A man heading to Sicily by ferry was arrested after Customs officials caught him with tens of thousands of euro in undeclared cash.  The passenger, who is a Serbian national, told Customs officials at the seaport terminal that he ha...

Struggling Newcastle find themselves in the unusual position of being the Premier League’s headline act at the start of their Saudi-led revolution this weekend. So often consigned to the margins during decades of underachievement, ...

Business & Professional Women (Valletta) Malta, on behalf of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, the Malta Foundation for the Well-being of Society and Women Political Leaders have entered into a collabor...

Lausanne, the capital of Olympic sport overlooking Lake Geneva, is reeling after discovering that much of its soil is polluted with toxic compounds belched out by an old incinerator. The situation, which has troubling implications fo...

EU member states should step in and subsidise energy to keep power affordable for consumers despite skyrocketing prices, MEP Alfred Sant told his peers this week. Oil and gas prices are soaring, leaving a direct impact on citizens an...

Ħamrun Spartans and Gżira United have little margin for error as they look to bridge the gap with the Premier League front-runners when they face off at the National Stadium this afternoon (kick-off: 17.00). Champions Ħamrun Spart...

These are the leading news articles in local newspapers this Saturday. Times of Malta leads with news that police officers on Friday seized 45 dogs from a man who a court found guilty of animal neglect this week. The newspaper also r...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino on Friday defended his plan to hold the World Cup every two years during a visit to Venezuela, a country that has never qualified for the global showpiece. The biennial World Cup project, which has the...

Olympic gold medallist Alexander Zverev and French Open runner-up Stefanos Tsitsipas slumped to shock quarter-final exits in the ATP Indian Wells Masters, losing in three sets at the main stadium on Friday. American Taylor Fritz surv...

The fatal stabbing of British lawmaker David Amess was a terrorist incident, police said Saturday, as MPs pressed for tougher security in the wake of the second killing of a UK politician while meeting constituents in just over five ...

Some call this budget a green budget. Admittedly, it has a tinge of green, which, if professionally implemented, could perhaps start to support the environment after the assault, neglect and exploitation of the past years. Among the ...

Moscow said Friday that one of its warships chased away a US Navy destroyer after it attempted to violate Russia's territorial waters in the Sea of Japan, but Washington denied this. The incident took place as Russia and China were c...

Bitcoin breached the $60,000 mark for the first time since April on growing optimism that American regulators will greenlight the first US futures exchange-traded fund for the cryptocurrency. The digital currency was up more than 40 ...

The missionary movement (Jesus in Thy Neighbour), founded by the late Dun Ġorġ Grima, came out with the idea of televising a new missionary programme on F living, starting October, the month dedicated to missionaries. The programme...

In Memoriam  ALBANI – MARIÈ THÉRÈSE. On the 33rd anniversary of her birth to interminable life. Treasured memories. Never forgotten by her husband Joe, children, grandchildren, siblings and in-laws. BONNICI – EDWIN. On the 31...

The MSE Equity Total Return Index (MSE) closed below the flat line, as it shed 1.4 per cent following a 2.5% gain the previous week, to finish at 8,094.721 points. As a result, the local equities index is down by 4.4% since the begin...

Significant messages emerged from the Nuremberg trials, which started 75 years ago next month. Among them is the fact that claiming you were merely following orders is no defence. Another is that your wrongdoing will catch up with yo...

Justice has not yet been done for Daphne Caruana Galizia, the Council of Europe’s top human rights official has said on the fourth anniversary of the journalist’s death. Dunja Mijatović noted that some important steps have been ...

136th day of the 'new normal' Żepp is produced by Ġorġ Mallia. See more Żepp cartoons.

Lack of ventilation One crucial scientific finding in the study of COVID-19 infectivity is the importance of indoor ventilation. Virus particles are found not only in droplets, which travel one to two metres when you sneeze or cough,...