The Rural Affairs and the Environment Ministry has announced that farmers and villagers may start applying for EU assistance....

Malta has been granted a permanent derogation that will ensure the smooth-running of the milk production sector in the country, Francis Agius, the parliamentary secretary in the Rural Affairs and Environment Ministry, said yesterday....

Malta is aiming to become the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world and research and development and innovation will be key to this, Education Minister Louis Galea said. ...

The United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, and Foreign Minister Michael Frendo on Thursday signed a bilateral Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) shipboarding agreement, making it the seventh such agreement signed by the United States. ...

The number of Maltese residents departing by air and sea in January was 14,372, an increase of 18.2 per cent over the same month last year, the National Statistics Office reported yesterday; 97.5 per cent of them travelled by air....

The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses yesterday threatened to call industrial action by the end of March if the Health Division did not supply its members with uniforms, and issued a directive to members not to wear a uniform to work. ...

A lawyer yesterday filed an application in court insisting that the time his client spent under house arrest should be deducted from his client’s jail term because this is still a form of preventive custody. ...

A man was yesterday jailed for one year suspended for a year and placed on probation for one year after he was found guilty of trying to seriously injure his son when he attacked him with a knife. ...

A total of 291 residents living close to Pender Place yesterday filed yet another judicial protest in the First Hall of the Civil Court against Edmund Gatt Baldacchino and Pender Ville Limited, the developers of the controversial Pender Place project....

Two men were yesterday charged with filing a false police report in order to defraud an insurance company when they allegedly set fire to a Peugeot 106 and then reported the fire and theft to the police. ...