After nearly nine long months, the 2021 Formula One World Championship ended with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen prevailing over Mercedes legend Lewis Hamilton in the drivers’ championship in what was a truly remarkable battle. Howe...

The average lifespan of companies is shrinking alarmingly; it is currently just under 10 years, with up to 80 per cent of start-ups failing within five. This is worrying because entrepreneurship is the backbone of our economy and pro...

The Malta Business Registry’s efforts to sustain Malta’s fight against crime have been significantly enhanced in 2021, with a noticeable ramping up of dissuasive activity, intent in fostering a veritable clean-up in the way Malte...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered four staff defections on Thursday as pressure intensified on the embattled leader over lockdown parties and his loose-lipped style of politics. One of the departures was linked to an infl...

Praspar Press is looking for works for a second anthology of Maltese writing. KAT STORACE speaks to Lara Zammit about the call for submissions. Praspar Press, a micropublisher founded in 2020 in London by Kat Storace and Jen Calleja,...

Imagine a square room, of dimensions n metres by n metres, where n is a whole number. We have two identical square carpets, both having dimensions p metres by p metres, where p is also a whole number. The area of the room is twice th...

In science, something is true by empirical evidence emerging from observation of physical phenomena and careful devising of experiments. If, within a particular scenario, the same observations are always made, then science claims tha...

As the world celebrates Valentine’s Day with roses and chocolates, Melita Cameron-Wood speaks to experts in love and relationships to ask the age-old question: What is love? “Love: what a big word and such a misunderstood emotion...

In a heartfelt message at the end of a video conference with senior leaders in 10 countries, Steve Tarr recently announced he would be stepping down as Chairman of Hili Ventures after five years. The announcement, which elicited more...

The upcoming production GOLD: Celebrating 50 Years of Music by Sweden’s Most Famous Pop Group, produced by Manoel Theatre, aims to pay tribute to ABBA, Sweden’s most famous pop music export. Since being crowned Europe’s favouri...

 Australian swim coach supremo Scott Volkers has done it all.  From filling in as a swim club coach, to training Olympic medal winning swimmers, his decades of experience are notable.  Becoming a swim coach was not a planned caree...

Q: I have recently bought a gaming console from a local shop and when I asked about the warranty, I was informed that it is of one year in duration. I told him it was supposed to be two years but he insisted that it is one year. Who ...

The latest edition (volume 9) of Xjenza Online, the Malta Chamber of Scientists’ open access peer-reviewed science journal, includes three articles on recent research projects conducted at the University of Malta.  In a follow-up ...

Morocco was in shock Sunday after emergency crews found a five-year-old boy dead at the bottom of a well in a tragic end to a painstaking five-day rescue operation that gripped the nation and the world. The ordeal of "little Rayan" s...

Cardinal Mario Grech visited Mater Boni Consilii St Joseph School, Paola, on January 28, to commemorate the late Cardinal Prospero Grech, who received his foundation education at the school. Upon his arrival at the school, Cardinal G...

Tax defaulters who do not have a payment plan with the tax authorities should be automatically excluded from public procurement, according to the Finance Minister. In a wide-ranging interview with Times of Malta, Clyde Caruana believ...

Liverpool teammates Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane are getting ready to face off against each other in the Africa Cup of Nations final in Cameroon this weekend after Egypt beat the hosts on penalties on Thursday to set up a clash with ...

Seeking truth Addressing the International Catholic Media Consortium ‘Catholic fact-checking’, Pope Francis said: “We can hardly fail to see that these days, in addition to the pandemic, an ‘infodemic’ is spreading: a disto...

Snowboarder Jenise Spiteri takes a break from training in Switzerland to speak to Adriana Bishop about how she achieved her dream to represent Malta at the Winter Olympics...   What is your dream? What’s stopping you from making i...

High inflation is worrying governments everywhere as they struggle to kick-start the recovery after two years of economic disruption caused by COVID. The impact of rising fuel and food prices has opened a debate on how best to mitiga...