About 85.8 per cent of the population have a mobile telephone, according to figures issued by the National Statistics Office for the first quarter of the year. ...

A newly-restored chapel with an outstanding view of still unspoilt country, the St Mary Magdalene chapel on Dingli cliffs, was re-opened to the public last Sunday. ...

JosAnn Cutajar from the University of Malta and John Vella from Bir Mula Heritage attended a course on heritage education in St Jean d’Angely, France, in the last week of April. ...

Last Sunday, Bay Street hosted the Spinelli Angels Choir in concert in a fund-raising event entitled Cool Songs, Warm Hearts, being held this year in aid of orphans in The Philippines who are cared for by the missions of the Augustinian Sisters. ...

Bachelor of Accountancy Honours degree Year 1 students have attended a one-day seminar on management accounting in practice, considering the subject through the analysis of cases from the local business scene. ...

The MUSEUM Christian Doctrine Society is commemorating the canonisation of its founder on 3 June, and its first centenary, by inviting local and foreign artists to participate in an exhibition with the theme Dun Gorg Preca – The Man and his Mission....

The last lunchtime concert for the season will feature violinist and pianist Jean Noël Attard. For the violin numbers, he will be accompanied on the piano by his father, Colin....

The Malta Labour Party spokesman on social solidarity, Marie-Louise Coleiro-Preca, yesterday accused the government of deceiving people when it said that 30,000 families were exempted from paying the water and electricity surcharge....

Labour MP Leo Brincat has posed various questions to Industry, Investment and IT Minister Austin Gatt about a huge tender for computers which, according to the GRTU, would wipe out small operators in the sector....

The “quick decision” taken by Heritage Malta to change the working conditions of instructors seconded to the agency from the Education Department would lead to the loss of more resources and an increase in recurrent expenditure...