A tangle of post-Brexit paperwork, duties and taxes is disrupting commercial ties between Britain and the European Union that have often taken years to build, piling extra costs on small firms tha...

The link between COVID and smell and taste disturbance became apparent in March 2020 as the pandemic swept around the globe. To date, nearly 100 million people have been infected with coronavirus....

Dun Anton D’Amato has been appointed director of the Church’s migrant commission, replacing Mons. Alfred Vella who led the organisation for 17 years.Vella has now been tasked with leading the ...

Home, shop and office owners will soon be able to apply for a grant of up to €10,000 to green the facade of their buildings, through a new scheme that will begin next month.   The Green Your B...

Birkirkara FC have issued a statement to clarify the situation regarding their transfer ban imposed on them by FIFA. The Stripes are one of three Premier League clubs which are prohibited from sig...

Valletta FC have confirmed that Mihailo Jovanovic and Taisei Marukawa have agreed to terminate their contracts with the club by mutual consent. Jovanovic and Marukawa both joined the Citizens last...

The MSE Equity Total Return Index ended the week 0.5% higher at 8,255.308 points. Out of 15 active issues, five headed north while another four closed in the opposite direction. A total weekly tur...

Robots taking over humanity has been a popular theme for science-fiction writers, who like to delve into the dangers and ethical issues of such a revolution. However, some of these fantastical sto...

The Environment Planning Review Tribunal has rejected an appeal to overturn a controversial permit given for a block of flats to be built adjacent to a site of protected cart ruts in Kalkara. The ...

A Japanese woman who said she hid her mother's corpse in a freezer in her apartment for a decade told police she feared eviction if the death was discovered, media reported Saturday. Police told A...

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Over the course of my life to date, the world has experienced profound change, most of it wholly positive. Some of those changes have been literally global, from extended life expectancies, reduce...

The HSBC Malta Foundation has donated €2,000 to the Karl Vella Foundation (KVF), an NGO which supports children whose lives have been disrupted by severe illness or the loss of a close family me...

Moto Guzzi is celebrating its 100th anniversary in style with new ‘Centenario’ versions of its V7 and V85TT motorcycles. Paying homage to the firm’s racing bikes of the 1950s, the bikes feat...

A virus horror and a last-day-on-Earth comedy -- both entirely devised, shot and edited during the pandemic -- brought an apocalyptic flavour Friday to the Sundance film festival, which has moved ...

A report by the National Audit Office has lifted the lid on why the Local Enforcement System Agency has failed, much like the local wardens before it. It may also explain the lack of discipline on...

In the dying days of 2009, Rage Against the Machine achieved the unlikeliest of Christmas number ones with a re-release of their anti-establishment anthem Killing in the Name. This was driven by a...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Saturday. Times of Malta reports that owners of rental properties face fines of up to €3,000 if their tenants breach COVID-19 overcrowding ...

Understandably, climate change and the pandemic have dominated the attention given to President Joe Biden’s efforts to ‘undo’ President Donald Trump’s legacy in those two key areas of US a...

One year on from the appointment of a new Robert Abela administration it is timely to take stock of what has been achieved, what has yet to be completed and the way forward. In this first year, th...