The AFM Maritime Squadron’s patrol boat P23 intercepted a boatload of 28 migrants just outside Marsaxlokk Harbour on Sunday evening at about 11.20. ...

A St Julian’s man was yesterday fined Lm263 and given a two-year jail term suspended for four years for aggravated theft....

A man from Fgura yesterday appeared in court on charges of having stolen heavy duty cables from a factory in Bulebel on no less than four occasions, with the stolen items being worth more than Lm1,000 each....

Pope Benedict XVI has nominated Archbishop Tommaso Caputo as Apostolic Nuncio for Malta....

The driver of a vanload of contraband cigarettes had the bad luck on Friday to stop outside a garage to unload them when customs and police officers were inside in an operation searching for counterfeit cigarettes....

The risk of unemployment is very high for early school leavers and to this end a number of organisations have teamed together to devise a way to tackle the problem. ...

One of the Welcome to Naxxar signs was vandalised twice during the weekend, Naxxar local council executive secretary Paul Gatt yesterday told The Malta Independent....

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi yesterday said advertising campaigns abroad together with the provision of incentives and financial aid to ensure that low cost airlines fly from and to Malta, have helped in no small way to boost the tourism industry. ...

The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA) and Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi yesterday called for a careful and crucial balance between the conservation of the environment and development that will, in turn boost Malta’s tourism sector....

Accusing Investments Minister Austin Gatt of trying to be the Cabinet’s prima donna, the Labour Party yesterday denied it had directed mayors of towns around Grand Harbour to boycott a government exhibition of projects intended to develop Grand Harbour....