A herd of goats grazing on a London city farm are getting their teeth into hundreds of unwanted Christmas trees donated by residents in a fundraising drive. The eight goats can't get enough of the discarded firs, which the Kentish To...

Companies are struggling to cope with a surge in worker absenteeism caused by COVID-related factors, the Malta Employers’ Association said on Wednesday. A survey conducted among MEA members showed that 32 per cent of 325 responden...

Standby time qualifies as working time only if major constraints are imposed on the employee which objectively impede him or her from managing such time freely, the Court of Justice has recently affirmed. The EU’s Working Time dire...

China’s car sales last year grew for the first time since 2018, a trade association said on Tuesday, as demand for new-energy vehicles continues to rise. The jump comes as the world’s biggest polluter targets ambitious goals for ...

Award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Janette Ballard will lead a free workshop about the news, media and social media this coming Saturday. Ballard, who is a leading expert on media literacy, will spend two hours discus...

The new year starts with a bang as Barcelona take on old rivals Real Madrid in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup semi-final, which kicks off on Wednesday, January 12 at the King Fahd Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  True, both...

The mercurial Kanye West anticipates traveling to Moscow later this year, according to Billboard, a trip that will see him hold a Sunday Service performance and meet with President Vladimir Putin. West heads to Russia as he works on ...

Overall consumer demand for telecoms remained strong in the third quarter of the year, particularly for fixed and mobile internet services, the Malta Communications Authority said on Wednesday. In a statement outlining the main marke...

After war and insurgency kept them away from Iraq for decades, European archaeologists are making an enthusiastic return in search of millennia-old cultural treasures. "Come and see!" shouted an overjoyed French researcher recently a...

A sum of €1,200, collected from a donation box placed in front of a crib at Għajnsielem church, will be donated to Effeta Betlemme Institute in Bethlehem. Effeta Betlemme is a special school for the audio-phonetic rehabilitation o...

Between May 13 and 18, almost 1,000 athletes from 25 different countries will be travelling to Malta to take part in the first ever Special Olympics Invitational Games. In a Business Breakfast held at the Cottonera Sport Complex, Dr...

Paris Saint-Germain boss Nasser Al-Khelaifi and former FIFA number two Jerome Valcke will be back in court in March as the Swiss authorities appeal decisions in a corruption trial in 2020, according to documents seen on Tuesday. The ...

What is the number of vaccine doses referred to as “primary schedule”?– Francis Borg Primary vaccination schedule for COVID-19 vaccination refers to the initial course of vaccination as recommended by the manufacturer, which is...

Novak Djokovic on Wednesday admitted “errors” in his travel papers and in not isolating after a claimed coronavirus infection, as he battled to stay in Australia and fight for a record 21st Grand Slam. The world number one said h...

In Memoriam CAMILLERI. In loving memory of JOAN on the fourth anniversary of her demise. Those we love don’t go away, They walk beside us every day, Unseen, unheard, but always near, Still loved, missed, and very dear. Always in ou...

Last week’s marking of the January 6, 2021 insurrection in the US reminded us that democratic values in that country, and in so many other others, remain fragile. Many law enforcement officers responsible for defending Capitol secu...

Taiwanese rescuers on Wednesday located the wreckage of an F-16V jet that crashed into the sea a day before, less than two months after the island launched the first squadron of its most advanced fighters. The jet disappeared from ra...

The following are the main stories in Wednesday’s newspapers. Times of Malta says that documents it has reviewed show that the gaming regulator argued in 2016 that Nexia BT’s “undisputed reputation” made it the perfect choice...

We never knew Paulina Dembska. She was another among a thousand faces we’d see walking by, a woman who came to Malta to work, leading a quiet, normal life and fed stray cats in her free time. That life would be assaulted, raped and...

Nexia BT’s “undisputed reputation” made it the perfect choice to carry out work for the Malta Gaming Authority, the regulator argued in 2016, according to documents reviewed by Times of Malta. At that stage, the consultancy com...