French film legend Brigitte Bardot, a cinema icon of the 1950s and sixties who walked away from global stardom to become an animal rights protector, has died aged 91, her foundation said Sunday. Bardot had rarely been seen in public in recent months but was hospitalised in October and in November released a statement denying rumours that she had died
Fr. Leslie Gatt was re-elected as the Augustinian Prior Provincial of the Maltese Augustinian Province to serve for another four years on Boxing Day. He has been in this position since April 2018. “Fr. Leslie will renew his mandate as Prior Provincial in the upcoming Ordinary Provincial Chapter of the Maltese Augustinian Province which will officially
The EU’s first major reform of pharmaceutical legislation in more than two decades is expected to improve access to medicines in Malta, with new rules obliging manufacturers to supply smaller and island Member States on request and introducing a multilingual digital patient information system that will allow Maltese authorities to source medicines
As 2025 draws to a close, it leaves behind a sense of uneasy pause rather than resolution. It was a year in which several issues remained on top of the national agenda, most notably the environment, governance, and the sustainability of Malta's development model. Yet, while public pressure intensified and certain red lines were tested, few of the underlying
"Our first priority is always to help the family so that the child can remain in their home and be protected as much as possible" - Director of Alternative Care at the Foundation for Social Welfare Services, Remenda Grech, 20 April "We are still building the same buildings that we were constructing 10-20 years ago, even though the population and economy
Opened to the public in 2023, the Mysterium Fidei Museum beneath St Catherine's Monastery in Valletta invites visitors into an underground complex that served as the home of cloistered Augustinian nuns for over 400 years - a self-sustainable place where daily life was defined by simplicity, discipline, faith, and an unbroken vow to remain within the
2025 saw controversial reforms related to magisterial inquiries and planning, a major ruling regarding the hospitals' deal, and an internal leadership election take place within the Nationalist Party. It was an eventful year which saw reforms to magisterial inquiries and proposals to amend planning laws, both of which saw uproar, a heist from the AFM
It was one of the year's biggest stories - the selection of the first American pope - and an Associated Press journalist was interviewing the pope's brother at his home in suburban Chicago. Suddenly, they heard a ringing coming from the basement. "That might be the pope," the new pontiff's brother said. Indeed, the man who had emerged hours earlier