Joseph Scerri, a 93-year old St Vincent De Paul resident, has been nominated for a Ġieħ ir-Repubblika award for his battle against the state care home over new rules described as an "encroachment on [his] personal liberty”. Scerr...

The issue of housing affordability in Malta continues to escape all efforts at its sanitisation. Increasingly problematic are proving to be policymakers’ stances and blind beliefs that they can ride the situation with feet on both ...

Ħamrun Spartans coach Branko Nisevic hailed his team’s fighting spirit and determination after the 2021 Malta champions produced a memorable comeback on their return to European football as they stunned Armenia’s Alashkert 4-1 t...

Ivana Trump, the first wife of the former US president, died of "blunt impact injuries" to the torso in an accident, New York's chief medical examiner said on Friday.  The statement did not specify the circumstances, but US media re...

The Malta Police Union has complained that its officers are being forced to work in "substandard conditions" in police stations akin to a "horror house". In a statement at the of Police Week, the Union published photos it said were t...

Malta FA president Bjorn Vassallo said that strengthening the financial books of the Malta Football Association was one his main priorities for the coming months. The Malta FA earlier this year reported an increase in the governing ...

Sleaze is endemic in most political systems. Some see it as a symptom of “post-democracy”. Political sociologist Colin Crouch argues: “A post-democratic society is one that continues to have and to use all the institutions of d...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Friday. Most papers lead with details from the compilation of evidence against Abner Aquilina, charged with the rape and murder of Paulina Dembska in January, including body...

Russia is using Europe's largest nuclear power plant as a base to store weapons including "missile systems" and shell the surrounding areas in Ukraine, an official with Kyiv's nuclear agency said Friday, while nearly the entire count...

Updated 8.10am with health ministry response A couple who are legally cohabiting and were waiting to give birth were denied free medical treatment in hospital two weeks before the due date because the woman, who is German, was told s...

The spike in COVID-19 cases has led to the cancellation of an average of 10 non-urgent surgeries a day, with patients being turned away from Mater Dei Hospital after testing positive. The health ministry confirmed elective surgeries ...

Obituaries BONAVIA. On July 15, at Mater Dei Hospital, VIOLET, of Birkirkara, at the age of 95, comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn her loss her sister, Sr Antonietta, of the Sisters of Charity, her brother, Fr...

Jurgen Degabriele and Dorianne Theuma have been voted as MFA Player of the Year for the 2021/2022 season. Degabriele, 25, has played a key role in propelling Hibernians to their 13th domestic championship with his 14 goals in 26 game...

Russia bears "full responsibility" over the reported death of Paul Urey, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Friday, after Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine said the captured Briton had died in detention. "I am shocked to hea...

Riyad Mahrez signed a two-year contract extension with Premier League champions Manchester City on Friday. Algeria winger Mahrez has been rewarded with a new deal that keeps him at City until 2025 after helping them retain the Englis...

The feast of St George will be celebrated in Victoria on Sunday. This year marks the 183rd anniversary of the first titular statue of the saint, an artistic masterpiece treasured at St George’s basilica. At 8.30am, Gozo Bishop Anto...

An unidentified man suffered serious injuries while operating machinery at work. The police said the accident happened at around 4.45pm on Friday on Triq il-Belt Valletta in Żurrieq. Civil Protection Department officers provided fir...

The Planning Authority is considering two applications for snail farms, with one of them planning to export up to 37 tons of snails annually. One is proposed adjacent to a home for the elderly on the outskirts of Għargħur and the o...

Mads Pedersen became the third Dane to win a stage on this year’s Tour de France when an escape group beat the peloton to Saint-Etienne on a baking-hot dash across the Rhone Valley on Friday. His countryman Jonas Vingegaard retaine...

Julie Zahra has called on the government to expel the Russian mission from Malta, after the tragic story of a four-year-old Ukrainian girl who was killed in a Russian strike went viral. On Thursday, Liza Dmitrieva was killed on her w...