Police believe a woman murdered in Sliema on Sunday had no link to her killer.  The lead suspect in the crime is Abner George Aquilina, a 20-year-old from Żejtun.  Sources close to the homicide investigation said their working the...

A telecommunications cable linking Malta to Marseille and Egypt started being laid at Golden Bay on Monday morning. The cable is part of GO's €25 million National Connectivity Project. The project was announced in July and forms pa...

The police have suspended their interrogation of the suspect of Sunday morning's Sliema murder after he was referred to Mount Carmel mental hospital. The 20-year-old from Żejtun was arrested outside Balluta parish church shortly aft...

A man who entered North Korea on New Year's Day by breaching the heavily fortified border from the South is presumed to be a defector from the North, the defence ministry in Seoul said Monday. The man sparked a search operation by th...

A Slovak woman is in serious condition in hospital after two cars collided at Pieta' seafront early on Monday. The police said the crash, at 2.45am, involved a Fiat 500 driven by a Korean national, 40, resident in San Ġwann, and a T...

Watford refuted accusations from the Senegalese football federation (FSF) on Sunday of preventing forward Ismaila Sarr from playing in the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations. The FSF claimed Watford had displayed “disrespectful, pernic...

Even after a weekend in which Manchester City produced the worst performance of the Premier League’s top four, the champions streaked further clear towards a fourth title in five years. City manager Pep Guardiola admitted his side ...

Qatari Nasser al-Attiyah won the first special of the Dakar Rally on Sunday to extend his race lead after victory in the prologue. The 51-year-old, looking to win the race for the fourth time, finished the stage 12 minutes and seven ...

Just before last Christmas, The Sunday Times of Malta broke a story about a massive tract of agricultural land in Marsaxlokk which has been put up for sale, with the result that scores of farmers now risk eviction from the very farml...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Monday. The papers are dominated by the early morning murder in Sliema on Sunday, with Times of Malta reporting that a man was arrested after the body of the murdered woman w...

Our courts have, for decades, blindly applied the civil law concept of juridical interest or legal standing to public law actions, namely that plaintiff has to prove personal, actual interest in the subject matter of any litigation. ...

A mission in Georgia We, the Buhagiar family, from the second Neocatechumenal community of the parish of Mosta, have been living in Tbilisi, Georgia, with some of our children for the last 16 years. We would like to express our than...

From bullying, sexting, morality, to self-harm, ethics education presents an array of realities that the young generation encounter throughout their lives. Since 2014, ethics educators have been quietly working on our children’s cr...

The economic scenario as we begin 2022 has rarely been so opaque. Retail investors need to ask some tough questions for which there seem to be no clear-cut answers. The new normality is that financial markets today are characterised ...

Paulina Dembska has been identified as the 29-year-old woman who was murdered at Sliema's Independence Garden early on Sunday. Her lifeless body was found just below the popular promenade by a passer-by just before 6.30am. She had si...

 Thousands of protesters defied authorities and gathered in the Dutch capital Amsterdam on Sunday to oppose coronavirus restrictions, leading to clashes and 30 arrests. "This is Holland! Power to the people!" chanted one protester. ...

Few children get long COVID. Former Times of Malta journalist CYNTHIA CLARK is the mother of one of them. She spoke to Fiona Galea Debono. A mother has recounted how a ‘long COVID’ diagnosis for her daughter was welcome news afte...

The health authorities in Malta remain silent on the number of Omicron cases detected in recent days, despite the hundreds of new infections registered daily. Apart from one update just days before Christmas, when Health Minister Chr...

Obituaries ATTARD.  On January 2, EMMANUEL, at his residence in Guardamangia, aged 76, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn his great loss, his wife Ann, his children Corinne and her husba...

German industrial giants Siemens have defended their track record in the Electrogas consortium, insisting they always took “immediate action” to remove consortium directors implicated in wrongdoing outside of the power station ve...