Tourism figures since November have shown an increase over the previous year, month after month, the Malta Tourism Authority said, adding that last December was especially positive....

PN-MEP Simon Busuttil said that burden-sharing on immigration required more solidarity on the part of EU member states to help carry the disproportionate burden that is currently being shouldered by southern countries, such as Malta....

Valletta Fund Management Limited is supporting Heritage Enterprise in its exhibition “Ruins, Antiquities and Romanticism: Maltese Colonial Architecture in the 19th Century”. ...

Parliament on Wednesday discussed a bill amending laws regarding the financial services sector, bringing Malta in line with EU regulations with respect to a sector that generates some 12 per cent of GDP. ...

Tonio Fenech, Parliamentary Secretary in the Finance Ministry, participated in a US government-sponsored International Visitor Leadership Programme in the United States between 22 January and 2 February. ...

A convicted murderer yesterday filed a judicial protest to reclaim his Lm30,000 Rolex watch, which he claims went missing from the law courts’ strong room....

An Industrial Tribunal yesterday ordered the owners of the former Best Western Les Lapins Hotel to pay a former employee Lm5,240 for an injury he sustained at work....

The regional library at Luqa was reopened after two years following pressure from the Labour-led local council, Malta Labour Party leader Alfred Sant said yesterday....

An Algerian was yesterday given a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to forging a passport....

A 12-year-old girl was yesterday put on probation for two years after pleading guilty to assaulting and slightly injuring a teacher....