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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer 's chief of staff resigned Sunday over the furor surrounding the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Morgan McSweeney said he took responsibility for advising Starmer to appoint Mandelson, 72, to Britain's most important diplomatic post in 2024. "The

As immigration enforcement faces increasing public scrutiny, Assistant Commissioner Neville Xuereb said that Malta's immigration police are carrying out checks they are legally required to perform, arguing that criticism of the inspections and street controls ignores binding obligations under Maltese and EU law. Videos circulating on social media have

The crash. The gasps. The helicopter. Lindsey Vonn's frightening fall in the women's downhill at the Milan Cortina Olympics couldn't help but overshadow U.S. teammate Breezy Johnson's feat - winning her country's first gold medal at these Games. Johnson's victory Sunday in Cortina wasn't the Olympic comeback story everyone expected, as the focus was

The Governor of the Central Bank of Malta, Alexander Demarco, said that the government's energy subsidies should not last forever and exit strategies for Malta are needed to phase itself out from them. Interviewed by The Malta Independent, Demarco said that subsidies should be timely, targeted, and temporary. He acknowledged that the energy subsidies

The system whereby a two-third majority in Parliament is needed to appoint a Chief Justice has put Malta in a "strait jacket", former Labour Prime Minister Alfred Sant writes today. "As was to be expected," Sant writes in his bi-weekly blog on The Malta Independent, this system "is turning out to be a washout". "It was nothing better than a trap by

Inter Milan routed 10-man Sassuolo 5-0 on Sunday to extend its Serie A lead to eight points over AC Milan, which didn't play this weekend because of the Milan Cortina Olympics. Yann Bisseck and Marcus Thuram scored in the first half for Inter. Lautaro Martínez, Manuel Akanji and Luis Henrique added second-half goals to give Inter its fifth straight

Erling Haaland kept Manchester City's Premier League title hopes alive with a dramatic late penalty at Liverpool. The Norwegian struck in second-half stoppage time in an explosive game at Anfield on Sunday to seal a 2-1 win and cut the gap on first-place Arsenal back to six points. City's title prospects looked in dire shape when Dominik Szoboszlai

Live Show 3 of X Factor Malta turned up the emotion tonight with the theme Soundtracks and a format twist which raised the stakes. For the first time this season, only one contestant went home, with the two acts who received the lowest number of public votes heading straight into a sing off. Jasmine opened the show with a stunning rendition of Somewhere

A man was grievously injured in Gozo at 9.30am, the police said. The police said that its assistance was needed in Xewkija, and preliminary investigations found that the 45-year-old man from Mosta was riding a motorcycle and fell from a two-storey height. The man was taken to the Gozo General Hospital, and was certified as having sustained grievous

Prime Minister Robert Abela said that he chose "the road of responsibility" when he tabled to motion to appoint Judge Consuelo Scerri Herrera as Chief Justice. On Wednesday, Parliament voted on the motion, but it did not reach the required 2/3rds majority for a Chief Justice to be appointed. As a result, the sitting Chief Justice remained on in his