The Malta Union of Teachers has registered a trade dispute with government, over its failure to process the request for recognition of grades at MCAST with a reasonable time frame. "The Union...

Despite never having been much of a heavy smoker, a 63-year-old man said he has been told several times that it doesn’t make much of a difference whether someone smokes 10 or 40 cigarettes a day...

Almost half of all heart attacks cause no obvious symptoms, yet they can still be life-threatening, according to research on more than 9,000 middle-aged men and women. It's one of the biggest...

The U.N. refugee agency says survivors' accounts indicate that shipwrecks and capsized boats have claimed at least 880 lives over the last week in the Mediterranean. UNHCR spokesman William...

EU Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella today said that 20% of all food produced in the EU is wasted leading to a “slow motion disaster”.  Speaking at an international conference...

Government today announced that the price of eleven medicines will be reduced. Minister for Social Dialogue Helena Dalli said this in a press conference at the pharmaceutical complex of Aurobindo in...

Beg, borrow and steal: Zika preparation involves a bit of all three as federal, state and local health officials try to get a jump on the mosquito-borne virus while Congress haggles over how much...

The number of pregnant women in the United States infected with Zika virus is suddenly tripling, due to a change in how the government is reporting cases. Previously, officials had reported how...

Add one remarkable case to the 30,000-plus organ transplants expected to be performed nationwide this year: A cancer patient who received a donor penis. Worldwide, there have been faces, tongues,...