The Malta Independent 27 August 2026, Thursday
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New Mileage standards for cars

Friday, 31 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The Obama administration has finalised regulations that will force automakers to nearly double the average gas mileage of all new cars and trucks they ...

A Welcome addition

Friday, 31 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The government-run school of sport will open its doors when the new scholastic year starts in September. For the first time, up to 40 Form 1 students ...

US Politics: Romney hopes to regain message control

Thursday, 30 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

For a man basing his presidential hopes on a jobs-and-economy message, Mitt Romney has spent an inordinate amount of time on other issues, from abortion to the federal Medicare programme to bad weather....

Cohabitation Bill: Slapped In the face

Thursday, 30 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The Nationalist Party, several months ago, announced it was seeking to legislate in favour of homosexual rights through a cohabitation act. ...

International Relations: China hosts Egypt’s Morsi

Wednesday, 29 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

China is hosting Egypt’s newly elected president despite its uneasiness with the Arab Spring revolution that helped bring him to power, while the new leader seeks to shore up his country’s flagging economy....

Neil Armstrong: A Giant leap for humanity

Tuesday, 28 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

When man first harnessed fire, no one recorded it. When the Wright Brothers showed man could fly, only a handful of people witnessed it...

Education: Better Opportunities

Tuesday, 28 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

During summer, the government embarks on a programme to carry out maintenance work in many of its schools...

Norway Mass killer : When the maximum penalty is not enough

Monday, 27 August 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

A chapter of a terror case that haunted Norway for 13 months ended Friday as confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was declared sane and sent to prison for bomb and gun attacks...

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