Europe's busiest airport in Istanbul delayed its reopening on Tuesday as Turkey's biggest city began digging itself out of a major snowstorm that paralysed traffic and disrupted services. A blizzard on Monday shut Istanbul Airport do...

Gudja United have been in fine form since the start of the new year, winning both of their Premier League fixtures against relegation rivals Santa Lucia and Sliema Wanderers during the month of January and move five points ahead of M...

This is a story set in Malta and Europe in the near future. In the form of a letter from a mother to her daughter Maddy, it shows a family trying to navigate the crisis in the region caused by a rapidly warming climate. See previous ...

The health authorities are trying to find out what lies behind the recent spike in COVID-19 cases among those aged over 80, despite the number of infections in the general community going down. Among the factors being considered are ...

US actress Evan Rachel Wood has accused goth rocker Marilyn Manson of raping her on camera during the filming of a music video for his 2007 hit single Heart-Shaped Glasses. Wood made the allegations – which Manson denies – in Pho...

AaB Aalborg are currently gracing the fields of the Maltese football pitches on a winter training camp that will help them recharge their batteries ahead of the second part of their Danish season. Sitting in fourth and with an import...

Canada's foreign ministry was hit by a cyberattack last week that is still preventing diplomats from accessing certain online services, federal cyber security agencies confirmed on Monday.  A day after the attack, which took place o...

Annual growth in business activity receded somewhat in December according to the Central Bank’s business conditions index. Nevertheless, this remained strong from a historical perspective as economic activity continued to recover f...

Malta has gone up by just one point on the global index which measures perceived corruption, a year after falling to an all-time-low. Transparency International rates countries on a scale from zero (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean...

A new tree species has been named after actor Leonardo DiCaprio as a tribute to the Hollywood star's anti-logging campaigning, London's Royal Botanic Gardens has announced.  The evergreen with large yellowish-green flowers, which wa...

ECB monetary operations On January 17, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced the seven-day main refinancing operations (MRO). The operation was conducted on January 18 and attracted bids from euro area eligible counterparties of ...

Birkirkara’s newest arrival Patrizia Lamanna could have not wished for a better start to her new chapter in Maltese football after netting a hat-trick on her debut with the Stripes, last week. Her three goals – two of them inside...

From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as fear and isolation spread, Dave Perruzza had one thought - he had seen it before. "For me, it was thinking about the AIDS epidemic all over again, how nobody took it seriously," said Perruz...

The Nationalist Party is standing by its call for the government to scrap the vaccine certificate rules which came into force a week ago despite a French study confirming such measures had a positive impact on the economy and health ...

Eight people were killed and about 50 injured in a crush outside a Cameroonian football stadium Monday ahead of an Africa Cup of Nations match. Crowds attempted to enter through a southern entrance at Olembe stadium in the capital Ya...

While the Individual Investor Programme (IIP) remains a controversial economic strategy to attract investment, the use of the funds it has genera­ted over the past few years has enabled the government to support specific social prio...

Almost 900 people were evacuated from the tourist town serving Machu Picchu, the Inca jewel of Peru's travel industry, amid rains and floods that left one person missing and several homes destroyed, the tourism ministry said Monday.Â...

The following are the main stories in Tuesday’s newspapers. Times of Malta speaks to Gordon Cordina, one of Malta’s leading economists, who forecast that consumers can expect prices of food and other essential goods to keep climb...

Consumers can expect prices of food and other essential goods to keep climbing until after the summer, one of Malta’s leading economists has forecast. Gordon Cordina told Times of Malta that the rate of inflation in the cost of bas...

Uprooting mature trees in private properties is a sad symptom of the wider environmental problems caused by the construction industry in Malta. Are trees in private gardens less worthy of our care than trees in public spaces? I ask t...