Italy's PM yanks portfolio from deputy minister
Saturday, 4 May 2013, 18:28
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Italy's premier has removed the equal opportunities brief from a deputy minister after she criticized gay rights groups. Enrico Letta said in a statement Saturday...
Israeli strike on Syria targeted weapons shipment
Saturday, 4 May 2013, 14:29
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
An Israeli airstrike against Syria was targeting a shipment of advanced missiles believed to be bound for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Israeli officials confirmed Saturday. It...
Northeast Asia on the Brink
Saturday, 4 May 2013, 10:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
China’s refusal to attend this year’s summit with Japan and South Korea as scheduled comes at a trying moment for all three countries. Although Asia is the world’s most dynamic...
Boston bomb suspect died of gunshots, blunt trauma
Saturday, 4 May 2013, 07:17
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, a funeral director said Friday. Worcester funeral...
First black Italian minister seeks cultural change
Friday, 3 May 2013, 19:13
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Italy's first black Cabinet minister, targeted by racist slurs following her appointment last week, said Friday that Italians aren't racist but that some are merely ignorant...
Cameron's Conservatives suffer in UK local votes
Friday, 3 May 2013, 13:23
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
David Cameron's Conservative Party has taken a drubbing in local elections amid a surge of support for an anti-European Union and anti-immigration party, heaping pressure on the...
Vaccination’s lifetime of blessings
Friday, 3 May 2013, 08:40
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
A world in which our children and their children grow up free from the threat of polio and other preventable diseases is a dream that everyone shares. But, unlike most dreams, this one is achievable....
A Fateful Mistake
Friday, 3 May 2013, 08:39
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Controversy is essential to the advancement of science. So the debunking of methodological flaws and a coding error in a paper by the economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff is just part of...
Pakistani prosecutor in Musharraf case killed
Friday, 3 May 2013, 08:29
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Gunmen shot to death the Pakistani government's lead prosecutor in a high-profile case involving former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on Friday as he drove to court in the capital, Islamabad,...
Benedict comes home to new house, new pope
Thursday, 2 May 2013, 11:36
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI is coming home to a new house and a new pope as an unprecedented era begins of a retired pontiff living side-by-side with a reigning one inside the Vatican...