Health Minister Chris Fearne has signalled a shift in the focus from COVID-19 daily case numbers to hospitalisation rates. He said the "main emphasis" of the daily COVID-19 update will be placed on the number of people being treated ...

New COVID-19 rules for when students head back to school later this month will be announced on Tuesday.   The announcement is to be made by Education Minister Justyne Caruana in a press conference shortly after 11am.   Times of M...

A statue of Christopher Columbus in the heart of Mexico City will be replaced by one of an indigenous woman, authorities said Monday, days before the country’s 200th independence anniversary. The figure of the Italian navigator, wh...

It was 100 years ago, on September 7, 1921, that the Legion of Mary, a Catholic lay movement, came into being; in a short time it spread to all countries across the globe. Its origins were humble enough. A group of young people led b...

Educators says they are in the dark over what classes they will be teaching when schools open later this month.   In a statement on Tuesday, the Union of Professional Educators said its members were complaining they had not yet been...

Heritage Malta is celebrating the autumn equinox with guided tours at Mnajdra on September 21 and 22. Opposite the main entrance of the prehistoric World Heritage site, a doorway flanked by two large blocks covered in small drilled h...

Former prime minister Joseph Muscat on Tuesday insisted he has already apologised to the family of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and is not expecting one back. In a letter to the editor on Times of Malta, Muscat takes um...

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Malta coach Devis Mangia said that his team’s physical fitness was his main concern as the national team takes on group leaders Russia in a 2022 World Cup qualifier in Moscow on Tuesday (kick-off: 20.45). The Malta national team ar...

US actor Michael K. Williams, one of television's most memorable stars of recent years for his role as Omar Little in The Wire, has been found dead in his New York City apartment, police said Monday.  News of the death of the 54-yea...

It’s a common saying in football and in all sports that you’re only as good as your last performance, and that is one of the key elements that Malta Under-21 coach Gilbert Agius is trying to instil in his players ahead of this ev...

Novak Djokovic struggled but advanced within three matches of completing the first men’s singles calendar-year Grand Slam in 52 years on Monday by outlasting American Jenson Brooksby at the US Open. World number one Djokovic ralli...

Over the last few years, there have been endless stories of how a culture of impunity has encouraged certain people in high places, in both politics and business, to commit wrongdoing in the certainty that the arm of the law would ne...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Tuesday. Times of Malta leads its front page with news that former European commissioner John Dalli is to face court action over an alleged attempt by his top aide to solici...

“I never defended Pilatus”. This was our former minister and current Central Bank of Malta governor, Edward Scicluna. His memory must be fading fast. And needs some help. In July 2018, the very same Scicluna declared: “The bank...

A Vietnamese man has been sentenced to five years in jail for spreading COVID-19 after he breached home quarantine rules. Le Van Tri was convicted of "spreading dangerous infectious diseases to other people" after he travelled to his...

ECB monetary operations On August 30, the European Central Bank announced the seven-day main refinancing operation (MRO). The operation was conducted on August 31 and attracted bids from euro area eligible counterparties of €16 mil...

Obituary  GRECH. On September 5, COLIN, aged 53, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife Graziella née Sammut-Lucia, his beloved daughter Maria, his mother Pat Mahoney, his...

Awarding the capital of culture title to Marsa is the push the locality needs to encourage more investment after decades of “abandonment”, mayor Josef Azzopardi told Times of Malta.  On Friday, the locality was named the first e...

Except for a few obscure political warps caught in the wilderness, the welfare state is no longer taboo and different ideologies acknowledge both its usefulness and success as against the old lore of it being some form of ‘extreme�...