Do you ever get the feeling that men caught up in gangland activities are starring in an action crime film that spools through their own minds? It’s almost as though they enjoy the trappings and subterfuge more than they enjoy the proceeds...

For his first visit to Spanish-speaking Latin America, Pope Benedict XVI has chosen the region’s most Roman Catholic country – and its least...

We are getting fatter. In Australia, the United States, and many other countries, it has become commonplace to see people so fat that they waddle rather than walk...

Afghanistan is not Iraq, US officials have been fond of saying from the first days of Barack Obama’s presidency...

Now that the local council elections are out of the way and both parties are analysing the results of the 10 March poll from every possible angle, the country has already found itself shifting back to its ‘normal’ everyday life ...

After decades of official neglect and mistrust, Turkey has taken several steps to ensure the rights of the country’s non-Muslim religious minorities, and thus to ...

Having obtained the great majority of votes at the Nationalist Party general council, in a contest that was really no contest at all, the Prime Minister returned to Parliament facing the same old challenges and uncertainties...

Caritas Malta, which works extensively with the poor and disenfranchised, has proposed that the mandatory minimum wage be raised from €158...

Forget about murders and other dramatic happenings. The most talked about subject right now is Julian Galea’s bowing out of the Slie...

Simon Busuttil is such a nice person. There is steel in him but it is cloaked in velvet, in good manners, in soft words, and in words that are never spoken in anger or anxiety but always pondered before they are uttered....