Tomorrow is International Women’s Day and the activities that have been set up to mark the day have brought to light some interesting news – Malta’s gender pay gap is one of the...

The Italian media on Wednesday reported that its Coast Guard had saved some 1,000 migrants from dinghies close to the Libyan coast. In the past, we were used to sub-Saharan migrants making the...

The further opening up of public space and the additional pedestrianisation of Valletta as provided for in the plans for the revamp of Castille Square as announced on Monday are entirely...

The World Health organisation yesterday urged all countries in Europe to increase efforts to vaccinate young children against measles. Measles is not just a rash. It can lead to brain injury, and in...

After two years we have come to know our prime minister better, we think. When he professes a certain contrition and admits that maybe things could have been done better regarding the Café...

The profile of "Jihadi John," the university-educated Londoner whose masked face is emblematic of the grisly executions by the Islamic State group, is vastly different from that of the...

It was a glitzy affair yesterday morning when the ‘Yes’ to spring hunting group launched their referendum campaign. By all appearances, it seems that the ‘Yes’ camp has...

The titles have said, over the past days, that an agreement has been reached between the EU’s finance ministers and Greece. And, many, misled by these titles, would have thought that all’s...

The Malta Independent is proud to have been a sponsor in a very interesting debate and question and answer session about the situation in Libya yesterday. During the session, former Prime...

There have been a substantial number of cases reported in the media of late where a non-Maltese parent might take off with a son or daughter without their spouse’s knowledge. With the...