March 2020 changed everyone’s trajectory the world over. However, an uncontrollable reality that gave us eerily quiet roads also gave us cleaner air as nature was allowed to restore. That situation readdressed our thinking round th...

St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta, and its adjoining museum, are reckoned to be a veritable treasure house of artistic objects, which include, inter alia, works by world-famous artists such as Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571...

Brentford’s Christian Eriksen is feeling “100 percent secure” about his impending return to competitive football just eight months after he suffered a cardiac arrest. The former Tottenham star has not played a match since his b...

Valentine’s Day is defined by the colour red, which symbolises passion in all its nuances and contexts. The image of an enterprising but almost pestilent winged putto-like Cupid is a staple in pop iconography associated with this f...

Our bodies are colonised by billions of all kinds of micro­organisms that differ in shape, size and function, depending on the area they live in. The community of microorganisms that live in or on our bodies is known as the human mi...

Although we generally associate microbes with disease, not all microbes are bad or dangerous. In our bodies, certain microbes help keep the pathogenic (disease-causing) bugs at bay and are therefore necessary to fight diseases. One o...

GoTo Global, an international multimodal shared mobility company, is merging with Neratech Media (TASE: NRTK), the two companies announced. The newly-formed company, to be called GoTo, will have a market cap value of $163 million, wi...

Over 145,000 EU citizens and more than 155 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from all political groups have joined an EU-wide campaign calling for animal welfare to be prioritised, particularly by establishing a Commission di...

ŻfinDays is an annual programme of short works by choreographers who are currently in the spotlight on the international dance stage. Introduced in 2019 by ŻfinMalta’s Artistic Director Paolo Mangiola, this evening of short works...

Can you imagine Malta without giants like Nerik Mizzi, Herbert Ganado, Sir Arturo Mercieca and Vincenzo Bonello? These four men and 38 others were interned without a trial and sent to concentration camps in Uganda exactly 80 years ag...

Over the past decade, Malta’s population has grown by over 20 per cent, to approximately 516,000. This has been parallel to an increase in the number of cars on our roads and shifts in where people live and work. New technologies a...

Companies are increasingly pursuing niche domains such as sustainability, cybersecurity, human capital and business optimisation and have understood that embracing these principles will make them future-proof, say Mark Aquilina and J...

Over a week ago, a 37th-minute goal might not have sent shockwaves in the MFA Women’s League but for one team it meant the world. For Mtarfa, this goal cancelled an infamous run of 24 winless games which stretches back to their inc...

Digital transformation is a term that has been in use over the past decade, but providing a clear definition of this phenomenon is far from easy. Broadly speaking, it refers to the conversion of traditional paper-based processes that...

Polestar has created a one-off version of its ‘2’ electric vehicle to demonstrate its capability in snowy conditions. Called ‘Arctic Circle’, it’s the brainchild of the firm’s chief chassis engineer Joakim Rydholm, and ha...

A white painting stirs three friends into a frenzy, posing as an existential threat. The acclaimed comedy Art by Yasmina Reza is as fresh as ever on the Blue Box Theatre stage. Of course, this is not a play about art. It might not fi...

A cyclist was seriously injured in an accident involving a truck in Luqa late on Saturday afternoon. The police on Sunday said the cyclist, a 34-year-old Briton, was involved in a collision with an Isuzu NPR at Triq L-Ewwel Titjira. ...

The Church’s greatest evil In an interview with Fabio Fazio on Rai Tre’s Che Tempo Che Fa last Sunday, Pope Francis said “the greatest evil in the Church is spiri­tual worldliness. It’s the worst thing that can happen to the...

53 UK universities will join the British Council’s Europe-wide virtual higher education fair – Study UK: Meet the universities. From February 14-25, students from Malta can explore a wide range of world-class courses for undergra...

When Wayne Rooney turned down the chance to be interviewed for the Everton job a couple of weeks ago, he confirmed something I had suspected for a very long time – there is a very good chance this young man is going to the very top...