The deadline to use government vouchers has been extended to the end of October, as a quarter of vouchers have not yet been utilised.  Vouchers were due to expire on September 15 but that deadline has been extended to give people so...

Afghan pop star Aryana Sayeed recalls asking her fiance one thing as they snuck into Kabul's chaotic airport after the Taliban moved in: "Don't let them take me away alive". Aryana, who brags of 1.4 million Instagram followers and is...

Bayern Munich new signing Marcel Sabitzer is relishing returning to former club RB Leipzig on Saturday, but he expects a frosty reception on his debut for the Bundesliga champions. Leipzig finished runners-up to Bayern last season an...

Rosianne Cutajar has been given a second and final opportunity to answer breach of conduct accusations before the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly. Cutajar, who is one of three Maltese MPs to form part of the assembly, is...

A pedestrian in Birkirkara was grievously hurt when he was hit by a car on Friday evening, the police said on Saturday.  The victim, who is 56 years old and from Birkirkara, was on Triq il-Ferrovija when he was hit by a Toyota Racti...

A 70-year-old man had to be hospitalised on Friday evening after he was involved in a fight with a man 40 years his junior.  The senior citizen got into an argument with a 27-year-old man on Triq is-Santwarju, Żabbar at around 5.30...

The MSE Equity Total Return Index advanced by 0.1%, to end the second week of September at 8,149.008 points. Fourteen equities were active during this short trading week, in which overall turnover was less than €0.5m. Five equities...

A tornado hit the Sicilian island of Pantelleria on Friday, killing two people and seriously injuring four others, the civil protection agency said. The whirlwind "hit and overturned six cars", the agency said in a post on Facebook, ...

Cristiano Ronaldo will make an eagerly anticipated second debut for Manchester United on Saturday while Arsenal aim to get themselves off the foot of the Premier League table. Ronaldo made his name as a global star in six trophy-fill...

The state hospital has asked the private sector to help sterilise soiled surgical instruments in order to avoid postponing scheduled operations because of industrial action, according to Mater Dei Hospital’s chief executive Celia F...

 After Malta’s commitments in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, which included the historic 3-0 victory over Cyprus, the domestic league will resume this weekend with the derby between rivals Valletta and Floriana set to take centre ...

Brazilian football legend Pele remains in intensive care but is making a satisfactory recovery after undergoing surgery for a suspected colon tumor, his doctors said Friday. Pele’s medical team at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sa...

Novak Djokovic will play Daniil Medvedev to try and complete the first men’s singles calendar-year Grand Slam since 1969 after defeating Tokyo Olympic champion Alexander Zverev in Friday’s US Open semi-finals. Top-ranked Djokovic...

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Dennis Vella Baldacchino is to replace John Cachia as Commissioner for Mental Health, the government announced on Saturday. Vella Baldacchino currently serves as chief medical Officer within the Health Ministry – a post he has occu...

Parking is a commodity that, like most other commodities, is subject to the economic law of supply and demand. A small, densely populated country, which has an economic strategy that seeks further substantial growth, needs to manage ...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers on Saturday. Times of Malta leads with a report from court, where a man accused of shooting another in Iklin pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, saying he did so in self-defence. ...

The environment out there is in dire straits. Research and studies from the European Commission over these last years show that 92 per cent of the Maltese population is worried about climate change and its serious repercussions. The ...

Fully vaccinated people are 11 times less likely to die of COVID and 10 times less likely to be hospitalised compared to the unvaccinated since Delta became the most common variant, US health authorities said Friday.  The data came ...

Were you asked to vote in the latest opinion poll about whether Malta wants a channel tunnel? Nor was I, nor was anybody I know. So, join in this one. Let me start with an easy question: should people who never cross the channel be e...