Early voting began in Portugal on Sunday for a snap general election, with polls showing the incumbent Socialists still ahead though with their lead over the nearest centre-right rivals narrowing. Over 300,000 voters have signed up t...

The Malta Adlerian Society will hold its first online talk this year on Wednesday, January 26, at 6pm. During the Zoom meeting, Janine Balzan Engerer, a counsellor specialised in children and adolescents, will discuss developing self...

Matchday 15 of the Maltese Premier League sees Floriana FC clash with Birkirkara FC for a spot in the higher position of the table – with the game scheduled for today, January 23 at 6pm. Floriana FC comes to this match with plenty ...

Local quintet Skald centres their music strongly on the Maltese language. BERTU AQUILINA speaks to Lara Zammit about the band and their music. The quintet Skald describe their aim as that of “breathing life into Maltese literature ...

With the emergence of new COVID-19 variants, it has become clear that to defeat COVID-19, we need an arsenal of weapons that goes beyond the sole reliance on vaccines. Beyond new variants, there will always be individuals that cannot...

Isaac Newton is perhaps one of the most famous and iconic scientists.  The multi-talented English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, and theologian is attributed with making discoveries and contributing to areas such a...

A rape victim has yet to be summoned by the police’s standards unit almost four months since disciplinary action was promised against the inspector that left her case in limbo. Maria* was brutally raped in June 2020 for almost an h...

The world has radically changed and shifted over the course of the past two years and no facet of people’s lives has remained unaffected. The notion and very fabric of work environments have been greatly disrupted, forcing business...

Rafael Nadal survived a marathon first-set tiebreak to seal his spot in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open on Sunday and will face Denis Shapovalov after the Canadian stunned Alexander Zverev. Later, in the women’s draw, gi...

Malta University Consulting Ltd is organising two courses as follows: A 25-hour course between February and April 2022 entitled ‘Award in the Art of Public Speaking’ will be held at the Campus Hub, Msida. The course focuses on ef...

One of my goals in life was to read for a diploma or degree at university. However, after finishing upper secondary school, I entered the world of work, as my priority at the time was to start a family. My first job at the Malta Dryd...

The biggest game of matchday 23 of the Italian Serie A – being played today, Sunday, January 23 at 8:45pm – pitches the two giants AC Milan and Juventus against each other.  Home side AC Milan suffered a surprising defeat in the...

A man was grievously injured on Saturday in a fight in Żebbuġ, Gozo. The police said on Sunday the incident happened in Triq il-Qbajjar before 10.30pm. The 26-year-old Sudanese visited the Marsalforn police station saying he had be...

Peru declared an environmental emergency Saturday to battle an oil spill caused by freak waves from a volcanic eruption in the South Pacific. The stunningly powerful eruption last Saturday of an undersea volcano near Tonga unleashed ...

Sorrow fills our hearts with the sudden death of Anthony (Toni) Micallef of Valletta. Words, even the very best of words, cannot pay tribute or truly capture the sense of loss that we, who worked with Toni at the Times of Malta, are ...

Children need help to recover from the disruption COVID has brought to their schooling. Much of the focus – and government funding – has been on academic catch-up. Some schools are beginning to trial adding an hour to the school ...

At the onset of the pandemic, in spring 2020, when we were still wondering how to stop the advance of what soon looked like an all engulfing catastrophe killing scores of people in its wake, a reader’s letter was published in the F...

True solidarity Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, in a statement to mark Rev Martin Luther King Jr, Day 2022, said “our nation has become more polarised and our divisions ang...

Newly appointed FIBA commissioner BERNARD VASSALLO has been around the game of basketball for more than 20 years, having officiated games in various parts of the world until his international retirement over the summer. Vassallo spok...

“Everyone thought I was mad,” says Tom Saintfiet of his decision to take on the job of coaching Gambia, and yet the Belgian has led the little west African nation to the last 16 of the Cup of Nations. They play Guinea in the Came...