The Church has apologised and is even discussing compensation with the victims’ lawyers, now that so much has been exposed on the child abuse cases, despite its attempts...

It is said that Americans have a genius for simplification. Gradually, however, the quest for it has become a global trend, one that continues to conquer new territories, just as blue jeans once did...

During the past week there was yet another meeting between the German chancellor and the French president on what to do about the eurozone’s worsening debt crisis...

According to the latest report published by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, entitled ‘Working time developments – 2010’...

Some countries have clearly run out of time and space to resolve their sovereign debt problems voluntarily...

Amid a growing wave of concern about climate change, many countries – including Brazil, Australia, the United States, and the members of the European Union – passed laws in the 2000’s outlawing or severely restricting access to incandescent light bulbs...

When I see that even a senior lecturer at the University of Malta can’t think straight on some crucial issues, I am distressed at the thought that there can be scant hope his students might see things the proper way...

Two new movies released this month – one a science-fiction blockbuster, the other a revealing documentary...

The global economy is at its most vulnerable state since the international banking crisis of 2007/2009 when the western banking system collapsed under a cascade of bad debts...

Tsinghua University first-year student Mia Wang has confidence to spare...