Finance Minister Clyde Caruana has ruled out moving towards a four-day week “at this stage”.   Addressing the launch of a national employment strategy, Caruana said the government would be willing to discuss a four-day workweek ...

Josette Vella Schembri is one step closer to being tried for money laundering, with a court ruling on Monday that she has a case to answer for that crime. The court issued what is known as a prima facie decree against Vella Schembri,...

An independent inquiry into alleged sex abuse of minors by French Catholic priests, deacons and other clergy has found some 216,000 victims of paedophilia from 1950 to 2020, a "massive phenomenon" that was covered up for decades by a...

A man was arrested by the police in Marsa on Monday evening after he was found in possession of synthetic drugs. Marsa community officers on the beat in Triq il-Pitkali noted four people on stairs in conversation. One of them stood u...

A Facebook whistleblower goes before US lawmakers Tuesday to urge regulation of the social media giant, after an outage impacted potentially billions of users and highlighted global dependence on its services. Ex-employee Frances Hau...

The Malta netball Open National Team will be heading to Gibraltar this week to take part in the Netball Europe Open Challenge from Thursday to Sunday. This will be the next step in the Malta Netball Association’s plans to return to...

Asian markets tumbled on Tuesday, extending a global rout that saw Wall Street slump, as soaring oil prices put further upward pressure on inflation while a standoff in Washington over raising the country’s borrowing limit fuelled ...

After their Oscar-winning movie Free Solo, about a daredevil rock climber, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin found an even more remarkable true story for their next film – the rescue of a boys' soccer team from a Thai cave i...

Offshore companies are a lynchpin in the system used by leaders and the ultra-rich to hide assets that was exposed in the trove of leaked documents dubbed the "Pandora Papers". Some 11.9 million documents from financial services firm...

The world footballers’ union FIFPro attacked the “lack of holistic vision” of the game’s institutions, including FIFA’s proposal for a biennial World Cup, with its general secretary, saying the debates were prompted by “c...

Planting more trees is not a miracle solution to environmental degradation. Trees have unwittingly become the mascot of any cry against an unsavoury development. Be it a road-widening  exercise where some trees are uprooted (with or...

Labour MP Rosianne Cutajar said on Tuesday morning she was being substituted as member of the Council of Europe in line with her own request. Cutajar was taken off Malta's delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Eu...

The compact crossover segment really is about fit to burst, with nearly every mainstream manufacturer offering something in this market. Yet – just like how you can always make room for pudding – there’s space for more, with th...

A woman who has spent 15 years chasing her former partner to pay child support has appealed to the authorities to show humanity and enforce the court order against him. Elaine* feels like her life has been on hold for years due to la...

Paris Fashion Week wraps up Tuesday after nine days of innovative experiments that showed how the industry is embracing technology and new approaches for a post-pandemic future.  While many fashion houses stuck to online presentatio...

The Northern General from Rotterdam to Gebze, the APL Boston from Trieste to Port Said, the As Svenja from El Dekheila to Algiers, the MYNY from Singapore to Koper, the Atlantic Merchant from Naples to Annaba (all CMA CGM Malta Agenc...

As Desmond Tutu turns 90 on Thursday, he remains indisputably the moral voice of South Africa. But age is catching up with him. The jovial emeritus archbishop retired in 2010 and rarely speaks in public, in a country that sometimes f...

Breast surgery operating lists at Mater Dei Hospital are being doubled to maintain the target date of four weeks from diagnosis, the Health Ministry has said, following concerns about “unacceptable” delays for cancer patients. Th...

EU leaders will have a hard discussion on Europe's place in the world on Tuesday as they seek unity on how to approach ties with superpowers China and the US. The 27 heads of state and government are set to converge on Brdo Castle in...

For the third year running, Atlas Insurance is raising awareness of the importance of good mental health during the month of October. Taking a step back and reflecting about one’s personal mental well-being and that of others is on...