Throughout history, engineers have sought to understand how structures work and how the forces within a structure move from where the loads are applied to the supports and foundations. This is called structural optimisation – using...

3D printing technology is mostly known for prototyping small parts using plastic and a printing technique known as power-bed. The assumption is that the products are weak and would degrade very quickly. However, 3D printing is and ca...

The curator of Katel Delia’s installation at Kamra ta’ Fuq spoke to me before I visited and told me to expect the unexpected. As I stepped in the dark ultraviolet-lit room, I was gobsmacked, humbled, in awe. A whole new reality w...

Joseph Bonanno was born on June 18, 1882, and nurtured in Senglea, a city which, since its foundation in 1554, had given birth to personalities who had made a name for themselves and enriched the prestige of their birthplace. He was ...

The team at the Zanzi Homes Head Office and Administration Hub have lit up the junction opposite their office in celebration of the festive season and the successes achieved throughout the past 12 months. The large tree found right b...

Santa Lucia FC are set to announce the appointment of a new sporting director at the club, the Times of Malta can reveal. Dutchman Jasper de Muijnck is set to arrive in Malta today to conclude negotiations with the Premier League s...

Juventus captain Giorgio Chiellini has tested positive for Covid-19, the Turin club announced on Saturday.  The defender had been in isolation at home after coming into contact with a positive case during the week, according to news...

When the idea first surfaced that English football should take a ‘COVID break’ over the festive season I thought it was a rather stupid plan. All I saw was potential to cause a chaotic pile-up of fixtures in 2022, a year that is ...

Last updated 9.24am The police have launched a murder investigation after a Polish woman, 29, was found dead in Ġnien Indipendenza in Sliema on Sunday morning. A Maltese man is under arrest on suspicion of being the aggressor, a pol...

Aaron Podesta and David Anastasi, racing on Elusive 2, emerged winners of the last competitive sailing race for 2021. Dubbed as one of the longest-standing regattas of the Royal Malta Yacht Club racing calendar, the Zhik Double Hande...

Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez on Saturday called for this weekend’s “decaffeinated” trip to Mallorca to be postponed due to a lack of fit squad members. Xavi said he will be without at least 17 players for Sunday’s La Liga g...

The new year brings with it the popular January sales. During this period, most sellers, both online and in-store, start promoting new discounts and offers to entice shoppers to spend more money. When consumers buy products at a disc...

Hardly anyone gets through life without being confronted at some point with the question: what will the future be like? In all the great classical religions, myths, fairy tales and legends and great world literature, there have alway...

At this time of the year, countless people, including myself, take stock of our lives and see what needs to be planted, tweaked, pruned or even entirely yanked. Of course, I will not bore you with my own list because who needs to rea...

CareMalta has unveiled its last Zaren Vassallo Art (ZVART) piece this year at Villa Messina – this time a pictorial relief by artist Antonio Mifsud, entitled Ageing is a Blessing. The work of art can be found in the home’s chapel...

Many of us are so absorbed in our own little world that we cannot see the bigger world around us, even if the media continuously feeds us images of deprivation and violence. We are products of an era of individualism, greed and selfi...

From the Pope’s message ‘Dialogue between generations, education and work’, marking World Peace Day celebrated on January 1: Paths to peace “I propose three paths for building a lasting peace. First, dialogue between generati...

How much the world achieved at the 2021 climate talks in Glasgow – and what happens now – depends in large part on where you live. In island nations that are losing their homes to sea level rise, and in other highly vulnerable co...

Epiphany Sunday. Today’s readings: Isaiah 60:1-6; Psalms 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13; Ephesians 3:2-6; Matthew 2: 1-12. In ‘Worship in a Violent World’, a public talk delivered twice in 2003, James Alison deconstructed false wors...

It’s been a surreal Christmas full of unease, shrouded in thinly veiled fear, wrapped in a big, red bow. If you reach out, you can just about touch the edges of dread with your fingertips. It’s like a child just being told that S...