After almost seven months of a second national lockdown, a thirsty Belgium, heartland of European beer, returned gingerly to outside tables on Saturday.  The wet weather was not promising as the first hardy souls began to gather to ...

Young Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel returns from injury with hopes high that he can challenge the likes Simon Yates and Egan Bernal in the Giro d’Italia, which gets underway on Saturday. The 21-year-old, dubbed the heir to the lege...

Malta’s singing star Destiny Chukunyere begins her Eurovision Song Contest journey on Saturday as she heads for Rotterdam ahead of the May 18 competition. Destiny posted a photo of herself at Malta International Airport on Saturday...

Regulators have just endured a tough week of questioning by an international anti-money laundering watchdog but are “cautiously optimistic” the country will avoid being put on a list of untrustworthy jurisdictions.  Assessors fr...

Dethroned Juventus host Milan on Sunday in a clash of former Serie A title hopefuls now fighting to qualify for the Champions League. Juventus’ bid for a 10th consecutive title collapsed as Inter Milan sealed their first league cro...

Mosta FC completed their first signing ahead of the upcoming season when they secured the services of Colombian midfielder Luis Riascos on a season-long loan from Gżira United, the Times of Malta can confirm. The young Colombian mi...

Armed groups gathered outside a Maltese-owned hotel in Tripoli on Friday night, as political tensions in the Libyan capital escalated.   Video posted to social media showed armed and uniformed men standing at the entrance to the fi...

Manchester City and Chelsea will play off for the biggest prize in European club football later this month, but there is plenty on the line for both clubs when they meet in a prelude to the Champions League final on Saturday. City ca...

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The MSE Equity Total Return Index advanced by another 0.1% to 8,310.761 points. A total of 17 equities were active, seven of which traded lower, while another six closed higher. Total weekly turnover was lower when compared to the pr...

Composer and pianist Véronique Vella released her debut solo album One of the Number this week. This electroacoustic album features the spoken word, with women from six European countries sharing their experiences of life during the...

The Malta national team enjoyed a positive start at the 1st International Artistic Swimming “Pirin” currently being held in Blagoevgrad in Bulgaria. The Malta selection, under the guidance of national coach Michelle Hubner and h...

Ramona Matthews longed to hear her son Nico call her mummy after he once uttered the word when he was seven. But it was only several months later, when the Malta Trust Foundation gave him an electronic device to support his learning,...

International Olympic Committee vice-president John Coates was adamant Saturday that nothing could stop the Tokyo Olympics from going ahead, despite ongoing risks from Covid-19. Asked by AFP if there was any scenario in which the ...

A glance at travel fora will show that an oft-repeated negative comment about the island is that it is generally dirty, especially in places frequented by visitors. Civic pride in the upkeep of our rural and urban environment is not ...

Permits for the construction of new residential buildings plummeted by 37.2 per cent last year over 2019, statistics compiled by the Central Bank show. In its annual report and economic analysis for 2020, the Central Bank noted that ...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Saturday. Times of Malta leads with news that England has left Malta off its initial list of safe travel destinations, in a blow to the local tourism industry. The newspaper also...

The government has worked tirelessly to fight off the COVID-19 pandemic and save thousands of lives and livelihoods. COVID-19 is cruel because it has ferociously affected humans but also because it has attacked the most beautiful thi...

Foreign Affairs Minister Evarist Bartolo recently attacked the European Parliament for overwhelmingly passing a motion expressing ‘deep concern’ about the current situation in Malta on several levels, including the investigations...

In Maltese we have a saying “Tħallatx il-ħass mal-….” One must be able to distinguish between one’s apples and one’s pears. This is something our prime minister seems unable to do. Can one separate the economy from corrup...