With the Zabbar feast now over and done, the festa season is now practically over.   At the end of the season we may congratulate ourselves there were...

        After three years of chaos since Muammar Gaddafi's fall, Libya is further crumbling into a failed state after Islamist-allied militias took over the capital...

        With yet another migrant tragedy unfolding in waters for which Malta is responsible this weekend, the question once again begs: how many more must die before...

        This week, the Malta Independent published a story where people were illegally parking cars under horse shelters near St Elmo in Valletta.   The...

        In about a week’s time, Scotland will go to the polls to decide whether or not to secede from the United Kingdom.   Scotland and England have been...

        13 years ago today, the world watched in horror as commercial aircraft slammed into the North, and then the South tower of New York’s World Trade...

        The issue of ‘self-inflicted’ conditions and illnesses were in the limelight last week as employers said that sick leave should not cover things such...

There was no doubt that it was going to take a lot of hard work to rebuild and unify the Nationalist Party after the thrashing it got at the last general election.   Allegations of...

        The story published on the front page of this edition shows very clearly that the issue of cruelty to animals is still very much present.   This year,...

As has become the practice for several years now, the government this week published its pre-budget consultation document; summer reading for the country’s constituted bodies as they prepare for...