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Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul's Blue Mosque on Saturday but didn't stop to pray, as he opened an intense day of meetings and liturgies with Turkey's religious leaders and a Mass for the country's tiny Catholic community. The head of Turkey's Diyanet religious affairs directorate showed Leo the soaring tiled domes of the 17th-century mosque and the

Airlines around the world canceled and delayed flights heading into the weekend to fix software on a widely used commercial aircraft after an analysis found the computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue plane last month. Airbus said Friday that an examination of the JetBlue incident revealed that intense solar

Ministers Anton Refalo and Clifton Grima launched the fourth edition of the Let's Talk Farming programme while presenting awards to schools that participated in the previous year's edition. The programme, now a key element of agricultural education in Malta, involved sixty-one schools with approximately eighteen thousand five hundred students, offering

At the premises of Servizzi Ewropej f'Malta in Valletta, the publication "Islands in a Continent" was launched. The book, produced by SEM together with Europe Direct Valletta, offers an artistic and reflective perspective on Malta's experience within the European Union. Minister Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi praised the initiative for helping to deepen public

The Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries, Aquaculture and Animal Rights, Alicia Bugeja Said, announced the first eight approved projects from six beneficiaries under the Aquaculture Fund, representing an investment of eighty thousand euro. The signing ceremony followed the call for applications issued earlier this year, which closed at the end of

Prime Minister and Labour Party Leader Robert Abela said that socialist parties around the world must continue to stand united, not only by supporting one another but also to lead and guarantee progress for everyone as reflected in the theme "Leading Together" for the meetings of Socialist International being held in Malta. Addressing the Presidium

Oscar Piastri took pole position for the Qatar Grand Prix sprint race on Friday, pushing his McLaren teammate Lando Norris into third place. A disgruntled Max Verstappen qualified only sixth. Norris holds a 24-point lead in Formula 1 over both men, and may well be relieved that Verstappen will start Saturday's sprint race behind him. The winner gets

The death toll from Hong Kong's worst blaze in decades rose to 128 on Friday, with dozens still missing, as authorities said fire alarms in the residential estate buildings had been malfunctioning. Families scoured hospitals and victim identification stations hoping to find their loved ones, with around 200 people still listed as missing and 89 bodies

At the Parliamentary Assembly Union for the Mediterranean (PA-UfM) committee meetings in Cairo on Fridau morning, Speaker Angelo Farrugia participated and addressed those present during several committee meetings, mainly outlining the need for concrete and measurable action across the Mediterranean region. Speaker Farrugia addressed the Committee on

Malta International Airport reduced landfill waste by 20 per cent even as passenger numbers grew by 23 per cent between 2019 and 2024, underscoring the company's commitment to minimising its environmental footprint, MIA said Friday. The introduction of organic waste collection in 2021 yielded immediate results, reducing landfill waste by nine per cent