The United Arab Emirates opened an embassy in Israel Wednesday, housed in Tel Aviv's new stock exchange building, in the latest normalisation move under a deal brokered by Washington last year.  The venue in the heart of Israel's fi...

Bride-to-be Frederique Dimech is settling last-minute preparations for her wedding, yet one important person is missing – her fiancé. “The venue, the photographer and the catering are booked, my dress and the bridesmaids’ outf...

China’s regulatory authorities have sent shockwaves through financial markets last week with plans to tighten restrictions on Chinese companies listed in the US, which are overwhelmingly technology companies. This so called Chinese...

Disney+’s Star Wars series The Mandalorian on Tuesday tied for the most Emmy nominations with Netflix royal drama The Crown at 24, as the Mouse House stormed television’s version of the Oscars. Disney’s new streaming service, i...

An ocean liner on a “cruise to nowhere” was forced to make an earlier-than-scheduled return to Singapore Wednesday after a coronavirus case was detected on board, reports said. The cruises - starting and ending in Singapore, with...

Do the vaccines work against the different COVID-19 variants? – Francesca Mallia Based on studies, the vaccines authorised in the EU provide protection against variants circulating in the EU, including the alpha (UK B.1.1.7) and th...

Spazju Kreattiv is showing the award-winning Danish film Another Round, starring Mads Mikkelsen. The film looks into an obscure philosophical theory that humans should have been born with a small amount of alcohol in their blood and ...

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.

Boris Johnson condemned the horrific racist abuse on social media directed at a number of England players after their defeat to Italy in the Euro 2020 final. He called it “appalling” and said the England team deserve to be lauded...

The Citroen C3 Aircross was introduced in 2017 as one of the firm’s ‘new generation’ SUVs, replacing the C3 Picasso, whose slightly awkward MPV stylings are now long out of fashion. The Aircross was pitched as having MPV practi...

Seventeen people have died in the collapse of a budget hotel in eastern China as state media on Wednesday announced the end of search and recovery efforts. Six others were earlier rescued from the rubble of the Siji Kaiyuan hotel, wh...

Once England’s hangover subsides after their heartbreaking Euro 2020 final defeat against Italy, Gareth Southgate’s side can look forward to a bright future thanks to a prescient plan put in place by the Football Association. Den...

Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford could be sidelined for up to three months after deciding to have surgery on a shoulder issue following Euro 2020, according to reports on Tuesday. Rashford, 23, had a scan earlier in the day ...

With philanthropy, health and well-being forming a strong part of its social responsibility efforts, BNF Bank is committed to being of service to the community’s social progress and pledges its support by funding local, non-profit ...

Language schools reiterated early on Wednesday they have been unfairly singled out because of a unilateral decision taken by the highest authorities on how the tourist industry was opened last June. In a statement issued hours after ...

The EU unveils a plan Wednesday to meet its bold green pledge of carbon neutrality by 2050, at the risk of triggering an epic political clash over electric cars and fuel prices. The dozen draft legal texts are intended to transform t...

I take the precious liberty of pinching this headline from my colleague, Matthew Vella, whose piece, written just over 10 years ago, has come of age better than your average Petrus. It was 2011: the conservative lobby hailed fire and...

Lovin Malta founder Christian Peregin will be stepping down from the helm of the media organisation to join the Nationalist Party as its electoral campaign strategist.  A public announcement, shared with Times of Malta ahead of publ...

Obituaries ABELA. On July 12, at his residence in Tal-Ibraġ, LOUIS, aged 74, passed away peacefully. He leaves to mourn his loss his beloved wife May, his son Marcus and his wife Lorraine, his grandchildren Nicole and Jake, his sist...

The following are the main stories in Wednesday’s newspapers. Times of Malta says Malta has eased an outright ban on unvaccinated travellers entering the country, instead allowing them the option to undergo mandatory quarantine on ...