Kien f’ Awwissu ta’ 1994 meta l-Professur Victor Axiak ta’ l-Università ta’ Malta beda proġett mal-Universita’ ta’ Katanja biex jużaw is-satellita Amerikana LANDSAT 5 biex jirriċerkaw dwar il-kwalità tal-baħar Mediterran…
Kien bis-saħħa ta’ mara li mietet u ħadd ma resaq biex jidfinha li beda d-dfin fiċ-Ċimiterju tal-Addolorata. Fil-21 ta’ Jannar 1872 Anna Magro min-Naxxar indifnet fl-Addolorata wara li kienet mietet…
Il-pjan tal-President Amerikan Donald Trump għal Gaża hu ta’ paċifikazzjoni mhux ta’ paċi, jiġifieri li ssikket u tmewwet kull ħidma tal-Palestinjani biex ikollhom stat tagħhom. Il-paċi, il-ġustizzja, id-dritt li l-Palestinjani…
‘Frak mill-istorja – ħarsa minn taħt’ includes snippets about: - the vegetable soup that helped solve a deep political crisis; - the hermit who fled to Comino after the Pope…
By 2100 Malta is projected to lose 48% of its population, Out of all the 27 EU member states only Italy (52%) and Spain (49%) will be worse hit. But…
World War 1 (1914-1918) ended with around 40 million dead. It was hoped that the violence, death and destruction wreaked by that war would bring people to their senses. But…
Analysing the US-EU trade deal, the European Policy Centre concluded (‘Dead on arrival: Why von der Leyen’s deal must be undone’ 6 August 2025): “Today, von der Leyen runs Brussels…
Fit-30 ta’ Ottubru 1432 il-Kunsill tal-Imdina kiteb lir-Re ta’ Aragona li Malta kienet taqa’ taħtu, jilmenta li l-ħatriet pubbliċi qed jimtlew bil-favuri. Inkwetaw li huma u jinqabżu u jitħallew barra.…
In 1945, more than 150 years after the US Declaration of Independence, Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh cited the Declaration when declaring his own country free from French colonial rule: “All…
When General Smedley D. Butler (1881-1940) died mysteriously, he was the most decorated Marine in US history. By the end of his 34-year career, Butler had received 16 medals- five…