In the four centuries since Shakespeare wrote the Scottish Play, there has never been a Macbeth quite like Denzel Washington. A double-Oscar winner, he is regularly named the greatest actor of his era, and has already received every ...

Bank of Valletta says it remains committed to serving customers at physical branches after it closed down its Fleur-de-Lys branch and temporarily halted operations at five others. The move last week raised concerns that it would scal...

The Malta Football Association’s National Leagues are set to resume on Monday with a double-header from the Premier League after local football was put back by two weeks due to a sudden spike in the COVID-19 cases in Malta. After t...

The Tipsport Cup is set to get under way for the fourth consecutive year on the Maltese islands with four high-profile teams set to grace the National Stadium between January 18 and January 25. The four teams that will be representi...

The man just awarded a plea bargaining deal in exchange for evidence and who is set to testify in a major armed robbery trial had previously been convicted of falsifying evidence in an attempted murder case. Darren Debono, known as i...

A video of an Egyptian mother-of-three dancing that went viral online prompting her husband to divorce her and her employers to sack her has reignited fierce debates over women’s rights. The brief mobile phone video of Aya Youssef,...

In the beginning of the year, the ministers of finance and the economy of the countries forming the Eurogroup (eurozone) issued a statement on the occasion of the 20th anniversary since euro coins and banknotes entered into circulati...

Australia's government cancelled Novak Djokovic's visa for a second time Friday as it sought to deport the tennis superstar after he arrived in the country without a COVID-19 vaccine. Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said he acted on ...

The fatal shooting of an unarmed African American man by an off-duty white police officer under mysterious circumstances has fueled outrage in a North Carolina town, where residents and relatives of the victim protested Thursday nigh...

“If you want to lead you can’t start by hiding stuff until it’s too late for those who voted you in to do anything about it.” This was David Thake’s advice to Adrian Delia in August 2017. Delia was running for PN leader but...

The ability to identify and withstand attempts at corruption and abuse of power is a vital component of genuine democracy and the mark of a society in which a strong respect for the rule of law is embedded. For too long now this coun...

It was on January 8, 1992, when the first trading session of the Malta Stock Exchange took place. It is difficult to document all the wide-ranging changes that took place over the years in my short article of today. Instead, I will h...

The following are the main stories in Friday’s newspapers. Times of Malta leads with the arraignment of Abner Aquilina, who was on Thursday evening charged with the murder of Polish Paulina Dembska. In another story, it says that m...

The US Supreme Court delivered a blow to President Joe Biden on Thursday, blocking his COVID vaccination-or-testing mandate for employees of large businesses. At the same time, the nation's highest court allowed a vaccination mandate...

The year 2022 started off with the chilling murder of Paulina Dembska, a Polish student who was studying in Malta. A murder that shook our nation, a murder that shook us men and women to the core. Paulina, victim of a senseless crime...

A €400,000 public contract for Identity Malta to lease new offices will be graded in part on how close it is to the centre of junior minister Alex Muscat’s electoral district. The parliamentary secretary for citizenship hails fro...

Obituary WALSH. On January 12, at St Vincent De Paul Residence, MAURICE (former Malta Drydocks worker and MFA/SWFC ex-footballer – Ġieħ tas-Sliema), aged 91, went to meet the Risen Lord. He will always be lovingly remembered by h...

From the online comments board Are Maltese buildings earthquake-ready? An interesting topic indeed. But it does not delve deep into the subject. In the event of an earthquake what type of movement is our ground susceptible to sustain...

Cardinal Mario Grech led a concelebrated Mass at his home town parish, Kerċem, to inaugurate celebrations commemorating the 125 anniversary of the arrival of the titular statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Perpetual Succour in the ...

Arsenal held out for over an hour a man down to leave their League Cup semi-final with Liverpool delicately poised after the first leg ended 0-0 at Anfield on Thursday. The Gunners looked set to pay for another moment of madness from...