The president of the Midwives’ Association, Rita Borg Xuereb, is studying Maltese couples who have had their first baby, in her research for a doctoral thesis. ...

VATICAN CITY: The Vatican issued a sweeping condemnation Tuesday of contraception, abortion, in-vitro fertilisation and same-sex marriage, declaring that the traditional family has never been so threatened as in today’s world. ...

A provisional statement on the international economic and financial transactions of Malta during the first quarter of the current year reveals a deterioration in the current account balance of Lm8.2 million, ...

Every time new flashpoints and tension zones surface across the geopolitical landscape people begin to question the relevance and effectiveness of the United Nations as a world body and peace-keeping organisation....

In 1981 a handful of academics with the support of trade union officials endeavoured in an ambitious project set to launch the tuition of industrial democracy at university level. It was eventually achieved by the Foundation of the Workers’ Participation ...

We don’t need to win beauty pageants like Miss World or Miss Universe, (well we don’t anyway because we never send our best looking girls!) or the Miss Italia nel Mondo to know that Maltese women are very good looking, with every generation improving on ...

I am still trying to come to terms with the expected passing away last Sunday of my father George. There have been so many complex emotions burning inside me that I have honestly started to believe that there is indeed a double-headed monster in all of us...

Both the reds and the blues need to get together and tackle one issue with one voice, that is if they both are at all interested in first, preserving a welfare safety net ...

There is bound to be a time, and that may be sooner rather than later, when both sides of our parliamentary divide will, willy-nilly, find themselves face to face with tough, long-term problems that will demand concentration....

My fellow columnist I. M. Beck was taken aback by the inconsistency of a person who wanted to have the film The Da Vinci Code banned because it is insulting to “the Church”, but who then goes to Norman Lowell’s meetings and supports him. Inconsistency? ...