Greece's coast guard says at least 11 people, most of them children, have died in the latest migrant boat sinking off an eastern Greek island. The circumstances of Thursday's sinking were...

Minister for Energy and Health, Konrad Mizzi, said today in answer to a parliamentary question asked by MP Claudette Buttigieg, that the patients reported to be infected by Klebsiella pneumoniae were...

An agreement between the Department of Health, Ministry for Energy and Health and the University of Malta was signed today about the grounds upon which the Barts medical school and the UoM Medical...

A rare tropical disease is spreading in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. The mosquito-borne Zika virus usually causes a mild illness but is now suspected in an unusual birth defect and...

Dozens of elderly Holocaust survivors lit candles at Auschwitz exactly 71 years after the Soviet army liberated the death camp which has become the most powerful symbol of the human...

A spokesperson for the Home Affairs Ministry has categorically denied claims that two inmates were hospitalised yesterday due to a drug overdose. Sources told The Malta Independent that there was...

Greek authorities have mounted a search and rescue operation in the eastern Aegean after a boat carrying migrants or refugees sank off the northern coast of the island of Kos. The body of one infant...

        The Economist hosted an evening of intelligent entertainment – part of a unique global event series – at The Hilton Malta. 300 guests...

The average age of first-time mothers is at an all-time high in the U.S, over 26. The change is largely due to a big drop in teen moms. But more first births to older women also are tugging the...