Seventy migrants are believed to have perished in Libyan waters on Friday evening as the rubber dinghy they were travelling in sank, Italian media report. Twenty-six other migrants were saved by...

The Magro Brothers Group is investing €5 million on its 100th anniversary, the company said during a visit to their premises by Gozo Minister Anton Refalo. Minister Refalo was shown round...

Education Minister Evarist Bartolo this morning said that he is not interested in the race for the post of Labour Party deputy leader. Mr Bartolo used his Facebook page to announce that he will...

An appeals court yesterday confirmed a 25-year jail term for the man who was found guilty of murdering hairdresser Alfie Rizzo at his salon in Gzira on 5 February 1998. Aimen Said Giali El Baden, a Libyan who was only 17 years old when he killed Mr...

A delegation of the Malta Labour Party has had a meeting with officials of the United Nations International Institute on Ageing that is based in Malta....

Representatives from Greenpeace yesterday met Competitiveness and Communications Minister Censu Galea to discuss the issue of ship breaking and the safeguard of its possible environmental impact....

Labour member of the European Parliament Joseph Muscat took an active part on behalf of the Socialist Group in the hearing of Dutch Commissioner Designate, Neelie Kroes.Joseph Muscat said that the European Union should be more social. He appealed t...

David Casa was appointed shadow rapporteur for the environment and health and food safety committee by the EPP-ED group. Mr Casa is a substitute in this committee, nevertheless he was unanimously appointed to the post and he will be the spokesman for...

With the decision that single-hull tankers, which originally were going to be banned from 2015, be banned from 2010 instead, there are about 2,000 ships worldwide which will have to be scrapped between now and 2010....

The Opposition is ready to support any government initiative including new legislation to remove the unsightly, and even dangerous, sunken ships in the inner reaches of Marsa, Labour front bencher Joe Mizzi said yesterday....