BAGHDAD – In spite of much good news about security progress in Iraq this summer, Iraq faces an urgent crisis in securing Baghdad....

The other day I went to a doctor and said: “What’s up, Doc?”...

A report in this week’s Economist, “What’s that hissing sound?” on the slowly deflating house price boom in the US could well (except we have no such deflation...

Soon after taking up the office of Prime Minister on 3 March 2004, Dr Lawrence Gonzi declared confidently, and no doubt with the best of intentions, that...

I recently started a heated discussion among a group of mature adults regarding people who inflict self-harm, such as smokers and alcoholics,...

As time goes by, it is becoming ever more clear that, all claims notwithstanding, joining the EU could be the death-knell for Malta’s ailing farmers....

Budgets are serious business and are all about planning ahead – something that has so far been the hallmark of the Gonzi Government. ...

Someone, God knows who it was, wrote on a wall in the city of Bogota: “Let’s leave pessimism for better times.” Is our local pessimism as grounded in ...

As Malta approaches the run-in to the next general election, the political parties will switch their roles from the defensive to the offensive. They will proceed by deploying their troops, hitherto engaged in static trench ...

I hate it when it happens to me and I regret it is happening more and more often. Whenever I visit a foreign country without many expectations, I often remain marvelled at the development and quality ...