Iran tests weapons across Hormuz
Iran has test-fired a range of weapons during military exercises near the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for one-fifth of the world's oil supply. Its air defence system Raad, or Thunder, was among...
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Updated: World welcomes 2013 with a bang
Lavish fireworks displays have ushered in 2013 across the Asia-Pacific region and Europe is holding scaled-back festivities in the hope of beginning a new year that will be kinder to its battered...
View ArticleCareer opportunities after studying applied food and nutritional sciences
After visiting Health Awareness Day organised by members of the Malta Health Students’ Organisation last month in Sliema, The Zone decided to shed more light on the new course in applied food and...
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Success in 2013?
On Saturday 5th January, 2013, BPW (Valletta) Malta is presenting Ms. Jeanne Martinson M.A., from MARTRAIN. Ms. Martinson is an International Professional Speaker, Trainer and Author. She has...
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2012 - A year of everything
Double murders at the beginning of the year, double murders almost at its end; the collapse of the government, the passing away of Censu Tabone and Dom Mintoff, a judge held for police interrogation,...
View ArticleDeathbed rumours spread over Chavez
Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez is suffering new complications after cancer surgery, prompting growing speculation about whether he has much longer to live. Vice president Nicolas Maduro looked...
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Let's unite to face the challenges ahead - Muscat
March 10, the day after people cast their vote in a general election, should be one like any other with all the people emerging as winners irrelevant of the result, Labour leader Joseph Muscat said...
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Pope optimistic at end of hard year
Pope Benedict XVI has marked the end of a difficult year by saying that goodness prevails despite all the death and injustice in the world. Pope Benedict celebrated New Year's Eve with a vespers...
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Ukranian dolphin trained to crawl on flat surface
A dolphin trainer in the Ukraine has taught one of his wards to do something quite unusual. Gosha - a 15-year-old Black Sea bottlenose dolphin - can now leap out of the water and crawl up to 10 metres...
View ArticleNo one injured in car fire
No one was injured when a Volkswagen Passat caught fire in Triq San Nikola, Cospicua at 7.50pm. The fire was controlled by the police and members of the Civil Protection Department. A magisterial...
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Celebration as world sees in 2013
From teeming Times Square to a once-isolated Asian country celebrating its first public New Year's Eve countdown in decades, the world looked to 2013 with hope for renewal after a year of economic...
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‘We want to know the truth’
Police investigations into the Sliema double stabbings on New Year’s Day 2012 have hit a brick wall as relatives yearn to know the truth one year on. Investigators have tried honing in on the motive...
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Respite home’s charity event today
The annual fundraising marathon in aid of the 98 disabled residents of Id-Dar tal-Providenza takes place today. This is the seventeenth year that RTK 4 Charity has organised the marathon at Siġġiewi,...
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Bus rape: Five facing murder charge
Police are expected to formally charge five of six suspects with murder over the death of 23-year-old woman gang-raped on a bus in New Delhi, India. The sixth suspect is under 18 and a juvenile, but a...
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Updated: Give civil society more space, President tells politicians
President George Abela this morning urged political parties to include a chapter on civil society in their election manifestos. He was speaking in the presence of Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi during...
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Judiciary should aim for highest level of ethical behaviour - Chief Justice
Chief Justice Silvio Camilleri this morning described the President and his wife as a symbol of unity but then told him “I wish I could have said the same for the judiciary”. The chief justice was...
View ArticleIran tests anti-ship missile
Iran has tested advanced anti-ship missiles in the final day of a naval drill near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for one-fifth of the world's oil supply. State TV said Ghader, or...
View ArticleCalendar derailed for 63 years
A Pennsylvania newspaper has just received a calendar to help ring in the new year - 1950. Scranton's The Times-Tribune said a mail carrier delivered it 63 years late without explanation on Friday....
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Pope hopes for peace to prevail
Pope Benedict XVI said he is convinced peace will prevail in 2013, despite the inequality, terrorism and "unregulated financial capitalism" that afflict the world today. Pope Benedict celebrated a...
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Church has obligation to speak on moral issues - Archbishop
The Church had an obligation to speak about moral issues within the political sphere and its words should not be misconstrued as interference, Archbishop Cremona said this morning. “We are here to...
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