When I criticised our president for planning ‘missionary work’ in Peru – put that in context and imagine somebody else’s head of state coming to Malta for missionary work, with all its patronising implications and diplomatic stresses...

Rabbi Shneur Kesselman estimates that he has been the victim of 100 or so anti-Semitic confrontations since he arrived in the southern Swedish city of Malmö in 2004...

The Supreme Court’s much-anticipated ruling on healthcare, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: A modest impact on President Barack Obama’s re-election bid...

In the last week of July, the United Nations held its High Level Meeting on Youth as part of the closing of the International Year of Youth 2011 in the General Assembly...

When an administration overplays its hand by trying to cash in on the fear factor about the past, it does not take a rocket scientist to realise that it has been compelled to do so to avoid as best as it can...

A new controversy has emerged between the European Union and several of its main trade partners since the EU decided to include in its CO2 emission-control scheme all flights to and from its territory...

There were, and still are, so many instances where this government failed the nation in its ideas and in the way it went about implementing them that there is little time...

The government of Malta has condemned North Korea’s (failed) rocket-launch attempt of yesterday. It has released a statement which says: “This dangerous and destabilising action is in breach of a UN Security...

Next Sunday’s first round of the French presidential elections open the election season in Europe.Up till some weeks ago, we used to consider the Greek elections to be the most important issue of the coming ...

Key EP vote scheduled for Thursday, 19 April...