Scammers are using technology that allows them to display a legitimate number from telephone company GO on people’s phones, the service provider is warning after witnessing a spike in fraud. The scam, known as ‘number spoofing’...

This time last year, international financial markets were in the midst of the coronavirus shock. Central banks were embarking on aggressive interest rate cuts and other stimulus measures to steady the financial system, as equity mark...

The front pages of Times of Malta from 25 and 10 years ago.  Become a Times of Malta premium member to gain full access to our archive dating back to January 1930.

The first hearing in a compilation of evidence against a series of people charged with major financial crimes begins on Thursday. Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech is expected to begin proceedings with controversial firm Nexia BT, w...

Germany is considering handing back a set of precious artefacts known as the Benin bronzes to Nigeria, a committee said Wednesday as a global debate gathers pace over the restitution of ancient artworks.  Members of the committee at...

Flood-stricken residents along Australia's east coast began a massive clean up effort on Thursday as waters receded, revealing damaged homes, piles of debris and mud-caked roads. The region has been devastated by widespread flooding ...

Pagani has unveiled an extreme version of its Huayra supercar – the Huayra R. Limited to just 30 examples – with each costing €2.6 million (around £2.3 million) plus taxes – the Huayra R is restricted to track use only, much...

Nearly 200 Dingli residents have signed a Moviment Graffitti petition against the building of a road on ODZ farmland.  The petition was announced after three Dingli residents on Wednesday filed a judicial protest against Moviment Gr...

Those who argue that corruption is endemic in politics are probably right. But the concept of state capture is relatively new. It probably started when former soviet countries began to privatise their state-owned enterprises at the e...

As I stood behind the law courts on Saturday, watching two police vans driving out, first, Brian Tonna and Karl Cini and,  then, Keith Schembri and all the wretched company that went along with him, all I could feel was a sense of d...

Even as Joseph Muscat accuses his political opponents of envy of his electoral results, he morphs into Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri. And that is bad for all of us. This week, the Nationalist Party stated, after the arrests of the ...

British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca on Wednesday revised down by three percentage points the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine after American authorities raised concerns that results reported from its US trial were outdated.  ...

The following are the main stories in Thursday’s newspapers. Times of Malta says Minister Carmelo Abela on Wednesday denied any involvement in a bank heist that occurred more than a decade ago, describing any links to him as “sto...

A judge has heavily criticised the abuse of the legal system to unnecessarily lengthen court proceedings. “This court cannot fail to observe, with great disappointment, how, in recent years, constitutional proceedings have been rep...

Obituary GRECH. On March 23, at Mater Dei Hospital, DANIEL, of Salina, residing in Mosta, aged 56, went to meet the Risen Lord, comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife, Nadya, his sons Ryan and his...

Bernard Grech’s shocking statement I was literally shocked to hear Bernard Grech  state publicly that he would be ready to grant another pardon to Vince Muscat, il-Koħħu, one of the three ‘hitmen’ who brutally murdered Daphn...

The Nicola from Al Khums to Izmir, the Jaguar from Naples to Tunis, the Contship Cub from Trapani to Sfax (all CMA CGM Malta Agency Ltd), the Sealand Washington from Barcelona to Gioia Tauro (also Thomas Smith and Co. Ltd), the Jolly...

The Sannat parish community recently made a blood donation at the Xewkija blood donation centre. The donation is held annually during Lent, when parishioners are urged to donate blood as an act of charity. The participants managed to...

Pernille Harder scored what turned out to be the winner against her old side as Chelsea beat Wolfsburg 2-1 in the first leg of their Women’s Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday, while Wendie Renard’s late penalty gave hol...

The Netherlands slumped to a dramatic 4-2 defeat by Turkey in their opening 2022 World Cup qualifier on Wednesday, while reigning champions France were held by Ukraine despite a brilliant Antoine Griezmann goal and Belgium came from ...