Yuri Messias has finally completed a move to Bahraini side East Riffa. The Brazilian forward left Gudja United to head into the Middle East and join East Riffa who are enjoying a very positive season in the Bahrainin Premier League. ...

Żejtun local council is to start distributing water conservation kits to residents, following an agreement with the Energy Ministry and Energy and Water Agency. The town is the first to collaborate with the ministry to facilitate ac...

Brazilian striker Ricardinho Faria will continue his career in Lithuania after completing a move to Lithuanian side FC Hegelmann Litaunen. Faria has played for several seasons in the Maltese Premier League. He arrived in Malta in 2...

Deloitte Malta has announced the launch of the 2021 Malta Technology Leadership Survey which aims to examine the broader scope and evolution of tech leadership roles in Malta and deliver a report on trends and insights regarding the ...

Jaguar has released a new limited edition F-Type sports car, as part of an attempt to provide ‘the perfect antidote’ to Blue Monday – the most depressing day of the year. Called the F-Type Reims Edition, it gets a stunning pain...

Spazju Kreattiv is tomorrow screening the 2019 documentary Collective. In 2015, a fire at Bucharest’s Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-thr...

The MSE Equity Total Return Index closed the first week of February 2.5 per cent lower at 8,045.256 points. A total of 20 equities were active, four of which headed north while another 14 closed in the opposite direction. A total wee...

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Discovering there's intelligent life beyond our planet could be the most transformative event in human history --  but what if scientists decided to collectively ignore evidence suggesting it already happened? That's the premise of ...

The state’s building agency received two reports of damage from excavation works at the massive Townsquare project in Sliema and has carried out nine inspections on site since work on the project kicked off a year ago. The informat...

The US has historically put the greatest volume of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and has for the last four years been claiming that climate change is a hoax. America is still today a huge contributor to global warming and stan...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Saturday. Times of Malta leads with shocking news from Gżira, where a man is alleged to have set fire to an apartment with two people inside. In a secondary story, the newspaper...

In 2020, there were 4.1 million girls worldwide at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM). FGM comprises all procedures involving the performance of an operation or intervention for the partial or total removal of the ext...

Myanmar saw its largest anti-coup protests yet on Saturday with young demonstrators spilling on to the streets to denounce the country's new military regime, despite a nationwide internet blackout aimed at stifling a growing chorus o...

Law firm Mamo TCV Advocates recently strengthened its financial crime compliance team with the arrival of Antonio Ghirlando, who joined the firm as a senior adviser. Ghirlando is a seasoned compliance specialist with a specific focus...

Since the very moment of Malta’s accession to the European Union on May 1, 2004, EU funds have made a visible and impactful change in the lives of the half a million citizens of the magnificent island state. Malta has brought to th...

The Gaulitanus Choir is hosting Serenading Strings, featuring the Gaulitanus String Orchestra, made up of some of the top string players in Malta led by Marcelline Agius, on Sunday. Colin Attard is conducting and is also the artistic...

Obituaries DEMAJO. On January 14, JOSEPH (Joe), at Blue Cross Aged Care, Box Hill, Victoria, Australia, aged 78. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife Victoria, his children Alexei and wife Stephanie, Richard and partner Melissa, Pier...

Plans to set up an agency dedicated to fighting organised crime have been scrapped. A spokesman for the Finance Ministry confirmed when questioned by Times of Malta that the plans had been shelved. “The current work which is being ...

A metro for Malta As a regular visitor to Malta and prior inhabitant, I am well aware of the traffic issues that Malta suffers and which will only get progressively worse unless an appropriate solution is found. Having lived in sever...