2011 is now history. Depending on the individual, 2011 will be remembered fondly or else will go down as a year to forget. On a political level the past year was anything but uneventful...

So once more it is everybody else’s fault and everybody else’s problem but Franco Debono’s – even though he is the one who, as he tells us repeatedly, is suffering so very deeply...

Iraq’s troubled start to life without US forces calls into question the Obama administration’s assertion that it has wound down America’s long war responsibly...

While uncertainty continues to roil global markets, driving many investors into full retreat, one part of the financial sector is expanding exponentially...

After last week’s attempt to restart Mideast peace talks, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is now caught between undesirable choices. Despite Abbas’ deep misgivings, a Jordanian offer to salvage the peace process may be his best hope...

Never was the contrast so sharp between the two main party leaders, with Joseph Muscat putting the national interest first during Sunday’s very well-attended public speech in Rabat ...

Angelina Jolie’s new film, In the Land of Blood and Honey, is about the ethnic tensions that produced the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II...

There can be no doubt that we are living a grave political crisis similar to the one of 1998. Although it still has to be seen whether this one will also cut this administration’s life short...

On 29 December, I wrote that Franco Debono’s ultimate goal is not to merely be made a cabinet minister, but to become leader of the Nationalist Party, and that all ...

As a journalist who had once been rebuked for being too curious, I am seriously questioning whether I chose the right métier, since I do not share the morbid fascination, demonstrated...