Three balconies came tumbling down on a quiet residential street in Marsascala on Friday night, damaging a parked car, but injuring nobody. It appears that the third-floor balcony of a block of apartments on Triq Żonqor, Marsascala ...

A man was grievously injured when he lost control of his vehicle on Valley Road on Friday evening, damaging four other cars in the process.   The incident was reported to the police at 10.15pm, they said on Saturday morning. It bega...

A protest at Comino’s Blue Lagoon risked ending in a physical confrontation on Saturday morning, as activists, deckchair operators and beachgoers came face-to-face. More than 100 people answered a call by Moviment Graffitti to desc...

Finally, the third qualifying round hurdle has been overcome as Ħamrun Spartans have become the first ever Maltese representative to qualify to the play-off round of a UEFA club competition. An incredible achievement for Maltese foo...

Employers should not have to pay the full cost-of-living-adjustment for workers whose salaries went up this year, one of Malta’s leading business lobbies is arguing. Instead, workers who have received some form of pay rise should o...

An opinion piece by Lawrence Zammit entitled ‘Where is the profit?’ (July 15) sought to portray the building sector as an economically inconsequential part of the Maltese economy which restricts the contribution being generated i...

Malta celebrated a successful summer as its athletes made themselves and their country proud during the Commonwealth Games and the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF). Following the end of events, the Malta Olympic Committee (MOC)...

MUSIC Glitch Festival 2022 Over 65 international artists are performing in the fifth edition of the house and techno festival being held between today and Tuesday, August 16. Today's opening party, featuring headliners Ben Klock and ...

One year on from the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, some cracks are opening within their ranks over the crucial question of just how much reform their leaders can tolerate. Infamous during their first reign for their bruta...

The planning minister has promised that shortcomings in the Strategic Plan for Environment and Development will be fixed when a review of the document takes place. Asked about the Planning Authority’s controversial decision earlier...

No country has unlimited land, labour, capital and entrepreneurship. So their economic goals need to be tailored to take account of the limitations of these resources. To achieve sustainable economic growth, national economic plannin...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Saturday. Times of Malta reports on a court case in which the parish priest of Marsaxlokk stands accused of misappropriating €500,000. He is pleading not guilty. The newspaper ...

The increase in population that Malta experienced between the censuses of 2011 and 2021, according to figures published on August 1, is of 102,130. With an impressive drop in fertility, that increase is almost all a result of the nev...

FBI agents seized records marked "top secret" during their search of former president Donald Trump's Florida estate, according to documents made public Friday in a probe that includes possible violations of the US Espionage Act. The ...

British author Salman Rushdie, whose writings have made him the target of Iranian death threats, was on a ventilator and could lose an eye after he was repeatedly stabbed at a literary event in New York state Friday. Following the at...

Joseph Muscat has refused to outright rule out whether Keith Schembri was leaking sensitive information to suspects in the Daphne Caruana Galizia assassination investigation In an interview on the final episode of the ‘Who killed D...

In Memoriam BORG CARBOTT – The Noble JOSEPH BORG CARBOTT. A beloved father and grandfather today the 28th anniversary of his demise. Always in our thoughts and prayers, fondly remembered by his children Mary Rose, Vincent and Lilia...

China’s attempt to threaten us The Chinese ambassador to Malta dared write a piece of Chinese government propaganda in our daily newspaper.  Our democracy and freedom of expression allows Yu Dunhai to have such an opinion publishe...

Eighteen-year-old Englishman Jamie Bynoe-Gittens scored one and created another as Borussia Dortmund came back to defeat Freiburg 3-1 on Friday with all their goals coming in the last 13 minutes of the game. With the game drifting to...

US actor Anne Heche has died aged 53, after suffering a serious brain injury in a car crash in Los Angeles last week, according to media reports The fiery crash left Heche comatose with a "severe anoxic brain injury," media outlets q...