Air Malta’s top management are spending the weekend poring over the counter-proposals submitted by the four unions last Friday, government sources said yesterday....

Three children, 15 women and 90 men from Eritrea, feared dead by the Maltese authorities who gave up the search for them on Friday afternoon, were rescued from a 13-metre battered wooden vessel 30 miles west of Lampedusa later that same evening....

The painting San Giovannino al Fonte attributed to Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio is one of the paintings that was stolen from Judge Giovanni Bonello’s home in Old Bakery Street Valletta some two weeks ago....

The four unions representing Air Malta employees yesterday presented their counter-proposals to the management of the company, proposals which they have called the “Air Malta Rescue Package”....

Yesterday saw the European launch of a drug manufactured by Pharmaco Group’s local subsidiary, Pharmamed Ltd....

Malta’s environmental problems have been caused by the Nationalist government’s lack of planning, wrong mentality and brushing of issues under the carpet, said MLP education secretary Aleks Farrugia....

Malta Labour Party spokesman for public investments John Attard Montalto said yesterday that keeping Sea Malta up and running was of vital strategic importance to Malta....

A German subsidiary company in Malta that is making profits after only three years of operations is planning to increase its workforce in the near future....

A man was conditionally discharged for one year yesterday after pleading guilty to possession of cannabis on 15 May 2003 and in the preceding three months....

A 14-year-old boy, who is claiming he was raped by a Moroccan man, yesterday testified before a magistrate’s court using video conferencing – a system used to prevent a victim from meeting the alleged aggressor....