The Labour Party has no intention of honouring promises made to protect people from lengthy court cases related to cannabis, a lobby group has warned. Cannabis advocacy group Releaf said that the PL’s electoral manifesto was a “r...

Julian Nagelsmann has put his Bayern Munich side on red alert for Saturday’s away trip to his former club Hoffenheim, who have a knack of upset home wins over the Bundesliga leaders. With nine league games left, Bayern start the we...

The Labour Party “agrees in principle” with forcing workers to join a union, according to its election manifesto. Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat had in 2018 encouraged a “discussion” about the proposal, which at the time...

Milan host Empoli on Saturday with a slender lead over their Serie A title rivals and a hoodoo to bust against the league’s lesser lights. Last weekend’s 1-0 win at Napoli allowed them to reclaim top spot and was another in a ser...

Volkswagen has tweaked its seven-seater Tiguan. TED WELFORD gets behind the wheel to see if it’s worth considering. The Tiguan has been a roaring success for Volkswagen since its introduction 15 years ago, and today it’s this Ger...

A former Labour minister has admitted that the party is corrupt but boasted that at least it has “gained something from it”. Joe Debono Grech, who served as a Labour MP for more than 50 years, used a Biblical allegory to drive hi...

Former prime minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici’s private collection of books and newspapers has recently been donated to the University of Malta Library. Arnold Cassola, who facilitated this donation, gives an overview of the collect...

Thomas Tuchel has vowed Chelsea will not be destroyed by the sanctions on Blues owner Roman Abramovich that plunged the European champions into turmoil before their 3-1 win at Norwich on Thursday. Abramovich was one of seven more oli...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Saturday. Times of Malta leads with news that a man accused of murdering his partner in Gozo has confessed to the crime while speaking to investigators, saying he suspected her o...

Russian forces inched towards Kyiv Saturday and pounded civilian areas in other Ukrainian cities as concerns grew over the besieged southern port of Mariupol, where officials said more than 1,500 people had been killed. Air raid sire...

France coach Fabien Galthie hailed his side’s heroic defensive effort after a gutsy 13-9 victory over Wales that kept alive dreams of a first Six Nations Grand Slam in 12 years. The only obstacle to France’s first championship cl...

During the past days, we have all been hearing about proposals that make you truly wonder how these can be financed since they all rest on a reduction in taxes or an increase of public expenditure. Moreover, some of these proposals s...

Obituaries MARTIN. On March 10, at St James Capua, Sliema, ROSE, née Pellegrini Petit, widow of Tony, aged 96, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn her loss her daughter Josette, widow of...

Plans for an interconnector and gas pipeline between Malta and Italy will do nothing to reduce dependency on Russia, according to former prime minister Joseph Muscat. In a Times of Malta opinion piece, Muscat says that while both pro...

Much has been and will continue to be said and written about the unjustified and illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine. Malta is right in standing with the international community, alongside our European partners, in taking the necessa...

 Lady Strickland The picture carried in Edwin Vassallo’s book on Lord Strickland is of Margaret, Lady Strickland, not of Mabel Strickland, as stated in the caption to the article on the donation of Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici’s colle...

As the war in Ukraine enters its third week, it is very clear that Russian President’s Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade his Slav neighbour has been a monumental miscalculation. Ukraine has put up a remarkably brave fight, most...

Having read the book by Pope Francis 'Let us dream. The path of better future' (Simon and Schuster UK Ltd- 2020), it struck me that, perhaps, the Holy Father had something to tell us Maltese too. “We are living in a time of trial�...

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Labour’s electoral programme is an ambitious blueprint for Malta’s future that will ensure justice and fairness become an intrinsic value, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Friday. Speaking at a Labour Party extraordinary gener...