Children will no longer need to wear a mask in school after April 13, health authorities announced on Monday, accelerating a change that was due to come into place after Easter.  Many parents saw the announcement of mask-free school...

A new selfie “museum” in Sweden is flipping the script by making visitors both the artist and the exhibit. The ‘Youseum’ in Stockholm has no works of art on its walls.  Instead, its brightly decorated rooms are meant to serv...

Honda’s all-new HR-V e:HEV compact SUV, NT1100 tourer motorcycle, ADV350 ‘adventure’ scooter and EU32i generator have all secured the Red Dot award: ‘Product Design 2022’ – a first time for Honda to receive the award cros...

North Korea will use its nuclear weapons to "eliminate" South Korea's army in the event they launch a pre-emptive strike, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un said Tuesday. Kim Yo Jong's warning, carried in state media, was her ...

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on Monday refused to be drawn into a “stupid” debate on tactics ahead of his side’s Champions League quarter-final first leg at home to Atletico Madrid. The Spaniard dismissed suggestions the ...

After what they claim was much discussion, debate, and research, the Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year for 2016 was ‘…post-truth’.  The adjective was defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective...

TVM has refused to explain its failure to prominently report the pope’s anti-corruption message during a speech on Saturday. Shortly after his arrival, in a speech given side-by-side with President George Vella, Pope Francis hammer...

Updated 10.20am Five people died in a train crash in Hungary on Tuesday when a van drove onto the rails at a crossing, causing the train to derail, police said.  All of the victims were passengers in the van which was carrying worke...

Benfica midfielder Adel Taarabt insisted Monday the Portuguese side have no fear of Liverpool ahead of their Champions League quarter-final tie against the English giants. Benfica will be looking to pull off another shock against six...

London’s National Gallery said Monday it had renamed a painting by Edgar Degas from Russian Dancers to Ukrainian Dancers following Moscow’s invasion. The Kremlin’s war on its western neighbour has impacted far beyond politics a...

Local group of companies IDEA Group has launched a new recruitment company with a difference. IDEA Resourcing combines recruitment with training and is backed by a team of organisational psychology experts who understand the dynamic ...

A 44-year-old man was grievously injured on Monday in a fall at a construction site in Għaxaq, the police said. They said the accident happened in Triq Dawret Ħal Għaxaq at around 2.30pm. The victim, who is from Xagħra, fell arou...

Deputy police commissioner Alexandra Mamo has been named Malta’s US ambassador nominee for the US secretary of state’s International Women of Courage Award. This annual award honours women who have shown exceptional courage, comm...

The Maltese film and television sector has rarely, if ever, seen as much discussion as we have had in the past months. Everyone from the Malta Film Commission (MFC), to the Malta Entertainment Industry and Arts Association (MEIA), th...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky will address the UN Security Council on Tuesday, where he is expected to demand tough new sanctions on Moscow over killings in the town of Bucha he has called "war crimes" and "genocide". The sp...

Filiz Huseyin, who owns a vegan restaurant in  Gżira, is listing a series of “crazy” price increases from her suppliers that she has had to absorb for months. Her business has dealt with a 10 per cent rise in vegetables since t...

Starlites Naxxar 48 Caffe Moak Luxol     64 (11-16, 13-18, 6-14, 18-16) Caffe Moak Luxol drew the first blood in the play-offs semifinal series against Starlites Naxxar. All attention this weekend was on the women’s league ...

He came to Malta for just over 30 hours but, like Julius Caesar 2,000 years ago, he could certainly claim, during his short stay on the island of Paul: “Veni, Vidi, Vici.” In this short period of time, not only did he win the hea...

The following are the main stories in Tuesday’s newspapers. Times of Malta says the travel and entertainment industries have welcomed the lifting of more COVID restrictions but say this does not go far enough. In another story, the...

ECB monetary operations On March 28, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced the seven-day main refinancing operations (MRO). The operation was conducted on March 29 and attracted bids from euro area eligible counterparties of €3...