A stern test awaits the Malta women’s national team when they face Sweden in their second and final game from the VisitMalta Women’s Tournament today, at the Hibernians Stadium (kick-off: 14.30). Malta opened their commitments wi...

US electric carmaker Lucid Motors announced on Monday that it will go public via a merger with a company that values it at $24 billion (€19.71bn). The California-based start-up has chosen to go through a SPAC, or a ‘Special Purpo...

Santa Venera minority leader Darren Carabott has forwarded a proposal to name a newly built road in the locality  "Triq Miriam Pace", in honour of the woman and the Pace family. Miriam Pace, 54, was killed when the family home in �...

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a series of containment measures, in that, freedom of movement became heavily curtailed. Almost one year since the World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, and nationwide lo...

Former prime minister Lawrence Gonzi recalls the difficult situation faced by the country 10 years ago when two Libyan Mirage fighter pilots defected and landed at the airport. On February 21, 2011, two Mirage F1 fighter jets armed t...

Afghanistan on Tuesday launched a COVID-19 vaccination campaign aimed at inoculating hundreds of thousands, as the war-weary nation reels from near-daily attacks by insurgents.   Doctors, security personnel, and journalists were amo...

One of the era's defining dancefloor acts hung up their helmets on Monday, as electronic music stars Daft Punk announced their retirement in typically enigmatic fashion with a video showing one of them exploding in a desert.  The Fr...

We appreciate the fact that the President of Malta took the initiative to host a conference on national unity. He felt the need for it because he is fully aware that the vision of national unity in our country leaves much to be desir...

Starlites Naxxar GIG maintained their positive winning streak as they registered their seventh win and are comfortably poised for a play-off spot. The Naxxar side had to survive an initial scare as Depiro set off on a very bright, en...

The British pound continued a frantic two-month rise against the euro and the dollar, reaching new highs this week in a sign of traders’ enthusiasm for the country’s vaccination roll-out. Just before Christmas, investors feared t...

Prime Minister Robert Abela held a phone call with US transport secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday, in which the two men discussed Malta and the US’ climate change goals and transportation strategies. Abela highlighted the phone ex...

Prince William said Monday that his 99-year-old grandfather Prince Philip is doing “OK” after spending nearly a week in hospital. Questioned by journalists while visiting a vaccination centre in eastern England, second-in-line to...

On February 25, Harry Venning, who has been a professional cartoonist for 30 years, will be discussing the tricks of the cartoonist trade via a live online zoom lecture at 6.30pm.   Venning will be tracing the history of his profess...

A marker within an archaeologically important site in Xemxija has been destroyed, months after a private property label appeared on it and the surrounding site was vandalised. The 1.4-metre-tall structure, which used to point the way...

Luke Montebello has been one of the driving forces behind Birkirkara FC’s charge towards a place in European football this season. The towering striker had struggled for first-team football with the Stripes at the start of the seas...

HSBC on Tuesday vowed to accelerate its Asia pivot despite spiralling tensions between China and the West after it reported a 30 per cent plunge in profits for 2020 caused by the coronavirus pandemic.  Reported profit after tax came...

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Fans could be back in English stadiums for the final weekend of the Premier League season and there are hopes the Euro 2020 final will be played at a full Wembley under plans announced on Monday. Under a four-step roadmap to ease th...

Five people died as a fire tore through a building in the world's biggest vaccine manufacturing hub in India Thursday, but the company insisted the production of drugs to counter the coronavirus pandemic would continue. Rescue worker...

On the occasion of Commedia dell’Arte Day, the Italian Cultural Institute is presenting the show Arlecchino diavolo buffo (Arlecchino funny devil), written and performed by Eugenio de’Giorgi. Arlecchino diavolo buffo is a narrati...