Gżira United  will be looking to extend their bright start to the season as the Premier League returns this evening with the opening two matches from Match Day 2. The Maroons, fresh from their opening-day win over Santa Lucia, wil...

Living in one of the poorest parts of the Middle East and facing some of the region's highest fuel costs, Palestinians in Gaza are burning plastic to make affordable diesel. It's an economic and practical solution in a territory bloc...

Britain announced Friday a vast 80-per cent hike in electricity and gas bills, in a dramatic worsening of the cost-of-living crisis before winter as the UK awaits a new leader. Regulator Ofgem said its energy price cap, which sets pr...

ARTS Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival The 17th edition of Inizjamed's Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival is being held at Fort St Elmo, Valletta, today and tomorrow. On both days, four authors will read excerpts from thei...

West Ham shrugged off their dismal Premier League start to ease into the Europa Conference League group stage on Thursday with a 6-1 aggregate rout of Viborg in their play-off tie. Already 3-0 up from last week’s first leg in Lond...

A 13-year-old boy was grievously injured by a car on Thursday while riding his bicycle in Żejtun. The police said they were alerted to the crash between the bicycle and a Peugeot 3008, on Triq Santu Wistin, at around 5pm. A 34-year-...

Swieqi residents are at their wits’ end as they face piles of garbage outside short-let apartments and night disturbances, while solutions to these long-standing problems fall on deaf ears, according to the mayor. The mushrooming o...

Malta forward Alexander Satariano is set to continue his career in Italy at Virtus Verona, the Times of Malta can reveal. Satariano, 20, is expected to put pen to paper on a one-year loan deal at the the Serie C side in the coming ho...

Pope Francis has asked Pyongyang to invite him to North Korea, saying in a televised interview on Friday that he would not turn down a chance to visit and work for peace. A potential papal visit to the isolated, nuclear-armed country...

The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Friday. Times of Malta leads with an article on how the €200 million fund allocated by the government to subsidise utility bills will have to be topped up by another €50 ...

The arrival of e-scooters on our island seems to have caught our government off guard and their huge increase in popularity is exposing a lack of proper consideration of holistic socioeconomic planning. To be fair, most of Europe has...

This week there was the yearly meeting of the Italian NGO Communione e Liberazione in Rimini, which the Italians refer to colloquially as Il meeting di Rimini. At one of the debates, a speaker said that we have succumbed to the dicta...

Bank of Valletta has launched its BOV Club package for students who are about to start their studies at post-secondary or tertiary level. BOV Club is a tailor-made package for young adults who are about to open their first bank accou...

Fr Michael Galea, director of Dar Arka in Għajnsielem, recently met his long-time friend Fr Anthony Mario Saliba, currently based at the New York Diocese of Rockville Centre. During the meeting Fr Galea shared some of his innovative...

A heritage NGO has written to UNESCO about the impact the Excelsior Hotel’s proposed extension could have on the skyline of the Valletta World Heritage Site, asking it to “stop this madness”. The Planning Authority was due to d...

I remember the time not too long ago when several promoters of women’s rights in Malta were rejoicing at the introduction of the gender-corrective mechanism to the Maltese electoral system. They believed women would, at last, be fa...

US President Joe Biden on Thursday described the right-wing populism of Republicans under Donald Trump as "semi-fascism." Speaking to Democratic Party supporters at a reception just outside Washington, Biden cited concerns many Ameri...

Gżira United have warded off Ħamrun Spartans’ charge to sign Brazilian striker Maxuell Maia as they have managed to tie down the prolific striker to a new three-year contract. The Spartans are looking to bring in a quality forw...

Obituaries CALLEJA. With deep regret we announce the death of EMMANUELA who passed away on August 24, 2022. Loving mother, grandma, great-grandma. Lord, grant her eternal rest. CASCUN. On Thursday, August 25, at his residence, Dr C...

A €200 million fund allocated by the government to subsidise utility bills will have to be topped up by another €50 million to cover rising electricity costs and this will only last until the end of the year, according to interna...