The recent news that a local fish importer has managed to sell off shark flesh as swordfish might have wrenched a couple of stomachs and temporarily put swordfish off the menu for some but this story is just the tip of the iceberg wh...

US special forces hunted down high-ranking jihadists in a rare airborne raid in northwestern Syria on Thursday, killing 13 people in an operation the Pentagon described as "successful". The operation was thought to be the biggest of...

For many years, the game in Malta was dominated by Floriana FC and Sliema Wanderers. Season after season, the Celtic and Rangers of Maltese football were always there at the final reckoning. Sometimes, one of the other teams would re...

Swieqi United women’s team completed their winter transfer market activity with the acquisition of Venezuelan player Rafanny Mendoza. Mendoza, 25, is a central defender who was recently playing in her native country at Atletico SC ...

Marcel Duchamp scandalised the art world in 1917 by submitting a urinal as his entry to a prestigious competition. A century later, an American artist known as Robness sparked his own controversy by selling an NFT of a rubbish bin fo...

An Amnesty International delegation will today turn up in court to follow the ElHiblu proceedings in an unprecedented move for the NGO, hoping to send a strong message to the authorities that returning people to Libya is unlawful. Wh...

If there is one role in the game of football that is in continuous evolution is that of the goalkeeper. As the Beautiful Game continues to modernise itself, the role of a goalkeeper is not stuck between the sticks, but it is playing ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has left Europe’s clubs with a massive seven billion euro-crater in their bank accounts, a UEFA report concluded on Thursday. The virus-disrupted past two seasons, with many games played to empty terraces, end...

Senegal are through to a second consecutive Africa Cup of Nations final after breaking Burkina Faso hearts in their last-four tie in Yaounde on Wednesday, Abdou Diallo, Idrissa Gana Gueye and Sadio Mane scoring second-half goals to s...

An exhibition by Xagħra artist Victor Agius is currently on display at various levels of Il-Ħaġar museum in Victoria. According to curator Elyse Tonna, In Dialogue, inspired by the museum’s artefacts, offers a cross-medium selec...

Obituaries BUHAGIAR BARNETT. On February 1, SUNNY, of Sliema, aged 76, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn his loss his  siblings Marianne and her husband Richard, Noel and his wife Anna,...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Thursday. Times of Malta reports that an EU court has thrown out an attempt by Malta’s now-defunct Pilatus Bank to try and get its hands back on a banking licence.  It als...

At least 20 people died and 74 more were hospitalized in a Buenos Aires suburb after consuming cocaine cut with a toxic substance, possibly opioids, Argentine authorities said Wednesday. Officials said they were working quickly to de...

A court has let a man off the hook over a series of e-scooter parking tickets issued in his name rather than in the name of the company registered as the lawful owner. This was the outcome of six separate appeals filed by Vladimirs P...

Rejoice, for truly I say unto you: there is a God, she is female and Creation is her laughter. In what other universe would the legal salvation of that macho priest, Fr David Muscat, lie in the court records concerning a Russian femi...

Discovery of well under a street in Lija I am writing to the Antiquities Department to inform them that in St Andrew’s Street, Lija – near the church of the same name – a large well with many arcades has been accidentally disco...

The security committee, which oversees the expenditure, administration and policy of the security service, is bound by law to make an annual report on the discharge of its functions. Given the very delicate nature of the security ser...

Italy's government decided Wednesday to ease several anti-COVID restrictions, including for schools, as Prime Minister Mario Draghi promised to "continue to advance on this path of reopening". Among the changes announced was the end ...

Commanders will be the new name of the NFL’s Washington Football Team, the club announced Wednesday, completing a name change after dropping the controversial “Redskins” in 2020 over racist connotations. The reveal was made at ...

Thousands of New York police officers turned Fifth Avenue into a sea of navy blue Wednesday as they bade farewell to the second of two colleagues recently shot dead. Officer Wilbert Mora, 27, died last week from injuries sustained wh...