Since the Marriage Law was introduced in Malta in 1975, civil marriages increased from eight in that year to 785 last year....

An Air Malta flight with 143 people on board last night made an emergency landing with a burst tyre at Glasgow Airport....

A Syrian man will be spending two-and-a-half years in prison after committing a crime during the operative period of a suspended sentence, given earlier this year....

A man was denied bail after he pleaded not guilty to stealing Lm8,000 and other items from a Mosta residence....

An illegal immigrant from Tunisia yesterday denied killing another immigrant living in the same quarters by beating him on the head with the iron leg of a bed....

Labour MEP Joseph Muscat is in Brussels where he has taken part in meetings of the Economic and Internal Market committees within the European Parliament....

The Malta Labour Party will be holding a fund-raising activity on Independence Day, 21 September, and an end-of-summer event two days before, on 19 September, in St Julian’s, MLP Deputy Leader for Party Affairs Michael Falzon announced yesterday....

A study carried out by the University of Malta a few years ago revealed that 14 per cent of the students interviewed needed help with the Maltese language, while 25 per cent needed a helping hand with English....

Much progress has been made since the first local and regional libraries were set up, but the time has now come to coordinate their efforts to ensure a more efficient service, Parliamentary Secretary Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici said yesterday....

Another 26 illegal immigrants yesterday set foot on Malta, at Wied iz-Zurrieq....