The 11 September, 2001 World Trade Centre bombings, the terrorist attack in London in 2005 and last August’s foiled attack at London Heathrow Airport have served to shift the world’s attention to security....

German Chancellor Angela Merkel made things very clear when she addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg last Wednesday....

It used to be the custom for a priest to walk in front of the Pope at his coronation Mass holding aloft a jar of burning spices and chanting to him: “Sic transit gloria mundi”....

30 years is a long time.To spend 30 years as head of the Catholic Church in Malta must not have been an easy matter for Archbishop Mgr Joseph Mercieca....

Government Whip Mario Galea came up with some interesting suggestions when he was interviewed by The Malta Independent earlier this month....

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi is in Rome for an official meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. ...

Three tal-fenek dogs were brutally killed on a Gozo farm last week, sparking disdain from a large section of the public...

At the end of last week, the Malta Labour Party expressed what it termed to be “doubts” over the veracity of revisions made by the National Statistics Office on economic figures published over the years....

The tit-for-tat between the Department of Information and Alternattiva Demokratika on the issue of divorce has once again brought this hot topic up for public debate....

The news that Blessed Dun Gorg Preca is to become the first Maltese saint spread like wildfire on Wednesday evening....