• Spagna

    Metro, roads disrupted in Catalonia pro-independence protest

    Barcelona metro stations were closed, pickets blocked main roads and civil servants walked out today in response to a strike called by pro-independence groups after hundreds were injured in a Spanish police crackdown on a banned independence referendum. The stoppages, originally billed as a region-wide general strike but disavowed by the ...

  • Paesi Bassi Malta

    Hugo Chetcuti in favour of regularising prostitution but says safeguards are necessary

    Club owner, businessman and hotelier Hugo Chetcuti agrees with the regularisation of prostitution, but believes that a number of safeguards should be put in place to ensure that those going into this line of work realise the decision they are making.Over the past few weeks, this newsroom has interviewed a ...

  • Regno Unito Malta

    Annemarie Mayo: An experimental architect with a unique art, design and music outlook

    After eight years of experience, working as an architect, Annemarie decided to pursue her growing interest in museum and exhibition design, as well as the design of visitor experiences. She recently took a course called MA Narrative Environments based at Central Saint Martins, London and graduated this year. "I was intrigued ...

  • USA Malta

    TMID Editorial - Monday reflections: When terror is not terrorism

    Terrorism. A white male opened fire into a festival crowd, killing at least 50 on Sunday. Somehow, this horrible incident was not classified as terrorism by the mainstream media. Instead, the Las Vegas massacre, which is being considered as one of the worst shootings in the US in recent history, ...

  • Malta

    Update: Peter Micallef wins casual election to fill seat vacated by Jean Pierre Debono

    Peter Micallef has won the casual election for the parliamentary seat vacated by PN MP Jean Pierre Debono's after receiving 1719 votes.The winning candidate is required to reach 50% + 1 of Debono's votes in the last general election,  which is 1653 votes.Micallef is expected to immediately hand over the seat ...

  • USA Myanmar

    Brother: Las Vegas gunman was wealthy real-estate investor

    Stephen Paddock (above) lived in a tidy Nevada retirement community where the amenities include golf, tennis and bocce. He was a wealthy real-estate investor, recently shipped his 90-year-old mother a walker and liked to play high-stakes video poker in Las Vegas.Nothing in his background suggests why he would have been ...

  • USA Myanmar

    Watch: Gunman had 'bump-stock' device that could speed fire

    The gunman who unleashed hundreds of rounds of gunfire on a crowd of concertgoers in Las Vegas had two "bump-stocks" that could have converted semi-automatic firearms into fully automatic ones, officials said.The devices have attracted scrutiny in recent years from authorities.California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has long railed against them. Several ...

  • USA Malta

    PL, PN agree on amendments to Competition Act based on EU directive regulating damages

    MPs from both sides of the political divide were in agreement this evening as Parliament debated amendments to the Competition Act, required due to an EU Directive.The Directive is regarding the procedures which govern action for damages under national law for infringements in EU competition law.Due to the rare sight ...

  • Malta

    Government should have terminated the PPP landscaping contract – NAO

     The National Audit Office, in a report on the 15-year-old Public-Private-Partnership between government and environmental landscapes consortium limited (ELC) due to the unfavourable terms for the former, and contractual breaches.“The MELP Monitoring Unit, Government’s monitoring arm within this Contract, is understaffed and cannot cope with the administrative and operational burdens associated ...

  • Malta

    Decision on whether to fire John Bundy rests with PBS, Prime Minister says

    Prime Minister Joseph Muscat this afternoon told journalists that the decision on whether to sack PBS CEO John Bundy rests with PBS alone. Muscat was speaking after a visit to HSBC bank in Zabbar. Last week The Malta Independent reported that the PBS board was threatening to resign if Bundy ...