Paolo Maldini will stay on as AC Milan’s technical director after signing a new two-year contract, the Serie A champions announced on Friday. Milan icon Maldini’s new deal means that the seven-time European champions will keep th...

“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes” – Arshile Gorky. There was a time when abstraction in art was, as Wassily Kandinsky conceived it, an expression of the spiritual, of that...

Sometimes I wonder if I inhabit the same island as many of my neighbours.  There appear to be at least four Gozos.  One is apparently charming: a tranquil, idyllic, gentle, relaxing, and ecologically unique jewel in Malta’s crown...

Protesters stormed Libya's parliament building in the eastern city of Tobruk late on Friday, demonstrating against deteriorating living conditions and political deadlock, Libyan media reported. Several television channels said that p...

Lewis Hamilton thanked his fans and promised to keep working in a bid to end his 10-race winless streak after winding up second behind Carlos Sainz in Friday’s wet and windy practice at the British Grand Prix. The seven-time champ...

Late on Friday, civil society group Occupy Justice left a number of suitcases outside the Attorney General's office in a symbolic demonstration after Yorgen Fenech's lawyers were acquitted of attempting to bribe a Times of Malta j...

The bicycle lane on the newly-restructured Mġarr road is dangerously narrow for bicycles and Infrastructure Malta will have to widen parts of it. The road that links Mġarr to Mosta has just had a major safety upgrade intended to av...

Italy defender Alessandro Florenzi, who was on loan from Roma to AC Milan last season, competed a permanent move to the Serie A champions, the two clubs announced on Friday. Milan said the 31-year-old had signed a contract to June 20...

Last Thursday BNF Bank plc announced the issuance of a new €15m unsecured subordinated bonds with a coupon of 4.5% and maturing in 2032 with a call option from the fifth anniversary onwards. The issuer will have an over-allotment o...

MUSIC Lewis Capaldi in concert Scottish singer-songwriter and musician Lewis Capaldi is today performing at the Granaries in Floriana, as part of his summer tour. Best known for such hits as Someone You Loved, Before You Go and B...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Saturday. Times of Malta leads with news that construction tycoon Charles Polidano was arrested on Friday morning and taken in for questioning over suspected money launderin...

The family of an 83-year-old man who went missing from St Vincent de Paul home for the elderly earlier this week believe their relative might be sheltering from the blistering heat in nearby fields. They have appealed to owners of la...

A new cross has been installed at the top of Għajnsielem old parish church on the occasion of the 133rd anniversary of the consecration of the church. The cross, manufactured voluntarily by Carmel Xuereb, of Għajnsielem, replaces a...

Last year, Malta failed its final exam. It was classified as a high-risk jurisdiction for money laundering. Malta faced increased monitoring. It was condemned to repeat the year with intensive coaching, monitoring and checks. Malta, ...

The government has nominated the current head of the Privatisation Unit as the new Planning Authority chair. Sources said Emanuel Camilleri, an accountant, was nominated after the government’s previous nominee, Anthony Borg, had to...

Political and business leaders frequently have to handle hot potatoes – sensitive situations or controversial issues that are difficult to handle and, as a result, get passed from one person to the next. The most favoured tactic of...

Growing a 100-year-old forest in 10 years I recently came across an article, carried in the Euro News Daily Bulletin, about Deema Assaf, a female Jordanian architect who deployed the Miyawaki method and succeeded in growing a 100-yea...

Obituary GATT.  On June 28, at Mater Dei Hospital, JOHN, of Sliema, widower of Rose née Dimech, aged 88, passed away peacefully to reunite with his dearest wife and daughter Moira, comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves t...

The recent conflict between the residents of Valletta and the owners of entertainment establishments is yet another case where the interests of common people are being trampled upon to promote those of a few irresponsible operators w...

The world is still not using one of its most effective weapons against COVID - properly ventilating public spaces - more than two years into the pandemic, experts warn. At the moment there is a "fragile, armed peace" with COVID-19, s...