This week, International Hotel Investments plc published a pros­pectus in connection with an €80m 10-year bond issue at an interest rate of 3.65 per cent per annum. This is the joint largest-ever local corporate bond together with...

The 42nd Rolex Middle Sea Race will be one for the books, a race to be remembered for several years to come. This is particularly for the smashed course record, which is likely to remain unchallenged for a few years and, the horrendo...

The man suspected of abducting a four-year-old Australian girl "acted alone", police said Thursday, as they released an audio recording of the touching moment she was rescued.   Cleo Smith disappeared from her family's tent in remot...

A 75-year-old woman was grievously injured on Thursday evening when she was hit by a car in San Ġwann. The police said the accident happened close to the Industrial Estate in St Julian’s Street at 7.20pm. The woman, who is from Ms...

Ford has revealed an application for its new electric ‘crate’ motor in a classic 1978 Ford F-100 pick-up.  Called the F-100 Eluminator, the truck – which was revealed at the SEMA show in Las Vegas – uses the same twin-motor ...

US authorities on Wednesday put the Israeli maker of the Pegasus spyware at the centre of a scandal over surveillance of journalists and officials on a blacklist of restricted companies. The company, NSO, was engulfed in controversy ...

South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut on Wednesday won the 2021 Booker Prize for The Promise, his third shortlisted novel which chronicles a family in his homeland from the late apartheid era through to Jacob Zuma's pres...

Sixteen per cent of Malta's groundwater volume is set to be lost in the next 80 years as a result of climate change, a study has found. The study was carried out by scientists from the Universities of Calabria and Malta. In Malta, it...

The late Sixties were a busy period for football in Malta. The era was full of events and good football but unfortunately, it was tainted with violence and the sour smell of corruption. Competitions followed each other with such freq...

A month ago, Cuban artist Hamlet Lavastida was forced into exile by the communist government, which he accuses of being afraid of those that speak out in defence of freedom. Lavastida is one of dozens of dissidents and opponents - in...

The lifts servicing a number of footbridges crossing busy roads, such as the Marsa junction and the Mrieħel bypass, are regularly out of order to the inconvenience of cyclists and pedestrians. Infrastructure Malta, responsible for t...

Xavi Hernandez said on Wednesday he was “looking forward to going home” and hopes Barcelona can reach an agreement with Al Sadd in “a matter of hours, maybe days” to secure his return to the club as coach. Xavi is Barca’s f...

Britain's Brexit minister is due in Paris Thursday for talks on the fishing rights crisis that has further strained already tense relations between the two countries. The meeting comes a day after a French court released a British tr...

Thales of Miletus (circa 620-546 BC) believed the origin of everything was water. The sciences have long since moved on but our speech still draws on images of water to describe our inner and outer worlds. Some people are deep, other...

Obituaries FARRUGIA. On November 1, at Mater Dei Hospital, ANDREW of Birkirkara, former Honorary President of St Patricks Past Pupils and Friends of Don Bosco, widower of Ines, aged 93, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites o...

Malta’s major film-makers intend to boycott the first edition of the Malta Film Awards in protest at the amount of money being spent on the one-night event in comparison with the country’s annual film fund. The awards are set to ...

The following are the main stories in Thursday’s newspapers. Times of Malta says Konrad Mizzi finally appeared before a parliamentary committee on Wednesday afternoon to answer questions about the Electrogas power station deal but ...

This week’s COP26 summit in Glasgow represents a vital opportunity to set out a clear path towards a zero-carbon world. Eliminating carbon emissions is the only way to stave off catastrophic climate change. The window for this tran...

Unfinished road job The elaborate Wied Inċita junction in Attard, where the Central Link merges with the Rabat Road, is nearing completion. The surfaces have been asphalted, road markings are in place, traffic lights to manage this...

All three eminent gentlemen who have occupied the post of ombudsman since it was unanimously set up by parliament 26 years ago have crossed swords with the government. Former Nationalist prime minister Eddie Fenech Adami had accused ...