One of the government’s priorities is to embellish the squares of Malta’s towns and villages, Resources and Infrastructure Minister Ninu Zammit said yesterday when he visited workers employed on the embellishment of St Sebastian Square in Qormi....

The Family Court has declared a marriage between a Maltese man and a German woman null and void because the woman had a serious alcohol problem even before the marriage took place but which had never been revealed. ...

A Libyan man was jailed for two-and-a-half years after he was found guilty of defiling a Tunisian underage boy while he was at an internet café in St Julian’s when he was in Malta on holiday with his family last January....

The man who Competitiveness and Communications Minister Censu Galea revealed as the provider of the information and recordings which are being used by the Malta Labour Party over alleged irregularities at the Malta Transport Authority in 2001 ...

A man has been jailed for one year after pleading guilty to seriously injuring a woman with a knife. ...

A woman has been conditionally discharged for three years after being found guilty of issuing a number of Treasury cheques in her name and in names of members of her family and cashing them when she was not entitled to the money. ...

Enemalta Corporation said the June and July surcharge on electricity was remaining unchanged at 45 per cent as a result of measures it had taken. ...

An Mgarr elderly woman was robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash and jewellery items by three hooded men who shoved her back into her home when she emerged to take out her garbage bag yesterday morning....

An undisclosed amount of cash was stolen in a robbery from an establishment in St Paul’s Bay on Thursday evening....

About 3,000 music lovers are expected to flock to Valletta next Friday to cash in on what promises to be a memorable performance by one of The Tenors, Jose Carreras and Maltese soprano Lydia Caruana....