Serena Williams bowed out of the WTA/ATP Cincinnati Masters at the first hurdle on Tuesday, losing in straight sets to US Open champion Emma Raducanu as the end of her glittering career looms ever closer. Williams, who last week ind...

Britain has launched dispute procedures with the European Union over its exclusion from the bloc's scientific research programmes, using a mechanism set out in a post-Brexit deal. This is the first such dispute launched by the UK aga...

A niece of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has urged people to boycott firms linked to the alleged murderers. Speaking at a vigil on Tuesday to mark the 58th month since the car bomb assassination, Amy Mallia spoke of the ...

British inflation surged to a new 40-year high in July on rising food prices, official data showed Wednesday, adding to a cost-of-living crisis as the country faces the prospect of recession. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) accelerat...

MUSIC SummerDaze Malta The week-long festival comes to an end today with a second main event dedicated to Italian music. Italian rappers J-Ax and Baby K are headlining the event together with some of the earliest Eurodance exponents ...

The animal shelter in Għammieri is expected to double in size by the end of this year, but the real solution to the number of abandoned dogs is to regulate breeding, according to Alicia Bugeja Said. “The project will increase shel...

Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs put an injury-ravaged season behind him to storm to gold in the 100m gold in the European Athletics Championships in Munich on Tuesday. Jacobs, who was world indoor 60m champion in Belgrade in March, b...

Ħamrun Spartans have taken their UEFA Europa Conference League experience by storm. They have dispatched Armenia’s Alashkert, Velez Mostar of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bulgaria’s Levski Sofia. Led by Branko Nisevic, they are now on...

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, said early on Wednesday that he was joking when he tweeted hours previously that he was going to buy currently struggling English football club Manchester United Plc (MANU.N). “No, this is ...

Two summers ago, with the country lurching in the uncertainty of a pandemic, Prime Minister Robert Abela returned to his holidays in Sicily in the midst of a spike in COVID-19 cases." Two years later, validated by a resounding electo...

Air Malta has been in restructuring mode for at least two decades. With the liberalisation of air travel more than two decades ago, it lost most of its monopolistic benefits and its commercial viability. The strategies of political p...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Wednesday. Times of Malta reports that as the number of teen breadwinners rises, the Junior College is offering the option of a four-year course for those who wish to juggle ...

Republican rebel Liz Cheney lost her seat in Congress Tuesday to an election conspiracy theorist, but vowed to fight on and do "whatever it takes" to ensure that former president Donald Trump is never returned to power. Once consider...

A rise in the number of teenage breadwinners has led the Junior College to offer students the option of doubling the number of years it takes to complete their studies, according to the college’s vice-principal. Students typically ...

Swimming at Qawra The old quay, some distance below Qawra Palace Hotel, had the commodity of a suitable ladder for persons to get into the water. The quay was increased in size during the winter, the ladder was unfortunately removed ...

With the demise of Mgr Philip Calleja our motherland has lost an eminently altruistic son who will be remembered as the country’s indefatigable foremost champion of uprooted people, starting from Maltese migrants of post-World War ...

A contemporary exhibition, entitled A Healing Journey: Redefining Environmental Challenges, was inaugurated at the Banca Giuratale, Independence Square, It-Tokk, Victoria. Co-creative practitioner and conceptual artist Mary Rose Sali...

Obituary BRINCAT. On August 15, at Mater Dei Hospital, IMELDA, aged 96, passed away peacefully, comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to mourn her loss her beloved nieces Carmen and her husband Oliver, Therese and Victori...

Ognjen Bjelicic had words of praise towards Maltese football as his presence with Ħamrun Spartans is garnering interest among the Serbian media. Bjelicic, 25, has been a remarkable addition to this Spartans’ side as his defensive ...

A group of 38 migrants have been found stranded on an islet in the Evros river, stuck between Greece and Turkey. The group, which included a pregnant woman and seven children, was found by Greek police on Monday following reports tha...