• USA

    Samsung hit as US carriers halt Note 7 sales

    Shares drop amid reports that some replacement smartphones have caught fire

  • USA

    Birth of a Nation confronts US racial past and present

    Backers of The Birth of a Nation are hoping the film’s buzz will finally shift away from the controversy dogging its creator and towards the slavery drama’s powerful message about race relations in America. The film about Nat Turner, a slave who led a rebellion in Virginia in 1831, was once ...

  • Cina USA

    Samsung halts Galaxy Note 7 production, South Korean media reports

    Samsung has suspended production of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones following reports of fires in replacement devices, South Korean media said today, a further setback for the tech giant in the midst of its worst ever phone recall crisis. Samsung's decision to temporarily halt Note 7 production was done in cooperation ...

  • Malta

    Science for economic prosperity

    The Maltese economy is passing through a phase of growth that is encouraging. Whether this growth is sustainable is much less certain. It would be wiser for economic policymakers to dig deep in the foundations of our economy rather than repeat the vague political mantra that more investment will flow ...

  • Malta

    Alitalia has asked Air Malta to pay a 'management fee’

    Alitalia proposed that Air Malta pay an annual management fee as part of a deal to take over a minority shareholding in the Maltese national carrier, civil aviation industry sources said.  The sources told the Times of Malta the government had already accepted in principle the payment of such a fee. ...

  • USA

    Editorial: A not too fond farewell to criminal libel

    With Parliament reconvening tomorrow and with the government planning, as one of its first acts of the new parliamentary season, to abolish the legal concept of criminal libel, we would like to bid a not too fond farewell to this vestige of different times when freedom of speech and freedom ...

  • Singapore Malta

    It's here: Controversial LNG tanker sails into Marsaxlokk Bay; historic day - Konrad Mizzi

    The LNG tanker that will be permanently moored in Marsaxlokk bay arrived this morning but the government is still not in a position to say when the gas-fired power station will go online.The tanker sailed into the bay early this morning, at around 7.30am. It turned facing outwards, with the ...

  • Russia USA

    90 minutes of fire: Trump, Clinton trade charges, insults

    In a bitter debate filled with fire and insult, Hillary Clinton declared that Donald Trump's vulgar comments about women reveal "exactly who he is" and prove his unsuitability to be president. Firing back, he accused her of attacking women involved in Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs and promised she would "be ...

  • USA Panama Malta Italia

    Updated: Traffic is price of success, PM orders inquiry on allegations involving PN deputy leader

    Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said that the public should not take the country's success for granted. He said that the country's success comes at a price, and one of the major costs is traffic.  "Traffic is just one of the problems caused by this success," he told the crowd which ...

  • Turchia

    Visa liberalization with Turkey possible after ‘dust settles’

    There is no chance of Turkey being granted visa-free access to the EU before the end of the month, but liberalization could come when the present storm in the country calms down, according to an adviser to the EU’s foreign policy chief. Turks might be able to travel by early ...