The COVID-19 vaccine certificate is free and any requests you may receive for payment are fraudulent, health authorities have warned. The Health Ministry issued a notice on social media on Saturday morning to alert people to an onlin...

Labour should immediately start internal procedures to kick ex-leader Joseph Muscat out of the party, rule of law NGO Repubblika has demanded.  Addressing a press conference outside Labour PL’s HQ, Repubblika president Robert Aqui...

Mushrooming outbreaks of the highly contagious Delta variant prompted China and Australia to impose stricter COVID-19 restrictions on Saturday as the WHO urged the world to quickly contain the mutation before it turns into something ...

The MSE Equity Total Return Index (MSE) closed the week in the red, with a 0.6% decline to finish the week at 7,921.403 points. Price declines in Simonds Farsons Cisk plc (SFC) and HSBC Bank Malta plc (HSBC) shares dragged the index ...

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These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Saturday. Times of Malta leads with the Caruana Galizia family accepting the prime minister’s apology while saying they now expect accountability for all those identified as cu...

The Malta women’s U-18 will battle for a place in the final of the European Challengers tournament that is currently being held in Andorra. Sandro Farrugia’s girls will be up against Moldova in Saturday’s semi-final as they loo...

Spazju Kreattiv is hosting Emma Fsadni’s first large-scale solo exhibition. Conditioned Comforts shows the artist’s concerns with her generation’s state of being, enveloped as it is in 21st century soothing tools. Her interest ...

Simone Biles has pulled out of two more Olympic finals at the Tokyo Games, USA Gymnastics said in a statement on Saturday, with her entire campaign now in serious doubt. The 24-year-old gymnastics great came to Tokyo seeking five g...

Time cannot be saved in a bottle but some things, tangible or intangible, can. When they are, they usually make for a gripping narrative of aspects of life in the past that ‘progress’ or modern-day needs have made redundant or ki...

Britain won the mixed triathlon relay at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday as Jonny Brownlee finally earned a gold medal in his third Games. The British team of Brownlee, triathlon individual silver medallist Alex Yee, Jessica Learmonth...

In Malta, about 20 per cent of the adult population is, for one reason or another, reluctant to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Now that the contagion rate has shifted again upwards, the eyes of the rest of the country are on them. At thi...

Smallpox, with 30 per cent mortality, was caused by two virus variants. Edward Jenner discovered that immunity to smallpox could be induced by inoculation with cowpox, a mild disease, and this served as a natural vaccine from the 19t...

The Delta variant of the coronavirus is as contagious as chickenpox, probably causes more severe disease than past strains, and breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals may be as transmissible as unvaccinated cases, according to ...

In Memoriam CASOLANI – DAVID. Remem-bering my husband on the third anniversary of his passing, sweet memories with much love and great affection. Simone. CASOLANI – DAVID. Treasured memories of a dearest father and grandfather, t...

Five-year-old Francesco Grech, of Cospicua, was recently overwhelmed with joy when, together with his father Joseph and family friend Bro Luċiano Baldacchino ofm.cap, crossed over to Gozo to collect a statue of Our Lady Ta’ Pinu. ...

Two small boys will have to live in state care after their Turkish mothers were jailed for six months for travelling using forged documents. Neither of the boys, aged two and four, speak Maltese or English and a team from government ...

Malta in a league of shame Honest readers may think that Malta’s reputation for money-laundering is bad enough but now it has been linked with the funding of international terrorist activities and that should be too much even for t...

Young Joy Xerri has just launched a music video, entitled BE BRAVE, inspiring other children to fight abuse. The video was produced on Joy’s initiative and wish. Joy, 10, embarked on this project aiming to reach as many children as...

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