Embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is arming civilian supporters in order to quash dissent in Tripoli with checkpoints and roving patrols, the capital’s residents claimed today.
The reports came a day after protesters demanding Colonel…
Updated: The Canadian Air Force has deployed a giant C-17 Globemaster aircraft to Malta to help in the evacuation of its citizens from Libya.
The plane – relatively rare in Malta – arrived last night, flew to Tripoli and returned in the…
Small Maltese companies can now boost their chances of breaking into the international market through a scheme launched today.
Announced in the Budget speech, Gateway to Export will be providing companies that have fewer than 50 employees with…
The European Commission is insisting with the Maltese authorities to put in place without further delay legislation which will enable the island to introduce Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) as from May.
According to the Commission, despite the…
A court today revoked bail which had been granted to a man who stands accused of the attempted murder of his girlfriend by trying to choke her with a telephone cord on Valentine’s Day.
Stephen Vella, 34, of Qormi was accused of the attempted…
A wave of charged plasma particles from a huge solar eruption has glanced off the Earth’s northern pole, lighting up auroras and disrupting some radio communications, a NASA scientist said.
But the Earth appears to have escaped a widespread …
Parliamentary Secretary Mario de Marco has temporarily moved office to Hexagon House in Marsa.
His Office said the parliamentary secretary wanted to personally monitor working conditions there after the employees of the Mepa Environment section…
This morning’s trading session on the Malta Stock Exchange was characterised by low trading activity as investors remained on the side-lines in anticipation of the publication of the 2010 full-year results of HSBC Bank Malta plc due tomorrow…
The man who stands accused of the murder of his former girlfriend in Mgarr on December 11 told the police that he fired the shots after she drove at him and he became scared, a police inspector testified today.
Inspector Edmond Cuschieri was…
The fundamental human rights of four men charged with immoral actions had been violated as the law did not lay down any guidelines as to what these actions consisted of, the Constitutional Court ruled today.
The judgement was delivered by Mr…
