As expected, the Labour Party was quick to pick on a report published by a Swedish think-tank that threw the local healthcare system in bad light....

This latest wave of irregular migration, which, at last count, has brought 254 sub-Saharan migrants to the safety of Maltese shores over the last nine days alone, is no quirk or flash in the pan...

It is good that teenage mothers get all the help they can get, first of all to take care of their young ones, and secondly to continue their studies for as long as possible....

The government yesterday warned that boat season is upon us, and that Malta has to prepare for the eventuality of an influx of migrants....

Two quite unrelated events that took place last weekend have again focused attention on our relations with our neighbour to the north....

As clashes broke out in Lebanon between Sunni Muslims and members of the Alawite sect, the offshoot of Islam to which Syrian President Bashar Assad belongs, Syria plunged deeper into crisis yesterday as troops shelled the town of Rastan....

Two months after being heralded as the solution to all of Europe’s fiscal ills, the austerity drive is seemingly running out of steam....

After hundreds of dolphins washed up on Peru’s Pacific coast, and thousands of sea birds died in the same area, research has shown that the US Navy may hurt more dolphins and whales by using sonar and explosives....

About 100,000 angry Spaniards took to the streets around the country last Saturday, to protest against increasing austerity measures and what can only be described as grim job prospects....

Two Sundays ago this newspaper published an article that rubbed both the General Workers Union and the Labour Party the wrong way. This was not the first time we had done so, nor, we are certain, will it be the last. ...