The relatives and friends of a deceased person had to suffer the further distress and embarrassment of seeing the hearse bearing their loved one reverse down a Valletta street after the funeral hearse failed to start when the funeral cortege was due ...

Archbishop Joseph Mercieca is to preside over the celebrations being held at the cathedral in Mdina on the occasion of the Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven.The programme for 14 August, the Eve of the Feast of the Assumption, comm...

The Information and Communications Department for Mater Dei, St Luke’s and Sir Paul Boffa Hospitals was launched in January last year in order to serve as a means of delivering information and promoting health services and state hospitals through inf...

Chanel Ltd yesterday filed a judicial protest against a local business for selling fake items which were in breach of trademark regulations....

A Marsa man was accused yesterday of attempted grievous bodily harm by shooting at another man with a shotgun....

Everything is set for the 19th Kerygma volleyball marathon, which kicks off next Monday at the trade fair grounds in Naxxar.A staggering 1,650 volunteers are taking part in this year’s 242-hour marathon and the organisers are cautiously optimistic ...

A hotel director yesterday fired a broadside at Guard and Warden Ltd because he ended up being fined for parking illegally to allow his employees to enter the hotel’s reserved parking area....

Two pathologists who regularly give evidence in court refused to testify yesterday because they have not been paid for their services for several months. Professor Maria Theresa Podesta and Dr Ali Salfraz were due to testify in the compilation of e...

A bus driver was yesterday fined Lm150 for assaulting an elderly pensioner.Francis Sultana, 24, from St Venera, pleaded guilty to assaulting 77-year-old Joseph Mifsud Grech, on 21 July in Hamrun...

A Bugibba man was yesterday cleared of detaining his Romanian girlfriend against her will, with the court calling her story “pure fabrication”.Christopher Vella Petroni, 44, was cleared of detaining Romanian national Silvia Stanica against her will...