This summer’s virus-postponed Olympics could be held behind closed doors, Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto told AFP on Friday, pledging to ensure the Games will be safe. Former Olympian Hashimoto said the Games could only be a ...

Asian markets turned lower on Friday as investors struggled to take the lead from a record performance on Wall Street, and following below-forecast Chinese factory data. News that US growth had accelerated more than six per cent in t...

A police union is calling for a change in legislation that would allow officers to strike. The police are among those who recently signed a collective agreement with the government, granting them the right to join a union and to be c...

Tarxien Rainbows are closing in on their first transfer this summer window as they have agreed terms with midfielder Ryan Grech, the Times of Malta can confirm. The veteran midfielder left Sirens FC at the end of last season as his c...

The main headache for any economic policymaker is the conflicts that one is presented with between the different policy options. There may be situations where the policy options are seen to be limited but that is because a number wou...

The Mayflower 400 – the world's first intelligent ship – bobs gently in a light swell as it stops its engines in Plymouth Sound, off England's southwest coast, before self-activating a hydrophone designed to listen to whales. Th...

An estimated 1.5 million children in European member states live in alternative care. In Malta, around 469 children live in alternative care, with 206 living in community/residential homes and 263 living in foster care. The Directora...

More people worked from home during this year’s semi-lockdown than when the same shutdowns were ordered after the pandemic first hit last year, fresh Google data shows.   The government shut schools, restaurants and all non-e...

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Calamatta Cuschieri has embarked on its Green Campaign, a project aimed at reducing paper usage within the group’s offices, as well as the number of post clients receive, as part of the group’s ongoing corporate social responsibi...

Anne Douglas, a philanthropist and widow of Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas, died Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills, her family said. She was 102. Kirk Douglas, who died in February 2020 at the age of 103, met his future wife in Pa...

Three artists, Mario Abela, Victor Agius and Tony Briffa, are participating in the collective exhibition Anthropos, opening at Arthall, Gozo, tomorrow. Besides being Greek for ‘man’, the word ‘anthropos’ defines a creature th...

The Volkswagen Polo has been given an update, bringing revised styling and improved technology to one of the most popular superminis on the market. With over 18 million units built, the Polo is a hugely important car for the German f...

The Malta Football Association Executive Committee has approved reforms on good governance both at the association as well as club level, president Bjorn Vassallo told a news conference pm Thursday. Vassallo said that good governanc...

A massive stampede at a densely packed Jewish pilgrimage site killed at least 44 people in northern Israel on Friday, with rescue workers facing chaotic crowds while trying to evacuate the injured.  The disaster occurred in Meron at...

The Malta Development Bank (MDB) has transformed itself into a key channel for the delivery of economic and financial support measures against the challenges posed by the pandemic, while also delivering incentives intended to revital...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Friday. Times of Malta leads with news that Malta’s anti-money laundering regime hasformally passed a review by Moneyval, the Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering e...

Five years since the British people voted to leave the European Union, the legal process that formalises the new political reality in Europe has now been completed. The European Parliament, by a vast majority, approved the deal signe...

“That’s what you’re here for,” screamed the drill instructor at us 10 years ago as we stood to attention on the parade ground at Luqa Barracks and saluted the Maltese flag. Just a few weeks earlier, 85 individuals walked thro...

It was indeed a great relief to read and hear that the minister for the environment has finally realised and accepted that “90 per cent of flowering plants depended directly on pollinator species to reproduce, including many fruit ...