• USA

    US space plane lands after two-year secret mission

    The US military's experimental X-37B space plane landed yesterday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a classified mission that lasted nearly two years, the Air Force said. The unmanned X-37B, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, touched down at 7:47 a.m. on a runway formerly used for landings of ...

  • Australia Nuova Zelanda

    Australian customs destroys unique plant specimens after quarantine mix-up

    Australian customs officials destroyed two irreplaceable plant specimens that were being loaned to scientists by international institutions, prompting the agriculture department to concede that some missteps had occurred enforcing strict quarantine laws. France's National Museum of Natural History and New Zealand's Landcare Research Allan Herbarium had sent the samples of ...

  • USA

    Sanofi – an equity to consider for your portfolio

    Sanofi S.A. is a French multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Gentilly, France, as of 2013 the world's fifth-largest by prescription sales. The company was formed as Sanofi-Aventis in 2004 by the merger of Aventis and Sanofi-Synthélabo, which were each the product of several previous mergers. It changed its name to ...

  • Malta

    Labour makes promises in transport, education, health, environment, business sectors

    The Labour Party made proposals in the transport, education, health and business sectors today ahead of the June 3 general election.  For the business sector, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said a new Labour government would facilitate access to finance for businesses through the Malta Development Bank.  He said action would also be ...

  • USA Panama

    Editorial: Political crisis - PM: stop treating us like idiots

    The Prime Minister should stop insulting our intelligence and tackle the FIAU reports issue head-on, instead of beating around the bush, changing subject and shifting the blame. Joseph Muscat had already insulted the country when he did not sack Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri a year ago, when the Panama Papers ...

  • Spagna Panama Malta

    Brian Tonna does not know if HSBC held investigation over reports issued by closed bank branch

    Nexia BT's Brian Tonna said today that he does not know whether HSBC Malta held an investigation into information reports issued by the closed Attard Branch on behalf of OPM Chief of Staff Keith Schembri and Kasco's General Manager Malcolm Scerri.Mr Tonna was testifying in a libel case he, along ...

  • USA Malta

    Brussels confirms Manoel Island project falls under EIA Directive

    European Commissioner for the Environment Karmenu Vella this week confirmed that the Manoel Island development “appears” to be subject to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive 2011/92/EU even though the contract for the project had been signed with the government before Malta’s accession to the EU.Labour Party MEP Miriam Dalli ...

  • Malta

    iSurvey: Majority want permanent link between Malta and Gozo after the election

    A majority are in favour of a permanent link between Malta and Gozo either by tunnel or bridge, the seventh edition of The Malta Independent’s iSurvey shows.Respondents were asked: Are you in favour of linking Malta by a bridge or by tunnel? Overall, 62.7% of respondents replied in the affirmative, ...

  • USA Malta

    Watch: PM not ready to publish documents on Keith Schembri ‘loan’

    Prime Minister Joseph Muscat indicated today that he will not publish the alleged documents on a €100,000 loan OPM Chief of Staff Keith Schembri is said to have taken from Nexia BT’s Brian Tonna.PN Leader Simon busuttil had alleged that Keith Schembri received around €100,000 in kickbacks from Brian Tonna ...

  • Malta

    It is in national interest that FIAU report is published, even if it is illegal – Busuttil

    Even though it is illegal to publish Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) reports, it is currently in the national interest to publish any reports that deal with the workings of politically exposed persons, Nationalist Party Leader Simon Busuttil said today.Replying to a question by The Malta Independent in a press ...