Steven Gerrard will be determined to give Liverpool a bloody nose on an emotional return to Anfield with Aston Villa on Saturday as the coronavirus once more casts a shadow over the Premier League. Former Liverpool midfielder Gerrard...

Carlo Ancelotti was adamant Real Madrid have not sewn up the La Liga title already but beat Atletico Madrid on Sunday and they might not be far away.  Madrid are 10 points clear of Atletico heading into the derby at the Santiago Ber...

Malta will form part of the International Maritime Organization’s 40-member council for the 13th consecutive term.  The country was confirmed as an IMO council member in an election held by the organisation’s 176-member assembly...

Farmers should be given the opportunity to buy their leased agricultural land through interest-free loans, the Nationalist Party has said. PN MP Ewin Vassallo said that if the party were in government, it would set up a national fund...

With the highly mutated omicron variant spreading rapidly, people want to know if immunity from vaccination or a prior infection will be enough to protect them against getting infected or developing severe disease. If prior immunity ...

Valhmor Camilleri The race for a top six berth in the BOV Premier League enters a decisive phase this weekend with the start of the second round that will define which teams will make it to the Championship Pool and battle for the Pr...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Saturday. Times of Malta leads with details of new mask-wearing rules that come into force today, and which require everyone over three to wear a mask while outdoors or in a publ...

A 45-year-old man died in a motorcycle crash on the Sliema promenade in the early hours of Saturday morning. The victim, who was an Italian man living in Gżira, crashed on Tower Road at around 3am. The police said it appeared the ma...

Malta’s high economic growth rates and money saved during the boom years have allowed the country to weather pandemic shocks and maintain its credit rating, German rating agency DBRS has said. DBRS said that while COVID-19 fiscal s...

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The government is currently proposing a law that decriminalises the use of cannabis for personal use and, over the last days, an official debate went through the second reading in parliament. The aim of the law is to do away with the...

The reform of laws on the recreational use of cannabis is not a moral issue. Neither is it too relevant whether one is liberal or conservative. This is an issue of civil liberties and public health combined. In this respect, the refo...

James Vella Clark will be the guest artist in ‘Meet the Artist’ series at Il-Ħaġar museum and cultural centre in Victoria on Monday at 11am. The event is in conjunction with Vella Clark’s Abstracts temporary exhibition open u...

Ombudsman and persons of trust I refer to the article ‘Ombudsman rejects claim he hires persons of trust’ featured (December 9). The story’s header contradicts the article’s content in as much as a ‘consultant’ is a ‘pe...

In 1970, before many of you were born, the singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell visited Maui, in Hawaii, and felt compelled to write a new song: “They paved paradise / And put up a parking lot / With a pink hotel, a boutique / And a swi...

Obituary MUSCAT. On December 10, at Apap Institute Sta Venera, GRACE née Gatt, aged 94, widow of Horace, of Kerċem, Gozo and residing in Sta. Venera, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn...

US prosecutors on Friday rested their case in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, with the defence now preparing to argue the British socialite did not recruit and sexually abuse girls with the late Jeffrey Epstein. The h...

Malta will dump 40 per cent more waste in landfills by 2030 if nothing is done to tackle the ever-increasing flow of domestic rubbish, a new government document has warned. In nine years’ time, the giant heap of black bags – equi...

The individual accolades continue to pour for Maltese sensation Haley Bugeja after she made the IFFHS Women’s U-20’s Best XI for the second consecutive year. Bugeja, 17, joins a list of promising talents in the 3-3-4 formation pu...

Two teenagers were sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for their role in the theft of 22 bicycles from the Italian team during the track world championships in Roubaix in October. The men convicted in a Lille court were identifie...