The government is set to table a bill in Parliament which will provide a form of assurance, or insurance, to all civil workers conducting their work in good faith and who do not engage in gross ...

A diver is in serious condition after he found difficulty while in the water near Cirkewwa, The Malta Independent is informed. A police spokesperson told this newspaper that a diver had to be ...

A man was taken to hospital with grievous injuries after being allegedly hit by a glass bottle in St Julian's early this morning, the police said. The accident took place in a parking area in St ...

A man was shot and killed after a minor car crash in Bidnija turned into an incident of road rage on Sunday morning. According to reports, a minor crash between two cars at around 8am in Triq ...

The gender corrective mechanism introduced into Malta's electoral system was born of good intentions: to address a persistent and troubling imbalance in representation and to make the nation's ...

A first of its kind initiative in Malta is reshaping how children with neuro-divergent conditions engage with sport. Obstacle Course Academy (OCA), located in the natural surroundings of ...

Franco Debono will not be one of the candidates to be the next Nationalist Party leader, but he told his social media followers that he would be considering a “more active role” within the ...

Credit where credit is due: the Maltese government has been nothing if not industrious in churning out strategy documents, long-term plans, and lofty frameworks. From transport to tap water, from ...

Since the late 1970s the Nationalist Party has sought as its main ideological beacon Christian Democracy and subsequently established strong links with Italy's Democrazia Cristiana. Over the span of ...

Muriel Blossom began her fictional career as a minor character in 2008, serving as an assistant to private detective Tess Monaghan, the protagonist in 12 of Laura Lippman's fine crime ...

It is a sweeping story of family, love and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last 30 years. The second book is A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007).

That was Jose Mujica, Uruguay's former socialist president who passed away on 13 May 2025, vehemently rejecting his nickname of "the world's poorest president". He died in the same ramshackle ...