Emma Muscat’s summer hit single Meglio di Sera, featuring Astol and the international Spanish singer-songwriter Alvaro de Luna, has been certified ‘gold’ by FIMI Italia. Muscat, the Maltese 21-year-old who featured and demonstr...

Embattled Chinese housing giant Evergrande said on Wednesday it had agreed a deal with domestic bondholders that should allow the conglomerate to avoid default on one of its interest payments. Financial markets have tumbled over fear...

Europe’s “Golden Shoe” winner Robert Lewandowski sent out a warning to defences around Europe on Tuesday when he likened himself to a ‘good wine’ that was still improving.  The Bayern Munich striker also offered warm prais...

"Merkel must go" was a common refrain at anti-migration demos in the run-up to Germany's last election in 2017, helping to propel the far right AfD into parliament as the largest opposition force. But with Chancellor Angela Merkel re...

A group of local architects and civil engineers have proposed planting more than 40,000 indigenous trees in Inwadar national park in the south of Malta, as part of a massive afforestation pitch they hope could be replicated elsewhere...

MEPs forming part of the Socialist & Democrat grouping in the European Parliament will be meeting in Malta next week. The S&D group will be holding its group meeting - United for a more social Europe, workshops and fact-finding missi...

A short film festival, featuring the works of filmmakers from the South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region, is taking place this week at Spazju Kreattiv as part of the ongoing Refraction collective exhibition and performances....

The Lotus Emira First Edition showcases the new model in one of its most potent forms.  It uses a supercharged 3.5-litre V7 engine with 397bhp, driven through a standard-fit six-speed manual gearbox or an optional six-speed automati...

Asian investors trod carefully on Wednesday but nerves appeared to be settled by news that troubled Chinese property giant Evergrande had agreed a plan to repay interest on one of its key bonds, for now avoiding a default that many f...

Mikel Arteta hailed Martin Odegaard’s leadership qualities on Tuesday after the Norway midfielder was instrumental in leading Arsenal’s recovery from a poor start to their Premier League campaign. Odegaard’s pin-point free-kick...

A German environmental group on Tuesday said it was suing car giants BMW and Daimler to force them to reduce emissions faster, following recent court victories for climate activists. The NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH) submitt...

A 41-year-old man was grievously injured on Tuesday following a fall at a construction site in Marsascala. The police said on Wednesday the man, who is from Santa Venera, fell from a height of around one storey in Triq Sir Paul Boffa...

Alfred Effiong is delighted to have finally opened his scoring account for his new club Sirens FC last weekend in a 3-1 win over Sta Lucia FC at the Hibs Stadium. The former Malta striker put his name on the scoresheet for his new em...

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Willie Garson, the actor who played the role of Carrie Bradshaw’s friend, Stanford Blatch, in the popular HBO TV series Sex and the City, has died, aged 57. Among other roles in other TV series, he also played the part of Mozzie in...

Brazil's Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday after attending the UN General Assembly in New York that was inaugurated by his president, Jair Bolsonaro, according to an official statement. "The other ...

Under the management of Hili Company’s Mariner Adriatic, Durres Container Terminal (DCT) in Albania is the first container terminal in the world to go live with the Navis N4Saas terminal operating system (TOS), Navis’s cloud-base...

What is Malta’s R-factor at the moment? – Charles Azzopardi The R-factor at the moment is around 0.9 and has been oscillating between 0.9 and 1.0 for the past few days. There had been a small rise to 1.1 over the latter half of A...

The following are the main stories in Wednesday’s newspapers. Times of Malta leads with the Archbishop’s homily on Independence Day during which he says that greed for money and power is spreading like a disease and manifesting i...

AC Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan on Tuesday blasted those who racially abused him before his team’s 1-1 draw at Juventus at the weekend and the football authorities’ attempts at tackling the problem, saying that he was “black a...