The Salesians of Don Bosco in Malta are organising a grand sale of fine selection of Sicilian ceramics and cribs from Sciacca, together with items of antique furniture. The sale will take place...

The poppy is a beautiful flower. They come in hues of purple, orange and yellow. But the colour that it is known for is red. The red poppy has come to symbolise those who lost their lives in the...

Last week was committee week in the European Parliament. It is the voting sessions and discussions during the plenary in Strasbourg that are most often televised and known to the public. But it is in...

Tunisia's recent parliamentary elections were a significant step forward in the country's transition to full democracy. The country, which sparked the Arab Spring with the self- immolation of a young...

The news which Albert Marshall delivered to me during a meeting of ours some time ago was, to say the least, unexpected. Not only was I invited to meet Yevgeni Yevtushenko, one of the most important...

This week's comments made on the social media by a prospective, but thankfully unelected, political candidate calling for a boycott on what is arguably the country's most beloved annual charity event,...

Pierre Assouline, journalist, writer, blogger, broadcaster, member of the Académie Goncourt and one of the formidable forces in contemporary French literature is coming to Malta for the...

With the Malta Book Festival next week, Marie Benoît looks at the endless fascination of the printed word Montaigne, the French thinker and a bestseller for at least 400 years, confessed to...

Cartoon 09 November 2014...