A man suffered serious injuries when falling off a ladder in Mrieħel. The 48-year-old Bulgarian man, who lives in Gżira, was rushed to Mater Dei Hospital at noon on Thursday. The police said the incident happened at a factory in th...

Reigning champions Nadur Youngsters bounced back from the unexpected defeat to Xewkija Tigers when they brushed aside Sannat Lions 3-0. Nadur are currently third in the standings, six points adrift of leaders Għajnsielem, who, howev...

Carnival has come and gone and although celebrations did not take place on the usual scale, Festivals Malta, through the Carnival Organising Team, tried to keep the tradition alive through a number of initiatives. Carnival companies ...

Not too long ago, if you wanted a premium electric vehicle, your only option was a Tesla. However, the 2020s will be the decade where EVs become the norm as longer-established manufacturers flood the market with zero-emissions vehicl...

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A recently-published book, Riflessjonijiet dwar il-Ġid Komuni (Reflections on the Common Good) by Alan Xuereb, brought once more to the forefront this very important concept. This book contains a historical perspective of the concep...

Ex-Olympic champion walker Alex Schwazer, suspended for eight years for doping, was on Thursday cleared of criminal proceedings by an Italian judge who considered that his samples could have been altered. Investigating Judge Walter P...

Robert Abela should have kept his mask on while replying to journalists following the inauguration of Santa Lucia tunnels last October, but he did not breach ethics, the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life has ruled.  The inci...

Bitcoin has enjoyed a record-breaking week after electric carmaker Tesla and Wall Street finance giants sparked a goldrush for the world’s most popular virtual currency, but bubble fears persist. Investors and mega-corporations ali...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Friday. Times of Malta reports that the developers’ lobby is pushing to have the right to appoint one of its own members to a new authority tasked with policing the constru...

Aprilia MotoGP team boss Fausto Gresini’s condition was on Thursday described as “critical” by doctors treating the former Italian motorcycling world champion for coronavirus. Gresini, 60, remains in a medically-induced coma in...

Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti has launched a new video series titled Rewind which revisits some of the organisation’s major exhibitions. In the first episode, exhibition curator Francesca Balzan recalls Vanity, Profanity and Worship...

After seven months in space, NASA's Perseverance rover overcame a tense landing phase with a series of perfectly executed manoeuvres to gently float down to the Martian soil Thursday and embark on its mission to search for signs of p...

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg held talks with the Australian government on  Friday over a law that would force the social media giant to pay for content, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison insisted the country would not bend to "thre...

The US Senate’s acquittal of former president Donald Trump on charges of inciting a violent insurrection was not surprising but nevertheless represents a failure of American democracy. Although the Senate voted 57 to 43 to convict ...

The Maltese are among the Europeans least willing to intervene when witnessing domestic violence, according to a new report. They are more willing to intervene in environmental crime than they are to help a child being hit by their p...

Sometimes, when having to write a speech, whether political or professional, I struggle with finding an appropriate tone or even with finding my muse but, as I sat down to write my speech for last Sunday’s political activity, the w...

Mapfre Group recorded an opera­ting result of €658 million in 2020. This was highly affected by the COVID-19 crisis in the first six months of the year, but the group produced a very solid result in the second half of the year, wh...

According to an article entitled ‘Vaccination and trust’ released by the World Health Organisation (WHO), research shows that the key determinants of trust are how people perceive given issues. Competence: people need to feel tha...

Obituaries APAP BOLOGNA. On February 15, at Mater Dei Hospital, MARIELLA née Stilon, aged 62, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family and comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn her loss her beloved parent...