This is the seventh in a series of autobiographical short stories by author Rita Antoinette Borg, collectively titled A Funny Thing Happened to Me…. A funny thing happened to me one particular Saturday morning. As a young girl of 1...

Ħamrun Spartans will make their return to European football after an absence of 30 years when they face Armenian side Alashkert in the UEFA Conference League first qualifying round first leg tie in Yerevan on Thursday afternoon (kic...

A Commonwealth Games weightlifting champion and Olympian has become the first Covid-related death in the tiny Pacific island republic of Nauru, the world’s second smallest nation.  “Reanna Solomon, only 40 years of age, lost he...

Fans of the Upside Down rejoice: Netflix’s wildly popular Stranger Things is getting a spin-off series and a new stage play set within its creepy supernatural world, the streaming giant said Wednesday. The sci-fi horror following a...

Former Nationalist minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici has declared his opposition to the IVF law amendments, joining three other MPs who broke the party whip when they voted against the bill on Wednesday. Mifsud Bonnici said he could not ...

The Minnesota Timberwolves officially welcomed star French center Rudy Gobert on Wednesday, days after reports they had acquired the three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year from the Utah Jazz. The Timberwolves confirmed they had ...

Rafael Nadal conjured up a mesmerising five-set recovery from a potentially tournament-ending injury on Wednesday to reach an eighth Wimbledon semi-final, where he will take on Australian firebrand Nick Kyrgios. Second seed Nadal, th...

The turmoil across international financial markets which started off at the start of the year exac­­erbated further in the second quarter amid more evident and stronger signs that high inflation is far from a “temporary” or “...

ARTS FESTIVALS Victoria International Arts Festival Norwegian tenor Ian Marcus Bjørsvik will today give a vocal recital at the Aula Mgr G. Farrugia, where he will be accompanied by Serbian pianist Milica Lawrence. The programme feat...

Floriana FC will mark their return to European football when they host Moldovan side CS Petrocub, of Moldova in the first qualifying round from the UEFA Conference League this evening (kick-off: 19.00). A return to participation in ...

The trial in the case of the Genoa bridge that collapsed in 2018, killing 43 people, opens Thursday in Italy, involving 59 defendants prosecuted for manslaughter and undermining transport safety. The Morandi bridge, part of a key hig...

Malta international striker Ylenia Carabott is set for a new chapter in her career after she agreed to join Gillingham Women, the Times of Malta can confirm. Carabott was on the books of another National League club last season, Key...

Continuous updates UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to resign 'within hours' British media reported on Thursday morning, quoting senior Downing Street sources. "It's done, it's over, he's going," broadcaster Sky News said,...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Thursday. Times of Malta reports that two police officers are to face charges of involuntary homicide after a man died while under arrest when he suffered a seizure. His fami...

The heads of MI5 and the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned Wednesday about China's commercial espionage thrust in the West, in a rare joint address at the British intelligence service's London headquarters. Speaking to an audien...

Two police officers are to be charged with involuntary homicide, two years after the death of a man while under arrest at police headquarters.  Times of Malta has confirmed that Police Sergeant Karl Vella Cassia and Inspector Tracy ...

When confronting those who abuse power and exploit the poor, Fr John Caruana, affectionately known to us as Il-Bullu or Ġanni, was, true to his nickname, a raging bull. He showed this, among other things, through his active partici�...

Why such a rush? The bill currently being enacted with such determination in parliament is essentially an authority for filtering out embryos suffering from a number of listed diseases and condemning them to eventual oblivion. It suf...

There was little doubt he would refuse to throw in the towel. Even as he lay prostrate at the centre of the political arena with ‘scandal’ written all over his face, Joseph Muscat remained defiant, resolute that, somehow, he woul...

Birthday greetings  Happy 55th birthday to MARIA, my lovely wife and mother of our daughters Andrea, Rachelle and Gillian. You make me happy and proud of the things we built together. Stephen. Obituaries VELLA. On July 4, MARK, aged...