A judge tasked with deciding whether Yorgen Fenech should be given bail bought a 50-foot yacht from the murder suspect’s father George, documents show. In a social media post on Thursday, family members of assassinated journalist D...

Stefan Sultana has been appointed as the new Head Coach for Youth Development at Ħamrun Spartans Elite Academy, the Premier League club announced. Sultana has been working at the Spartans Academy for almost 20 years now and will now...

Winemaking could be seriously compromised by Malta’s looming desertification, which would also render freshwater swimming pools unviable and change the nature of gardening, the head of the university’s Biology Department has warn...

Videos of Taliban fighters parading in US-made armored vehicles, wielding US-supplied firearms and climbing on American Black Hawk helicopters after the defeat of Afghan government forces have embarrassed the White House. The Islamis...

Horse racing is one of the oldest sports in the world that dates back to ancient times. Due to the fast-paced action that provides a lot of excitement for viewers, it has grown in popularity over the years. Nowadays, horse racing is ...

Serie A has lost two of its biggest names this summer in Romelu Lukaku and Italy’s goalkeeping hero Gianluigi Donnarumma, but some exciting talent has been on the move to Italy’s top flight as the new season prepares to kick off....

Mid-August is often referred to as the ‘dog days’ of summer. The saying arises from the observation, first recorded in ancient Greece, of the arrival of Sirius – the dog star – which is a star brighter than the rest that make...

The death toll from a massive earthquake in Haiti has soared past 2,000 as relief workers warned of challenges to aid efforts five days after thousands of people were left homeless. The number of people killed in Saturday's devastati...

Malta is the only EU country that does not accept COVID recovery certificates for entry into the country, a review by Times of Malta has found. Since July, Europe has been using the EU Digital COVID Certificate (formerly called Digit...

Over the past two weeks, I provided highlights of the earnings of companies on the Malta Stock Exchange that published their interim financial statements. While the regulatory obligation in Malta is for equity issuers to publish thei...

Floriana FC are set to continue their heavy investment on Maltese talent as they reached an agreement to sign young forward Mattia Veselji. Veselji is one of the most talented forwards in Maltese football and has been a regular memb...

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Spazju Kreattiv is today screening the National Theatre’s West End production of David Hare’s Skylight.  Directed by Stephen Daldry (The Audience), the play stars popular British actors Bill Nighy (Love Actually, Notes on a Scan...

A woman who was hit by a car in Pembroke on Wednesday evening, was seriously injured, the police said on Thursday. The accident happened at 6pm when the woman, 49 was hit by a Nissan Qashqai in Burma Road. The car was being driven by...

Robert Abela had already expressed his wish to reform the national broadcaster in the run up to his election as Labour leader. In an interview on TVM itself, back in January 2020, Abela had hinted at “strings being pulled from behi...

In recent weeks, I was delighted to see my ministerial colleagues announcing or unveiling new open spaces within our communities across the island. Projects such as that of Wied Fulija, which has been given a new lease of life, the p...

New Zealand reported a breakthrough Thursday in tracing the source of a Covid-19 outbreak that plunged the nation into lockdown, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying it should help "stamp out" the virus. Health officials have be...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers Times of Malta leads with revelations in court that Yorgen Fenech had purchased grenades, pistols and poison from the dark web.  It also reports that COVID-19 cases traced to t...

Maltese waters are experiencing the longest marine heatwave on record, according to a professor of geosciences. Marine heatwaves occur when warmer sea temperatures above the climatological average persist for more than five consecuti...

Half the army awaits justice for individual grievances – despite the conclusion of procedures three years ago. Not to worry, a general election will resolve everything overnight. Thank goodness there’s one coming, probably as soo...