The incidence of diabetes mellitus is on the rise in the Maltese Islands. Rates of diabetes have increased dramatically in recent years in parallel with obesity...

On 11 March, a year will have passed since Japan was struck by the triple tragedy of an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident...

In reply to a question by the anchorman of a NET TV regular programme, the Prime Minister dismissed my comments about the apologetic tone of his recent address to councillors as ‘my area of specialisation’ – that of tagging him with various adjectives...

The surprising retirement of moderate Republican US Sen. Olympia Snowe moves congressional centrists a step closer to extinction and highlights the great paradox of American politics....

Year after year it is pledged that Gozo needs to be sold to our source markets as a separate and distinct destination to Malta for it to be able to maximise its unique potential and to exploit to the fullest possible extent its distinct product...

This time next week we will know the outcome of next Saturday’s local council election which involves around ...

If we were to begin banning, revising, editing and issuing warnings about books written in another era by and for people whose manners and mores were vastly different to today’s, where would it end?...

Those of you who are familiar with Franco Zeffirelli’s film Jesus of Nazareth know what scene I have in mind....

Thanks to a maverick Member of Parliament who upset the apple cart (and is ever not so humble about it), we are seeing so much activity. ...

The fumes from the bonfire lit by Franco Debono still hang in the air. And, in a way, it is right that they should for there are vital principles underpinning that conflagration: and they...