Last week, we were shocked to hear that Victor was the victim of a major motor vehicle accident and that his prognosis was bleak, as several MAM council members texted me greatly concerned. Just a few weeks back, he attended an event...

The Malta Police Union has invited the Attorney General to “come join the next gunfight”, in reaction to a plea deal reached with a man suspected of opening fire on officers during the botched 2010 HSBC heist. In a statement, the...

Marsaxlokk Football Club has submitted an application with the Planning Authority seeking to significantly expand its premises with the construction of a hostel as well as an old people’s home, along with seating stands for its exi...

Newcastle announced on Friday they had signed Kieran Trippier from Atletico Madrid, with the England international becoming the first arrival under the club’s new Saudi-led ownership. The 31-year-old full-back has moved back to the...

A man suspected of breaking into and robbing a Santa Venera house seven years ago has been arrested in Spain and extradited to Malta. The suspected burglar, who is 32 years old and a Romanian national, is wanted in Malta to face char...

Haley Bugeja has been awarded the Atlas Youth Athlete of the Month Award for the month of December. U.S. Sassuolo women’s international forward Haley Bugeja, aged 17, opened her Serie A Femminile 2021-2022 account after finding th...

Kazakhstan's president said Friday that order had been mostly restored in the country after days of unprecedented violence that saw a Moscow-led military alliance send troops to help quell unrest. The interior ministry said security ...

Around 15 per cent of current COVID cases are aged under 19, marking an increase over previous months. From the 4,404 cases between December 20 and 26, 178 patients were up to nine years old while 468 were aged between 10 and 19, the...

Britain’s car manufacturing stalled last year on pandemic fallout, including a semiconductor shortage, despite record demand for greener electric vehicles, industry data showed on Thursday. The nation’s mainly foreign-owned carma...

We have started 2022, and the year yet to come (well six days are already over) will need to tackle the issues left over from 2021, namely the coronavirus, the onset of inflation with a likely increase (or is it increases?) in intere...

Novak Djokovic’s family and fans have railed against the superstar’s shock detention in Australia, which left the world tennis number one spending Orthodox Christmas Day on Friday in a Melbourne immigration detention facility. I...

The spike in COVID-19 cases, the tight quarantine rules and the long wait for official testing have brought about a new phenomenon: a black market for self-testing kits that are being sold clandestinely at more than triple the origin...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Friday. Times of Malta gives prominence to news that Darren Debono it-Topo will serve 10 years in jail after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors over his role in a failed HSBC ...

French regulators have hit Google and Facebook with €210 million in fines over their use of “cookies”, the data used to track users online, authorities said on Thursday. US tech giants, including the likes of Apple and Amazon, ...

Visiting Malta for the holidays, I am welcomed by a new awful trend of gaudy Christmas villages at every corner of the island, with blaring music and blinding lights, like a version of Christmas on speed. Such attractions promote a s...

Haunted by the spectre of last year's crisis, India is bracing for a deluge of COVID-19 cases, with authorities of various megacities bringing in restrictions in a bid to keep infections in check. Case numbers have yet to match the e...

COVID’s latest victim is the increasingly strained industrial relations, where employers and some trade unions seem to be pulling in opposite directions over the question of quarantine and leave. The absence of strong leadership in...

Obituary VASSALLO. On January 6, at Casa Antonia, LUCIENNE, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn her loss her brother Neville and his wife Margaret, her brothers-in-law Gerald Briscoe and ...

Of undue concern It is heartening to note that Alfred Sant is concerned that the law in Malta is not watertight enough to justify what is termed as ‘therapeutic abortion’. He is afraid that our doctors risk being criminally prose...

The AX Group was one of the first private companies to utilise the local capital markets, with a number of its subsidiaries offering financial securities to the public since 1997. The group has evolved markedly since then and its ass...