Bank of Valletta has reported an increase of almost 40% in local businesses shifting to its digital batch-payments system as cheque payments dropped by half, compared to the same period last year. “Over these past months, we’ve s...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Wednesday that "attacks" on the country have crossed "red lines" after the diversion of a Ryanair flight over Belarusian airspace sparked a global outcry. The Athens-to-Vilnius flight ca...

Newly appointed Malta Racing Club chairman Antonio Mizzi said that he is ready to focus all of his energy to try and put the sport on a sounder basis. Judge Emeritus Mizzi is not a new face in Maltese sport as in the past, he occupie...

The United Nations urged Libya and the EU to overhaul their search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, saying current practices robbed migrants of their lives, rights and dignity. A UN Human Rights Office report on SAR op...

The stars of Friends never really left us – they were simply on a break. The cast of the beloved 1990s sitcom about six attractive, straight, white New Yorkers with ludicrously giant Manhattan apartments finally reunite Thursday f...

The scaffolding is down following the completion of almost four years of restoration works on the massive bastions at San Ġwann t’Għuxa in Cospicua, restoring the fortifications to their former glory. The works were carried out ...

The Giro d’Italia peloton remains free of Covid-19 with the latest round of tests conducted on Tuesday’s rest day all negative for the virus, organisers the UCI reported. Since the May 8 start in Turin no riders or  member of th...

A Palestinian from Gaza whose asylum request was rejected has pleaded to President George Vella for help. In a letter, Mohammed Abu Nada, 31, urged the president to take stock of the situation and review his claim for asylum, which h...

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Taking out a third-party motor vehicle insurance cover is obligatory for all vehicles registered in a member state right until such time the vehicle is withdrawn from circulation, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has...

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the hero of one of Manchester United’s greatest European nights, will aim to guide the club to a first title in four years Wednesday against a Villarreal side coached by Europa League specialist Unai Emery. Un...

UEFA on Tuesday opened formal disciplinary proceedings against Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus, the three clubs which are still refusing to give up the aborted Super League project.  “Following an investigation conducted by UE...

A group of NGOs is urging the Planning Authority to turn down an application for the building of a warehouse complex instead of a farm outside the development zone at Ħal Farruġ. They said that over 600 objections have been made si...

It will not be long before the country goes to the polls to choose the next administration. One factor by which voters could easily distinguish the two major parties in the past is hardlypresent anymore: clear political ideologies. T...

One of the most critical time periods in children’s learning and development is from birth to seven years. This short period in one’s life lays the foundation and impacts the overall trajectory of children’s lives in a variety ...

Art lovers touring Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum, in Mdina for the first time will surely be pleasantly surprised to find an art studio in the palazzo’s premises. Hanging on the studio’s walls are oil paintings by the pal...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Wednesday. Times of Malta reports how a court on Tuesday heard of a freemasons link to the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. It also says that a draft report by the National ...

Two weeks have passed since this newspaper exposed Infrastructure Malta and their expropriations sham. Having accustomed us to interminably long press releases riddled with doublespeak – whether it’s weak justifications for multi...

The European Commission will confront drugs giant AstraZeneca in a Belgian court on Wednesday over coronavirus vaccine delivery shortfalls that hampered efforts to kickstart inoculations across the bloc.  Lawyers for both sides are ...

The wider creative industry in Malta grew exponentially over the past decades although the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic damaged the industry. Considered as a ‘future-proof’ industry that is not threatened by the inevitable rise...