Updated 10.15am China has relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media reported Monday, further unwinding four decades of controls in t...

Couples or individuals who wish to adopt a child from Malta will be eligible for a maximum grant of €1,000, Family Minister Michael Falzon said on Monday.  Addressing a press conference, Falzon said that the grant is lower than th...

ARMS Limited has five separate electricity tariffs bands with prices rising accordingly based on usage. The bands are as follows: 0-2,000 units: 10.47c per unit. 2,001-6,000 units: 12.98c per unit. 6,001-10,000 units: 16.07c per unit...

Malta national teams head coach Devis Mangia was left fuming after watching his players suffering a fitness collapse during their 3-0 defeat to Northern Ireland in an international friendly played in Klagenfurt on Sunday. After somew...

The growing perception that social mobility across generations has declined is worrying some political leaders. They often react by declaring that they want more young people to get involved in politics. Many of the younger people wh...

New Zealand's military was deployed to evacuate hundreds of residents from flood-hit areas of the South Island on Monday as heavy rains washed away bridges and cut roads. Rivers burst their banks as a weather system dumped 400 millim...

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Developers seem to have run out of original stonework to reconstruct a Knights-era farmhouse that was demolished in 2018 ahead of the building of Centre Parc, a large retail complex in Qormi. The farmhouse at Tal-Istabal, close to t...

Mediation provides a mechanism for the solution of disputes. I strongly believe that it is the solution to the endemic problems to be found in our justice system. This is because it avoids conflicts by preventing a dispute from being...

The final year students following the MFA in Digital Arts degree programme organised by the Department of Digital Arts at the University of Malta, are presenting their final projects in an exhibition at Spazju Kreattiv this week. Th...

“Don’t take the easy way. Take the small path and stay out of trouble.” “If violence and crime are to be curbed, we are the only people who can do it. The inmate does not fear the police, the judge or jury. Therefore, it is o...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Monday. Times of Malta reports that according to the Ombudsman, a 2016 police selection process for the promotion of superintendents to the post of assistant commissioner was vi...

This month, the EU launched the Conference on the Future of Europe, an initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron. The disappointment that many of us feel about the EU leadership’s loss of direction demonstrates the absolute ne...

Hoteliers have reported feeling positive about the tourism season as they begin to receive bookings for the summer months and are optimistic that the demand will continue to rise. On the eve of Malta’s much-touted re-opening of tou...

A massive manhunt for a former soldier who allegedly fired a hunting rifle at officers responding to a domestic violence dispute overnight in southwest France may last "many more hours". Elite tactical units and around 300 gendarmes ...

Italy coach Roberto Mancini announced a provisional 28-man squad for Euro 2020 on Sunday as he prepares for their final pre-tournament friendly against the Czech Republic. Paris Saint-Germain striker Moise Kean was the biggest name t...

When Pope Leo XIII wrote the encyclical Rerum Novarum, 130 years ago, his writings responded to the disturbing realities that the world was experiencing. Little did he know that it would become an epic moment for the Church’s socia...

Obituary BORG. On May  30, at his residence, CARMEL, known as Charlie Tabibu, aged 85, of Mellieħa, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife Mary, his children Charles and h...

A 2016 police selection process for the promotion of superintendents to the post of assistant commissioner was vitiated, and a fresh call ought to be issued, the ombudsman has ruled. Ombudsman Anthony Mifsud said that the man behind ...

The missionary movement Jesus in Thy Neighbour, founded in Gozo by the late Mgr Ġorġ Grima, continues with its mission of giving a better life to several children living on the streets of Brazil, Ethiopia and Kenya. Currently, the ...