A major Malta-Italy drug ring has been busted by Italian police who arrested 16 suspects and seized 432kg of drugs.   Italian media reported on Wednesday that "Operation La Vallette" involved some 100 officers from Italy's financial...

Driving to work last Thursday morning, rescue officers Mark Zammit and Sandro Muscat knew that the brewing storm would mean a busy day of rescues but they never fathomed they would end up being rescued themselves. Video: Karl Andrew ...

Novak Djokovic is not being “blackmailed” by Australian Open organisers, a senior official said Wednesday, insisting a requirement for players to be vaccinated was about safety. The 34-year-old world number one would be bidding f...

While many coaches despise the international break, particularly due to the drop in momentum some teams experience upon return, Lija Athletic coach Joseph Galea believes it was the perfect opportunity for his side to regroup after a ...

Japan has asked airlines to stop taking new incoming flight bookings over concerns about the Omicron virus variant, the transport ministry said Wednesday. The announcement came as authorities announced they had detected a second infe...

A disciplinary board has found that police authorities obtained no tangible proof or evidence that a senior officer, suspended after testing positive for cocaine, had anything to do with the illicit drug.  The case relates to superi...

The Malta Motorsport Federation held its Annual General Meeting in St Julian's on Monday. This Annual General Meeting was the first since president Duncan Micallef had been at the helm of the federation. The main item on the agenda w...

A group of parents is petitioning their children’s school to allow them to attend the Christmas concert put on by students every year. The parents, whose children attend San Andrea school, are asking to be allowed to attend and wat...

Starlites Naxxar finally broke their duck and registered their first league win against Caffee Moak Luxol to close off the gap with both Luxol and ARMS Depiro in the league standings. Luxol moved to an early 11-4 lead after Jenniffer...

Leeds chief executive Angus Kinnear said proposals for greater wealth distribution in English football would only reward “incompetence” as he compared a transfer levy on Premier League clubs to Maoism and the Great Chinese Famine...

One of the world’s most prestigious beer competitions, The International Beer Challenge (IBC) 2021, has awarded  four Farsons Brewery beers in the latest competition that was judged last September in the UK. Silver was awarded to ...

Ellen White broke England Women’s all-time scoring record as the Lionesses recorded their biggest ever victory by crushing Latvia 20-0 in World Cup qualifying on Tuesday. White scored twice early on to take her level with and then ...

The Malta Stock Exchange (MSE) will soon be launching its annual MSE Financial Literacy Survey. The aim of the survey is to gauge the Maltese investors’ financial knowledge and to track local financial literacy trends from year to ...

Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has just launched a fresh report looking at the kidnapping, forced conversion and sexual victimisation of Christian women and girls. The front cover of the ACN report The charity’s Hear Her Cries rep...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Wednesday. Times of Malta leads its front page with an article about how a Maltese man missed saying goodbye to his dying brother because public health officials kept wrongl...

From what we know so far, should we be concerned about the new variant? – Mary Mamo A SARS-CoV-2 virus of the Pango lineage B.1.1.529 with a high number of S-gene mutations was detected in Botswana and later in South Africa. A numb...

The World Health Organization has warned blanket travel bans will not prevent the spread of Omicron, as more countries rushed to impose curbs and the first cases of the new COVID strain were detected in Latin America. In the week sin...

As has become the norm every year, Il-Ħaġar museum and cultural centre in Victoria is again offering a series of short concerts during December. They are being held on three consecutive Saturdays, beginning at 11.30am. Up-and-comi...

Gozitan trumpeter Jason Camilleri and pianist and harpsichordist Milica Lawrence, of Serbia, recently gave a concert at St Anthony of Padova church in Għajnsielem. The two musicians offered a programme of high standard of compositio...

Obituaries CAMILLERI. On November 24, at Mater Dei Hospital, JOE, of Birżebbuġa, passed away peacefully. He leaves to mourn his loss, his mother Violet Camilleri, widow of Paul Camilleri, of Birżebbuġa, his wife Shirley, his sist...