It is the end of August and the sun is blistering hot. Yet Malta’s roads seem to be congested as they always are.   Everywhere you look, there are...

        The Ice Bucket tidal wave shows no sign of abating.   It has caught the imagination of young and old alike, the known and the...

        Along with Germany, France is the core of Europe. Its history is the history of Europe and Europe is inconceivable without France. Even more than Germany, its...

        At the heart of President Barack Obama's quandary over the Islamic State militants is their haven in Syria.   The US president may continue helping...

As the country, vast swathes of it judging by the social media content this week, takes to pouring buckets of ice water over their heads – with most people apparently not even knowing the stunt...

Over the past days we have assisted at a veritable summer storm of criticism despondency and worse about the church in Malta’s leadership. Coincidentally, absolutely coincidentally, the storm...

        Malta has always been known to be a country where everyone heads down to the beach at every possible opportunity in the summer.   We are a social people...

        The world woke up to a gruesome sophisticated video message yesterday as the Islamic State posted the beheading of a 40-year-old freelance US journalist...

        It is local lore. If a Maltese goes to Gozo and asks for direction, or how to find a person, the community will rarely help. They become suspicious and either...

        For the first time ever, the Syrian regime bombed militants in Syria which were not part of the resistance in the civil war. They bombed IS militants who have...