The fire of faith Commenting on St Luke’s gospel during the Angelus last Sunday, Pope Francis said: “Faith is not a ‘lullaby’ but rather a living flame to keep us wakeful and active even at night. The Gospel does not leave th...

What is the cost of data breaches to businesses? Just how much do data protection breaches cost? What’s all the fuss about? On July 27, 2022, IBM Security published its annual report, ‘Cost of a Data Breach Report’, and its fin...

Humans have an intrinsic fear of robots – even popular culture feeds on this fear, suggesting that thanks to their ability to work longer, faster, and more precisely, robots will take our jobs, assume control over our homes and ass...

This is entry number fivein the Agent Charlie series. Read previous chapters here. Enigma: Bristles is looking at me intently. He consults a black square in his hand, checks my nappy, then checks the square again. Smooth comes in. â...

Top-ranked Daniil Medvedev committed 11 double-faults in falling to Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-6 (8/6), 3-6, 6-3 in Sunday’s semi-finals of the ATP and WTA Cincinnati Masters. Medvedev helped seal his own fate in the sixth game of the fi...

A 73-year-old man was arrested by the police late on Saturday in connection with a shooting at Wied Ħażrum on Friday. He is expected to be charged on Sunday afternoon. In the shooting, Noel Ciantar, a 49-year-old man who has battle...

As it prepares to expand to serve a population now exceeding 20 million, the Cairo metro has recruited Egypt's first female train drivers, a novelty in a country where few women have formal jobs. Since April, commuters on the network...

21st Sunday in ordinary time, Cycle C. Today’s readings: Isaiah 66:18-21; Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13; Luke 13:22-30   The story is told of a rather self-important lady attempting to enter a bank on the Via del Corso in Rome while carry...

Valletta FC are in advanced negotiations to sign Brazilian striker Flavio Cheveresan, the Times of Malta can reveal. The Citizens have been very active during the transfer market this summer as they have made several changes to thei...

The facts of the case A consumer ordered prescription spectacles from a local company, including the frame and the lenses. Upon collecting the spectacles, the consumer noticed that the lenses did not fit well in the frame. The consum...

Malta is taking long to investigate high-level corruption, a recent rule of law report by the European Commission found. JACOB BORG takes a look at some of the major inquiries whose conclusions are still unknown, many of which concer...

FILM Gozo Film Festival The fourth edition of the Gozo Film Festival wraps up today with a family-friendly programme at the Citadel in Victoria. This includes the screening of three short children movies followed by a workshop on fil...

Birkirkara found the going tough in their UEFA Women’s Champions League opener after succumbing to a 4-0 defeat against SFK Sarajevo, champions of Bosnia-Herzegovina. As a result on Sunday, the Stripes will now wrap up their commi...

Baden Powell Scouts Malta have returned from a five-day trip on the north slope of Mount Etna at Statella Park Randazzo in Sicily. Fifty-three Scouts and Scout leaders represented by Scout troops from Baħrija, Luqa, Mġarr, Mtarfa, ...

The following are the main stories in Sunday’s newspapers. The Sunday Times of Malta says Prime Minister Robert Abela has repeatedly travelled out of the country on holiday without appointing a replacement. In another story, the ne...

Pressures in the US housing market continue to grow as the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said its sentiment index dropped for the eighth consecutive month while turning negative. This led the NAHB to state that the US ...

August 22, 1962: French President Charles de Gaulle and his wife are being whisked by car through the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart for a flight back to their country home, when a man on the side of the road waves a newspaper. The si...

Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk won his rematch against Anthony Joshua by split decision to set up a potential unification bout with Britain’s Tyson Fury in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. The former cruiserweight world champion, who dismantl...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna has commissioned an audit into the finances of the Marsaxlokk parish after a priest was charged in court with misappropriating large volumes of parishioners’ donations there. The parish priest is pleadin...

Ethics in dementia care was the theme of a course held in Belgium last month by KU Leuven, one of the largest and most renowned universities in Europe. Attending the course were professionals in different fields, such as healthcare a...