Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel says player safety is at risk after his side were made to play their Premier League game against Wolverhampton Wanders on Sunday despite a COVID-19 outbreak. Tuchel’s side had a request for the fixture to...

A teacher has filed a judicial protest against the health authorities, holding them responsible for weakness and pain in her left shoulder because a COVID-19 jab was wrongly administered. She is demanding that they pay damages. The w...

Asian stocks and oil prices sank on Monday on fears about a fresh global surge in coronavirus infections and as the future of US President Joe Biden’s massive social spending bill was thrown into doubt after it lost the crucial vot...

Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has denied alleging that a senior Communist Party leader sexually assaulted her and insisted she is living freely, in her first media interview since her accusations triggered concerns for her safety. H...

Servizzi Ewropej f’Malta (SEM) successfully applied for Norway Grants to implement a project aimed at improving social dialogue in Malta. The funds were used to conduct a comparative study on the Norwegian and Maltese models of soc...

Lawyers for Yorgen Fenech have expressed “serious doubts” as to what prompted the police commissioner’s 11th hour appeal last week to deny them access to data from a phone used by former chief of staff Keith Schembri. News abou...

A 27-year-old woman was seriously injured when she was hit by a car at Marfa Road, Għadira, on Sunday evening. The vehicle was a Peugeot 107 driven by a 33-year-old man from St Paul's Bay. The woman was hospitalised.  ...

Malta has become the first EU country to legalise the cultivation and personal use of cannabis. Equality Minister Owen Bonnici tells Claire Farrugia the authorities are determined to do a good job. CF: What does the cannabis reform m...

The music world is in mourning for Carlos Marín, the singer of the popular music group Il Divo who has died aged 53. The baritone had been performing with the band in the UK  but the tour was postponed when he fell ill on December ...

Little Drummer Boy.  See more work by Seb Tanti Burlò.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed the foreign minister to lead talks with Europe Sunday after the resignation of the Brexit minister sent shockwaves through the already troubled London administration. Foreign Secretary L...

It is the time when EU political and economic analysts look at their crystal balls to see what we should expect in the year ahead in the Union. The way that the COVID pandemic will evolve remains a mystery despite a range of forecast...

More than 50 years ago, US politician Robert F. Kennedy said: “Gross Domestic Product measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” GDP is a crude device that fails to measure the element that is deares...

The elderly have always been at the centre of policies drawn up by the Nationalist Party. These policies are based on the party’s belief that the elderly should be given all opportunities to remain as far as possible living an inde...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Monday. Times of Malta reports that Labour MP Ian Castaldi Paris has to pay some €300,000 in overdue taxes and penalties. It also reports that the EU is to get 20 million e...

In the last decade, Malta made modest progress on relative poverty and material deprivation but the country’s record on consumption and urban development offers a less encouraging picture, a report has concluded. The report by the ...

Obituaries CAUCHI. On December 18 at Mater Dei Hospital, CARMELO (known as Charles), aged 81, from Żebbuġ passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of the Catholic Church. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife Josephine, his dau...

Tourism authority staff repeatedly stayed in expensive Valletta hotels at taxpayers’ expense during entertainment events organised earlier this year. The Malta Tourism Authority confirmed that members of its staff had stayed at two...

A  pluralistic society is defined as “a diverse one, where the people in it believe all kinds of different things and tolerate each other’s beliefs even when they don’t match their own”.  We are all aware that when it comes...

Malta’s bond market Times of Malta readers, myself included, are generally grateful to Edward Rizzo for his regular updating of goings on in our equity and bond markets. And, last week, he did well to commemorate both the MSE’s 3...