Wintertime in Malta will end at 2am on Sunday, the last Sunday of March. Clocks have to be moved forward one hour which means the day will become longer from Sunday.  Back in 2019, the European Parliament had voted to discontinue da...

At an American football stadium turned into a COVID-19 vaccination centre, a woman is positively giddy after getting her first shot. “I feel overjoyed,” Liana Loewus said as she stood next to a sign reading “Today we are offeri...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic made a winning return to international football with Sweden on Thursday after nearly five years away. Ibrahimovic set up Viktor Claesson’s 35th-minute winner at the Friends Arena just outside Stockholm in his 117...

The rate of inflation in the world’s leading economies, as well as in Malta, has now been very level for years. I have often commented in the past what may be some of the downside risks of inflation, and subsequently interest rates...

Malta Libraries’ latest publication, Cities, Harbours and Artefacts: Transformations of an Early Modern Landscape, includes five papers from eight public lectures delivered in 2018–2019 for the National Library of Malta’s Publi...

Melita Limited has started releasing a series of informational videos on 5G. The videos, which explain the background and benefits of this latest evolution in mobile telecommunications, are being published on the Help Centre of the M...

Keith Schembri and three others appear in court on Friday to face charges of corruption, money laundering, forgery and other crimes. Schembri served as chief of staff to prime minister Joseph Muscat from 2013 onwards, remaining in th...

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.

US actor Jessica Walter, best known to modern audiences as the acerbic grandmother of cult comedy Arrested Development, has died aged 80, her agent told AFP Thursday. The Emmy-winning actress appeared in dozens of TV shows and films ...

MeDirect, a digital bank delivering access to market-leading financial products, is expanding its product suite by launching their home loan product in the Maltese market. The launch of home loans is part of MeDirect Bank’s strate...

Germany will classify France as a high-risk zone for COVID-19, Chancellor Angela Merkel said, in a move that could see Berlin tighten border controls and require mandatory quarantine to enter the country.  The decision will come int...

Being a teenager preparing to launch into adulthood brings its own perks. The excitement of independence and following your dreams will most probably be at the forefront of your thoughts. Mainly deciding on a career, which let’s ad...

LGBTIQ activists and asylum seekers are starring in a documentary which for the first time gives LGBTIQ migrants a voice to tell their stories. “These migrants not only face racism from general society but also feel isolated from t...

An EU passport is one of the most coveted documents that many non-EU citizens aspire to. Ordinary people from third countries who have modest wealth find it challenging to qualify for EU citizenship. But non-European plutocrats find ...

This year, the commemoration of Our Lady of Sorrows, which in Malta we traditionally celebrate with great devotion on the Friday before Holy Week, has a much deeper and personal meaning for me than ever before. Because, this year, Ma...

The European Union warned Thursday that it will ban drugs firms from exporting coronavirus vaccines to the UK and other countries until they make good on their promised deliveries to the bloc. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen's stark wa...

The following are the main stories in Friday’s newspapers. Times of Malta says a police inspector on Thursday explained to court how the police had arrived at the same conclusion as a magisterial inquiry which had rubbished the cla...

Vincent Muscat, Il-Koħħu, is refusing to name the minister allegedly involved in the HSBC heist. It is Robert Abela who is to blame for Il-Koħħu’s reticence. In fact, it was Abela and his cabinet who gave Il-Koħħu the power t...

Atlas Healthcare Insurance Agency Ltd has recently been licensed by the MFSA to act as agent for IVALIFE Insurance Ltd, which is a new life insurance company equally owned by Atlas Insurance PCC Ltd, APS Bank plc, Gasan Mamo Insuranc...

Only 918 of the over 200,000 vaccine jabs received by Malta until last week had yet to find their way into arms or been kept aside for second doses, according to new data on the country’s COVID-19 vaccination drive. Figures tabled ...