The Greek government says it has beaten its budget deficit targets so far this year, posting a primary surplus – it was news that no one expected.   Just weeks ago, the European...

Last week, a 14-year-old girl in the UK committed suicide after being submitted to cyber abuse on the internet.   The pretty little thing, with all her life ahead of her, took her own life...

Malta may have been legally correct in its stance when it insisted this week that a tanker that rescued 102 migrants in Libyan waters should have been brought back to Libyan shores.  But the key...

Malta is a proud nation. But there are times when the behaviour of some makes the vast majority of the population want to hang its head in shame, and that is exactly what happened this...

To be still awake at 5am after a night out means, in most cases, not being completely sober, or else being absolutely tired.   It is thus so easy to lose track and to get involved in a...

In our Monday issue, MUT President Kevin Bonello wrote about the increasing frequency of cyber bullying amongst children. He posed the question: “Are we prepared?”   It was...

Over the weekend, Nationalist Party leader Simon Busuttil made the first of many changes or reshuffles that he will need to make in the future, if the party is ever to make it back to...

International NGO Human Rights Watch has written an open letter to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, calling for Malta to review its policy of arbitrary detention of asylum seekers on...

Now that Silvio Berlusconi's tax fraud conviction and four-year prison sentence have been upheld by Italy's highest court, key questions remain about what will happen next to the former...

There is a huge difference between what we in Malta understand when we use certain terms and what other peoples understand by them.   In the end, we all seem to agree we are worried about...