Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel said his team need a “fantastic script” to overturn a two-goal deficit against Real Madrid on Tuesday and qualify for the Champions League semi-finals. Reigning European champions Chelsea have been d...

Carlo Ancelotti said on Monday Real Madrid will not under-estimate Chelsea in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final and dismissed Thomas Tuchel’s suggestion the tie is over. After Madrid’s 3-1 victory against the...

Independent election candidate Arnold Cassola has ripped into the gender quota mechanism, pointing out how some women will get co-opted to parliament with a lower number of votes than women who were not candidates of the PN or the PL...

Malta women’s coach Mark Gatt could not have asked for anything better from his players when they hosted the 2017 UEFA Women’s Euro runners-up Denmark, last Friday. The Maltese team, ranked 79 places below the Scandinavian side, ...

It was all hugs and cheers at the Naxxar counting hall as the Nationalist Party elected seven new MPs in the casual elections, a month after its electoral drubbing. Former Labour Rabat mayor Charles Azzopardi, who switched political ...

 Updated at 10.35 am with Azzopardi's reaction.  Former MP Jason Azzopardi on Tuesday said his time with the Nationalist Party has come to an end after being left "deliberately isolated".  The firebrand politician missed out on a ...

Most Asian markets opened lower on Tuesday, after a weak lead from Wall Street and with eyes on key US inflation data later in the day. Tokyo was down more than one per cent, while Hong Kong dipped slightly into the red. There were s...

Bayern Munich will look to “punish” Villarreal for their missed chances in the first leg and produce a “brilliant” display in the return at home on Tuesday to turn around their Champions League quarter-final. By their own adm...

Constantly updated Frontbenchers Karol Aquilina and Carm Mifsud Bonnici have been re-elected to parliament in casual elections among PN candidates while fellow shadow minister Jason Azzopardi has failed to make it.  Also elected wer...

Mario Muscat said that Mosta’s victory over Balzan was massive as the Blues step up their fight to retain their top-flight status for another season. Last Saturday, the Blues found themselves in a pickle when they trailed Balzan 1...

A Palestinian stabbed a police officer with a kitchen knife before he was shot dead in the Israeli port city of Ashkelon on Tuesday, police said.  Police said an officer began checking a person who aroused his suspicion when "the at...

The traditional Holy Week exhibitions are returning this year. Here are some of the displays being held in various localities. Birkirkara The St Joseph the Worker Exhibitions Society is presenting the 22nd edition of its annual Good ...

Caffe Moak Luxol         54 Starlites Naxxar           48 (13-15, 8-13, 16-9, 17-11) Caffe Moak Luxol and Starlites Naxxar faced each other in game two of the play-off semifinal series after that Luxol had taken a 1...

The Los Angeles Lakers sacked head coach Frank Vogel on Monday, saying a change of leadership was needed after the club’s shock failure to reach the playoffs. Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka confirmed Vogel’s dismissal in a st...

Russia is poised to take the strategic city of Mariupol and unleash a massive offensive in eastern Ukraine, as fresh diplomatic efforts with Moscow to broker a peace offer little hope of de-escalation. With the war grinding toward it...

ECB monetary operations On April 4, the European Central Bank announced the seven-day main refinancing operation (MRO). The operation was conducted on April 5 and attracted bids from euro area eligible counterparties of €408 millio...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Tuesday. Times of Malta, the Malta Independent and In-Nazzjon lead with confirmation, from DNA tests, that a badly decomposed body found in the boot of a locked car last week...

Anġlu Farrugia is keen to carry on as parliament’s speaker as a new parliamentary term is set to begin. Speculation has started to grow about his possible replacements, with Labour MP Michael Farrugia being touted as one potential...

Five-and-a-half minutes into the video of his single Garden of Remembrance, Fish is filmed sitting on a chair with tears streaming down his face, before the hands of a woman caress his shoulder. Those few emotional seconds – which ...

The stench of war crimes is once more in the air with devastating human consequences. The names of Mariupol, Bucha and Kherson now join those of Aleppo, Idlib, Bagram, Abu Ghraib. Crimes we primarily associate with post-1945 have bee...