Throughout the course of the earth’s natural history, climate change has drastically negatively impacted the planet’s ecosystems. The industrial revolution has paved the way for the development of anthropogenic activities, result...

From the sophisticated to downright strange, the pandemic has set off a wave of scams around the world from bogus doses and fake vaccine passes to criminal cremations. Here are 10 of the most outrageous and nefarious frauds of the la...

Kim Camilleri Lagana was the first of the three youth Maltese athletes to compete at the European Youth Weightlifting Championships in Poland on Friday. The 13-year-old Camilleri Lagana was one of the youngest to compete in the 40kg ...

Updated 9.15am Dozens of NGOs, professional associations and academic institutions have banded together to demand a radical shift in Malta’s prison system and more state oversight into what happens behind Corradino’s prison walls...

Plans to construct a yacht marina in the Marsascala bay would “complicate” efforts by conservationists to preserve il-Magħluq, a coastal lagoon designated as a special area of conservation in the village, one of its caretakers h...

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Ħamrun Spartans will be looking to bounce back from their opening-day defeat to Valletta when they take on Birkirkara in the plum fixture of MatchDay 2 of the BOV Premier League on Saturday (kick-off: 7pm). Last week, the Spartans w...

Audi has revealed a new concept car called Skysphere, which previews the firm’s future design direction for the luxury sector. It’s a two-door convertible with an electric powertrain, but what makes this a fanciful concept car is...

The 2020 waterpolo season reaches its climax on Saturday when joint-leaders San Ġiljan and Neptunes go head-to-head in the final game of the season that will decide who will be the league champions for this summer. Neptunes and San...

European and US stocks rebounded on Friday after a week in which enthusiasm waned as traders digested worries over the fast-spreading COVID-19 Delta variant, the Federal Reserve's taper plans and China's regulatory crackdown. Asian m...

Transport Malta’s proposal for a marina that will take up the entire bay of Marsascala has raised the ire of residents and civil society. This is yet another project that will envisage the loss of public open spaces, which will eff...

R. Kelly's former tour manager on Friday said he bribed a worker at a public aid office to get false identification saying the late singer Aaliyah was of age, so she could marry the R&B star now on trial for sex crimes. Testifying un...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Saturday. Times of Malta leads with a report from court, where a prosecuting superintendent provided details about text message exchanges that shed light on Yorgen Fenech’s esc...

A few years back, I stumbled on The Walking Dead (TWD). At the time, I was working on a talk on democracy and philosopher-citizens that I had to deliver in Milan. Somehow, I started drawing parallelisms with the political situation i...

A 31-year-old man was grievously hurt on Friday afternoon when his hand got caught inside an industrial fan in Siġġiewi. The victim is from Nigeria but lives in Luqa, police said. He was given first aid on-site before being taken t...

I would firstly like to thank the 15 colleagues’ associations that responded to my recent Times of Malta interview with a detailed statement. However, I would like to state that none of the statements I made are misleading or incor...

Obituary BUTTIGIEG. On August 19, at Mater Dei Hospital, DUMINKA of Mellieħa, aged 81, passed away peacefully. She leaves to mourn her loss her children John and his wife Diane, Sylvia and her husband Raymond, Marlene and her husban...

A heartbreaking video showing a US Marine lifting a baby over a razor wire-topped wall at Kabul's airport caught global attention Friday, amid the chaos of thousands trying to flee Afghanistan newly controlled by the Taliban. The vid...

Dangerous pavements I would like to endorse what Gertrude Abela, John Pace and Emily Barbaro-Sant wrote in this newspaper recently with regard to the danger many pavements in our towns and villages are posing to pedestrians and other...

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