Spar’s Spreadup choco duo hazelnuts, a chocolate and hazelnut spread, is being recalled because it contains undeclared almonds, the health authorities said. They warned that the product - lot number 1599421, durability date 31/12/2...

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is the name dancing around Napoli fans’ lips thanks to a stunning start to life in Italy which has swept away the summertime blues ahead of Wednesday’s visit of Liverpool. Kvaratskhelia has been nicknamed â€...

It's not all sunsets and selfie smiles - people are flocking to a new social network app that calls on users to share true glimpses of their lives rather than cherry-picked moments. Once a day, BeReal simultaneously prompts users to ...

August’s passenger movements at Malta International Airport exceeded the 700,000 mark for the first time since 2019, the airport said in an announcement on the Malta Stock Exchange. It said  712,122 passengers travelled through th...

Bayern Munich manager Julian Nagelsmann has blamed a lack of energy for his side’s stuttering Bundesliga form, bristling at suggestions the six-time Champions League winners are missing departed striker Robert Lewandowski.  After ...

A fire tore through a karaoke bar in southern Vietnam killing 12 people and leaving 11 injured, a local official said Wednesday. The blaze engulfed the second and third floors of the building on Tuesday night, trapping customers and ...

Researchers from the University of Malta are trying to see how to make knee replacement surgery suitable also for people suffering from arthritis. In a statement, the university said that in its current form, this was unsuitable for ...

An intercom directly linked to the police headquarters has replaced the Għargħur police station after the force had to give up the property it had been renting for decades. A spokesperson for the police said the station had to be r...

Ħamrun Spartans will be looking to preserve their perfect record and move at the top of the Premier League standings when they take on Marsaxlokk on Wednesday at the Tony Bezzina Stadium (kick-off: 7.30pm). The Spartans have enjoyed...

FILM Pasolini 100 To mark 100 years since the birth of Italian poet, film-maker, writer and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Department of Arts in Film Studies at the University of Malta, in collaboration with the Italian Cultur...

One hundred years after he took power, the cult of Benito Mussolini persists in the small Italian town of Predappio, where his tomb draws tens of thousands of visitors each year. Many are just curious but others are driven by nostalg...

The Foundation for Medical Services has applied for a permit to demolish one of the most dangerous wards at Mount Carmel Hospital. Built in 1861, three-quarters of the ceilings at the psychiatric hospital in Attard have been condemne...

Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur became the first African woman in history to reach the semi-finals of the US Open on Tuesday as France’s Caroline Garcia ended the hopes of American teenager Coco Gauff to advance to the last four. Jabeur, w...

The following are the main stories in Wednesday’s newspapers. Times of Malta leads with Finance Minister Clyde Caruana’s promise that the Budget for 2023 will be another social one that will not introduce any new taxes. In anothe...

Antonina Sidorenko has put on her favourite clothes, selected the prettiest ribbon to adorn her hair and can recite by heart the poem given by her schoolteacher. But with lessons taking place at home to the background sound of gunfir...

In the aftermath of the tragic and preventable death of 83-year-old dementia sufferer Carmelo Fino, who left St Vincent de Paul Residence in the middle of the night unobserved, there has been much debate about how best to ensure pati...

It has now become customary that, with the advent of the feast of Our Lady of the Nativity at Senglea on September 8, trees are horribly mutilated and butchered to accommodate a banner, artificial ivy and a papier-mâché effigy and,...

The largest flock of night herons I ever saw, and possibly the largest ever recorded in Malta, numbered over 180 birds. Most days from mid-August to late September, small flocks of night herons stop over at the nature reserve in Sima...

Research conducted last autumn by the hunters’ lobby FKNK does not justify spring hunting or prove that hunting for turtle doves is sustainable, BirdLife’s head of conservation Nicholas Barbara said. Last week, FKNK said in a sta...

OBITUARIES CUMBO. On September 6, EVAN (former owner of Mireva Bookshop), aged 67, went to meet his Creator. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife Miriam nèe Doublesin, his mother Carmena, his sister Doris and her husband Luciano, hi...