Local Council recently honoured ‘Servant of the Lord’ Franġisk Portelli with a commemorative plaque and flowers which were placed in front of his house. The council had also placed a formal request to the Planning Authori...