After six months of negotiations, the agreement sealing the future of the ill-fated Public Broadcasting Services was signed between the government, the General Workers’ Union and the PBS management yesterday....

Welcome to this weekly snippet in The Malta Independent on Sunday dedicated to all media junkies and us media monkeys! We will be scanning the airwaves and poring over the papers to bring you the best of the worst......

For an hour and a quarter on 9 May, the glorious baroque of St John’s Co-Cathedral will come to symbolise the unity and diversity of Europe through a Eurovision live broadcast that will be shown in some 20 countries at prime time, to millions of peop...

Around one billion viewers will be watching Malta join the European Union on Friday night....

Facts This week, Israeli dissident Mordechai Vanuna was released from prison after 18 years incarceration. He had been arrested in 1986 after leaking “State secrets” about Israel’s nuclear weapons capability to a British newspaper. Vanuna was a te...

The Party of European Socialists has elected former Danish Prime Minister Poul Rasmussen at its new president after incumbent Robin Cook decided not to stand again....

The head of the European Parliament’s standing committee responsible for development and cooperation has said that Maltese Commissioner Joe Borg has been shown the “red light” after his hearing at the EP two weeks ago....

After 1 May, 24 laboratories, including one from Malta's Environment Protection Directorate, will join the European Network of GMO laboratories (ENGL)....

Shoppers in supermarkets, mini-markets, grocers and retail outlets selling mainly food items found a surprise awaiting them these past days in their preferred outlets....

John Suda was born in that part of Hamrun which used to be Marsa. He graduated from the University of Malta in English and Maltese in 1982 but had already qualified as a teacher in 1971. He made his debut on stage at the age of 10 in a school play, a...