Former chairman of the Malta Book Council Mark Camilleri will be represented by court-appointed curators in a libel suit filed against him by former parliamentary secretary Rosianne Cutajar. This measure was sought by Cutajar’s law...

Non-Maltese EU citizens are likely receiving unequal treatment in Mater Dei Hospital because they are being asked to provide payslips to access treatment, the European Commission has concluded.  The issue was raised by a British nat...

A memorable afternoon for Maltese youth Alexandra Gatt who was the hero for her club Barking Abbey College with two goals in their 3-0 victory against Tottenham Hotspur Women U-21’s, on Wednesday. Following this victory, Gatt’s s...

Italian fashion house Armani announced Wednesday it would no longer use angora wool, a product made from rabbit hair, as part of its fur-free policy. The company said it would no longer use the material across all of its lines from n...

Tennis stars threw their support behind the WTA’s move to suspend its tournaments in China over concern for Peng Shuai, as calls grew Thursday for other sports to follow suit. The women’s tennis tour made the decision over what i...

An Australian cabinet minister has been removed from his post while allegations he was abusive toward a former staffer during their relationship are investigated, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Thursday. It comes just day...

The human rights breaches caused by the old rent laws have cost the exchequer another €300,000, after a court ruled that the owners of two properties had been denied the right to the enjoyment of their estate. In one case, the owne...

The League championship of 1924-25 was characterised by the pique that existed at the time between Sliema and Floriana. This rivalry added spice to that season’s competition. As luck would have it, if luck it was, when the fixture ...

Thomas Tuchel admitted Chelsea rode their luck as the Premier League leaders survived a spluttering display to snatch a 2-1 win against Watford on Wednesday. Tuchel’s side were well below their best at Vicarage Road, but Hakim Ziye...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Thursday. Times of Malta leads its front page with a report on how a major Malta-Italy drug ring has been laid bare in Italian court documents which detail how cocaine and c...

Michael Carrick believes Cristiano Ronaldo will flourish in the intense pressing system preferred by Manchester United interim manager’s Ralf Rangnick. It has been suggested United striker Ronaldo does not have the qualities requir...

Hypocrisy – Billy Connolly reminds us – is the vaseline of political intercourse. But perhaps even Connolly might have been taken aback by the slipperiness displayed in parliament when, in Monday’s debate, Robert Abela exerted ...

In the aftermath of the publication of the latest financial statements from the world’s two largest technology giants during the last week of October, Microsoft tipped Apple once again as the world’s most valuable publicly traded...

The WHO issued stern warnings Wednesday on the dangers of vaccination apathy and the European Union put mandatory jabs on the table as the United States registered its first case of the fast-spreading Omicron strain of the coronaviru...

Opinion polls have become part and parcel of modern life. Companies wanting to sell a product regularly conduct these polls in order to gauge the prevailing tastes of customers and, thus, tailor their products to suit the clients’ ...

Anti-social behaviour has the potential to cause serious distress to people or even ruin lives. It also tends to create an environment in which more serious crime threatens to take hold if the sociopaths who cause trouble are not tac...

An exhibition of terracotta crib figurines (pasturi) was recently held at the Dar Karmni Grima museum in Għarb. The figurines are the work of Nino Cascio, who runs one of the stores of Cascio Ceramiche in Sciacca, a town and comune ...

Obituary CAMILLERI. On November 24, at Mater Dei Hospital, JOE, of Birżebbuġa, passed away peacefully. He leaves to mourn his loss his mother Voilet Camilleri, widow of Paul Camilleri, of Birżebbuġa, his wife Shirley, his sisters...

Climate change is a continuous tragedy that humanity is self-inflicting. Our behaviour is turning the world into something none of us wants to see in the future. The Glasgow climate change summit was depicted as the last chance to av...

A major Malta-Italy drug ring has been laid bare in Italian court documents which detail how cocaine and cannabis were smuggled into the island using a local ferry company before being hidden in an Attard fruit and vegetable shop.  ...