Six-time world champion Marc Marquez returns to action after a nine-month injury absence at the Portuguese Grand Prix this weekend wanting to “feel like a MotoGP rider again”. The 28-year-old Spaniard hasn’t raced since breaki...

Vincent Muscat, the self-confessed killer of Daphne Caruana Galizia is to be cross-examined by the defence in the murder case. The hitman, also known as il-Koħħu, has already admitted his involvement in planting the car bomb that k...

Cooped up every day by the pandemic, 79-year-old Francoise is tired of looking at the tower blocks outside her window. "There's not much greenery," she says.  Luckily, her "doctor" for the day has the right medicine.  Isabelle Jean...

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin said he would not testify at his murder trial for the death of George Floyd, as a policewoman facing charges for the killing of another black American made her first court appearance. K...

Asian markets fluctuated on Friday as record Chinese economic growth figures struggled to add fuel to a Wall Street surge that came on the back of blockbuster reports on US consumer spending and jobless claims. Officials in Beijing s...

Archbishop emeritus Paul Cremona has been discharged from Mater Dei Hospital following a minor intervention on his heart on Saturday. The Curia said Cremona was discharged on Thursday and has returned to the Birkirkara Dar tal-Kleru....

The term ‘sustainability’ is gaining more importance with time. Unfortunately, the term tends to be interpreted in a multitude of ways by businesses themselves, government and regulators, non-governmental organisations and consum...

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Five years since the disappearance of Tom Stewart, his wife Phyllis is making one last appeal for any information about his whereabouts, even as she resigns herself to never seeing him again. Stewart, then aged 59, escaped from Moun...

World Maternal Mental Health Day, marked on May 5, is celebrated in different ways around the world. For the past five years since the day’s conception, the Parent-Infant Mental Health Alliance (PIMHA) has been organising a confere...

Authorities in Chicago released police body camera footage on Thursday showing an officer shooting dead a 13-year-old Latino boy as the mayor of America's third-largest city appealed for calm over the "excruciating" video. The shocki...

Malta’s political class has waged war on the islands’ natural heritage ever since independence in 1964. At that time, Malta’s natural environment was far richer and biodiversity more numerous than today. Successive governments ...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Friday. Times of Malta reports that the health authorities are planning on allowing restaurants to reopen by mid-May, but bars and band clubs will remain shut for longer unde...

If you’re anything like me, the sound of a whining dog breaks my heart and stops me in my tracks. And, yet, so many people have to live with dogs constantly howling and barking in their neighbourhood. Two of the recommendations tha...

Very few people would disagree that time barring for cases of child sexual abuse must go. The Lisa Maria Foundation has pushed for this to happen for the past few years and has recently once again asked the government to remove it. T...

The head of Pfizer said in an interview aired on Thursday that people will "likely" need a third dose of his company's COVID shot within six to 12 months of vaccination, while elsewhere defending the relatively higher cost of the jab...

The worst pandemic in a century. The worst economic and social crisis in decades. The long-term challenging transformations we need to face, from the digital revolution to the carbon-neutral economy. With every storm coming our way, ...

Obituaries FENECH. On April 14, at Miranda NSW, Australia, MAY, née Nicholl, aged 90, widow of Herbert, formally of Sliema, passed away peacefully. She leaves to mourn her great loss  her son Tony and his partner Sue, her grandchil...

The health authorities plan to allow restaurants to reopen by mid-May but bars and band clubs will remain shut for longer under a yet-to-be-announced timeline to further ease COVID-19 measures. Sources close to Malta’s roadmap for ...

The stone statue of St Paul found at the courtyard of the Gozo Seminary in Victoria has been restored. The origin of the statue goes back to the occasion of Rector’s Day in 1905. At that time the seminary was run by the Society of ...