When Success Ibginedion, a young Nigerian woman, was rescued from a smugglers' fishing boat after three days adrift in the Mediterranean Sea, she considered herself both lucky and unlucky. She...

The Victoria local council was never briefed on the works going on at the ‘Cittadella’ in Victoria, Mayor Samuel Azzopardi told The Malta Independent. This, “despite our...

Members of Parliament from more than sixty co​untries met in Vancouver to discuss the human, social and economic cost of diabetes. At the end of the conference, they adopted a declaration...

If an election were to happen tomorrow, “I would have to vote Nationalist because it is PN which is now supporting our Labour Movement manifesto,” independent MP Marlene Farrugia write...

Addressing a press conference at the Malta Life Sciences Centre which is to host the new premises of the Medicines Authority, Minister for Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs and Civil Liberties Helena...

The government was right to suspend the Schengen agreement in the light of what happened in Paris, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Tuesday evening. Interviewed on the Labour Party’s TV...

Malta is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the UK Malta health reciprocal agreement which gives hope to so many Maltese people via treatment in London hospitals, President Marie Louise Coleiro...

There are a total of 50 people infected with HIV and one person infected with Aids, Health Minister Konrad Mizzi told parliament tonight. Dr Mizzi said that 45 of those infected were male, and 6...

The Swieqi police station was again closed early on Saturday morning, when residents went to report that three armed robbers had just attempted to break into a house.  Residents of the locality...

On Wednesday, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) released its Annual Report and confirmed that expenditure for the Salina Coast Road project was ineligible due to a "serious failure to comply with...