After three years in turbulent waters, swimming starts to regain some stability with an extra edition of its long-course world championships in Budapest starting on Saturday. On the podium, some continuity is assured as two American ...

For a Disney film called The Princess, Joey King’s new movie has a lot of R-rated violence, death, and even the odd use of the word “bitch”. But from the moment her tough-as-nails royal heroine stabs a hairpin into a henchman�...

The British government on Thursday said a European rights court should not have blocked the removal of migrants to Rwanda, promising legislation to override some of the court's orders. The government says it has been forced to respon...

The Superintendence of Cultural Heritage has greenlighted is-Suq tal-Belt’s application for new canopies in its outdoor dining area, provided that the central open space be left unobstructed.  In May, Arkadia Marketing Limited, th...

A search is currently under way for a missing woman in the Għajn Tuffieħa area. It is understood that the police and the army are searching for 17-year-old Doaa Kasem, reported missing by the police on Thursday. She was last seen i...

Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs can resume training after recovering from a thigh injury a month before the world championships, the Italian athletics federation FIDAL said on Thursday. In a statement, FIDAL said that Italian ...

Elon Musk pitched a vision Thursday to Twitter staff of a one-billion-user platform, but was hazy on potential layoffs, free speech limits and what's next in his chaotic buyout bid. The Tesla chief talked of letting people say pretty...

Paul McCartney turns 80 on Saturday and a week later becomes the oldest headliner to play at the Glastonbury Festival. There’s even been talk of the ex-Beatle being made a lord before the year is out. Not bad for a kid from a worki...

In the Ukrainian port of Izmail, on the Danube river that marks the border with Romania, rows of trucks filled with grain stand in line. Dozens of kilometres from there, at Romania's port of Sulina, where the river flows into the Bla...

Rabat FC were founded in 1938 and as far as we can ascertain, they played their first game on October 23, of that year against the Royal Engineers. Rabat lost that friendly match 0-1. That same season, Rabat joined the Third Division...

A man is fighting for his life after a fight in St Julian’s early on Friday while two others suffered injuries in a separate argument, also in St Julian’s, late on Thursday. The police said officers on the beat spotted an injured...

Students of economics learn that economics is a social science that analyses the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services with the objective of meeting private and social goals. It is interesting to note that it...

An Ethiopian artist, exhibiting for the first time in Malta, is portraying the obliterated childhood of those affected by war. Dereje Shiferaw’s exhibition at the Christine X Art Gallery, in Sliema, is about the complexities of war...

A 60-year-old man who lives in St Paul’s Bay died early Friday morning following an argument at an establishment in his home town in what the police are currently considering as a murder. The police said the argument took place in ...

With its zero-tolerance cannabis laws, deep social stigma against the drug and moves to tighten rules on consumption, Japan is no stoner's paradise. But you wouldn't guess it watching Ai Takahashi and her friends twerking, body-rolli...

Birkirkara St Joseph Sports Club hosted the second race of the four-part race series Go& Fun Sprint Triathlon in Salina last weekend.  Luke McCarron and Danica Bonello Spiteri took the win home.  McCarron exited the water after 10 ...

Fontana celebrates the titular feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Sunday. On Saturday, the parish marks the 29th anniversary of the coronation of the titular painting. Mgr Rosario Borg will lead the solemn translation of the reli...

Non-Maltese make up over a quarter of the total labour force on the island, the employment agency JobsPlus says in its annual report. The employment agency put the overall percentage of foreign workers in the labour market at 27.9% a...

For more than a decade, global economic growth has benefitted from low interest rates as many economists prematurely declared that inflation was dead. Central bankers shifted their attention from ensuring price stability through orth...

In the world of advertising, everything has a season. It’s an industry to which most people never give a second thought. It is always there, as we turn the pages of our newspapers (or websites) or take the opportunity to put the ke...