The case of Josette Bickle has galvanised Malta. The story ticks all the right shock-horror boxes. A woman goes to prison for dealing in heroin and while there continues her business...

Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans – nearly one in two – have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income...

Last week, European Union heads of state and government met in Brussels for what was expected to be the most important summit on the future of the eurozone since the start of ...

On 1 December, Transparency International published its annual survey about the perception of corruption...

The Labour Party spends three years telling us that people can afford the gravy but not the meat, and then has the brass neck to devote almost the whole of Republic Day to a fundraising ‘spettaklu’ on Super One television...

In his dozen years of leading Russia, Vladimir Putin has been the one doing the talking. Now he may have to learn how to be a listener...

European policymakers like to extol the strength of the eurozone: Relative to the United States, it has a much lower fiscal deficit (4% of GDP, compared to almost 10% for the US)...

The recent EU accord might have been about the future of the euro while the last minute deal in Durban might have been all about saving the planet on climate ...

Inequality is on the public’s mind almost everywhere nowadays. Indeed, in the world’s two largest democracies...

The Government has recently gone into electoral-campaign-mode by trumpeting vuvuzelas and exaggerating about results achieved in tourist numbers since the great depression of 2009....