Good morning and welcome to the Times of Malta transfer deadline day blog. The summer transfer window comes to an end today and the future of several football players such as Kylian Mbappe and Mauro Icardi will be decided today. Stay...

Moise Kean will be the final piece of Juventus’ post-Cristiano Ronaldo attack after the Italy forward completed his move from Everton on Tuesday. Kean, 21, returns to the club where he began his professional career as an academy ...

A 101-year-old driver has been given the chance to get behind the wheel of an electric vehicle, 90 years after his first driving experience. Born in 1920, Harold Baggott’s first driving experience came behind the wheel of a Ford Mo...

The entire board of Iceland’s football federation (KSI) has resigned after a woman accused it of covering up claims of alleged sexual assault by a national squad player. KSI chairman, Gudni Bergsson, already stepped down late Sunda...

Traders took a step back in Asian trade on Tuesday as they struggled to extend Wall Street’s rally, with sentiment jolted by data suggesting China’s economic recovery was slowed down by an outbreak of the fast-spreading Delta COV...

Fabio Spiteri will embark on another gruelling challenge as plans to cycle around Sicily non-stop in under 48 hours to collect funds for animal shelters in Malta and Sicily. In 2020, ultra-athlete Spiteri cycled around Sicily in two ...

You click on a link and the outline of a familiar news site appears on your screen. The article that loads makes some incredible claims, but something is not quite right. The website address, or URL, is very similar to that of the si...

At the G10 Meeting in Rome 1971, US Treasury Secretary John Connolly proclaimed to his (mainly European) counterparts: “The dollar is our currency, but it’s your problem.” President Joe Biden in 2021 might as well have expresse...

The European Union on Monday recommended that its member states reimpose travel restrictions on US tourists over rising COVID infections in the country. The European Council, which represents the bloc's 27 governments, said it was ta...

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A 54-year-old man had to be rushed to Mater Dei Hospital on Monday afternoon after he fell off a ladder at a house in Cospicua.  In a statement on Tuesday, the police said the accident, which happened at a house in Sur Santa Liena i...

Blitz Valletta is today holding an online public conversation between artist Adrian Paci, Amanda Means, trustee of the John Coplans Trust, and Blitz curator Sara Dolfi Agostini. The artist is currently participating in Gravity, a gro...

Melita Ltd has opened a new outlet in the centre of Paola. As with all other Melita outlets, the new premises features the latest technology and processes required to deliver the best possible customer experience while ensuring the s...

Simone Biles said on Monday the mental health concerns that led to her dramatic withdrawal from several events at the Tokyo Olympics had begun before she even arrived in Japan. The US gymnastics superstar caused a sensation at the Ol...

Defending champion Naomi Osaka stretched her Grand Slam win streak to 16 matches on Monday at the US Open while Greek third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas struggled past Andy Murray in five sets. Osaka, seeking her third US Open crown in fo...

Simon Schembri was one of the many in blue who, away from the limelight, day in day out, do their duty to protect society. The officer was unknown but became a national hero when he was almost killed and lost part of his arm when he ...

The Taliban joyously fired guns into the air and offered words of reconciliation on Tuesday, as they celebrated defeating the United States and returning to power after two decades of war that devastated Afghanistan. The last of 6,00...

The expression ‘fake news’ began to be widely used under the legislation of Donald Trump and it gave rise to what is known as the ‘post-truth’ era where what is sought for is not the reporting of objective facts but lies or h...

Recently, questions arose regarding the sentencing procedures applied by our courts. While such a discussion never ceases in the legal camp, the recent case of two Turkish mothers found travelling with falsified documents gave rise t...

These are the leading articles in today’s local newspapers. Times of Malta reports that Daphne Caruana Galizia murder suspect Yorgen Fenech and his associates have been charged with money laundering  The newspaper also reports how...