After a brief absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of consultants from Frank Salt Real Estate recently returned from ‘A Place in the Sun’, an exhibition held at the London Olympia.  The exhibition was attended by letting...

Libyan Mohamed Abderraouf put a foot on his board and launched himself across Tripoli’s first skatepark, a welcome break in the conflict-battered capital with few facilities for bored young people. “I can’t describe the joy,”...

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un has threatened Seoul with fiery destruction, but as a remote graveyard on a resort island shows, he has closer links to the South than he might like to admit. At a cemetery in a hard-to-find corner of...

May 29, 1972 saw the founding of sovereign Malta’s first-ever Maltese-run and Maltese-commanded military flying unit. The unit in question was of ‘flight’ strength and was designated ‘The Helicopter Flight’. This year, ther...

Real Madrid’s France star Karim Benzema deserves to win the Ballon d’Or, according to seven-time laureate Lionel Messi. Benzema was crucial in Madrid’s Champions League victory this season, culminating with a 1-0 win over Live...

Although normalising at lower levels from previous months, annual growth in business activity remains above its long-term average, according to the Central Banks business conditions index for April. This was one of the main points ma...

An elderly man from San Ġwann is fighting for his life after falling from a height while feeding animals on Monday afternoon. The police said the accident happened at a house in Triq Birkirkara, San Ġwann at 4.20pm. They said the 8...

Four men were injured during a fight in Paceville in which a sword and glass objects were used early on Tuesday. The police said the fight took place in Triq San Ġorġ at 4.15am. A 36-year-old Libyan, a 24-year-old Iranian, a 28-yea...

British tennis player Andy Murray said that last week’s Texas school shooting which left 19 children and two teachers dead made him “angry” and was “unbelievably upsetting”. Murray was an eight-year pupil at a school in Dun...

Music has helped Keith LaMar survive the mind-numbing sameness of nearly 30 years on death row in a maximum-security prison in the US state of Ohio. Now he hopes his love and involvement in jazz – along with the intervention of mus...

Simonds Farsons Cisk plc has reported a profit before tax of €12.2 million in its financial results for year ended January 31, 2022.  This reflects an increase of €7.7 million over the previous year. Group turnover amounted to �...

Sliema Wanderers are closing in on appointing Paul Zammit as their new first-team coach, the Times of Malta can confirm. The Wanderers have been in search of a new first-team coach since the end of the season, which saw them lose t...

At 39, Marlon Apap suffered a stroke after 15 years of using drugs, leaving the left side of his body paralysed. Five years later, he has bagged two gold medals at the Special Olympics games.  Drugs have become his worst enemy, he t...

French officials on Monday continued their centuries-long battle to preserve the purity of the language, overhauling the rules on using English video game jargon. While some expressions find obvious translations - "pro-gamer" becomes...

Atlas Insurance once again sponsored the Digital Marketing Innovation Award at this year’s edition of the JAYE (Junior Achievement Young Enterprise) Awards Night held on May 14. The award was presented to Easybeads, who provided cu...

Nepali rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all 22 people from a plane that crashed in the Himalayas, authorities said Tuesday as they began identifying the victims. "All bodies have now been found," Civil Aviation Authority spokesm...

Novak Djokovic renews his 16-year rivalry with Rafael Nadal at the French Open on Tuesday with a semi-final spot at stake and where victory for the world number one could end the 13-time champion’s Roland Garros career. Nadal, who ...

‘Grace’ is a lifelike robot nurse, built with artificial intelligence to bring emotional care for patients during the pandemic and make them feel comfortable and at ease. Artificial intelligence (AI), the self-didactic technology...

Smoke from a fireworks display set up on a road right next to an elderly care home triggered the fire alarm system in the facility over the weekend, jolting residents out of their beds. Police officers were seen at Dar l-Annunzjata i...

Leone Goes Pop is back with a bang… with a roof to be blown away and a house to be rocked to its core! The 13th edition ushers a new era for Leone Goes Pop with a revamped concept, a rethought composition and a redesigned spectacl...