A police officer was injured on Wednesday in an incident in Marsa following a police chase of a wanted man.  Police said they began to chase him after spotting him on the road leading to Maltapost in Qormi. Warning shots were fired ...

Music teacher Oksana Shevchenko sits near a small pile of twisted metal and cement, the only break in a flat expanse of desolate, empty terrain. It is all that is left of the music school where she worked for 30 years, pulverised whe...

Hundreds of people were evacuated early Wednesday as firefighters deployed planes and helicopters to fight a surging wildfire in mountainside suburbs north of Athens for a second day. Nearly 500 firefighters, 120 vehicles, three plan...

Alison Dos Santos ended Karsten Warholm’s reign as hurdles king at the world championships on Tuesday while Britain’s Jake Wightman won his country’s first 1500m gold in 39 years on a day of upsets. Warholm may have been behind...

ARTS FESTIVALS APS Summer Festival The third edition of the APS Summer Festival kicks off today at the University of Malta Msida campus. Local alternative rock band Beangrowers will perform this evening, while Puerto Flamenco will be...

Sliema ASC BMIT Technologies swimmers have claimed the National Championship for a third successive year. This was the first time in the history of the club to retain the title for three consecutive years. With some fine performances...

Yevgeny Roizman tries to conceal his sadness behind a mountain of work at his charity fund in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, where visitors queue to see him. Roizman, who was Yekaterinburg's mayor between 2013 and 2018, is Russia's...

Former PN candidate Frank Psaila has been appointed by the Social Ministry to sit on a board for affordable housing. The appointment was formally announced in The Malta Government Gazette last week. Psaila, a former PN information di...

Bayern Munich announced the signing of Juventus defender Matthijs de Ligt on a five-year deal on Tuesday  with the Dutch international expected to become  “a mainstay” as the German champions embark on the post Robert Lewandows...

Robert Abela was understandably euphoric when Malta was removed from the Financial Action Task Force’s list of untrustworthy jurisdictions. Malta, he told journalists, “stands as an example to other jurisdictions”. He spoke too...

Mahmud Aguil has a comfortable house in Libya's capital Tripoli, but chronic power outages in the war-battered country and roasting summer heat now force him to sleep in his air-conditioned van. "This is my bedroom," the 48-year-old ...

The following are the main stories in Wednesday’s newspapers. Times of Malta says new research found that doctors on duty for 32-hours at a stretch at Mater Dei Hospital is leading to overtiredness, errors and a loss of empathy to ...

Doctors on duty for 32 hours at a stretch at Mater Dei Hospital are leading to overtiredness, errors and a loss of empathy to the detriment of patients, according to new research. Overtired doctors have made mistakes that included dr...

On Friday, May 27, Hayrettin Kok, 49, father of three, died after falling three storeys in a construction site between Testaferrata and Enrico Mizzi Street, Ta’ Xbiex. He was only identified after his friends posted on social media...

Will the MPs who voted for the amendments on the IVF law rot in hell for allegedly introducing abortion by stealth? Are those who voted against these amendments hard-hearted individuals who have no sense of compassion for patients wh...

Obituaries PACE. On July 18, at Dar tal-Kleru, Birkirkara, Mgr JOSEPH PACE, agaed 84, former parish priest of Ħamrun, and former archpriest of Floriana, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mour...

Accident in waiting Part of the works in the ill-conceived revamping of Triq il-Prinjoli, Santa Luċija, entailed the repositioning and replacement of the street lighting with a new LED system. Soon after the lights became functional...

Sliema served notice to their arch-rivals Neptunes that they are out for retribution in Saturday’s derby after they lost against them in the cross-overs. A slick display from them, back by precision and power, tore into the heart o...

HIBERNIANS                 3 Apap 17; Degabriele 23; Muritala 90 LEVADIA TALLINN        2 Ugge 87; Agyiri 90 HIBERNIANS I. Kone, Z. Grech, G. Llerna, R. Soares, F. Apap, D. Vella, J. Grech (77 A. Attard), A. Diakit...

Heatwaves like the one stifling western Europe are becoming more frequent and the trend is set to continue until at least the 2060s, the United Nations said Tuesday. The current heatwave should act as a wake-up call for countries pum...