Down an overgrown country road, three startled wild horses with rugged coats and rigid manes dart into the flourishing overgrowth of their unlikely nature reserve: the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Thirty-five years after the world's wor...

Joe Bajada, the secretary-general of the Malta Cycling Federation, has now been appointed as the president of a new group within the European Cycling Union (UEC), the Small Countries Commission. A few weeks ago Bajada has been re-ele...

Asian shares struggled to find clear direction on Friday after a week spent seesawing to match the prevailing momentum on Wall Street, where trade faltered overnight after tax hike reports. Washington is said to be developing a plan ...

The Catholic Church today celebrates the feast of St George of Lydda – present Lod – a city southeast of Tel Aviv in the central district of Israel. It is chronicled that St George died on April 23, 303. Devotion to the saint is...

Pregnant women in Malta are still not offered the COVID-19 vaccine, despite studies abroad indicating it is safe for them to take.   The UK recently approved the vaccine for pregnant women after data collected by the US Centers for...

After delivering sermons and visiting slums, Philippine priest Fiel Pareja tends to his Gen-Z flock on TikTok, creating videos of himself praying, dancing and lip-syncing Christian pop music for 1.6 million followers. As the coronavi...

After much anticipation, on Wednesday the European Commission published its proposal for a regulation aimed at harmonising the regulation of Artificial Intelligence throughout the European Union. The anticipation was heightened after...

We had a great deal of interesting news this week but the main one must have been the decision by 12 football clubs to set up a European Super League, a project that got shipwrecked even before the ship had set sail. It made the fron...

UEFA meets on Friday with revenge on some members’ minds following the attempted Super League breakaway, while the fate of a handful of European Championship host cities is also on the agenda. In the space of 48 hours, between S...

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People in their 40s can now sign up for the COVID-19 vaccine. They can sign up either by sending an SMS with their ID card to 9918 0045 or by filling a form online. More than 300,000 doses of the vaccine had been given by Thursday w...

A wholesale review of the way English football is run that was ordered after the European Super League debacle will consider creating a new regulator and changing the “fit and proper person test” for owners. It will also examine ...

Indonesia's desperate search for a missing submarine and its crew of 53 honed in on a radar contact Friday, with just hours to go before the stricken vessel's oxygen reserves ran out. The ramped-up hunt comes as Australia and the Uni...

A court ruling holding the AFM responsible for the death of a 19-year-old soldier during a training exercise 12 years ago has prompted his uncle to call out the “sham inquiry” that had failed to apportion blame following the inci...

At a time of global economic crisis, fiscal rectitude drops down the list of priorities of policymakers and politicians. Last year, the European Commission suspended the Stability and Growth Pact, which binds member states to strict ...

Malta, as some funny guys keep reminding us, is a unique place. Every time we reach what we think is the real bottom of the trough, we dig a few more endless holes of perfidy. Yet, the people, the Joes, Carmens and Frankies of the is...

The last scholastic year, in more ways than one, has shown us all how schooling is not confined to the four walls of a classroom or to the boundaries of schools or colleges. Decisions regarding education have an impact on the life of...

Indonesia has sentenced scores of prisoners to death over Zoom and other video apps during the pandemic in what critics say is an "inhumane" insult to those facing the firing squad. The Southeast Asian nation turned to virtual court ...

The following are the main stories in Friday’s newspapers. Times of Malta says a court found that the Armed Forces of Malta were mainly responsible for the death of a 19-year-old soldier during a training exercise 12 years ago, pro...

It was recently announced that every tourist coming to Malta, once the borders open up, will be receiving up to €200 of our tax money. Many of these travellers will be youngsters coming to Malta to party in large numbers, creating,...