In the year 2005, there were a total of 393 band performances at feasts organised around the Maltese Islands. Of these, 94 – almost 24 per cent – were by bands from the same locality. ...

During a meeting for High Commissioners of Small States, based in London, convened at the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Secretariat’s Director of Economic Affairs....

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the explosion of Royal Navy’s Gunpowder Magazine at Vittoriosa Wharf in 1806...

The Malta Council for Culture and the Arts (MCCA) launched the calendar of events for its third edition of the Malta Arts Festival – Summer 2006, at a press conference held at the Westin Dragonara Resort, St Julian’s....

Designer Valentino has confirmed his haute couture collection for the Malta International Fashion Show, Passion for Fashion, being held on 15 July in Malta....

Over 5,000 people are expected to turn up at the YMCA Bob Geldof concert tomorrow night, said YMCA coordinator Jean-Paul Mifsud yesterday. ...

A magistrate yesterday ordered that there were enough reasons for a bill of indictment to be issued against Norman Lowell who is facing criminal proceedings for inciting racial hatred. ...

A soldier who was found guilty of ecstasy possession and trafficking was jailed for two years suspended for one. ...

A man was yesterday jailed for a total of four years after the two years suspended sentence handed down in 2004 came into effect for committing another crime within the operative period of the suspended jail term. ...

A man yesterday filed two applications in court against former Pieta mayor Malcolm Mifsud and the editor of MLP weekly newspaper Kullhadd Felix Agius over the contents of a letter to the editor published in the weekly newspaper last Sunday. ...