An under-fire Australian minister who accepted an anonymous donation to sue public broadcaster ABC after it published rape allegations against him has resigned, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Sunday. The accusation that an u...

A new volume of the scientific journal Xjenza Online was released last month on its website. In an article by Rebecca-Maria Scerri and Joseph Borg entitled ‘Influence of desalination plant effluent on shore macroinvertebrate assemb...

A Nationalist MP who was tasked by the opposition with scrutinising public projects is behind costly designs to give the Balluta stairs a €450,000 facelift. MP Toni Bezzina, who quietly had the infrastructure part of his shadow por...

The medieval cathedral of the Civitas, as the Mdina Citadel was known at the time, was damaged by the earthquake that devastated southeastern Sicily in 1693. Although it is now thought that the damage was not severe enough to warrant...

Dr Schaer, the internationally renowned producer of gluten-free products based in Italy’s South Tyrol, has agreed to finance a three-year University of Malta study to determine the frequency of coeliac disease in the adult Maltese ...

The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra has just returned from its first international tour since the onset of the pandemic. Lara Zammit reports from Dubai. The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra performed at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai with a s...

Joseph Portelli keeps a very low profile but his name is very synonymous with the construction sector. He sits for an interview with Mark Laurence Zammit on top of the highest building in Malta, Mercury Towers, his most ambitous proj...

In her apartment in suburban Berlin, Regina Lehmann despairs at the letter from her landlord, a big real estate group: the rent is going up. Effective November 1, the increase of €12.34 on her monthly rent of €623.44 will be "dif...

It’s official. Nescafé Gold Blend 100g is Malta’s favourite jar of premium soluble coffee. To mark this milestone, and to thank the Maltese for their loyal custom, the Nescafé Gold Blend 100g jar now displays the Maltese mark o...

This scholastic year, the Junior Science Club, an after-school programme for pupils aged seven to 11, is being extended further and will be held in eight localities in collaboration with Naxxar, Żebbuġ, Pembroke, Żabbar, Marsaxlok...

Patrick Dalli is well-known for his pictorial exploration of the nude female body. Joseph Agius discusses with the artist his collection of paintings, currently exhibited at Mqabba’s Il-Kamra ta’ Fuq, titled Din hi li hi (It is w...

On the banks of the Seine in Paris, five minutes from the Louvre, stands the Samaritaine department store. The building was last renovated at a cost of 750 million euros. The interior is wood-paneled, there is a VIP area. The assortm...

Imagine a time when robots will rub shoulders with our children in the classroom. Well, that time has come. Tommy is the first humanoid to make it to Malta – one of three social robots brought over by the Centre for Literacy at the...

The business community firmly believes that Europe must look to the future, even as they still manage the impact of the last 18 months. The European Commission’s renewed commitment to the political  priorities set out before the p...

Antonia Schultheis and her sister Victoria Schultheis continued to battle to hold on to a top five position at the European Sailing Championships in Thessaloniki, Greece as the Maltese duo finished the day in fifth place, and still w...

There’s been an article burning at my fingertips for the past few weeks, but it was only after hearing a woman relate a beautiful yet traumatic experience about how invisible she was made to feel by society that the words started t...

Andrei Imbroll, founding shareholder and director of VBL plc, discusses the future of the Group and the upcoming listing on the Malta Stock Exchange. The VBL Group is well known for its strong connection to the capital. Why Valletta?...

The delayed 2020 Tokyo Games saw millions across the globe tune in to watch the action unfold, with athletes finally getting their chance to compete, break records and establish new personal bests. According to a University of Oxford...

Jurgen Klopp saluted Sadio Mane after the Senegal star’s 100th Liverpool goal inspired a 3-0 win against Crystal Palace that sent his side top of the Premier League on Saturday. Mane’s milestone strike came in his 224th appearanc...

Derby County manager Wayne Rooney said Saturday he was committed to the English second-tier club despite the financially-stricken side’s impending administration. The 35-year-old former Manchester United and England striker, in his...