Most Asian markets rose on Thursday following another strong Wall Street lead as positive earnings continued to smother inflation and taper worries, while Hong Kong fluctuated and Evergrande tumbled with the property giant resuming t...

Racism will be firmly in the spotlight when Sparta Prague face Lyon in the Europa League on Thursday, two months after UEFA ordered the Czech club to play behind closed doors over racist chants. During a Champions League qualifier in...

The Yachting Malta Coastal Race found its start on Wednesday morning. A total of 42 teams entered the race representing 17 countries. Royal Malta Yacht Club Principal Race Officer, Peter Dimech, sent the competitors on a course of ap...

Australian authorities on Thursday offered Aus$1 million (€640,000) for information leading to the discovery of a missing four-year-old girl feared abducted from a remote campsite last weekend. Cleo Smith disappeared from her famil...

Visitors to Joseph The Silent Witness exhibition, inaugurated by Gozo Bishop Anton Teuma at Il-Ħaġar museum, in Victoria, on the occasion of the special Year of St Joseph, can get a special publication complementing the event. The ...

The Customs Department confiscated 389,900 cigarettes with a market value of  €11,359 between January and September, it said on Thursday. The endangered taxes of the lot amounted to €65,430 in excise duty, €14,868 in value add...

Canadian pianist Bruce Xiaoyu Liu was awarded first prize in the Chopin piano competition in Warsaw on Thursday, clinching one of the world's most prestigious music awards. "Being able to play Chopin in Warsaw is one of the best thin...

Cristiano Ronaldo’s second coming at Manchester United has already produced two memorable moments with late winners against Villarreal and Atalanta to edge the Red Devils towards the last 16 of the Champions League. However, Ronald...

As rich people have a greater carbon footprint than the poor they should pay more tax to compensate, says a study by the World Inequality Lab (WIL) published ahead of the upcoming COP26 climate conference in Glasgow. With carbon emis...

A fiscal watchdog has struck a cautious tone on the government’s economic projections for next year, saying the outlook remains “very sensitive” to the assumptions being made by the finance ministry. In its annual assessment of...

Ultimately, politics comes down to making it possible for each person in society to reach their full potential, to live a comfortable life. We often speak about equality, that each person, no matter their gender, race, sexual orienta...

On October 11, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana delivered the 2022 Budget speech in Parliament. As in most years, while many journalists and Maltese citizens focused on the Budget measures being introduced, not much attention was given...

A gas explosion at a restaurant ripped through a busy street in a major Chinese city on Thursday, killing at least one person and injuring dozens, state media reported. Dramatic footage shared by state-run People's Daily on social me...

Obituaries GRECH. On September 11, in the UK, CHARLIE, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn him, his wife, two daughters, son-in-law and his grandson. Other relatives and friends. Charlie i...

Highly suspicious Intelligent and unbiased persons are asking: “Why is the Labour Party, which kicked out Konrad Mizzi, now so hell-bent on building such a massive defensive wall around him?” Very suspicious, isn’t it? Carmel S...

A 159-kilometre pipeline to transport natural gas and, eventually, hydrogen, between Malta and Gela, in Sicily has been given the green light by the Planning Authority.  The planning permit forsees a measure of land reclamation to b...

The following are the main stories in Thursday’s newspapers. Times of Malta says the Planning Authority has approved the construction of a natural gas pipeline between Malta and Sicily designed to also transport hydrogen. In anothe...

This year’s budget is a peculiar creature. It promises that 2022 will be Year One of Malta’s transformation into a country worthy of our children. But its assumptions aren’t worthy of our intelligence. It treats the children’...

Elections are just around the corner. Whether in a few months or even a few weeks’ time, the electorate will choose the party to lead the country for the next five years. The right choice, though, can only be made after the parties...

The month of October is annually dedicated to the missions. The month starts with the feast of St Therese of Lisieux, the patron of missions, which falls on October 1, while the penultimate Sunday is World Mission Sunday. The me...