Oscar-nominated UK actress Joan Plowright, a legend of stage and screen and wife of the great actor Laurence Olivier, has died at the age of 95, her family said Friday. “It is with great sadness ...

What do strawberries, Disneyland and the First Gulf War all have in common? They all feature in post-modernist philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s theory of hyperreality. An event happening on ...

A 34-year-old motorcyclist was grievously injured in a crash at 10.15am in Naxxar on Thursday. The police said the accident, on Triq il-Fortizza tal-Mosta involved a Vauxhall driven by a 45-year ...

David Lynch - the groundbreaking director behind "Mulholland Drive" and television's "Twin Peaks", who gained a cult following for his unsettling portraits of American life - has died. He was 78 ...

In Greek mythology, Tantalus is a tragic figure condemned to eternal torment in the underworld. His punishment is a striking image of frustration: standing in a pool of water beneath a tree laden ...

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A woman was given a six-month jail term suspended for a year for assaulting her partner with a knife following an argument that started because she wanted to leave Malta to head back to Brazil ...

A magistrate has ordered the police to investigate how an inquiry into Pilatus Bank ended up in the hands of former Repubblika president Robert Aquilina after access to the document led the ...

A court has ordered the defunct St Philip’s Hospital to settle a long-standing debt of €12 million with HSBC. Judge Mark Simiana dismissed claims the interest charged by HSBC on the debt ...

The Malta Meteorological Officer issued an orange weather warning on Friday morning, saying that winds blowing over Malta are expected to reach Gale force over some parts of the country.

The advent of social media has profoundly influenced language evolution, introducing new linguistic trends and emergent forms of communication. Language conservatives fret about the way younger ...

Russia on Friday sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for bringing messages from the late opposition leader from prison to the outside world.