The world's most powerful space telescope is set to blast off on Saturday to its outpost 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, after several delays caused by technical hitches. The James Webb Space Telescope, some three decades and bill...

One of Malta’s leading consultancy firms, EY, has launched Idea Explosion: Better Working Malta, a challenge inviting students all over the island to come forward with their best ideas to make Malta a better place to live and work....

Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers believes his side will recover quickly from their agonising penalty shoot-out exit from the League Cup when they face Premier League leaders Manchester City on Sunday. The Foxes twice conceded a...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna celebrates the Christmas Day pontifical mass at St Paul’s Cathedral in Mdina on Saturday morning.  The event begins at 9.30am. Watch it live in the video below. 

After a pause sparked by the pandemic, students this year were once again able to don their caps and gowns and receive the degrees they worked hard for in front of their family and friends.  As graduation season rolls along, one fac...

A two-year-old boy was grievously injured on Christmas eve when the car he was riding in crashed into a tree in Rabat. The crash happened at around 8.30pm on the Saqqajja road, the police said, when a 35-year-old woman from Żurrieq ...

Antonio Conte has said Harry Kane is “totally involved in the Tottenham project” despite a modest start to the season. Kane was linked with a pre-season move to Manchester City but the deal fell through. Many pundits felt his fai...

At least sixteen people died when a migrant boat sank in the Aegean, Greece's coastguard said early Saturday, just hours after a similar incident claimed another 11 lives. The latest tragedy -- the third since Wednesday -- came amid ...

Pope Francis called for more solidarity with those living in poverty as he celebrated mass in Rome in front of a masked congregation of around 2,000 people, while billions around the world again marked Christmas under the shadow of t...

Cold and flu symptoms could be “masking” COVID-19 positive cases, the Chamber of Pharmacists has warned. It means that some people are not getting tested and self-isolating because their condition is mild enough to be treated by ...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna leads the Office of Readings at St Paul's Cathedral in Mdina on Friday evening, as the Church celebrates the birth of Christ. Christmas carols will be sung and the child’s sermon delivered as part of the...

The UK on Friday announced a new record number of virus cases fulled by the Omicron variant. The government reported 122,186 new cases in the last 24 hours, more than 2,000 higher than Thursday's figure. The UK is among the worst-hit...

President George Vella on Friday appealed to the people to listen to the advice of medical experts and make full use of the vaccines recommended.  In his message for Christmas, the President said the Maltese were lucky that Malta’...

Over 2,000 flights have been cancelled and thousands delayed around the world as the highly infectious Omicron variant disrupts holiday travel. According to tracking website Flightaware.com at 1540 GMT on Friday, a total of 2,118 fli...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna took a dig at the authorities in his Christmas message for refusing a safe port of entry to migrants in distress. "How can we tell them that we are full up and that we have no place for them? Is it really ...

The rise of the Omicron variant heralded on Friday another pandemic-tinged Christmas for billions, with Santa's arrival and longed-for family reunions overshadowed by the prospect of yet more COVID restrictions. Festive jokes about r...

Ultrarunner and athlete Stephen Sammut Nurminen has completed his latest and final challenge of the year - a 16-hour, 132.8 kilometre run on Friday. For every 10 minutes he ran, meal preparation company Fortify Meals donated a meal t...

No one should be allowed to fall behind, Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech said in his message for Christmas on Friday. Grech said that human dignity meant that everyone had special value and no one should be left behind, fall b...

Two vernacular properties in Triq Wied is-Simar, Qala have been served with an emergency conservation order (ECO) for their immediate protection. In a statement, the Planning Authority said it believes that the two-storey properties,...

Intel found itself on the back foot in Washington and Beijing on Thursday after issuing a public apology over a letter to its suppliers referencing US sanctions targeting human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region. The conflict...