The title of this leading article is chosen purposefully, and it is in direct response to the severely stunted and opportunistic mentality of some members of the clergy in the way the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows was celebrated. ...

United States President Barack Obama’s insistence that NATO, not the United States, take the lead in attacking Muammar Gaddafi’s military is exposing a hard truth about an alliance that never before fought an air campaign with the US in the back seat...

It was a strange coincidence that the press conference given by Gozo Minister Giovanna Debono on her ministry’s work during the third year of government was held on the eve of the premier show of the series Game of Thrones...

Malta, it appears, is facing the final spring hunting litmus test and, for all intents and purposes, this spring should very well be the government’s last attempt to regulate an area that has been, perhaps until now, seemingly uncontrollable....

The defeat against Greece in the Euro 2012 championships qualifying match last month has cost the Maltese national side seven places in the FIFA world rankings....

The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses is once again threatening industrial action, starting on Monday, unless the bed shortage in the day surgery unit is seen to qu...

Yesterday, two people drowned off the coast of Pantelleria as the Italian Coast Guard tried to rescue asylum seekers from a boat that had drifted onto rocks close to the small island’s shores....

The UK’s ITN news has broadcast an exclusive story from besieged Misurata after a journalist and cameraman managed to circumvent the net of Gaddafi’s control and enter the city from the sea....

Many had hoped that this year, 2011, would be the Arab spring. Many hoped it would be the year that the Arab people came of age and one by one overthrew their oppressive rulers and moved towards a democratic society....

The recruitment of some four dozen hunting marshals from within the ranks of the police force will provide some welcome reinforcement for the hard pressed Administrative Law Enforcement unit in regulating the spring hunting season; but will it be enough?...