No representation of nature in all its infinite variety of form and mood, whether landscape painting or poetic description or photographic record of the open countryside, exists without a hidden hint of the myth of the pastoral ideal...

Gale-force winds on Friday night ripped vanes off the Xarolla windmill in Żurrieq, damaging the 300-year old historic attraction. Photos of the windmill taken on Saturday morning showed how its six wooden vanes were snapped off by t...

Max Verstappen enjoyed an imperious opening day’s practice for the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix on Friday, but admitted he was checking his mirrors for the much-improved Ferraris. The world champion topped the times in the se...

Last Sunday’s continuous rainfall ended up in the postponement of the race programme with the consequence that during the coming weekend we will have a total of 27 races. Saturday’s programme will get underway at noon with 13 ra...

Switzerland’s Mujinga Kambundji went joint fourth in the all-time list as she upset the field to win gold in the women’s world indoor 60m in Belgrade on Friday. Rapidly out of her blocks in lane eight, Kambundji streaked through ...

These are the leading stories making front-page headlines in local newspapers this Saturday. Times of Malta reports on the internet advertising spend of Malta’s two main political parties, which according to a Google transparency r...

The Bundesliga match between Bochum and Borussia Moenchengladbach was abandoned on Friday after the assistant referee was struck on the head by a beer cup thrown from the stands. Gladbach had been leading 2-0 at Bochum following seco...

Former prime minister Joseph Muscat hoovered up 12,886 of the 15,259 first count votes that went to Labour from this district in the 2017 general election. That helped Labour gain two-thirds of the vote, 65.73%, to the PN’s one-thi...

In 2003, we opted to join the European Union in a referendum and an election dominated by the question of membership. Our decision at the time also answered a deeper set of questions: what is Malta’s place in the world? Do we activ...

The MSE Equity Total Return Index extended its loss by a further 0.4% to 7,674.879 points, as 101 transactions were executed over 20 equities – as gainers and losers tallied to seven over a weekly turnover of €0.5 million. Bank o...

Chat platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram have avoided being blocked by Russia -- unlike some of the world's biggest social networks -- in a tenuous tolerance that experts warn could end suddenly. Years of tension between Moscow and ...

Regent Pharmacy, 70, Triq Merkanti, Valletta (2124 5135); Remedies Pharmacy, 678, Triq il-Kbira San Ġużepp, Ħamrun (2124 5627); Evans Pharmacy, 96/98, Triq San Bastjan, Qormi (2148 7020); Collis Williams – St Mark’s Pharmacy, ...

One of the issues closest to my heart is the plight of those families still living in houses which are not yet legally theirs. To find the cause one has to go to the 1981-1983 period, mostly. During those years, land was illegally ta...

Last Sunday, Kerċem celebrated the feast of its patron, St Gregory the Great, who died in Rome on March 12, 604. Kerċem marks the liturgical feast of the saint on September 3. Evidence of the great devotion the inhabitants of this ...

Obituaries NAUDI AZZOPARDI. On March 16, at Mater Dei Hospital, KARMEN, widow of Chev. Paul Naudi, aged 88, passed away peacefully, comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn her loss, her sister Sina Marsh, her siste...

Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky made a fresh appeal for talks with Moscow Saturday, while Russia said its soldiers had entered the centre of besieged port city Mariupol. As bitter fighting between local forces and Russian troops ...

I don’t know about you but the first thing I do upon waking is to check Volodymyr Zelensky’s Twitter feed hoping against hope that he is still alive. I really hope that by the time this piece appears in these pages, I would still...

The Labour and Nationalist parties are flooding the internet with up to €240,000 worth of political advertising between them on an average week during the election campaign. So, if you feel like you can hardly watch a YouTube video...

Labour veteran Joe Debono Grech seems to justify corruption… provided Labourites benefit. At least, that is what a normal-thinking person would conclude after hearing what the former MP and cabinet minister said at a political even...

Compassion for all refugees So many of us have been shocked to the core by the invasion of Ukraine, disbelieving, horrified and unable to get the suffering people out of our minds. And we feel so helpless. Why have we been so particu...