Artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez was dramatically rescued from the bottom of the pool by Team USA’s head coach after fainting in a distressing scene at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest. Andrea Fuentes leapt in to rescue A...

Driven to produce ever more and less expensively, European breeders and farmers are exhausted. Despite the terrible effects of intensive agriculture on the environment and health, the European Union continues to give subsidies to lar...

A team from The Malta Taekwondo Association have just returned from San Marino where the European Taekwondo Championships for Small States was held. All four athletes won medals in their weight categories. In the 80kg class, Mamad...

This is the sixth in a series of autobiographical short stories by author Rita Antoinette Borg, collectively titled A Funny Thing Happened to Me…. A funny thing happened to me on the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State ...

A proposal to ban cigarette smoking from beaches, which was floated three years ago, never kicked off due to the pandemic but the mayor behind it has not thrown in the towel as the environment ministry pledges to minimise littering b...

Before the start of the 1932-33 League Championship, two qualification matches were played to decide which teams would join Sliema Wanderers and Ħamrun Spartans in the First Division. Sliema Rangers were drawn to meet Vittoriosa Un...

On June 23, the eve of the feast of St John, my mind goes back to that fateful year of 1565 when Fort St Elmo fell to the besieging Turkish army. The fort was expected to fall within one week but the stubborn defence by the garrison ...

Voters head to the polls on Thursday in two closely watched UK by-elections that risk renewing pressure on beleaguered Prime Minister Boris Johnson following months of scandals and setbacks. His ruling Conservatives are tipped to los...

Malta International Airport recently published its traffic statistics for the month of May. Passenger movements increased by eight per cent from the previous month to 554,820. This is the second consecutive month since October 2019 (...

EU leaders will gather in Brussels Thursday to discuss calls to formally grant war-torn Ukraine "candidate status" to join the bloc, as Russian forces slowly advance in the eastern Donbas region despite fierce resistance from Kyiv's ...

Eight medical personnel will stand trial for alleged criminal neglect causing Argentine football legend Diego Maradona to die in bed while receiving post-surgery care. A judge on Wednesday ordered a culpable homicide trial for the e...

Last updated 10.15am A 46-year-old man died after falling a height of one storey shortly after allegedly committing a theft from a Qawra cafeteria early on Thursday. The incident happened at about 4.30am.  Policemen who were alerte...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Thursday.  Times of Malta and the Malta Independent lead with an American couple's plea to be allowed to leave Malta for the woman to have an abortion over fears that a misc...

A new planning application is proposing the construction of two-horse stables as well as a tack room/food store in a rural parcel of land in Marsascala outside the development zone. The applicant, Hussein Suleyman, is also seeking to...

The wife of a suicide victim has described how she was the target of hate speech on social media after her husband was found dead by his own son this week. The hate speech followed a series of claims made by Nicholas Camilleri, inclu...

The Malta Cine Circle is this year celebrating its 70th anniversary with a series of special shows featuring the development of film-making in Malta. The first of these shows, entitled These Made the News, includes a selection of eve...

Marriage As both sets of parents of OKSANA DZIVAK and ROBERT THORNE, we are very pleased to announce their marriage on Saturday the twenty ninth of July, two thousand and twenty two in the United Kingdom. Obituary CALLEJA. On June 21...

Pro-abortion protest “A number of NGOs have filed a judicial protest against the minister of health and the parliamentary secretary for equality, calling for immediate decriminalisation and legalisation of abortion in Malta. “Law...

When George Orwell was exasperated with the dead, mindless English he saw used in the media and by bureaucrats, he issued his famous six rules for writing English. Two of them – prefer shorter words and avoid foreign loan words –...

Profanity is not absent in court. It is not unusual for witnesses or prosecutors to use foul language when, for example, recounting what an accused person said or was told. But that is as far as it should go. Swearing at each other i...