China’s top state-owned energy companies have been ordered to ensure there are adequate fuel supplies for the approaching winter at all costs, a report said on Friday, as the country battles a power crisis that threatens to hit gro...

Former Liverpool and England striker Daniel Sturridge signed for Australian side Perth Glory on Friday, saying it “felt like the right thing to do”. The 32-year-old, who was banned for four months last year for breaching betting...

Asian markets sank on Friday as investors tracked another hefty sell-off on Wall Street, concerned about the prospect of higher borrowing costs, a possible US debt default and signs that the global recovery is slowing. While the four...

A docudrama film about Napoleon’s relation with islands, partly shot in Malta two summers ago, is to premiere tomorrow at the Mediterranean film festival Arte Mare in Corsica.  The film, to be projected at Le Régent Cinema, is ca...

Winter Moods are back a new song from their last critically acclaimed album The Journey. The song, also called The Journey was set to be released last year in the lead-up to the band’s 35-year anniversary celebrations, which was su...

The NGO Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar on Friday welcomed the planning commission's decision not to consider the development application of a Għargħur block of apartments in isolation. The block forms part of a “monstrous high-ris...

H.E. Yu Dunhai, Ambassador of China This year marks the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. 72 years is just a brief moment in the 5,000-year long history of the Chinese civilisation, but it has witn...

The European Parliament is to seek a wider EU role in sport particularly in the areas of sport integrity, physical activity, health and education. Over the years, the EU has been actively involved in tackling transnational issues suc...

The Malta Motorsport Federation announced that the Planning Authority has issued permits so that offroad racing can be practiced in a quarry at Aħrax, limits of Mellieħa. For the local governing body of motor sport this was yet ano...

The board of directors of the Farsons Group has announced interim unaudited results for the six months ended July 31. The group registered a turnover of €41.6 million during the first six months of the current financial year, a 13 ...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Friday. Times of Malta leads with news that a contractor has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm to the migrant worker found lying injured on a Mellieħa road last...

Brazilian football legend Pele was released from a month-long hospital stay Thursday after having surgery for a colon tumor, but will continue undergoing chemotherapy, his medical team said. Pele, 80, had been receiving treatment at ...

Grammy-winning pop star Gloria Estefan revealed Thursday that she was sexually abused by a relative when she was nine years old. The Cuban-American singer shared the childhood trauma during an episode of her Facebook Watch series Red...

Three police officers were injured after smokebombs and firecrackers were thrown at Thursday’s Europa League game between Marseille and Galatasary in France. The match was delayed by eight minutes late in the first half as projecti...

Ethiopia said on Thursday it would expel seven senior UN officials for "meddling" in its affairs, ratcheting up worries over the humanitarian response in the war-torn and famine-threatened Tigray region.  UN Secretary-General Antoni...

The feast of St Francis will be celebrated at St Anthony church in Għajnsielem on October 4. Days of triduum started yesterday. Holy rosary will be recited in front of the exposition of the Eucharist between 6pm and 7pm, after which...

Obituaries GALEA. On September 30, at The Imperial Care Home, Sliema, MARIE née Galea, aged 86, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn her loss her husband Charles, her only son Ian and his...

Kappara-Gżira tunnel The residents of Kappara were glad to hear that government entities were planning to dig a pedestrian tunnel beneath the regional road to link Kappara with Gżira, just as welcome was the news that bus stops wer...

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Smoke from bonfires was once used to convey a warning or raise an alarm. The thick column of smoke that billowed from the fierce fire at a Marsa scrapyard too sent out a clear message: lack of enforcement can have dire consequences a...