A woman was fined at the airport on Thursday after she was caught carrying more than €10,000 in undeclared cash prior to boarding a flight to Istanbul. Customs said on Friday that the passenger, who is Maltese, was selected for a c...

Sporting Lisbon youngster Pedro Goncalves was handed a maiden Portugal call-up as coach Fernando Santos named his 26-man squad for Euro 2020 on Thursday. The reigning champions will be led by Cristiano Ronaldo, who is just six goals ...

Paris to Istanbul is an electro-pop act made up of Ivan Borg (Red Electrick, The Rifffs) and Jay Zinga (Mathematikal, Godzilla Power Hour).  While they were previously familiar with each other’s work, they met for the first time i...

A 54-year-old woman is in a critical condition after she was hit by a car in Fgura on Friday. The police said the incident happened in Triq San Tumas at 8am. The woman, who is from Tarxien, was hit by a Toyota Vitz that was being dri...

British retail sales surged last month after non-essential stores reopened from virus lockdown, official data showed on Friday. Sales by volume soared 9.2 per cent in April from March as Britain’s economy cranked back into action, ...

Arctic countries on Thursday pledged to fight global warming, which is happening three times faster in the Far North, and to preserve peace in the region as its geopolitical importance rises. Accelerated global warming, untapped reso...

Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder have verbally committed to a third fight, ESPN reported Thursday night, days after an arbitration ruling halted fight talks between Fury and British champ Anthony Joshua. After the independent arbitrator...

Danish toy brick maker Lego unveiled a new set of rainbow-coloured figurines on Thursday to celebrate the diversity of its fans and the LGBTQI+ community. The "Everyone is Awesome" set features 11 monochrome mini figures, each with i...

A man was slightly injured during the night when he was mugged while at the Gżira garden. The police said the incident happened at around midnight. Two men attacked the victim, a 46-year-old German, and managed to make off with his ...

Australia on Friday pressed over-50s to get their coronavirus shots, as fears mounted that vaccine hesitancy could be priming the country for disaster. Australia is one of the few countries in the world to eliminate community transmi...

The Gozo courthouse will be fined for failing to meet minimum health and safety standards and could face criminal action if it does not pay up. The management had been given three months to bring the building up to scratch after the ...

Microsoft said it is retiring Internet Explorer, the browser it created more than 25 years ago and which is now largely abandoned as people instead use competitors like Google’s Chrome or Apple’s Safari. “We are announcing that...

Asian markets fluctuated on Friday as investors battled to track a rally on Wall Street that came in response to another positive read on US jobless claims, while sentiment continues to be driven by inflation fears and optimism over ...

Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti’s second episode of Rewind: Great Exhibitions Revisited, a video series that recalls some of the organisation’s major exhibitions, has recently been launched. This time the focus is on the exhibition ...

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.

Princes William and Harry on Thursday hit out at the BBC and journalist Martin Bashir over "the deceitful way" Bashir obtained his explosive TV interview with Princess Diana, their late mother, in which she detailed her troubled marr...

A 38-year-old man was grievously injured in a traffic accident in Żejtun on Thursday. The police said the accident happened in Triq Toni Zahra at 6.45pm. The victim, who lives in Mosta, was driving a Chevrolet Aveo that was involved...

Malta’s Eurovision superfans might be supporting Destiny from afar but they are promising raucous celebrations if she wins Saturday night, something they have been looking forward to for two years. Destiny Chukunyere was meant to r...

The 1980-81 season was memorable in more ways than one. As we have seen last week, it was the last season played at the old Empire Sports Ground. It was also the first time the championship was played under the name of Premier League...

When the Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic and Cooperation and Development retired earlier on this year, Angel Gurria stated that finance ministers need to be green in today’s world. He had been in this role for 15...