Is the eurozone stepping back from the brink? This might just be possible, because the emerging outlines of a new framework to resolve the ongoing sovereign-debt crisis contain a key component that was missing so far...

The government must be thinking that the national airline is a playground for selective confidentiality...

Last Monday’s testimony in court and the confrontation between JPO and Daphne (in a case that had nothing to do with the subject of the acrimony) brought back memories but also distortions about that now-rather-distant March 2008....

This missive comes to you from the fair city of Frankfurt. I’m here with a troop of Maltese expats to visit the International Book Fair that is being held over the weekend. Last night was mostly...

I was talking on the telephone yesterday with a Maltese person who lives in London. He said how surreal it is when, in an environment where people are worried about their jobs, people are losing their jobs, ...

The media love a troublemaker and a stirrer. They will defend or attack, whoever is raking the muck, depending on the agenda of particular commentators, or the institution the particular media arm belongs to....

I have never hurt an animal – except for the creepy crawlies and annoying flies and mosquitoes – and I hate seeing animals in distress. When, some time ago, a days...

After the summer break, the doors of the country’s schools and institutions for higher education have reopened to enable almost one-fifth of the population to continue their studies at various levels....

Tourism projects are essential for promoting the idea that a country is aware of its natural heritage, but such projects are not easy to implement and need to take into account a num...

A seaman’s perspective of a DVD claiming the discovery of the site of St Paul’s shipwreck....