In May 1942, the Admiralty decided to send two simultaneous convoys to Malta, from both sides of the Mediterranean.  Both convoys were known under the code designation Operation Julius. Operation Julius began on the same day as the ...

Europe’s stock markets opened lower on Thursday as investors digested a sharp Federal Reserve interest rate hike to tackle soaring inflation, and before a widely-expected increase from the Bank of England. London’s benchmark FTSE...

Like every other sport, the game of football is starting to embrace new ways of technology that continue to revolutionise the Beautiful Game. While sports organisations like the National Basketball Association (USA’s chief basketb...

The Environment and Resources Authority has objected to a planning application that seeks to turn disused farmland into tourism accommodation. The proposal, PA/03071/22, by a company called AMJ Invest Limited, seeks to demolish two f...

It is half a century since Ziggy Stardust – a character that turned David Bowie into an intergalactic star and revolutionised sexual politics in the process – crashed onto Earth.  The London singer had spent a decade trying to r...

One of two men arrested over the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in the Brazilian Amazon confessed to having buried the pair in the jungle, federal police said Wednesday after human remains were found. ...

The Eurosport BSJ 5k Road Running Series made a welcome to the Mtarfa course, when the first race of the 2022 season kicked off on Tuesday.   The anticipated return of this off-season race attracted some of the best names in athlet...

The Australian Grand Prix will continue to be held in Melbourne until 2035 after race organisers announced a new 10-year agreement with Formula One on Thursday, beating off rival bids from Sydney and the Gold Coast. The race was firs...

When Russia sent troops into Ukraine in late February, Georgian lawmaker Aleko Elisashvili did not hesitate to rush to the country's defence, and within days was fighting in the battle for Irpin.  For the 44-year-old father-of-two, ...

Graziella Galea is considering standing for Nationalist Party deputy leader after being approached by “several people” to contest the post. The MP said she has not discounted a tilt at the job, which leader Bernard Grech has prev...

The Youth Football Association held its 2022 General Assembly on Friday, June 10 at the Centenary Hall, Ta’ Qali. Giving an overview of the projects undertaken by the association during season 2021-22, General Secretary Stephanie R...

The European Central Bank announced last week that it will raise interest rates twice in the next four months (July and September) to counteract the bout of inflation which has been aggravated by the war in Ukraine. In fact, consumer...

The findings of the second State of the Nation survey, discussed the other day in a conference organised by President George Vella, add more pixels to the bigger picture of the Maltese population. The results deserve to be well studi...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised Ukraine world-class weapons - from self-propelled howitzers to multiple launch rocket systems and an air defence shield capable of protecting a "large city" from Russian strikes.  But the s...

In a single interview, Joe Giglio, the Nationalist Party’s home affairs spokesman, declared he was content to be what he coyly called a “bishop” (for now) but somehow that didn’t stop him from issuing a papal bull, which was ...

The following are the main stories in Thursday’s newspapers. Times of Malta leads with Malta’s removal from the Financial Action Task Force grey list, one year after first being labelled an untrustworthy financial jurisdiction by...

In the bestseller Team of Rivals historian Doris Kearns Goodwin writes about Abraham Lincoln’s genius in rallying his fiercest rivals and opponents to be part of his cabinet in 1861. When asked by the editor of the Chicago Tribune ...

The popular app-based banking service Revolut is not accepting new clients from Malta for the moment, Times of Malta can reveal.  “We have temporarily paused onboarding for customers based in Malta. Anyone wishing to create an acc...

The ideal attorney general Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg I refer to the editorial ‘The AG is not fit for purpose’ (June 7), which called for Victoria Buttigieg’s resignation. Whether this suggestion is heeded is yet to be...

Obituaries GEORGALAKIS. On June 9, at her residence in Swieqi, JENNIFER ELIZABETH, née Carroll, aged 67, passed away peacefully. She is survived by her husband Michail, her children Alexander, Daniel and Sophia-Elena, her brother Jo...