• USA Austria

    Father's Day creator was Renaissance woman, descendant says

    This Father's Day, Betsy Roddy will write two cards: one to her dad, and the other to her late great-grandmother, Sonora Smart Dodd.The second card is a century-old family tradition honoring the Mother of Father's Day.Sunday is the 107th Father's Day celebrated in the U.S. since Dodd created the holiday ...

  • USA

    Bill Cosby judge declares mistrial as jury deadlocks again

    Bill Cosby's trial on sexual assault charges ended in a mistrial Saturday after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision in a case that helped destroy the 79-year-old comedian's image as "America's Dad."Jurors deliberated more than 52 hours over six days before telling a judge they couldn't agree on whether "The Cosby Show" star ...

  • Australia Malta

    Sliema residents dismayed by ongoing excavation works despite ‘summer break’

    Sliema residents in the vicinity of Triq Sant’ Antnin and Tigne Seafront are fuming after disruptive excavation works related to a development project continue despite a summer break thta supposedly came into force.Through the strength of legal notice 295 of 2007, demolition and excavation works in designated tourist zones must ...

  • Qatar USA Malta

    Foreign Affairs Ministry categorically denies media report on Saudi Arabia cutting ties with Malta

    A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion has categorically denied a media report stating that Saudi Arabia has severed all ties with Malta over alleged remarks made by the Minister on Gulf countries’ decision to cut ties with Qatar.Some weeks ago Gulf countries took a decision ...

  • USA Malta

    Watch: Authorities need to take action on traffic blind spots – dead biker's father

    After the tragic death of 28-year-old motorcyclist Christopher Paul Abela (below, with his wife) last week after being involved in a road accident, Christopher’s father, Paul, is appealing to the public be more attentive on the roads in order to prevent such accidents reoccurring on our streets. “In incidents like ...

  • USA Malta

    Tonio Fenech calls for return to Christian values in resignation letter to PN

    Former Minister Tonio Fenech called on political parties to return to Christian values, claiming that he had been the target of “mud-slinging”, and said that he had entered politics to make a difference and “not for the money”, in his resignation letter to the Nationalist Party, The Malta Independent on ...

  • USA Portogallo Spagna

    Updated: 57 dead in central Portugal wildfires; many killed in cars

    Raging forest fires in central Portugal killed at least 57 people, many of them trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road, in what the prime minister on Sunday called "the biggest tragedy of human life that we have known in years."Nearly 60 other people were injured, including ...

  • USA Malta

    No one ready to commit for Nationalist Party leadership contest

    The four Nationalist Party (PN) contenders that are being mentioned so far to replace outgoing leader Simon Busuttil - Claudio Grech, Roberta Metsola, Chris Said and Adrian Delia – have remained non-committal on running for the post of PN leader when questioned.The Malta Independent on Sunday carried out an exercise ...

  • Panama Malta

    TMIS Editorial: Malta and the rule of law: traitors or patriots?

    Much has been said in the wake of the Prime Minister’s somewhat anti-climatic appearance before the European Parliament’s plenary session this week that debated Malta and the rule of law in the wake of the Panama Papers. One could have been forgiven for having expected more of the Prime Minister on ...

  • Malta

    Edward Scicluna confirms PL deputy leader bid, Chris Fearne favourite to take post

    Finance Minister Edward Scicluna has confirmed with The Malta Independent on Sunday his intention to run for Labour Party deputy leader for parliamentary affairs, a post vacated by Louis Grech before the election. Scicluna has been among those mentioned as being in the running to occupy the important role.The post ...