The existing range of optional equipment and the still growing range of Original BMW Motorrad accessories offer many possibilities for customising the R 18 and R 18 Classic. With the introduction of the Option 719 parts, BMW Motorrad...

Andrew Bonett discarded his wheelchair and walked into school for the first time earlier this week, to the cheers of friends, family and teachers who witnessed the milestone moment in the eight-year-old’s life. It was the very firs...

Today I got my first vaccine. I lucked out with Pfizer, the first drug to climb the pandemic Everest. It had been around for the longest, so I was surfing the crest of a wave, enjoying one of mankind’s greatest achievements, up the...

Tourists from the Netherlands will no longer have to quarantine when returning home from a holiday in Malta, with the country saying Malta is no longer a high-risk area for COVID-19.  The Malta Tourism Authority said that the revise...

There are question marks over Robert Lewandowski’s fitness as newly-crowned Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich head to Freiburg on Saturday, when he could equal or beat Gerd Mueller’s 49-year-old record of 40 goals in a Bundeslig...

Malta’s hopes of making it onto England’s green list of countries for safe travel in the near future have been tempered by Boris Johnson. Speaking on Friday, the British prime minister said that the country’s list of green list...

A public garden in Swieqi is to be embellished using Planning Authority funds, with the authority also bankrolling an upgrade of streetlighting in several Mellieħa streets.  The projects, which will be funded through the PA’s Dev...

Valletta have announced the signing of young defender Christian Gauci. The 19-year-old is a highly-rated defender who last season shone with San Ġwann in the Challenge League and helped them place third in the championship. Gauci ...

Pep Guardiola suggested Ferran Torres could fill Sergio Aguero’s boots as Manchester City’s leading striker next season after the Spaniard scored a hat-trick in a 4-3 win over Newcastle on Friday.  With a third Premier League ti...

Thomas Tuchel plans to ruin Leicester’s bid to make history, as the Chelsea manager eyes the first trophy of his reign in Saturday’s FA Cup final at Wembley. Tuchel has enjoyed a superb run since replacing the sacked Frank Lampar...

The front pages of Times of Malta from 25 and 10 years ago.  Become a Times of Malta premium member to gain full access to our archive dating back to January 1930.

Malta and Ireland have once again registered the lowest divorce rate in the EU, with both member states only recording 0.7 divorces per 1,000 people according to the latest available data published by Eurostat.  The data showed that...

The MSE Index shed 1.7%, as losses in five equities outweighed gains elsewhere to close the week at 8,172.64 points. Total turnover reached €0.5m, as 119 deals were executed. Double digit losses on slim volumes in International Hot...

Lasallians all over the world are today celebrating the feast of John Baptist De La Salle, founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian schools and patron of Christian teachers. De La Salle was born into a world very dif...

Atlas Insurance was the sponsor of the Digital Marketing Innovation Award, which was awarded to Candid! during the JAYE (Junior Achievement Young Enterprise) Finals and Awards Night  on May 9. Candid! won the award for their excepti...

Almost forty-five years ago, Scottish political analyst and essayist Tom Nairn published a much-debated book, The Break-up of Britain, which predicted that civic nationalism would lead to the demise of the UK in its familiar historic...

The Conference on the Future of Europe is a most welcome initiative aimed at reforming the European Union’s policies and institutions. It is a citizen-led series of debates and discussions that will enable people from across Europe...

These are the leading stories in this Saturday’s local newspapers.Times of Malta writes that the Labour Party will oppose a parliamentary motion to decriminalise abortion but wants a ‘national consultation’ about the issue inst...

How often have we heard this phrase or pronounced it ourselves? How often do we keep postponing? In this modern world, life runs very fast and procrastination is a big deal in today’s families. Sometimes, we open our eyes at the ri...

I consider politics as a means of bringing about a positive change in the lives of the people, both at the local and the national level.  People expect all levels of government to take decisions in the interest of the common good. G...