Hamburg has become the first German city to pass a law allowing the seizure of empty commercial properties in order to house migrants. The influx of migrants has put pressure on the authorities...

The government simply cannot continue to put off the repeated calls to undertake a drastic reform in the way in which members of the judiciary are appointed in Malta.   Even more so when...

Progress was made in this week’s United Nations Summit in New York. But the thing that seems to have come out the clearest, is that the world is divided on what should be done to counter the...

Some people enjoy the occasional flutter. It might be football pools, horse racing, sports betting, a lottery ticket or a simple wager between friends. But gambling can quickly become an...

The story published on our front page today tells of the harrowing experience that an intellectually disabled woman had to put up with for nine years. The court report tells how the woman was...

The latest news which seems to be incredulous is the fact that selfies are killing more people per year than sharks are. So far this year, there have been 12 recorded deaths during selfies,...

The rot at Identity Malta almost certainly did not begin to set in as soon as the Labour Party was elected to power in 2013. Nor did the rot’s speed necessarily increase at breakneck speed...

Pope Francis is truly a class act. The man’s genuine good intentions, his attempts to include everyone and his desire to reform the most archaic and bogged down institution in the world have...

After yesterday’s meeting of European Union interior ministers, heads of state will convene in Brussels to try and find a solution to the impasse in Europe’s migrant crisis. The EU’s...

The business of the rewriting of history is growing and growing. We have recently seen the celebration, if that is the word, of the 450th anniversary of the Great Siege of Malta watered down so...