Physician Jean Karl Soler is gaining traction after criticising the Maltese authorities’ approach to COVID-19. Mark Laurence Zammit asks why he is adopting a stand that is diametrically opposed to that of most of his colleagues. Yo...

Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman admitted Sunday he would “prefer to still have Lionel Messi” in his team. Koeman saw his Messi-less side start their Liga campaign with a 4-2 win over Real Sociedad, 10 days after the Argentina star ...

Bordeaux striker Samuel Kalu collapsed on the pitch in a French Ligue 1 game at Marseille on Sunday where temperatures hit a sweltering 30 degrees. The 23-year-old Nigerian international fainted and slumped to the Stade Velodrome sur...

The number of COVID-19 patients in hospital at the start of August was the highest since mid-April according to fresh data by the EU’s disease prevention agency. The update by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ...

These are not good times for control freaks. Business and political leaders are expected to control the organisational structures they are responsible for. Still, one only has to follow the media to understand how today uncertainty i...

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No one has been taken to court yet accused of the corruption which facilitated the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia 200 weeks ago today, rule of law groups said on Monday. Nor has anyone been arraigned yet for obstructing the ...

Lawrence Zammit’s article under this same heading (Times of Malta, July 30) prompts me to return to this topical subject following another article of mine (‘Crypto Malta and the FATF’, Times of Malta, July 28). Notwithstanding ...

Many wrongly interpret the biblical quote ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’ as some God-given right to avenge oneself. In fact, it is meant to ensure that, if there is to be punishment, it is equal to the offence. After...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Monday. Times of Malta reports that almost half of the Armed Forces of Malta’s officers are still awaiting redress for injustices they claim to have suffered over the years...

English history records that, in 1170, King Henry II, frustrated by opposition from Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, asked his court: “Will none of these lazy insignificant persons, whom I maintain, deliver me from this tro...

After two decades in Afghanistan, America's longest war was ending with the image of the United States in tatters. With the swift collapse Sunday of the government in Kabul, the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks that trigg...

A magistrate has been asked to investigate a husband’s alleged plot to have his wife killed. In documents filed in court on Friday, the woman claims to have discovered that her husband was planning to have her assassinated as the t...

It was a busy Thursday morning at the office when, at 11, we were all summoned into a boardroom. We were informed that we were to work remotely with immediate effect because the number of positive COVID cases was rising. As from that...

Obituaries CAVALLO. On August 14, at his residence, VICTOR, of Sliema, aged 90, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn her great loss, his wife Miriam nèe Zammit Gauci, his daughters Ann and...

The Taliban were in control of Afghanistan on Monday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and conceded the insurgents had won the 20-year war. The astonishingly quick collapse of the government, with militants taking over th...

The Atlantic Monaco from Sfax to Sfax, the Navios Spring from Rotterdam to Ambarli, the Marina from Sousse to Sousse, the Contship Cub from Trapani to Annaba, the CMA CGM Fort Ste Marie from Algiers to Mersin, the Wedellsborg from Rh...

Caroline and Winston Micallef moved back into their Guardamangia home last week, more than two years after they witnessed their house collapse before them in the dead of night. The tragic incident happened on April 24, 2019, just aft...

The annual celebration marking the birthday of St John Bosco is being held at the Don Bosco Oratory today. Mgr Carmelo Mercieca will lead a special Mass at the oratory’s chapel at 7pm. The Mass will be animated by Antonella, Valent...

Crocodile tears  Having witnessed so many crocodile tears being shed by PN exponents, both in parliament and in the media, after the publication of the public inquiry report on Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder, I thought of bringin...