Malta is an archipelago that lies in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Our history has been shaped by that fact and over the millennia, various peoples have settled here and traded through the sea...

Valletta is going to be Europe’s Capital of Culture in 2018. Many are looking forward to the celebrations and activities, and rightly so. But it is not just about the year 2018. When people look...

Technology has penetrated into every facet of modern day life. People are more plugged in than ever. They carry their tablets, their laptops and their smart phones around. As soon as they get home,...

The Scottish company that was considering tendering for the new public transport system to replace the under par Arriva service yesterday said that it was scrapping the bid because it “feared...

In an interview given to our sister paper The Malta Independent on Sunday, which was published yesterday, Health Minister Godfrey Farrugia announced that the government was planning to build a new...

There is something fundamentally incongruous about the government’s offer of an amnesty for those individuals who paid to have their smart meters tampered with to slow down the recording of...

Ukraine’s embattled President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday announced that the Ukraine would be holding early elections in a bid to defuse the explosive situation that has been gathering more and...

Last week, the opposition party held a press point where they drew on the knowledge of an engineer who likened the fallout blast, should an floating gas facility explode, to 50 atomic bombs going off...

The one thing that beggars belief in the smart meter tampering scandal is that more people are suspected of rigging the system in Malta, than in the whole of the United States in one...

Italy’s President, Giorgio Napolitano, has asked Matteo Renzi – the 39-year-old mayor of Florence – to form a new government.   Mr  Renzi is set to become...