President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russian forces in Ukraine were defending the Motherland from an "absolutely unacceptable threat," as he opened the annual parade marking victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. Putin told ...

Teenager Carlos Alcaraz continued his blazing rise by demolishing Alexander Zverev in the Madrid final on Sunday and then said “I really want to prove my level in a Grand Slam”. Two weeks before the start of the French Open, the ...

Luxol St Andrews clinched the Enemed Futsal Premier League after seeing off Valletta Futsal 6-0 in the second final of the play-offs. This was their seventh success in the club’s history with Gabriel Dobre’s troops who managed t...

Agriculture Minister Anton Refalo refused to explain the provenance of a British-era stone marker in the garden of his Qala house when questioned on Monday. He also refused to say whether he was questioned under caution when called i...

Manchester City showed no signs of a Champions League hangover on a weekend that could prove decisive in the battle for the Premier League title as they stretched their lead at the top of the table to three points. City demolished Ne...

513,979 passengers travelled through Malta Airport in April, marking a recovery of 78.7 per cent of pre-pandemic passenger numbers, MIA said on Monday. Seat load factor, at 77.8 per cent, was just 5.6 percentage points below pre-pand...

A rescue coordination centre in Bremen was forced to coordinate a rescue in Malta's search and rescue area after no help was forthcoming from the Maltese authorities, the operators of a migrant rescue ship have said. Sea-Eye said the...

A morning out hunting turned sour when a fight broke out over who had shot down a turtle dove.  The police are investigating how one hunter ended up requiring medical treatment for serious injuries after he was allegedly beaten up b...

The first Maltese mini-series to be streamed in the United States was inspired by an 1889 femicide that saw a young woman murdered by her jealous lover. Merjen, a dark story about a couple caught in a vicious cycle of jealousy and do...

As tourism picks up, hotel and restaurant operators are facing a daily struggle to man their establishments adequately amid a severe shortage of staff.  The hospitality industry has had a haemorrhaging of staff since the beginning o...

Millions of Filipinos thronged polling stations Monday to elect a new president, with the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos the favourite to win the high-stakes election. Nearly 40 years after the patriarch was deposed by a pop...

Increasing awareness among investors on sustainability issues influencing the running and operations of businesses and corporations has contributed to an upsurge of various responsible investment ideas. Nowadays, investors are presen...

In the last century and after two world wars, an air of optimism spread like wildfire, with politicians declaring that another global conflict was impossible because free trade would make all countries very interdependent. In the las...

The Dominican community of Valletta is holding a series of talks at St Dominic parish church to better understand the life and mission of the Church, with particular reference to the Synod of Bishops being held in Rome between 2021 a...

We have a vision for the EU’s higher education sector. And this vision can only come to life if students and teaching staff alike can move seamlessly from one university to another, from one member state to another, to get the best...

The following are Malta's top stories on Monday. Times of Malta reports that a man killed in a fight in Marsalforn late on Saturday had actually been trying to break it up.  It also quotes experts saying fewer jellyfish are expected...

An appeals court has thrown out a last-ditch attempt by the Marsaxlokk local council to prevent an 18th-century barumbara from being swallowed up by encroaching development.  The Barumbara ta’ Lambert is a unique structure with a ...

As someone who grew up in the 1990s, I belonged to one of the very last generations able to spend time playing outdoors with other neighbourhood kids. As opposed to playing Super Mario on a video game console or Candy Crush on a smar...

A man killed on Saturday night during a free-for-all fight inside a Marsalforn apartment was trying to break up the fight, police investigators believe. Investigations so far indicate that the man who paid the ultimate price was not ...

Obituary AGIUS. On May 6, at Villa Messina, Rabat, JOHN, aged 90, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife Vincenza, his children Hilary, Adrian and Kenneth, and their respect...