Facebook users had a field day yesterday as they tried hard to determine what led to the loud blast which took place in the vicinity of Dingli cliffs on Sunday at 6.20pm. ...

The case of a 50-year-old man who stands charged with trafficking almost a kilo of heroin, after the police spent weeks monitoring his movements in 2009, has been referred to the Constitutional Court....

A 42-year-old man from Valletta, who was sentenced to four-and-a-half years imprisonment after he admitted to raping his former girlfriend and violent indecent assault of her two daughters, suffers from sexual deviance disorder, a court was told....

An Appeals Court yesterday cleared a 61-year-old Gozitan man of making use of a counterfeit €100 note to pay for his car licence, revoking a suspended prison sentence he had been handed by the Court of Magistrates....

Discrepancies in the details found on the charge sheet, the affidavit and a breathalyser test receipt yesterday resulted in the acquittal of a 21-year-old man who stood charged with drink- driving....

An application by a Syrian man who took up residence in Malta in 1997, and became a Maltese citizen in 2002, claiming that the refusal of a permit to his children was discriminatory was dismissed by Mr Justice Lino Farrugia Sacco. ...

Ireland should be taking up to 10 Libyan refugees from Malta as part of the effort to ease the migration burden from people fleeing Libya....

Two of Malta’s leading automotive companies have announced that they will be merging their operations to form a dynamic partnership that will create a vibrant new force on the market. ...

No Maltese people were reported injured during an earthquake that hit the city of Christchurch, less than four months after a massive earthquake had hit the New Zealand city and killed 181 people....

E. Coli, the worst food crisis that Europe has witnessed for many years, is under control, EU Health Commissioner John Dalli said yesterday morning in Valletta. ...