Polish forces detained a group of about 100 migrants who were attempting to cross the border from Belarus during the night, the defence ministry said on Thursday. The ministry said on Twitter that Belarusian forces had first carried ...

Ponte Ferries is finally embarking on its Malta-Sicily route more than three months after cancelling operations that had been scheduled to start on August 6. Ticket sales for its fast ferry, catamaran service to the port of Augusta o...

A controversial scheme that exempts people from paying tax on property transfers to set off arrears is temporary and aimed to help businesses during the pandemic, the Finance Ministry has said. Contacted amid calls for the scheme to ...

Quentin Tarantino is being sued by Miramax Studios over his plan to sell digital rights to parts of cult hit Pulp Fiction in the form of NFTs. The visionary director is auctioning script pages from seven scenes that did not make the ...

Before the war, football in Malta was organised in a haphazard manner. From the start of the league in 1910 up to 1921, the league consisted of only one division. The league was usually restricted to five or six teams and officially ...

Brands love to trade on their heritage. Highlighting classic models that potential buyers could have an emotional connection to from when they were younger is a great way to build brand appeal. Sometimes, though, it’s just a really...

Antoine Griezmann will miss Atletico Madrid’s Champions League group game against AC Milan next week as part of a two-match suspension from UEFA, a source close to the club has told AFP. Griezmann was sent off in Atletico’s 3-2 d...

In last week’s article, I provided an overview of the movements across major international equity markets since ‘vaccine Monday’ – i.e. the crucial day when Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their vaccine was more than 90% e...

Canada is sending the military to help evacuate and support communities hit by "catastrophic" flooding with the death toll expected to rise after record rainfall on the Pacific coast triggered a state of emergency Wednesday. Official...

Former Air Malta staff members are demanding compensation they say some of their colleagues received in arrears due to the national airline’s 2004-2011 wage freeze. Twenty-eight former employees, who have been “fighting for their...

The Malta International Contemporary Art Space (MICAS), in collaboration with the Valletta Cultural Agency (VCA) and Esplora Interactive Science Centre, is presenting the Shadow Colour Pavilion, an immersive sensorial experience, tak...

The boss of women's tennis has cast doubt on an email posted on China's media purportedly from tennis star Peng Shuai, saying it "only raises my concerns as to her safety." Steve Simon, chairman of the WTA, said in a statement that h...

The As Svenja from Algiers to Mersin, the As Freya from Thessaloniki to Misurata, the Contship Fun from Izmit to Izmir, the Nicola from Algiers to Benghazi (all CMA CGM Malta Agency Ltd), the Northern Javelin from Colombo to Gioia Ta...

The following are the main stories in Thursday’s newspapers. Times of Malta says former minister Konrad Mizzi has been admitted to hospital missing a parliamentary committee meeting that was to continue hearing his Electrogas testi...

A character in a Julian Barnes novel, having experimented with various positions from the Kama Sutra, concludes that, maybe, after all, the old missionaries knew a thing or two. In a similar vein, I’m well on my way to concluding t...

Breath-sniffing sensors and finger-scanning detectors are central to a landmark US safety mandate to fight drunk driving that is spurring tough questions about what technology can be trusted to do. The federal law, which will require...

The car industry has been one of the worst-hit by the shortage of microchips, which was only partially caused by the disruption of COVID. The turmoil in the global supply chain was also affected by the Fukushima earthquake and nuclea...

An increasing number of people with mental health problems are being forced to use the country’s food bank, raising concerns about their long-term welfare. “We are seeing more and more referrals from the mental health sector; ins...

Obituaries CLARKE. On November 17, at Casa Antonia Nursing Home, Balzan, ROSEMARY née Mifsud, passed away peacefully, at the venerable age of 97, comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn her sad loss, her only daug...

Danger on the pavement Elderly people are being forced to walk on the roads wherever new pavements are being built. The reasons are the dips and inclines in front of garages, introduced to accommodate garage owners. What is happening...