A beautiful but stiflingly hot summer morning was the setting for the visit of the USS John F. Kennedy, a massive aircraft carrier that is in Malta for a four day visit. ...

In a series of serried meetings, thegovernment is subjecting the contractors handling the building of the new hospital at Tal-Qroqq to a very thorough examination, sources close to the government told The Malta Independent on Sunday....

On a very superficial plane one could perhaps claim that “MPs ask for more” or even “MPs ask to get paid when (they are) not MPs”....

The statistics concerning government finance, published on Friday by the National Statistics Office, make encouraging reading as regards the state of public finances....

DiploFoundation’s Second International Conference on Intercultural Communication brought Geert Hofstede to Malta. Laura Mifsud Bonnici welcomed the opportunity to interview him...

The EU mission is organising enlargement weeks, and next week it is the turn of Malta....

Police are well on the way towards solving a stabbing that took place in Pembroke on 21 June....

Former Foreign Minister Joe Borg will be sworn in as Malta’s European Union Commissioner during a ceremony to be held in Brussels on Monday....

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi held his first official meeting with the newly elected MEPs at his office in Castille yesterday. The meeting was mostly a private one, but the press were allowed in for a short time at the opening....

Recurrent revenue during the first five months of this year amounted to Lm285.5 million, and made up 33.9 per cent of the budget forecast. Compared to the same period last year, recurrent revenue increased by Lm21.6 million, or 8.2 per cent. At the s...