A 27-year-old man from Niger was yesterday charged with violently raping a 13-year-old girl and, together with another Niger national, of defiling the same girl. ...

A 31-year-old man from Fgura was yesterday charged with attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed a man in Zejtun on Tuesday night. Victor Said, ...

The Catholic Church yesterday marked the Death of Jesus Christ with a liturgical celebration that was followed by solemn Good Friday processions in various towns and villages in Malta and Gozo....

The Malta Independent is not published on Good Friday....

I agree with Claudio Laferla (TMID, 12 March) in what he wrote with regard to the article Teaching English through storytelling (TMID, 8 March). ...

WASHINGTON: Five years after launching the U.S. invasion of Iraq, President Bush is making some of his most expansive claims of success in the fighting there. ...

The new Malta Labour Party leader will not be chosen before 5 June, while two new deputy leaders will be elected on 12 June, as agreed to in a meeting of the MLP national executive and parliamentary group on Tuesday evening....

A 37-year-old man was rushed to hospital in critical condition after being stabbed with a pointed instrument following an argument he had with a 19-year-old late on Tuesday evening, the police said yesterday....

Some 350 staff from eight leading organisations voluntarily rolled up their sleeves to carry out refurbishment works at eight institutional homes around Malta and Gozo. ...

Upon receiving recent figures issued by the National Statistics Office regarding statistics compiled for 2007, the Gozo Tourism Association notes that the positive increase in tourist arrivals,...