“Consumers need to be at the core of any European energy policy and this should be reflected in all the Member States.”  MEP Miriam Dalli emphasized this as the European Parliament...

A private member’s bill put forward by Nationalist MP Mario Galea calls for a ban on allowing dogs to be chained up for long periods of time and on collars which may restrict a dog’s...

Scientists have taken a “very positive step” towards creating a universal vaccine against cancer that makes the body’s immune system attack tumours as if they were a virus,...

A week after incidents marred the feast of Our Lady of Graces in Zabbar, the Archbishop’s Curia said that it will be investigating them within the feast regulations that came into force on 1 January 2003....

A delegation from the European Parliament Fisheries Committee will be visiting Malta next year....

A reader contacted The Malta Independent yesterday to complain about double-standards at St Luke’s Hospital when a security guard proceeded to eat a meal right next to a “No food and drinks allowed” sign....

In August 2004, the retail prices index went down by 0.85 per cent to 103.25 from 104.14 in the previous month, according to figures released yesterday by the National Statistics Office....

The rate of inflation in Malta for the first eight months of the year has reached 2.8 per cent, the Chamber for Small and Medium Enterprises said yesterday. This places Malta among the countries with the highest inflation rates in Europe....

An event that created a great deal of controversy, prompting a statement from the Cottonera Joint Committee and an almost immediate reply from the Tourism Ministry, was ultimately postponed because of a forecast of bad weather....

Police raids yesterday netted about 100 ecstasy pills as well as counterfeit bank notes in two raids on Thursday night and the early hours of Friday morning....