Wisdom is one of the grandest and oddest words. Though it is impossible to reach a state of wisdom, as an ambition, wisdom deserves to be rehabilitated and take its place...

The latest flash in the pan to take the world by storm is Pokemon Go. The game is a spinoff of one of Nintendo’s most popular video games – Pokemon – which spawned cartoons, fluffy...

Should a terminally-ill patient be allowed euthanasia or assisted suicide? Should such a patient be given the faculty to pre-inform medical teams of when to pull the plug on his or her life support...

The pigeon culling exercise in Balzan last week raised controversy  given that it literally involved men walking around with air rifles taking pot shots at the birds. The first thing that...

It is almost August and that time of the year, in journalistic jargon, is referred to as silly season. As people laze around on the beach and companies go on shutdown, life turns into a bit of a...

In today’s issue, an interview with the head of the Psychiatric Nurses Association tackles the issue of the stigma which is still attached to mental illness. Pierre Galea told this...

The last two weeks have been characterised by a tough standoff between Air Malta and its shareholder, the government of Malta on the one side, and its pilots, represented by ALPA on the other. ...

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The national airline has rarely been clear of turbulence over recent years, from its near bankruptcy and the €52 million bailout it had under the previous government to the current...

If it’s not avian flu, it’s global warming. Now that we no longer have to worry about being eaten by prides of lions, torn to pieces by packs of wolves, or being wiped out by the plague, we cast about for some other...