The 2021 Malta Book Festival, being called The Bookshop edition, is set to return in a few weeks’ time with an in-person festival hosted at the Malta Fairs and Conventions Centre (MFCC) in Ta’ Qali. The National Book Council has ...

Football great Pele said on Thursday he is feeling “better” and joked that he can’t wait to get back to playing the beautiful game, just two weeks after leaving hospital following surgery on a colon tumor. The 80-year-old spent...

The government totally forgot Gozo when drafting plans for next year's budget, the PN said on Friday. In a statement, spokesperson Chris Said said that Gozo had been allocated only 2.8 per cent of the country's capital expenditure, d...

Canberra firefighters rushed to a store in Australia's capital after reports of a gas leak - only to find the smell was caused by the penetrating waft of durian fruit. Emergency responders instructed the public to avoid the area as t...

Argentina took their unbeaten run to 25 matches and moved a step closer to qualifying for the World Cup with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Peru on Thursday. Lautaro Martinez scored the only goal of the game two minutes before the break ...

Falsifying a phone call to make it appear as though another person is calling you is far more accessible than you might assume. Your phone rings and a familiar name and number shows up on the screen, you answer the call but instead o...

The main challengers for the title, Nadur Youngsters and Għajnsielem, along with outsiders Kerċem Ajax, secured wins against the teams from the lower part of the table to further move away from their nearest rivals at the end of Ma...

Veteran triathletes Keith Galea and Danica Bonello Spiteri were back on the winners’ podium when they won the national titles in a race that was marked with inclement weather conditions.  The Eurosport Garmin National Triathlon Ch...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Friday. Times of Malta reports that an Ombudsman investigation found former police commissioner Lawrence Cutajar to have led a “defective” selection process for the promotion...

Four weeks ago, I wrote about Angela Merkel’s departure from Germany’s, the EU’s and the world’s political scene. She had decided not to stand for the election of chancellor of Germany. In the meantime, the elections for the ...

VBL Plc, the Valletta property company, has celebrated its trading debut on the Malta Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ‘VBL’.  The group, founded in 2012, is the largest private owner of real estate in Valletta, as well as...

Heritage Malta is hosting a small but rich exhibition commemorating the memory and the literary works of Dun Karm Psaila, Malta’s national poet, who was born 150 years ago. It is being held at the National Art Museum, MUŻA, and ru...

Former president Bill Clinton has been hospitalised with a non-COVID-related infection. Clinton's doctors said it was a blood infection. Clinton, 75, was admitted to a hospital in Irvine in Southern California on Tuesday evening, his...

Obituary GAUCI. On October 13, JOSEPHINE (Jo) widow of Francis, beloved and loving mother and grandmother, passed away peacefully at the venerable age of 92, comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn her loss her chi...

The rector of Ta’ Pinu Marian Sanctuary, Fr Gerard Buhagiar, last Saturday, at the end of the celebration of Mass, made a special invitation to Blessed Virgin Mary devotees. Fr Buhagiar said that during the 25th International Maria...

“I think that our MPs on the Public Accounts Committee took a very clear position this week,” Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi declared. “What was their position,” the reporter asked. “It was very, very clear, the position taken was...

Old unutilised houses A ‘well done’ is merited by Prime Minister Robert Abela, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana and Housing Minister Roderick Galdes for the announced 2022 Budget measure aimed at long vacant and unutilised resident...

The high incidence of obesity in the Maltese population, especially among children, is a slow-burning health issue. It is putting increasing pressure on a strained public health system. The illusion that, as a Mediterranean country, ...

It is becoming more and more evident that Labour’s talk on protecting the environment is nothing but empty words. A few days ago, Prime Minister Robert Abela was reassuring his audience that the trees many feared would be uprooted ...

Former police commissioner Lawrence Cutajar led a “defective” selection process for the promotion of assistant commissioners in 2016, a fresh Ombudsman investigation has found. Ombudsman Anthony Mifsud found that Cutajar, who had...