The compilation of evidence against Abner Aquilina for the murder of student Paulina Dembska continues on Friday. Aquilina is accused of raping and murdering the Polish woman, whose body was found at Sliema's Independence Gardens on ...

Fresh from setting a new outdoor record, Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis heads a stellar cast into the inaugural world championships on US soil in Eugene, Oregon, that kick off on Friday. Duplantis, who soared to 6.16m in Stock...

Saudi Arabia announced Friday it was lifting restrictions on "all carriers" using its airspace, an apparent gesture of openness towards Israel hours before US President Joe Biden's arrival. The US leader welcomed the "historic" decis...

The Nationalist Party has presented the government with a series of proposals it says will help improve the level of parliamentary work. In a statement, the PN said it had presented Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne with a letter ou...

Everton majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri has insisted the Premier League club is not for sale after talks with a consortium looking to take over at Goodison Park. Former Manchester United chief executive Peter Kenyon was the fron...

US actress Constance Wu made a suicide attempt three years ago, bruised by a bitter social media backlash, the Crazy Rich Asians star said Thursday. Wu, 40, faced a torrent of criticism in 2019 over remarks she made on Twitter about ...

In last week’s contribution, I wrote about the negative economic externalities of construction. I quoted publicly available data which says that construction contributed less than five per cent to the gross value added in our count...

The annual Oħloq Tbissima fundraising marathon organised by CAM/CPi is celebrating its 20th anniversary this weekend. Funds collected over the years for the Maltese missionaries in Peru, Pakistan and the Philippines have helped buil...

CAP-Sounds, a music agency based in Germany, is releasing a digital compilation of Maltese music hits on July 15. The record label, which had published Miriam Christine’s Eurovision entry on cassette and CD in 1996, has continued t...

MUSIC Malta Jazz Festival 2022 The Danny Grissett Trio − made up of US pianist Danny Grissett, Luca Fattorini on bass and Francesco Ciniglio on drums − and US guitarist John Scofield will perform at Ta' Liesse, Valletta, this eve...

The Malta Football Association Executive Board have turned down Senglea Athletic’s appeal against the decision of the local governing body of football to give Vittoriosa Stars the vacant place created in the Challenge League. The ...

Construction tycoon Charles Polidano and his son Gordon are in another round of police interrogations over suspected money laundering and corruption.  Polidano, known as Iċ-Ċaqnu, and his son were interrogated on Thursday with fur...

The sustainability of the economic model of every country is not just about achieving gross domestic product growth in the short term. Malta’s economic model suffers from a lack of focus on longer-term issues, including educational...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Friday. Times of Malta leads its front page with an article on how air pollution in eight of Malta's streets exceeds the EU limit. In a second story, the newspaper reports ho...

Increased misinformation and the disruption of global supply chains due to COVID-19 are behind the biggest sustained drop in childhood vaccinations in three decades, a UN report said Thursday. The percentage of children who received ...

Promoting lawlessness As to be expected, Isabel Stabile and her pro-abortion lobby exploited the predicament of Andrea Prudente to the hilt. It is breathtakingly remarkable how the local mainstream media as well as foreign networks s...

Obituaries CAMILLERI. On July 13, at her residence in Sliema, IVY, née Mifsud, aged 91, widow of Pio, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving and devoted family and comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She is preceded in ...

Air pollution levels in eight of Malta’s main roads significantly exceed the limit set by the EU, data shows. The most polluted street of all was St Anne Street, in Floriana with an annual nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentration of 61...

The eminent professor Ronald Sultana, in his article ‘Educational apartheid in Malta’ (July 9), refers to the claim made by the European Commission, as reported in Times of Malta of July 5, that “private school students are two...

Many countries celebrate an annual Police Day. In Malta, we do it on July 15 and we do it in grand style. But what is its significance? Over the last few years, politicians from both sides have argued about various issues and controv...