Five environments NGOs expressed concern on Monday that the Planning Authority has not outrightly refused an application for a swimming pool in Marsalforn Valley at the back of a seven-storey block of flats belonging to construction ...

Formula One world champion Max Verstappen and triple Tokyo Olympic gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah won the Laureus World Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year awards Sunday in a virtual ceremony from Seville. Dutchman Verstappen...

Balzan FC have announced that they reach an agreement with Paul Zammit to go separate ways. Zammit took over at Balzan FC at the end of October when he replaced Mark Miller. But after a bright start to his tenure, which saw Balzan ...

A Japanese woman certified the world's oldest person has died at the age of 119, local officials said Monday. Kane Tanaka was born January 2, 1903, in the southwestern Fukuoka region of Japan, the same year the Wright brothers flew f...

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated French President Emmanuel Macron on his re-election and defeat of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, the Kremlin said Monday, as tensions remain over the Ukraine conflict. "I sincerely w...

Another successful performance abroad for the Maltese National athletes, this time the 4x100m female relay team, who managed to crush the national record twice on Sunday afternoon in Agropoli, Italy. The Maltese quartet was made up o...

A former member of the Franciscan religious order facing four years in jail for having sexually abused a 13-year-old girl entrusted in his care has lost a human rights case he filed when he was not allowed to file new evidence on app...

The first Grand Prix of the 2022 Voomquest Enemed UIM V2 World Championship concluded successfully on Sunday afternoon in a highly-charged day full of high spirits.  The Cyber Class race, which on Sunday consisted of a longer cours...

A large fuel depot in a Russian town near the border with Ukraine was on fire Monday, the emergency situations ministry was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies. "A fire has been reported at the Transneft Bryansk-Druzhba fuel de...

A man was injured when he was beaten up in a shop in St George's Bay on Sunday night. The police said they were alerted to the case at 9pm but those involved had fled by the time officers arrived. The victim, a 47-year-old Austrian, ...

An investigation into food couriers found that the employment conditions of delivery drivers are irregular and unlawful but solving the problem is far more complex than simply getting in line with the law. One recruitment agency trie...

Nepal follows the Bikram Sambat calendar. The Nepali New Year is usually celebrated mid-April and marks the start of the solar year. The calendar is 56 years and eight months ahead of the Gregorian Calendar, and this year it turned 2...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Monday. Times of Malta reports that Richmond Malta saw an alarming 1,045 per cent surge in requests by youths for help in mental health issues since the start of the pandemic...

Following a two-year hiatus, FM Theatre Productions is launching its brand new performing arts space with its first production, Class. The award-winning play stars Nathan Brimmer, Philip Leone- Ganado and Tina Rizzo directed by Chiar...

The European Central Bank would typically welcome the euro’s weakening as it would help the export-reliant EU be more attractive to non-EU importers. For a long time, the ECB struggled to fight deflation after not hitting the magic...

United States diplomats will begin a gradual return to Ukraine this week, Washington's secretary of state and defence chief said Monday, as they announced $700 million in military aid during their first war-time visit to Kyiv. The tr...

She came. She heard. She was completely at a loss. That is the experience the EU’s chief prosecutor recounted to people’s representatives from across Europe after a visit to Malta. Shamefully, nobody was able to tell Laura CodruÅ...

Malta last year registered the highest number of deaths in five years, with a steep rise in the mortality rate recorded throughout the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Figures published by the EU’s statistics body, Eurostat, s...

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Obituaries MICALLEF. On April 23, at St Vincent de Paul Residence, SAVIOUR, aged 88, of Lija, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn his loss his sister Evelyn, wife of Edwin Camilleri, his n...