Pope Francis, who recently returned from a gruelling 12-day trip, cancelled his public meetings Monday due to "light flu symptoms", so he could rest ahead of a visit to Belgium this week, the Vatican ...

Endurance athlete Neil Agius had swam non-stop for 80km on Sunday afternoon as he continued his attempt to achieve a record-breaking 160km swim around Malta, Gozo and Comino. Agius kicked off his ...

Science in the City, Malta’s national science and arts festival, returns to Valletta next Friday and Saturday (September 27-28) with activities, workshops and entertainment for children, teenagers and ...

The Wignacourt Museum in Rabat is currently showing a series of photographic works by Martin Agius, who specialises in street photography. These works form part of a project that focuses on double ...

Researchers have reconstructed the oldest human genomes ever found in South Africa from two people who lived around 10,000 years ago, allowing a better understanding of how the region was populated, ...

The operation that used pagers and walkie-talkies to kill members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was ingenious – but was it legal? Certainly, there are those who will argue that it was. That ...

Many of the World Cups that took place during my childhood and teenage years were memorable – 1982 was a bit of a football classic, while 1986 had moments of magic and madness in equal measure. But if ...

The Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina rebuffed calls Thursday to drop out of the race following a report that he called himself a "Black Nazi" and made other incendiary comments ...

Oil that spilled across the Sliema side of Marsamxett harbour on Tuesday was cleaned up by Wednesday afternoon, according to a spokesperson for the transport ministry. However, floating barriers ...

Paceville’s Millennium Chapel has been “flooded” with individuals and companies offering to help the people sleeping rough on the locality’s streets. Fr Hilary Tagliaferro, the founder of the charity, ...

The success of far-right parties in elections in key European countries is prompting even centrist and left-wing governments to tighten policies on migration, creating cracks in unity and sparking ...

This has not been a good year for the country’s effort to revamp its international image, a critically important factor to attract new investment. The latest setback is the probable exit of HSBC ...