• Kenya

    510 EABL customers renew claim in botched promotion

    Over 500 people who claimed to have won money during a botched Kenya Breweries Limited promotion in 2003 have renewed their court fight for compensation.

  • USA

    Europe approves Lantus biosimilar developed by MSD

    The European Medicines Agency has granted official sales approval to a new Lantus biosimilar developed by US-based Merck

  • Regno Unito Malta

    Court rejects former judge's libel complaint against Ombudsman

    A court ruled today that a letter by former Chief Justice and Ombudsman Joseph Said Pullicino to the President and the press was not defamatory. Libel proceedings had been instituted by retired Judge Carmelo Farrugia Sacco, former president of the Malta Olympic Committee. Prof Said Pullicino had, in December 2012, urged President ...

  • Malta

    MSE Share Index surpasses the 4,700 mark

    The MSE Share Index climbed 0.70% today to a fresh near nine-year high of 4,720.178 points as the gains in five equities (including four large cap companies) outweighed the declines in MIA and RS2. Furthermore, trading volumes surged to €0.62 million – the highest level year-to-date. Fifteen deals totalling 66,209 shares ...

  • Malta

    AUM Żonqor campus is ‘proceeding as planned’

    It is business as usual for the American University of Malta, an AUM spokesman said in the wake of Simon Busuttil’s pledge last week to negotiate an alternative to the Żonqor campus when he is prime minister. The Opposition leader made the declaration last Saturday when unveiling the Nationalist Party’s environment ...

  • Malta

    Hunter in court for shooting eagle

    A hunter from Mosta who last November made the headlines after allegedly shooting down a booted eagle, was back in court  court today for the compilation of evidence after he was accused of  having hunted the protected species.  Justin Chetcuti had been filmed by  Birdlife Malta members on November 2 in ...

  • Malta

    Households getting smaller, average family income rises to nearly €30,000

    Households have gotten smaller, they have an average income of just under €30,000 and manage annual savings of €5,500, according to the Central Bank of Malta. The findings are found in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey for 2013, which the CBM released this week. The survey found that 37 per cent ...

  • Regno Unito

    Wear high heels or go home

    You must wear shoes with five to 10cm heels at all times when you are at work. You must wear make-up and regularly re-apply it. You must wear tights, but not opaque ones. Those were some of the rules in a dress code imposed by a British recruitment agency on its ...

  • Malta

    Popular online programme INDEPTH gets banner overlay

    The popular online programme INDEPTH pod-casted on demand on www.independent.com.mt has recently launched a new advertising platform which will give viewers the opportunity to receive instant commercial information while watching the programme in a discrete lower-third of screen banner format. The new digital advertising platform will offer clients who want ...

  • Malta Montenegro

    Malta named one of the top places to visit in 2017 by German newspaper

    The Malta Tourism Authority is pleased to announce that one of Germany’s biggest newspapers, Welt am Sonntag, has chosen Malta as one of the top places to visit in 2017. This newspaper listed 12 countries which should be visited throughout 2017, with Malta placing second, just behind Montenegro.The article in ...