A 45-year-old father of two pleaded guilty to threatening and slightly injuring his estranged wife’s new partner....

An 18-year-old was given a two-year jail term suspended for four years yesterday, after he pleaded guilty to defiling a girl, 14, participating in sexual acts with her, and offending public morals....

Two Gozo tourism related papers, originally presented during the second Island Dynamics Conference which was held last May in Valletta, are being presented to the Gozitan public. ...

An immigrant who stood charged with maliciously causing a police officer grievous bodily harm on Wednesday evening filed a plea of insanity yesterday....

A six-month jail term suspended for two years was given to former drydocks worker Gilbert Agius, 35, after he was found guilty of stealing a number of welding cable coils from dock number one at the Malta Shipyards....

Malta has constantly supported Tunisia’s advancement in the Euro-Mediterranean framework and is committed to doing its utmost to assist the north African country through this pivotal moment in its history, Foreign Minister Tonio Borg said yesterday. ...

The Communist Party of Malta welcomed the vote in favour of divorce, noting that the “Catholic oligarchy” and the Nationalist Party had suffered a defeat – the PN because of its conservative policies, which are not in the interest of the Maltese family....

The man convicted for his involvement in the armed robbery in which a bank messenger was killed over 10 years ago has denied that he had told Ninu Frendo, known as Il-Ballerin, that Richard Grech had fired a shotgun on the day of the robbery....

A man has been handed down a 15-year jail term and fined €25,000 after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to deal in ecstasy, as well as importation and possession of the drug in September 2006....

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives paid tribute to former Labour minister Freddie Micallef, who passed away last week....