On 24 May, the citizens of Malta and Gozo get to voice their opinion in European Parliamentary elections. You will have a selection of candidates to choose between.   The European Parliament...

The figures are enough to boggle the mind. One in four Maltese people are affected by cancer in some way or another. In 2012, 27 % of deaths registered in Malta were caused by cancer – that was...

Three years ago we sought to further our academic studies.  It had been seven years since we graduated with an honours degree in communications.  It was high time we read for a...

In 2002, the press reported the case of a 40 year-old school teacher who suddenly experienced uncontrollable paedophilia. After he was put under psychiatric care, MRI revealed an egg-sized tumour in...

Malta is so small that some foreigners actually believe that everybody literally knows everybody. Our sunny disposition, which makes us smile a lot on the whole, maybe adds on to this misconception of...

The sale of our citizenship scheme was for the past four months, and still is a priority on the national agenda, made it to the European Parliament and even reached world-wide news agencies. The...

Many will know of the hilarious British sitcom that titles this leading article. In it, the main character Hyacinth is obsessed with keeping up appearances, pretending to be uppercrust when she comes...

People define “sex” in different ways. Everyone have their own definition of what “sex” and “having sex” means. Some may define sex as ‘just for...

Give us a bit of background on your stage career so far.   I love all aspects of art and I try to do as many different things as I possibly can. It's a rare occasion when I take part in...

Roman Polanski. Edward Snowden. Manuel Noriega. Over the years, the famous and the infamous have been caught up in the legal process called extradition, which governs whether one country will turn...