Birdlife on Sunday pointed out an interesting coincidence – applications for rabbit hunting licences have soared by 20 per cent since the first ban on spring bird hunting in 2008....

The electorate faces an election next week quite unlike any other it has seen before, with Malta factoring into a far larger spectrum of hundreds of millions voters, with a whole new range of issues as fodder and ...

It has actually been quite surprising, the EP and local council election campaign kicked off towards the end of March, yet the mud only started to fly in the last week or so.This being an EP election and a local council election, ...

The situation in Korea is one that should not go unheeded by the international community. Technically, the North is still at war with the South because only a ceasefire agreement was reached in 1953, s...

Malta’s fellow EU member states all agree, at least in principle, that something has to be done to help Malta cope with its seemingly endless tide of African asylum seekers...

Tonight is the night. It’s the culmination of months of knockout and league phases. The two finalists will meet in Rome to decide which is the best football team in Europe....

If anyone thought that The Malta Independent was overstating the dangers of the internet in promoting eating disorders, then one might simply want to turn on the television....

Malta is best loved for our culture, food, and deep blue seas. Yes, we have tried to diversify our tourism product, and we have also tried to broaden our own horizons in terms of culture....

If there was ever a time in recent memory for national political unity, that time is now. The country is facing two practically unprecedented challenges - in the form of the ec...

The government seems to have got itself into a muddle. On Monday evening, the health authorities signed an agreement with the doctors’ union, but soon after,...