A recent report compiling the growth in terms of height of men and women from around the world has shown that the average height of Maltese men rose by 11.4cm since 1896, and that Maltese women, on...

British newspaper The Express has published a map showing the more dangerous and safe countries in Europe in light of recent terror activities, with Malta being listed as having no or limited known...

Front Ħarsien ODZ welcomes the government's decision to exclude the expansion of the Freeport on ODZ land in B'Bugia. "Apart from the fact that any further expansion has...

A German 20-year-old youngster is in hospital with serious injuries after he fell a height in St Julian’s, the police said. The youngster was found on the ground at 4.45am in St Augustine...

In November 2004, the Retail Prices Index rose by 0.57 per cent to 104.96 from 104.36 in the previous month, according to figures released yesterday by the National Statistics Office. In November the inflation rate stood at 2.75 per cent....

The House of Representatives yesterday began debating a resolution authorising the transfer of Fort Chambray and adjacent land in Ghajnsielem to Gozitan entrepreneur Dr Michael Caruana. The new lease will run until 12 April 2092....

Five Chinese illegal immigrants found dead in Sicily in the past two weeks are believed to have travelled there from Malta....

As a result of an arson attempt on letter boxes in Triq Santu Rokku and Triq il-Barrieri both in Kirkop, on Tuesday 14 December, a number of items have been totally destroyed and are consequently undeliverable. ...

Anton Tabone, Speaker of the House of Representatives, participated in the second meeting of presidents of parliaments of the Five Plus Five Group held in Paris earlier this week. The first such meeting was held in Tripoli, Libya, in February 2003....

The cumulative effect of the indirect and direct taxes brought to bear from 2003 to next year are equal to the government devaluating the revenue of an average family composed of four persons by Lm20 a week, Labour leader Alfred Sant said yesterday....