Da mihi animas caetera tolle! (Give me souls, take away the rest). Whenever I hear this wonderful and bold Salesian motto, my heart is inflamed with God's love for souls. This simple yet powerful...

The Turin shroud is a forgery. Carbon dating tests by laboratories in Oxford, Zurich, and Tucson, Arizona "determined that the fibres in the cloth date from the Middle Ages, sometime between 1260 and...

Amid the cries of alarm from Joseph Muscat, Matteo Renzi and other European politicians over the deaths of so many African migrants in the Mediterranean, African leaders appear to be far from...

Why can't we do something well-planned? We residents of the area next to your offices in Birkirkara Hill, St Julian's, are having a nightmare with all the work being done in this road. Apart from the...

It would be interesting to find out whether the Minister for Transport and the chairman and chief executive officer of Transport Malta would be prepared to assume personal responsibility if and when a...

Prof. Alain Blondy When I was born my mother, Reine-Marguerite, was 43. My father had just come back from England where he had spent the entire war and my mother was recovering from a four year...

Britain’s Tories registered a surprise comprehensive victory at the polls yesterday, with the Conservative Party securing an outright majority to form an exclusive government. The...

Frans H. Said   Fifty years ago, in 1961, the second Sunday in May fell on the 14th of the month. Four days earlier I had mentioned, for the first time in Malta, the celebration of...

As the weather gets hotter and the seas get calmer, hardly a day goes by without us hearing of yet another tragedy where people perish in the Mediterranean Sea. Yester was one such day, but this...

Crooners abound where songs about love and romance are concerned, but not many have actually put pen to paper and dedicated a song to their mother. It is a very special kind of love, a bond that not...