Pep Guardiola has urged his Manchester City stars to show their “personality” as the Spaniard plots yet another successful visit to Real Madrid in Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final second leg. Guardiola’s side head to M...

It sounds hard to believe. Some of the country’s shrewdest business people, all fierce rivals, have joined forces, investing millions of euros to run a recycling scheme, and they are doing it all for free. What’s the catch? It tu...

It is a rare thing when the story of a book’s publication is even more mysterious than the plot of the novel itself. But that might be said of Guerre (War) by one of France’s most celebrated and controversial literary figures, Lo...

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday said the EU would impose a gradual Russian oil ban, as Brussels unveiled new sanctions to punish Russia for invading Ukraine. "We will make sure that we phase out Russian oil in an orderly f...

As Real Madrid celebrated their La Liga title win, Carlo Ancelotti was already trying to direct momentum towards Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final second leg against Manchester City. Madrid had beaten Espanyol 4-0 on Saturday...

Price hikes are threatening the future of food charity Victory Kitchen that was set up during the COVID-19 crisis to feed struggling families. Chef and founder Rafel Sammut fears the foundation’s funds could run out by the end of t...

At a tartan workshop in northeast Scotland, machines slowly unwind miles of the familiar criss-cross patterns of fabric in green, red, black, blue and white. But one chequered design at the Macnaughton Holdings' giant factory in Keit...

Jurgen Klopp said reaching a third Champions League final in five years with Liverpool felt just as special as the first after his team saw off a spirited fightback from Villarreal on Tuesday to keep their quadruple hopes alive. Trai...

Hibs had won the initial game in the U-19 women’s final best-of-three series with a tight margin, 65-60, but Starlites Naxxar made amends in game two, notching a tighter win, 56-53. All was set for a close, hard-fought battle in th...

A woman was grievously injured early on Wednesday in an argument in Ta' Xbiex. The police said the incident took place in Triq Testaferrata at around 12.30am. They said an argument took place between the victim, a 47-year-old woman f...

GREE Sliema Hotsticks are the new hockey champions for season 2021-22. The Sliema outfit enjoyed a very positive season where they showed great consistency and managed to overcome the stiff challenge of rivals Qormi Daikin. In their ...

Russian forces have launched a major assault on the holdout Azovstal steel plant in the devastated port city of Mariupol while pounding sites across eastern Ukraine, as the European Union moves to punish Moscow with oil sanctions. Th...

With the recent political agreements reached on the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) between the Council and the European Parliament, the digital package proposed by the European Commission way back in 202...

Why are masks mandatory on planes but not buses? Isn’t this a double standard? – Mark Borg The quality of supplied air on board an aircraft along with other measures in place, including the mandatory use of masks on board and the...

Top seed Novak Djokovic described his straight-sets opening win over Gael Monfils in Madrid on Tuesday as his “best performance of the year” as he set up a showdown with Andy Murray. The 20-time major champion ensured he would ke...

The Paulina Dembska rape and murder shocked the nation. It had wall-to-wall coverage for a few days, then withered away. NGOs and women rights activists have often argued that femicide cases get media attention for a few days and are...

North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, just a week after leader Kim Jong Un vowed to boost Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal at the "fastest possible speed". The launch was the latest in a string o...

The following are the main stories in Wednesday’s newspapers. Times of Malta says a new study by Caritas found that the average family of four is spending €100 a month more on food bills than in 2020 and the elderly are facing an...

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Over three-quarters of men in Malta are overweight, the highest rate in the 52 countries making up the World Health Organisation’s European region. Published on Tuesday, the WHO European Regional Obesity Report 2022 analyses differ...