Soon after taking up the office of Prime Minister on 3 March 2004, Dr Lawrence Gonzi declared confidently, and no doubt with the best of intentions, that...

A report in this week’s Economist, “What’s that hissing sound?” on the slowly deflating house price boom in the US could well (except we have no such deflation...

Well, thank God for DNA-testing, because now it’s even saving people from themselves. When John Mark Karr “confessed” to killing the child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsay,...

The other day I went to a doctor and said: “What’s up, Doc?”...

BAGHDAD – In spite of much good news about security progress in Iraq this summer, Iraq faces an urgent crisis in securing Baghdad....

I have never really and totally trusted people who claim to have talked with God, seen mystical apparitions, witnessed crying statues and crucifixes and been in what must be in supernatural touch...

As Malta moves closer to the run-in to the next general elections, will the Maltese electorate send out a signal that enough is enough, and resolve to challenge its politicians...

Last Friday, I attended the special general meeting of EU Foreign Ministers held in Brussels to address the enhancing and strengthening of the peacekeeping force in Lebanon. ...

The daily news flow confirms that, as a society, we have lost the values that were held dear by our ancestors and that such a loss of values is at the core of our social and economic malaise....

Raja Shehadeh, a Palestinian lawyer and founder of the non-partisan human rights organisation Al Haq (which we Maltese correctly understand to mean justice, or fairness), wrote a book called Strangers in the House – Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine. ...