Two days into Parliament and the sparks are already flying.  With a breach of privilege complaint on day one and an opposition walk out on day two, if this tempo is maintained this promises to be...

The awful traffic jams over the past few days as schools and tertiary education institutions opened have stressed people out quite heavily, made people and students late for work and for school and...

Back in the early 1990s, students used to dose up on substances such as Coladex, a caffeine derivative which used to keep them up for hours.   It was popular in Malta, and it proverbially...

Italy's fragile coalition government was pushed into a full-fledged crisis Saturday after five ministers from former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's political party announced their...

New warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this week should serve as a very loud wake-up call for the world’s policy makers, and for policy makers in each and every...

A great step forward was taken this week in parliament as government MP Chris Fearn, a paediatric surgeon filed a private members bill, calling for the horrific and barbarous practice of Female...

Since the new government took office last March, the country’s administration has made dubious appointments and fielded numerous accusations of nepotism and cronyism.     But the...

The more the Public Accounts Committee continues to meet, the more the reputation of the National Audit Office is emerging in tatters.   PAC will convene today week in the evening. Any hopes...

Angela Merkel won an overwhelming endorsement from German voters, putting the country’s first female chancellor on course for the biggest election tally since Helmut Kohl’s...

For Syria's divided and beleaguered rebels, the creeping realisation that there will not be a decisive Western military intervention on their behalf is a huge psychological...