A Maltese engineer just out of university has received multiple awards in Scotland for coming up with a unique device that cleans and improves air quality for those who work from home. Ben Sammut, who recently graduated as a product ...

Jurgen Klopp played down fears over Liverpool’s defensive frailties after their 3-3 draw with Brentford as he prepared his team to face Porto in the Champions League on Tuesday. The six-time European champions started their Champio...

The price of Brent crude oil jumped on Tuesday above $80 for the first time in almost three years on expectations for surging demand and concerns about supplies as the world slowly emerges from the pandemic crisis. With the rollout o...

A Chicago native who soared to global celebrity on a burst of megahits in the 1990s, for years R. Kelly endured as one of R&B's top stars, even as he faced a slew of sex abuse allegations. But now, nearly 30 years after he was first ...

There was a time when a reunion between Lionel Messi and Pep Guardiola looked distinctly possible, but on Tuesday they will be on opposite sides again when Paris Saint-Germain play Manchester City in the Champions League. Had it not ...

Most Asian markets slipped on Tuesday with investors contemplating the prospect of rising US borrowing costs as inflation spikes, while US lawmakers’ struggle to raise the debt ceiling is also agitating nerves on trading floors. Fe...

Celebrities and royals walk the red carpet in central London on Tuesday for the much-delayed world premiere of the latest James Bond film, No Time To Die.  British actor Daniel Craig's fifth and final outing in the blockbuster franc...

A former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp, now 96, faces a German court on Thursday charged with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people -- the first such case in recent years against a woman. Irmgard Furchner was a teenager...

Gudja United are on a giant-killing spree at the moment, after claiming the scalps of more-established Premier League sides Sliema Wanderers (3-2) and Valletta (2-0) lasts weekend. With these two wins, the southerners have climbed to...

After an 18-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and protracted labour disputes with its musicians and crew, the Metropolitan Opera reopens Monday with a history-making debut – the first work by a Black composer. The prem...

A 1970 tape of John Lennon singing a hitherto unheard song called Radio Peace and expressing frustration at his Beatles image to a group of Danish schoolboys goes under the hammer on Tuesday in Copenhagen. The 33-minute tape was reco...

Patients and workers at Mater Dei Hospital were last week shocked to find corpses wrapped in body bags lining an underground corridor. It happened because a lift that connects the hospital’s wards to a tunnel running between the ho...

Masquerade Malta is holding new auditions for the Malta cast of the multi-award-winning production, Matilda the Musical. Although Masquerade secured the professional rights to the show and originally cast the production for performan...

I belong to a minority group. I am one of those people who do not go gaa-gaa and dewy-eyed every time somebody mentions Gozo. I don’t think that Gozo is any different from Malta or that the Gozitans are any different from the Malte...

It was most refreshing to hear a senior government minister acknowledge over the weekend that the country’s economic strategy needs to be reimagined, with a shift away from its dependence on construction. For far too long, people h...

ECB monetary operations On September 20, the European Central Bank announced the seven-day main refinancing operation (MRO).  The operation was conducted on September 21 and attracted bids from euro area eligible counterparties of â...

One of the challenges we will have as a country as we recover from the negative economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic is to make sure that we remove imbalances in our economy. It needs to be said that even before the coronaviru...

When the S&D last convened in Malta, the year was 2013. Malta was a different country. Since then, it has become more divided, it has lost its status as a full democracy, it has mourned – or tried its best to mourn – its most pro...

Obituary TABONE. On September 27, JOHN widow of Jessie, known as ‘il-Moka’, of Valletta residing in Floriana, aged 91, passed away peacefully at Mater Dei Hospital, comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn his lo...

The feast of St Michael the Archangel will be celebrated at the Basilica of St George, Victoria, tomorrow.  Today is the last day of the triduum. Tomorrow, Canon Joseph Zammit will lead prayers and celebrate Mass at 6pm. A confrater...