Malta has demonstrated “significant progress” in fighting money-laundering and terrorism financing, an assessment by Moneyval has found. The Council of Europe anti-money laundering body said on Thursday that Malta has succeeded t...

HSBC announced on Wednesday that it is exiting the retail and small business banking market in the United States, in line with its strategy to refocus on corporate and investment banking in Asia. The London-headquartered, Asia-focuse...

A genitourinary medicine clinic has been opened at Gozo General Hospital by Steward Health Care. The clinic will operate on Friday afternoons on a fortnightly basis and offer services aimed at the prevention and treatment of sexually...

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said “one kick” was the difference after his side slumped to a surprise Europa League final defeat by Villarreal on Wednesday. The Premier League giants remain without a major trophy...

  Scientists in Germany say they have found the cause of rare blood clots linked to the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines and believe the jabs could be tweaked to stop the reaction happening altogether, the ...

The 72nd edition of the national league was one of the most memorable in the history of the competition. It was certainly one of the most interesting campaigns of the post-war era. Every match was vital and as the competition progres...

Five million people in Melbourne were ordered into a snap week-long lockdown Thursday, with officials blaming Australia's sluggish vaccine rollout and hotel quarantine failures for yet another virus outbreak in the country's second-...

Jean Paul Gaultier is returning to ready-to-wear fashion, six years after he stopped designing off-the-peg clothes to focus on haute couture, the house said on Wednesday. The "enfant terrible" of French fashion bowed out after five ...

Asian markets were mixed on Thursday as investors took a breather following a recent run-up, while optimism about the global recovery remains shackled by concerns that a surge in inflation will force central banks to rein in monetary...

Two sleek new roads vanish into mountain tunnels high above a sleepy Montenegrin village, the unlikely endpoint of a billion-dollar project bankrolled by China that is threatening to derail the tiny country's economy. The government ...

Eric Carle, author and illustrator of the beloved children's classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has died aged 91, according to a statement from his official Instagram account on Wednesday. The book, first published in 1969, featur...

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Last week, shareholders of Medserv plc received the notice of the upcoming annual general meeting scheduled for June 11, as well as a detailed circular following the announcement on April 12 that Medserv successfully concluded a cond...

89.7 Bay has just launched its most recent project to date − Bay TV − bringing together the best of both worlds of TV and online content in one concept. As from this week, brand new shows will be coming out every week and local i...

Match-fixing is not only the biggest threat to organised sport, it is also a societal ailment on a much broader scale, comprising of far-reaching crime syndicates targeting players, as pawns. Historically, sport governing bodies and...

More than €650,000 were spent on promoting Malta’s Eurovision Song Contest entry as auditors investigate concerns that taxpayer funds were used to boost Destiny’s odds with bookmakers. Minister Carmelo Abela has ordered an audi...

Detention centre guards in Malta taunted migrant detainees in Malta, with one asylum seeker claiming that guards urged desperate and suicidal migrants to “go ahead, kill yourselves”, according to a new report. The report by the O...

Zinedine Zidane has resigned as Real Madrid manager with immediate effect, according to media reports, just days after the club were beaten to the La Liga title by Atletico Madrid. The Frenchman’s reported departure comes at the en...

Whatever your politics or your worldview or your take on the merits or demerits of the Israeli or Palestinian ‘cause’, if you have a conscience you cannot but be shocked and horrified by the immense violence of events in Gaza in ...

It is suspicious and worrying when, in evident orchestrated fashion, the prime minister and cabinet colleagues avoid giving details on the persons of trust they have engaged. Two Nationalist MPs tabled a string of parliamentary quest...