Union Berlin coach Urs Fischer is aware of the task at hand when Bayern Munich visit on Saturday, but says his side have the “courage” to “try and trip up” the reigning champions. After four matches, Bayern and Union are sepa...

In the aftermath of the presidential election in August 2020, thousands of people fled Belarus to seek refuge in neighbouring countries such as Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic. Sviatlana Kutkovich was one ...

The gnarled trunk of a 1000-year-old carob tree rises from the Xemxija earth. A cat snake wraps itself around a dried-out plant. An octopus emerges from rocks within a Gozitan cave, in an ecstasy of colour. These photos, along with 1...

In the small break between the transfer window shutting and the Champions League group stage starting, Serie A frontloads its weekend schedule with last season’s top four in action on Saturday. Champions AC Milan face Inter at the ...

Pope Francis will preside Sunday over the beatification of John Paul I, the so-called "Smiling Pope" who led the Catholic Church for just 33 days before dying in contested circumstances. Thousands of people are expected to attend the...

Serena Williams bowed out of the US Open and headed into retirement on Friday after a battling loss to Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic while world number one Daniil Medvedev crushed the giant-killing dreams of Chinese youngster Wu Yib...

The MSE Equity Total Return Index declined by 0.5% despite a sharp increase in trading activity. The MSE closed at 7,602.998 points, as 20 equities were active across 119 transactions worth €0.8m. Ten equities gained and five lost ...

After technical issues halted its first launch attempt, NASA will try again on Saturday to get its new 30-story rocket off the ground and send its unmanned test capsule toward the Moon. If the massive Space Launch System (SLS) lifts ...

Bolstered by one of their “best nights”, Liverpool will look to pile fresh misery on Merseyside rivals Everton this weekend. Surprise leaders Arsenal travel to Manchester United aiming to extend the only perfect record in the Pre...

THEATRE Cospicua Short Play Festival The fifth edition of the Cospicua Short Play Festival continues today. The event sees short plays, about 20 minutes long each, staged in various locations around Cospicua. The plays vary from dram...

These are the stories making headlines in local newspapers this Saturday. Times of Malta leads with Prime Minister Robert Abela saying that he is “informed” that none of his ministers are under investigation in connection with a ...

Updated 8.05am Prime Minister Robert Abela has defended his ministers from scrutiny concerning an alleged corruption racket at the transport authority.  Abela said that there were “no investigations, criminal charges or legal proc...

A quarter century has already passed since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. I was in bed, here in Gozo. The phone woke me. It was my mother asking whether I had heard the news about Princess Diana. And my knee-jerk response was...

The feast of Our Lady of the Girdle will be celebrated at the Augustinian church in Victoria tomorrow. Canon Franklin Vella will lead a concelebrated Mass with homily at 9.45am. Ivan Attard will direct the orchestra. Augustinian prio...

Tiger Woods and former first lady Michelle Obama hailed Serena Williams as "the greatest" on Friday as the tennis superstar headed into retirement. Williams, the winner of 23 Grand Slam titles, played what was almost certainly the la...

The young man lay still on the ground, a scooter by his side, caught in the headlights of a car whose owner had just witnessed yet another serious accident involving a scooter rider. The photo of that shocking scene was carried on Ti...

Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will be laid to rest Saturday in a Moscow ceremony, but without the fanfare of a state funeral and with the glaring absence of President Vladimir Putin.  With Russia isolated by its military camp...

There’s no denying it: quality of life in Malta is in freefall. And this is one consequence of the biggest change Labour has brought about since its ascent to power in 2013: the huge increase in population. More than 100,000 have b...

False claims once again Once again, Isabel Stabile resorts to mock and ridicule, with her typical arrogance, those of us who challenge her claim that the morning-after pill is nothing but an emergency contraceptive. Had she bothered ...

Obituary VALENZIA. On September 1, Lt. Col. KENNETH J. VALENZIA, widower of Maryse née Salomone, passed away peacefully, comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn his loss his sons Kevin and his wife Nella, Michael a...