A drug trafficker who pleaded guilty instead of facing a trial by jury has been jailed for seven and a half years and fined €23,000.  Mubarak Bawa, from Niger, had been charged with...

EU countries will have to introduce stronger controls on “blank-firing” guns, to prevent them being converted to fire live ammunition, under Internal Market Committee amendments, voted on...

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat met the new Mongolian Prime Minister Jargatulga Erdenebat at the beginning of his scheduled events during the Summit between European and Asian countries. The summit is...

Total inbound visitors for May were estimated at 191,967, an increase of 10.1 per cent when compared to the corresponding month of 2015, the National Statistics Office said today....

The European Parliament’s Committee for Civil Liberties and Home Affairs has given the green light to the latest EU proposal on the establishment of a common travel document to speed up the...

An additional Lm2 million is to be spent on roads after funds from the Fifth Italian Protocol that were kept in reserve “just in case” were not used on the projects which are already underway....

A total of eight unions, representing about 3,000 workers, have appealed to the government to have a representative appointed to take part in discussions at the Malta Council for Social and Economic (MCESD)....

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi will be presenting the budget for 2005 in Parliament tonight. He will start delivering his speech at 6.30pm, with Television Malta giving a live transmission of the event....

Racism has reared its ugly head in Malta, perhaps beyond tolerable levels, Family and Social Solidarity Minister Dolores Cristina said yesterday. The recent frequent arrival of irregular immigrants seems to have shocked Maltese society, she added....

Government should not rush into and impose reforms in the health sector, the Union Haddiema Maghqudin said yesterday....