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Prime Minister Joseph Muscat stepped in to help end a hunger strike by a Pembroke man in protest at late night noise beside his home. Dean Camilleri had begun his hunger strike outside thes Auberge de Castille after becoming frustrated after months of seemingly useless fighting against the operaters of a venue in St Georges Bay. He had been complaining about...
Among tonight's Champions League ties, Tottenham Hotspur travel to Russia to face CSKA Moscow. Leicester play their first ever home tie in Eupopean competition when they take on FC Porto. Borussia Dortmund face Real Madrid with media attention on Cristiano Ronaldo who was visibly annoyed at being substituted in Real's 2-2 draw with Las Palmas at the weekend. Juventus could face a...
Presidential hopefuls Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump clashed in a fiery television debate, the first of three such debates before the November Presidential elections. Both attacked each other on a number of issues ranging from tax to race to national security. Attacks were often feisty with Trump slamming Clinton on abuse of e-mails, something which Hilary Clinton admitted was a mistake. In...
An explosion that caused a crash and left three people injured, one of them critically, was caused by a bomb according to official sources. The most seriously injured man, who was in the van, is reported to have lost both legs in the blast. The other person in the vehicle was slightly injured. A third person, in a car close to the...
Pembroke stunned high-flying B'Kara with a 2-1 win at the  Victor Tedesco Stadium in a match that had been postponed at the weekend due to heavy rain. It was a second defeat in three games for B'Kara. As for Pembroke they picked up their first points of the season but they remain anchored at the foot of the table. Hamrun and Floriana...
This year's Budget will be presented to Parliament on October 17, Finance Minister Edward Scicluna announced. The Budget will focus on reducing further the deficit, Malta is well below the European average, and will aim to provide a decent standard of living for everyone.
Two men were injured when a van exploded in Aldo Moro Road in Marsa on Monday afternoon. First reports suggested that the van had suffered a blow-out but that seems to have been discared by authorities as interior of van was extensively damaged. The incident happened shortly after 6pm and closed all four south-bound lanes. The injured men were taken to Mater...
When a successful New York advertising executive (Will Smith) experiences a deep personal tragedy and retreats from life entirely, his colleagues devise a drastic plan to force him to confront his grief in a surprising and profoundly human way.  
The Constitutional Court today heard the final submissions in the case of contested Parliamentary seats in the 2013 General Election. The Nationalist Party had claimed that misplaced votes had meant that candidates Claudette Buttigieg and Frederick Azzopardi had missed the chance to be elected with a quota. The Labour Party had contested a decision made in May when the Court had...
Jason Galea was jailed for six and a half years this morning, for his part in an attempted hold up at a Valletta jewellery shop in 2010, in which the elderly shopkeeper was grievously injured. Galea had denied charges of attempted aggravated theft and of holding Frank Zampa, who was 79 at the time, - against his will, threatening to...