The Premier League’s giants have again brushed off the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic ahead of the start of the new season on Friday with a four-team battle expected for the title. Reigning champions Manchester City h...

Fires burning for over a week that caused Greece's worst ecological disaster in decades were finally placed under control Friday, the fire department said. "As of yesterday, there is no major active front, just scattered pockets," a ...

Britney Spears’s father is to step down as conservator of her estate, US media reported on Thursday, seemingly ending a bitter legal battle with his daughter. Britney, 39, last month launched a bid to remove him from the controvers...

The 30-year-old prisoner who attempted suicide at the prison on Sunday afternoon was being followed by professionals and was not on suicide watch, the Correctional Services Agency said on Thursday. In reply to Times of Malta question...

It’s all change for the new Bundesliga campaign – which starts on Friday – with new coaches at each of last season’s top six clubs now joining the hunt to deny Bayern Munich a tenth straight league title. In a rare coincidenc...

Maltese champions Luxol St Andrews Futsal Club are undergoing their final preparations ahead of their European commitments in the Preliminary Round of the UEFA Futsal Champions League. Luxol St Andrews were drawn in Group A alongside...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said on Thursday it is the club’s job to make the fans excited for the new Premier League season despite not having the spending power of the favourites to win the title. The Gunners have failed to qual...

With the silly season reaching its peak this weekend, I thought it best not to dwell too much on issues that should be worrying us, like the greylisting of our country or the severe negative impact of the coronavirus on some segments...

Amazon on Friday dumped New Zealand as the location of its big-budget The Lord of The Rings series after just one season, in a major blow to the South Pacific's self-styled Middle Earth. Officials in Wellington had hoped multiple se...

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Six people, including the suspected gunman, died Thursday following a "serious firearms incident" in the southwestern English city of Plymouth, police said, with reports one victim was a child aged under 10. Devon and Cornwall Police...

Tens of thousands of people were urged to evacuate on Friday as "unprecedented" levels of torrential rain hit western Japan, raising the risk of floods and landslides, the weather agency said. The downpours are forecast to continue f...

Malta needs to start scaling back measures aimed at easing the economic impact of COVID-19 but must avoid “cliff effects” and plan for the future, assessors from the IMF have told the government.  A team from the International M...

The Għaqda tal-Malti at the University of Malta, in collaboration with the European Commission Representation in Malta, is organising a spelling bee in Maltese for children aged eight to 13. ŻanŻankelma 2021 will be divided into t...

Judging by recent polls, it looks like significant change in Malta’s politics is unlikely in the immediate future. The change that so many say is urgently required appears to be elusive. But this is by no means a fully accurate pic...

The headline is from the famous sleepwalking outburst scene in Macbeth by Shakespeare.  Consumed with guilt for assassinating King Duncan, Lady Macbeth suffers hallucinations of bloody spots on her hands. She rubs them to wash them ...

The following are the main stories in Friday's newspapers. Times of Malta says Malta will supply Libya with 40,000 COVID-19 vaccines and an unspecified number of test kits to help the war-ravaged North African country fight the pande...

Emirates, the premier partner and official airline of Expo 2020 Dubai, has launched an exclusive offer for customers to experience the excitement of the world expo, the largest-of-its-kind event in the region. Emirates customers visi...

On August 9, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its climate report in anticipation of the 26th Conference of Parties in Glasgow (COP26). This publication is also in support of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment ...

The United States and Britain ordered Friday the deployment of thousands of troops to Afghanistan to evacuate their nationals, as the Taliban overran more key regional cities in an offensive that has left the capital dangerously expo...