Sadio Mane opened his competitive goal-scoring account for Bayern Munich as the Bundesliga champions defeated Leipzig 5-3 to capture the German Super Cup for a 10th time on Saturday. The African Player of the Year, who ended a six-...

Karim Benzema converted an early penalty and Marco Asensio added a second-half insurance goal as Real Madrid beat Juventus 2-0 in a pre-season friendly at California’s Rose Bowl on Saturday. With his eye on Real Madrid’s European...

An Italian woman was seriously injured when a quadbike she was riding on crashed into a wall in Victoria, Gozo.  The police said the accident happened late on Saturday afternoon in Triq San Anard. The quadbike was being driven by a ...

The traditional zero tolerance approach towards illicit substance abuse was curtailed back in 2015, where drug legislation in Malta was boldly revamped with the primary objective to provide a rehabilitation centred approach to the pr...

We live in a world where technology has become the principal model that shapes our mind, meaning that our most basic experience of life and reality, from the get-go as babies, is often times mediated through the screen and social med...

Monuments and memorials exist as a means of fixing history, providing stability and permanence through the collective remembering of a person or an event, around which public rites can be organised. In Malta, it is most heartening to...

Companies owned by Family Sammut, including Greens Supermarket, have done exceptionally well at this year’s edition of the Local Business Awards. These awards pay tribute to and reward the local community’s best businesses – wh...

ARTS FESTIVALS APS Summer Festival The third edition of the festival wraps up today with the concert Sounds of the Mediterranean, featuring musicians from the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Alan Chircop performin...

The Ministry for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government issue a cultural events scheme on a yearly basis. The main aim of this scheme is to assist local councils to organise and promote cultural events in Maltese and Go...

The return of village festas following a two-year hiatus brought with it the closure of roads to make way for fireworks and processions, but also frustration for many and especially the sporting community. The Santa Venera tunnels ar...

Izola Bank plc has announced a €14 million unsecured subordinated bond issue with an annual interest rate of 5% and a nominal value of €100 per bond at par. The bond issue will mature on September 15, 2032, but may be redeemable ...

End oil and gas exploration Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, called for an immediate end to new coal, oil and gas production. Czerny was presenting the pope’s message f...

When Gareth the Woke led his team out at Wembley last summer for the final of Euro 2020, it was painfully obvious to those of us who have been following England for decades that it would end in tears. A combination of a manager with ...

Maltese football experienced a highly-emotional week after Hibernians, Ħamrun Spartans and Gżira United all made it through to the third qualifying round of the UEFA Conference League. This is an unprecedented feat in the history o...

Living your profession with passion, honesty and a sense of vocation can give you the sensation that you are riding a roller coaster, with a chain of appointments, committee meetings, travel, presentations, and a squeeze on family ti...

Whether it's abstinence, avoiding nightclubs, limiting sexual partners or pushing for a swift vaccine rollout, Spain's gay community are on the front line of the monkeypox virus and are taking action. "With this monkey thing, I prefe...

18th Sunday of ordinary time. Today’s readings: Qoheleth 1,2; 2,21-23; Colossians 3,1-5.9-11; Luke 12,13-21   It must be by sheer coincidence that it happens to be my turn to offer this reflection on the Sunday liturgy. It so happ...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Sunday.  The Sunday Times of Malta reports that an interior design company run by Keith Schembri’s wife Josette received tens of thousands of euros in payments from Vitals...

Cash is king, a term that is often used to signify the importance of cash flow in analysing a business. Of course, having cash gives one power, power to make purchases and, in an investment portfolio, if you invest in dividend-paying...

The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday it would not shy away in its fight against historically high inflation in the US even if that means a “sustained period” of economic weakness and a slowing jobs market. In raising the benchma...