Growing fears about the Federal Reserve’s plans to fight surging inflation by ramping up interest rates hit Asian markets again on Wednesday, following hefty sell-off on Wall Street, while oil prices extended their rally after a bl...

Rule of law group Repubblika has called on Police Commissioner Angelo Gafa' to charge a number of former Pilatus Bank officials, saying there is enough evidence of alleged money laundering to do so. Addressing a press conference outs...

Long uprooted from his native Iraq, Naseer Shamma, an icon of the Arabic oud, has returned home to help rekindle the flame of Iraqi music, snuffed out by decades of conflict. “When you are in your own country, you feel very high em...

A truck dragged down a tree branch that hit a car in traffic on Boffa Avenue, Paola, on Wednesday morning. The accident happened shortly before 8.45. A woman who was in the car, a Peugeot, was injured when the heavy branch crashed on...

The past seven years have been the hottest on record, the United Nations confirmed Wednesday, adding that 2021 temperatures remained high despite the cooling effect of the La Nina weather phenomenon. "The warmest seven years have all...

Gżira United continued with their transfer activity when they signed Toni Kolega, the Premier League side announced. The Maroons have been forced to delve into the market this month following the sudden departure of Brazilian Yuri M...

Mosta FC have decided to part ways with Serbian midfielder Ivan Doric, the Premier League club announced. The Serbian midfielder joined the Blues at the start of the season but in recent weeks he has struggled to keep a regular plac...

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel blamed fatigue for an alarming slump in form that continued with a 1-1 draw at Brighton on Tuesday. The European champions have won just one of their last seven Premier League games to realistically end ...

One TV’s plans to broadcast an interview with the mother of a murder victim still hang in the balance as the court weighs the public’s right to information against the right to a fair trial. “It’s a tightrope,” observed Mad...

Juventus made it through to the quarter-finals of the Italian Cup on Tuesday with a 4-1 win over managerless Sampdoria. Massimiliano Allegri’s side will take on either Sassuolo or Cagliari, who face each other on Wednesday, in the ...

While the cost of the disease has been high in both human and economic terms, the cost of its cure will be many times higher and that of its legacy incalculable. I am referring not to coronavirus, but to the political and social canc...

Spartak Trnava and AaB Aalborg made a winning start in the Tipsport Malta Cup 2022 that got under way at the National Stadium on Tuesday. Slovakian side Spartak Trnava needed two second half goals to overcome WSg Tirol, of Austria, ...

Obituaries  ARRIGO. On January 15, CARMEN née Vincenti, passed away peacefully, comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She joins her beloved husband Ralph and leaves to mourn her loving children Robert and his wife Marina, Joanna, ...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Wednesday. The front pages are dominated by the election of Roberta Metsola to the post of president of the European Parliament.  Times of Malta says Metsola has made histor...

Tongans raced Wednesday to clear a thick coat of ash from the main international runway to let in emergency aid, as the island nation faced a month of crippled international communications following a violent volcanic eruption and ts...

Psychotherapist MARIELLA DIMECH has just been appointed the first executive chair of the authority on cannabis. She tells Mark Laurence Zammit how she plans to stifle the black market and raise awareness on cannabis use. You were aga...

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For reasons that I needn’t explain, I found myself on the inaugural flight of Air Malta to Rome, getting on for half a century ago. I had never been to Rome, and I didn’t want to go, but fate took me there and my memory of it rem...

Proceedings for contempt of court are taken when a court order is ignored. Such behaviour is considered as lacking respect to the authority of the court and, ultimately, contrary to the public interest. Proceedings against the offend...

Prime Minister Robert Abela is either in denial or prefers to have his head firmly buried in the sand. “I can say this for sure, and this may be without precedent, that, during the past two years, we have not had one single episode...