Barcelona’s shock announcement on Thursday that superstar Lionel Messi would be leaving the club is a “bombshell” of global proportions, according to Argentine media. Less than a month after the six-time Ballon d’Or winner in...

Poland’s Dawid Tomala won the men’s Olympic 50 kilometres race walk on Friday, defying the punishing morning heat in Sapporo to storm to victory in just the second event he has completed over the distance. The 31-year-old crossed...

The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a serious economic downturn and is increasingly posing severe stress on the banking system, also given the prolonged low yielding environment. The local banks were not spared from this unfortunate global...

Cuba’s Julio la Cruz, who was shot during a robbery just a few years ago, won his second Olympic gold on Friday with victory in the heavyweight boxing final. The 31-year-old defeated Russia’s Muslim Gadzhimagomedov on unanimou...

Major supermarket chains in Britain are offering cash bonuses for lorry drivers, as Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic leaves tens of thousands of jobs unfilled and shop shelves increasingly empty. Industry warnings of a crisis affe...

Veteran British drummer Charlie Watts is set to miss the resumption of The Rolling Stones' tour of the United States next month as he recovers from a medical procedure, a spokesman said Thursday. The 80-year-old musician's spokesman ...

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone signed a massive deal Thursday to make 14 movies of their enduring satirical cartoon for streaming service Paramount+, as Hollywood's frenzied scramble for online content accelerates. W...

Two suspect muggers were arrested less than 24 hours after stopping a 43-year-old man in Gżira, threatening him and robbing him, the police said on Friday. The mugging took place at 11am on Wednesday in Ġnien il-Kunsill tal-Ewropa....

The story of two young boys separated from their mothers and taken into state care last week, after their mothers pleaded guilty to forging travel documents has sparked widespread anger. The mothers landed in Malta with their sons, a...

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After 500 years, Hieronymus Bosch’s paintings still shock and fascinate. Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta is today showing a film delving into the vivid imagination of this visionary as part of its Exhibition on Screen series. The film ...

A contribution appearing in another section of the press and penned by a representative of the law firm Ganado Advocates described a judgment issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the requirement imposed by a...

ROCS Group, a leading provider of travel, investments, retail, employment, media and real estate services, has renewed its communications services agreement with Melita Business. In addition to PABX, telephony, internet and TV servic...

We often hear about Malta’s low unemployment and high economic growth rates. Yet, it seems many have started to realise that labour shortages pose a threat to this illusion of prosperity. Employers, workers and labour-market policy...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Friday. Times of Malta leads with news that booster vaccine shots will be given to elderly people living in care homes and to those with a compromised immune system. In a sep...

During the eight-year-long period that I was residing abroad, I would always get giddy with excitement at the prospect of returning to Malta for my summer break. Every time the plane touched down at MIA, I’d exit, embracing that ch...

Australia's hope of returning to "COVID zero" suffered a fresh blow on Friday, as Sydney reported another record number of new infections and authorities warned residents to brace for worse to come. For a second straight day, New Sou...

Much as I heard the story so many times, I am still unsure whether it is legend or fact. In Maltese towns and villages, as used to happen and still happens, the feast day approaching would see the inhabitants whitewashing house faça...

Obituaries MIFSUD. On August 5, at his residence, ALBERT, aged 82, suddenly passed away peacefully. He leaves to mourn his loss his brothers Franics, Anthony and Mario, his sisters Maria, Madeliene, Silvana, Rita, Violetta and Pierin...

Scammers have advanced from fraudulent text messages in English to calls in fluent Maltese, with GO receiving reports of clients answering calls from someone posing as an Enemalta official. Over the past two weeks, the communications...