Slashing the national budget for the University of Malta rather than reducing subsidies on fuel is an example of the government’s misguided priorities, the green party argued on Saturday. “The University and education in general ...

Maltese tennis pairing Francesca Curmi and Elaine Genovese continued their excellent run of form in 2022 when they stormed to victory in the women’s doubles competition at the ITF W25 tournament in Vigo, Spain. Curmi and Genovese ...

An €850,000 lighting revamp of the Mosta Dome has been completed, with the new light system inaugurated on Friday evening in a glitzy ceremony.  The six-figure lighting upgrade was financed through the National Development and Soc...

Bayern Munich take on Borussia Moenchengladbach at home on Saturday, an opponent which has had their measure in recent seasons. While Bayern have won ten titles in a row, no Bundesliga team has had more success against them than Glad...

The MSE Equity Total Return Index finished the week lower, as the equity index dropped by 1.1% to 7,637.803 points. A total of 17 equities were active, as two gained ground, while nine headed south. Trading activity in local equities...

Troubled Liverpool will be desperate to get their first win of the Premier League season when they face Bournemouth on Saturday. As the Reds splutter, leaders Arsenal, who host Fulham this weekend, have emerged as the Premier League�...

A film co-produced by a Maltese studio has been selected for screening at the Toronto International Film Festival. Founded in 1976, the festival, informally stylised as tiff, is one of the most prestigious film events of the season, ...

Appearing tired and stressed, Piotr Wloch looks out dejectedly at his empty tourist boats on the Oder river after an environmental disaster that has killed thousands of fish. Like many local businesses, Wloch has seen bookings plunge...

The stunning FBI raid on Donald Trump's palatial Florida home was triggered by a review of 15 boxes of records previously surrendered by the former US president that contained top secret information -- including about human intellige...

A 30-year-old man was taken to hospital with grievous injuries on Friday night after he fell off his motorbike in Valletta. The man, who lives in St Paul’s Bay, lost control of his Piaggio bike on Great Siege Road, which takes moto...

MUSIC ABBA Arrival in concert UK’s ABBA Arrival, dubbed by the BBC as the “most authentic ABBA show”, are performing for a second time tonight at the Hilton Conference Centre in St Julian’s as part of their world tour. They w...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Saturday. Times of Malta reports on a positive meeting between the mayor of Ħamrun and a Syrian community leader, after a massive street brawl prompted law-and-order concerns in...

Transport Malta wants to develop a section of open public space on the Ta’ Xbiex promenade into offices and a restaurant.  The plans, which the state entity filed with the Planning Authority last December and has dubbed La Capitai...

Bank of Valletta, together with MAPFRE MSV life, is launching a special limited-time offer on its pension plans. During this period, customers who take up a unit-linked personal pension plan with the bank will be given a top-up of �...

BNF Bank plc has appointed Daniel Cutajar as chief technology officer to lead the implementation of the bank’s IT strategy and digital transformation.  Throughout his career, Cutajar has held several senior management roles with d...

St Julian’s Maritime Finance's freshly granted licence to provide non-banking financial services has been welcomed by key stakeholders who see this new development as a clear sign that Malta's flourishing maritime centre has been f...

The Maltese insurance community is saddened with the loss of one of its leading members for many years – Carmel Cascun. He started working as an insurance broker around 40 years ago when there were very few in Malta who even knew w...

In 1946, George Orwell wrote an essay titled ‘Why I write’. He outlined four great motives for writing. First, sheer egoism – “a desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death”. The second is aesthe...

The state hospital is in the process of setting up an early pregnancy unit where expectant mothers experiencing problems, such as a miscarriage, will be supported in an area separate from others hosting women in an advanced state of ...

A recent leader in Times of Malta on the Nationalist Party was entitled ‘PN may need major surgery’. Unless surgery works on corpses, the headline sounds somewhat wrong. Surgery, major or mega, can’t manage the trick. A more ap...