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Juventus’s Conte named Italian coach of the year
Juventus head coach Antonio Conte has won the Golden Bench award after being recognised as the Serie A coach of the 2011-12 season. The 43-year-old steered the Turin giants through an entire league...
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Time to refer war crimes to ICC-UN inquiry
United Nations investigators said yesterday that Syrian leaders they had identified as suspected war criminals should face the International Criminal Court (ICC). The investigators urged the UN...
View ArticleArsenal must show Chelsea spirit – Wilshere
Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere says his team must take Chelsea’s spirit into today’s Champions League, last-16 first-leg clash with Bayern Munich if they are to keep alive their hopes of salvaging...
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‘Syrian government is now ready to talk with armed groups’
Syria is prepared to talk to armed opposition groups, the minister for national reconciliation said yesterday, the first time the government has offered to hold direct negotiations with rebel forces...
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Milan, Barca meet again
Last year’s Champions League hero could return to the competition after his unhappy foray in the Far East while two of its oldest foes meet again in this week’s last-16 first leg ties. Didier Drogba,...
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A hobby that dates back to the Knights of Malta
The love for anything sacred instilled in the Maltese by the Knights is being showcased at St Francis Hall in Valletta in an exhibition by the Church Model Society. Church modelling as a folkloristic...
View ArticleDefendant questions a judge’s integrity
A defendant yesterday attempted to cast doubt over the integrity of a sitting member of the judiciary while testifying in the case involving former judge Ray Pace, who has been charged with accepting...
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Company owner’smurder ‘planned’
Eight bullets were fired yesterday afternoon as a desolate corner of Ħal Far industrial estate became the scene of a murder which the police believe was planned. Ronald Galea, 65, was shot just...
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New police forensics lab inaugurated
A Nationalist Government will continue to ensure that the police force is equipped with the necessary technology and equipment to fight crime, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said. He spoke during the...
View ArticleSliema business community objects to parking scheme
The association representing the Sliema business community this evening hit out at Sliema Council's plans for a residential parkign scheme. It said its views were never sought by the council. "The...
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Socialist leaders cause problems because they promise everything to everyone...
All of Joseph Muscat's idols had created problems in their countries, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said when speaking in Qormi this evening. He said there was economic turmoil in France under...
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Two charged with 2005 murder of a young man
Two men, a Tunisian and a Libyan who claimed he was due to leave prison yesterday, were charged with the murder of a 20-year-old man whose decomposing body was found dumped in a field in Marsa eight...
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Tunisian Prime Minister resigns
Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali resigned yesterday after his attempt to end a political stand-off by forming a government of technocrats failed. “I vowed that if my initiative did not succeed, I...
View ArticleSliema firms bristle at parking scheme
The association representing the Sliema business community yesterday evening hit out at Sliema council’s plans for a residential parking scheme. It said its views were never sought by the council....
View ArticleFamily of seven kidnapped in Cameroon
Islamist militants from neighbouring Nigeria abducted a French family of seven, including four children, in northern Cameroon yesterday, French President Francois Hollande said. The risk of attacks on...
View ArticleTwo BA members accused of being hostile and aggressive
A member of the Broadcasting Authority yesterday criticised two of his colleagues, saying their hostile attitude would not allow the complaints board to “rise above political beliefs”. Testifying in...
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French soldier killed in Mali
A French soldier and more than 20 Islamist rebels were killed during what appeared to be the first clashes in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountain range where militants have taken refuge in northern Mali,...
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Tony Zarb files two further libel suits
The general secretary of the General Workers Union, Tony Zarb, yesterday filed another two libel suits against the Nationalist Party media, bringing the total he has instituted against the PN to six...
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20 Syrians killed by Scud-type missile
A Syrian missile killed at least 20 people in a rebel-held district of Aleppo on yesterday, opposition activists said, as the army turns to longer-range weapons after losing bases in the country’s...
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Police holding man over Monday’s Ħal Far murder
The police are holding a Maltese man in his 30s in connection with the murder of Ronald Galea, who was shot outside his meat factory in Ħal Far on Monday. The man, who the police said was “assisting...
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