The decision by Standard & Poor’s to strip France of its prized AAA credit rating and downgrade eight other European countrie...

Whatever happens this week, in Parliament and outside, let us not forget that we are one country.We seem to have a...

The luxury cruise liner that ran aground off the Italian coast has rattled even the most die-hard “cruisers” in an industry where catastrophic accidents are rare, but it’s unlikely to do significant long-term damage....

We’re in for a hectic week.The political instability created by the declarations made by Nationalist backbencher Franco Debono that he will no longer support the government and his party leader Lawrence Gonzi will reach a climax this week....

If the antics of the last week have been merely a warm-up for a general election campaign still to come, then the country is certainly in for one wild ride....

The Obama administration and the Taliban each voiced readiness to enter peace talks while pledging to carry on with a decade of m...

The government and the Opposition were at loggerheads on a trip the Prime Minister had scheduled to Tunisia and Qatar next week – trips that were eventually cancelled yesterd...

Mitt Romney has begun a 10-day quest for victory in the South Carolina Republican presidential contest, where a win could all but ensure that he will be his party’s choice to run agai...

It was to be expected that the Nationalist Party’s parliamentary group and later its executive committee rallied behind Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, and called for the resignation of Franco Debono from Parliam...

By turns defiant and threatening, President Bashar Assad is vowing to use an “iron hand” to crush what he called the terrorists and saboteurs behind Syria’s 10-month-old uprising in which thousands of people have been killed....