A passenger with no flight experience managed to safely land a 14-seat Cessna Caravan light aircraft in Florida on Tuesday after the pilot fell ill. The passenger had no idea where the plane was when the pilot 'went incoherent. He m...

Mezzo-soprano Vanessa Vassallo will be giving her first solo concert at St Agatha’s Auditorium, Rabat, this weekend. Vassallo, 30, a member of the Maltese national choir KorMalta, started singing at Fgura parish church at the age o...

Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will not face criminal charges over repeatedly punching a fellow plane passenger, a prosecutor in California said Tuesday. Cell phone footage showed Tyson leaning over the back of his sea...

Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was killed by Israeli troops Wednesday as she covered a raid on Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the network and Palestinian witnesses said.  Al Jazeera said its journalis...

A prolonged summer heatwave in Australia left 91 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef’s coral damaged by bleaching, according to a new government monitoring report. It was the first time on record the reef had suffered bleaching duri...

BirdLife Malta has urged the prime minister to revisit a proposed change to the law on bird-rining that, it said, could jeopardise scientific bird studies. "BirdLife Malta sincerely believes that PM Robert Abela is being misled and m...

With his hand pushed firmly into his cheek and his eyes fixed on the table, Garry Kasparov shot a final dark glance at the chessboard before storming out of the room: the king of chess had just been beaten by a computer. May 11, 1997...

Seven treys in the first quarter and, above all, a quarter-ending 16-0 streak paved the way for a somewhat comprehensive Hibs win in the first game of this best-of-five finals series. Despite Luxol’s late efforts, the latter’s of...

Capo Mulini, a Marsaxlokk fish restaurant that was in the headlines over the past few months, has closed down. Its closing was announced by the management in a Facebook post. "We would like to announce that the restaurant is closed a...

Prosecutors are expected to begin presenting evidence against More supermarket boss Ryan Schembri on Wednesday.   The compilation of evidence against Schembri is scheduled to begin shortly after 9 am.   The owner of the defunct Mor...

Manchester City are still licking their wounds from another painful Champions League exit, but by winning the race to sign Erling Haaland they have established themselves as a go-to destination for Europe’s top talent. The 21-year-...

Elon Musk has declared that as owner of Twitter he would lift the ban on Donald Trump, contending that kicking the former US president off the platform "alienated a large part of the country." Musk's endorsement of a Trump return to ...

AC Milan, owned since 2018 by American investment fund Elliott Management, is the subject of “two bids”, club president Paolo Scaroni said Tuesday. “I understand that there are two offers and it takes time to complete the overv...

The post-electoral lull has been anything but boring. Consider the daily trash served by local Tiktokers and national broadcaster alike, the gripping drama of this new season of House of Cards: Dar Ċentrali and news of CEOs and civi...

Anyone who watches the film Unrest on Netflix realises how many people are suffering in silence because of an invisible disability. It tells the story of a successful couple, Jennifer and Omar, who had this beautiful relationship. Je...

Liverpool are still “chasing like mad” after Manchester City at the top of the Premier League, said Jurgen Klopp after coming from a goal down to beat Aston Villa 2-1 on Tuesday. The top two are now level on points, but City stay...

Political marketing has been honed into a precise science that parties master to satisfy the needs and wishes of the electorate. Once elected, a political party needs to deliver on its promises. However, when making excessive pre-ele...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Wednesday. Times of Malta leads with the Ukrainian President's appeal to Maltese MPs on Tuesday not to let Malta be abused by Russians using Maltese golden passports. It also...

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Over the past two years, 77-year-old Jaqueline Camilleri has taken to living upstairs in her old Rabat house so that she can save money by turning on the lights less often.  Like many pensioners, she is cutting back on everyday esse...