The number of young children in closed detention centres has risen in the past week, as government’s “fast-track policy” has been stalled by the fact that all Malta’s open centres are currently packed to maximum capacity....

A sexual health policy was drafted in 2002 by the Health Promotion Department and handed to the authorities soon after, but it was never implemented or launched. ...

The city of Cork will have to take a Dutch company to arbitration if it wants to continue to fight for the cork.eu domain name. The City Council of Ireland’s second largest city lost its arbitration case against .eu domain registry EURid....

The fact that Malta has the highest per capita take-up of the new .eu domain name introduced just four months ago by the EU to the public, has raised suspicions that front companies are registering the domain ....

Soviet citizens used to stand in endless queues in Red Square to venerate Vladimir Lenin’s embalmed remains. Now Orthodox believers are standing in round-the-clock lines to venerate saints’ relics. ...

The Religion (Cape, £18.99) by Tim Willocks was published this week....

1. The Maltese economya. Main cause for concern: international oil prices = higher import bill...

Promising that the forthcoming budget will not be geared to the next election, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, flanked by Finance Ministry Parliamentary Secretary Tonio Fenech, released ...

It is now almost two months since Judge Giovanni Bonello resigned from the European Court of Justice on turning 70 but his successor has not yet been named....

According to a study by a research group concluded in 2004 (undertaken by Sarah Debono M.Sc), Ostreoposis species had been identified in March 2002 at least in one place: Salina Bay. ...