Bayern Munich boss Hasan Salihamidzic has ordered the shell-shocked Bundesliga leaders to show a response at Union Berlin on Saturday after their historic 5-0 thrashing at Borussia Moenchengladbach. A full-strength side offered littl...

The Malta rugby national team will open their commitments in the FIRA-AER Conference South 1 on Saturday afternoon when they take on Slovenia in Ljubljana (start: 2pm). The national team will be making their first competitive appeara...

Firefighters answered a call in the dead of night to put out a fire that broke out inside a Forestals building in Mriehel between Friday and Saturday. A police spokesperson said that a person reported seeing smoke emerging from the s...

The decision to not call an election this year was a no-brainer because businesses deserved to flourish during the festive season, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Saturday.  In an interview on ONE radio, Abela said that when spe...

Malta U-21 Team coach Gilbert Agius has named a provisional 29-man squad ahead of next month’s UEFA European U21 Championship Qualifying Group C matches. The Maltese youngsters host group leaders Spain on Friday, November 12 at the...

Id-Dar tal-Providenza received the 2021 European People’s Prize during a ceremony held on Friday evening.  The Siġġiewi-based home for the disabled was announced as the award winner last July, winning the prize for its Monument ...

While the Old Lady of Juventus is faltering, AC Milan are rising to take her place, carried in part by old men, but on Sunday they face an ancient foe. Last season, as the nine-year Juventus domination ended, Milan, despite their fi...

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced the company will change its name to Meta, saying the move reflects the fact the company is now much broader than just the social media platform (which will still be called Facebo...

A key road linking Mosta to Mġarr will be closed for three days starting from Sunday night, Infrastructure Malta has warned motorists.  The long stretch of road, which has been undergoing works for several months now, will be close...

Manchester United travel to Tottenham on Saturday desperate to stay in touch with the Premier League’s top four as Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City threaten to break away from the pack. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is clinging to h...

This is the second article in a two-part series. Read part one. Author Robert A. Bonner’s book, The Ardwick Boys Went to Malta, contains some curious fragments of information on the desperate food situation in Malta.  In July 1942...

Jurgen Klopp has labelled media reports suggesting he believed Manchester United should have received more red cards against Liverpool at Old Trafford last weekend as “fake news”. The Athletic and Daily Mail said Klopp thought re...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Saturday.  Times of Malta leads with an interview with Jaiteh Lamin, who was left for dead by the side of a road last month and is now recovering from a fractured spine.  The n...

Hibernians and Birkirkara will be looking for an early psychological boost in their pursuit of Premier League glory this season as the front-runners in this season’s title race will go head-to-head at the Tony Bezzina Stadium this ...

Effective vaccines, without a needle: Since the start of the COVID pandemic, researchers have doubled down on efforts to create patches that deliver life-saving drugs painlessly to the skin, a development that could revolutionize med...

The MSE Equity Total Return Index (MSE) failed to reverse the recent trend and closed in negative territory yet again – this time by 0.42%, to finish at 7,972.952 points. Nineteen equities were active, but only three gained ground,...

Contrasting styles I guess one has to bellow to make one’s case, when there is no case to be made. That is the position Bernard Grech finds himself in. He needs to scream wrong even where things are right and he makes persuasion no...

In an e-mail dated June 5, Jean Bert Gatt, Captain Morgan’s chief operations officer, on behalf of the Fortina Group, e-mailed: “It has been agreed that Captain Morgan is prepared to enter into dialogue with St Julian’s local c...

Obituaries ELLUL. MARIA DOLORES, of Luqa, aged 90, passed away peacefully, comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn her loss her sister Rena, her many nephews and nieces, other relatives and friends. Mass præsente ...

The migrant worker allegedly dumped on the road by his boss after being seriously injured on a construction site has spoken of his hope to walk again unaided and become a resident of Malta. Jaiteh Lamin spoke to Times of Malta almost...