Prince Harry will produce a documentary about the Invictus Games for disabled military veterans – the first series under a lucrative deal he and wife Meghan Markle signed with Netflix after moving to California last year.  Harry, ...

Eurozone’s business activity, underpinned by a record expansion in the manufacturing sector and an improvement in services signalling a marginal rate of contraction, returned to growth, after four months revolving within a contract...

The compilation of evidence against Yorgen Fenech, charged with complicity in Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder, resumes on Thursday. Several forensic experts are expected to testify in court. In the last session on Monday, we learnt ...

Raising US corporate taxes could spur similar moves by other countries and hasten the establishment of a global minimum corporate tax, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday. US President Joe Biden last week unveiled a ...

The Oxford Dictionary defines the word ‘gambling’ as “the activity of playing games of chance for money and of betting on horses”. It’s become a cliché to refer to practices that have been around for hundreds of years as b...

We often assume that viral infections are caused by individual virus types. But in reality, we’re exposed to many viruses on a day to day basis, and co-infection – where someone is simultaneously infected by two or more virus typ...

Older students returning to school on Wednesday or Friday as part of the government's reopening plan will be following classes online before returning to their desks, it has been confirmed.  The government announced the staggered re...

Tiger Woods was driving at an “unsafe” speed nearly double the 45 mph limit when he crashed in California in February, Los Angeles County’s sheriff said Wednesday. Woods’s SUV was travelling at up to 87 miles (140 kilometers)...

A French documentary has cast fresh doubts over the world's most expensive painting, the Salvator Mundi credited to Leonardo da Vinci, revealing a resulting diplomatic tussle between France and its Saudi owner. The painting of Jesus...

Asian markets mostly rose on Thursday with traders keeping tabs on the progress of US President Joe Biden’s huge infrastructure plan, while also taking heart from Federal Reserve meeting minutes reinforcing its intention to keep in...

Luxembourg’s royal family will soon be infused with Maltese blood as Prince Louis’s future spouse has ancestors who originate from the island. The great-great-grandmother of Parisian lawyer Scarlett-Lauren Sirgue, who is engaged ...

Euro 2020 matches in Dublin and Bilbao are in doubt after Irish and Spanish football chiefs said Wednesday they were unable to give assurances over the presence of spectators, as UEFA extended to April 28 a deadline for host cities t...

New Zealand health officials confirmed a fresh community case of COVID-19 in Auckland Thursday, just two days after the country celebrated its largely virus-free status by approving a travel bubble with Australia. There was no sugges...

Malta faces many significant challenges that would tax the best of leadership even in normal times and circumstances.   A brief list of such challenges might include the need for considered and informed debate on environmental destr...

The Malta Classics Association is hosting a number of online events, including its first Conference on Contemporary Research in Classics being held today and tomorrow. The online conference is dedicated to showcasing ongoing or recen...

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The annual financial reporting season continued last week with the main highlight being the publication of the 2020 financial statements of Malta’s largest bank, Bank of Valletta plc. Those Maltese companies having a December finan...

There’s betrayal and then there’s betrayal. One means letting the side down through carelessness or a fit of madness. The other is systemic betrayal of the entire project, the destruction of its reason for being. Among the ways o...

Australian politicians will no longer be exempt from rules against sexual harassment at work, the conservative government announced Thursday as it tries to quell public anger over parliamentary sex abuse scandals. Prime Minister Scot...

Malta’s life expectancy at birth dipped slightly in 2020, the year of the virus pandemic, but bigger declines in other member states means the island now tops the EU table. The figures were issued by Eurostat, which defines life ex...