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Robert Francis Prevost who became the first pope from the USA, celebrated mass in Mosta in recent years. Photo: Mosta Parish/Facebook

'New pope visited Malta, knows it well', say Archbishop, Augustinian provincial

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, will deliver his first mass later on Friday. Photo: AFP

Leo XIV, first US pope, to celebrate first mass as pontiff on Friday

Pope Francis elevates to cardinal US prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops Robert Francis Prevost during a consistory to create 21 new cardinals at St. Peter's square in The Vatican on September 30, 2023. Photo: AFP

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Displaced earthquake victims line up during a food distribution at an open ground in Kathmandu, Nepal, yesterday. Photo: Reuters

About 100 bodies found in Nepal trekking village

Nepali police and local volunteers found the bodies of about 100 trekkers and villagers buried in an avalanche set off by last month’s devastating earthquake and were digging through snow and ice for signs of dozens more missing, officials said...

May 4, 2015| Reuters

Texas police kill gunmen at Muhammad exhibition

Texas police shot dead two gunmen who opened fire yesterday outside an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that was organised by an anti-Islamic group and billed as a free-speech event. The shooting in a Dallas suburb was an echo of past...

May 4, 2015| Reuters
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have named their new baby daughter Princess Charlotte, the feminine form of Charles. Photo: Reuters

New princess is called Charlotte

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have named their daughter Princess Charlotte – a decision which will be seen as a touching tribute to the Prince of Wales. William and Kate have also recognised the Queen – Elizabeth II – and the Duke’s mother Diana,...

May 4, 2015| PA Media
A man holding a Greek national flag and a placard walks in Constitution Square as the Parliament building is seen in the background in Athens, yesterday. Photo: Reuters

Pension, labour disputes dog Greek talks as cash dwindles

Wide differences over pension and labour reforms continued to dog intensive negotiations between Greece’s leftist government and its international creditors despite progress in other areas as the country’s cash position becomes increasingly...

May 4, 2015| Reuters
Fawziyeh, 52, sewing clothes at her house in a small town south of Beirut, Lebanon. Photo: Aziz Taher/Reuters

Sisters now worlds apart

In a small town south of Beirut, Fawziyeh keeps her apartment immaculately clean despite its crumbling walls and the plastic sheets flapping across its windows. She shares the three-bedroom flat with 12 others including her five children – all, like...

May 4, 2015| Reuters

Nepal’s health system at breaking point – doctors

With monsoon season only a few weeks away, country is in a catastrophe of the highest order

May 4, 2015| AP News
David Beckham and wife Victoria with former Spice Girls Emma Bunton (left) and Melanie C (right) and Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria (bottom left) in a photo posted on Instagram.

Spice Girls ‘reunite’ at Beckham’s 40th party

Football star celebrates with big bash in Morocco

May 4, 2015| PA Media

Fifty Shades author joins rich list

Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James has made The Sunday Times Rich List after her racy novels amassed her a fortune of £75 million. James, 52, is the fourth wealthiest author according to the newspaper, after her tales of a sadomasochistic love...

May 4, 2015| PA Media

Star Trek actress dies at 85

Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Janice Rand in Star Trek. Grace Lee Whitney, who played Captain Kirk’s assistant in the original Star Trek series, has died. She was 85.Her son Jonathan Dweck said she died of natural causes in Coarsegold, California, the...

May 4, 2015| PA Media

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Spam fans at Hawaii festival

May 4, 2015| PA Media

Plane burns on runway at Sanaa Airport after air strike

  Air strikes by fighter jets from the Saudi-led coalition have left the main airport runways in the Yemeni capital Sanaa littered with burning jets.  The air strikes came just a day after coalition jets struck Sanaa's al Dulaimi military airbase,...

May 4, 2015| Times of Malta

Princess named Charlotte Elizabeth Diana by Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have named their baby daughter Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, Kensington Palace has announced. The Princess, who was born on Saturday, weighing 8lbs 3oz, will be known as Princess Charlotte. Kensington Palace said in a...

May 4, 2015| Times of Malta
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Oil hits 2015 high as traders look beyond ample current supply

Oil rose to a 2015 high of $67 a barrel today, supported by expectations the supply glut will ease and after weak Chinese factory activity reinforced views that stimulus measures would be rolled out. Activity at China's factories shrank at its fastest...

May 4, 2015| Times of Malta

Two gunmen shot dead in US anti-Islam cartoon exhibition

Two gunmen who opened fire on a security officer outside a contest for cartoon depictions of the Prophet Mohammed have been shot dead in Texas. The two gunmen were shot and killed by police outside the controversial event, which was being held in...

May 4, 2015| Times of Malta
A mother carrying her 22 day-old infant as she alighted from a helicopter yesterday after being airlifted from Sindhupalchok District, following last week’s earthquake in Nepal. Photo: Reuters

Three survive eight days under earthquake rubble

Three people were pulled out alive from the rubble of their home eight days after Nepal’s devastating earthquake, an official said yesterday, but rescuers have found about 50 bodies on a popular trekking route that was hit by an avalanche. The current...

May 3, 2015| Reuters
A mother and her children rescued from Boko Haram in Sambisa forest rest in the dormitory at the Malkohi camp for Internally Displaced People in Yola, Nigeria, yesterday. Photo: Reuters

Freed Nigerian women tell of horror during their Boko Haram captivity

Boko Haram fighters killed older boys and men in front of their families before taking women and children into the forest where many died of hunger and disease, freed captives said yesterday after they were brought to a government refugee camp. The...

May 3, 2015| Reuters
A Ladbrokes employee displays the name betting odds for the baby princess yesterday outside Kensington Palace in London. Photo: PA Wire

Prince Harry speaks about his ‘beautiful’ baby niece

A Ladbrokes employee displays the name betting odds for the baby princess yesterday outside Kensington Palace in London. Photo: PA Wire Prince Harry yesterday has spoken about his baby niece for the first time, describing the Duke and Duchess of...

May 3, 2015| PA Media
Prime Minister David Cameron meeting supporters during the general election campaign trail in Addingham in West Yorkshire yesterday. Photo: PA Wire

David Cameron says Britain is ‘making historic choice’

Prime Minister David Cameron meeting supporters during the general election campaign trail in Addingham in West Yorkshire yesterday. Photo: PA Wire David Cameron has urged the British electorate to vote for their “preferred Prime Minister” as he kicked...

May 3, 2015| PA Media
Labour leader Ed Miliband unveils Labour’s pledges carved into a stone plinth in Hastings during general election campaigning. Photo: PA Wire

Labour’s Ed Miliband sets election promises in stone as rivals snigger

Britain’s Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has unveiled an eight foot (2.4 metres) tall stone tablet engraved with his promises to voters ahead of a May 7 election, drawing ridicule on social media and from political rivals who likened it to a...

May 3, 2015| Reuters

Heavy clashes in Aden airport

Fighting in Yemen has killed more than 1,000

May 3, 2015| Reuters
Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Photo: Reuters

Baltimore mayor lifts curfew

The mayor of Baltimore yesterday lifted a 10pm to 5am curfew she had imposed on the city last week after a night of looting and arson that followed the death of a young black man from injuries suffered while in police custody. Mayor Stephanie...

May 3, 2015| Reuters
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Man, 35, is charged for shooting of New York policeman

A man wanted for illegal gun possession was charged yesterday with the attempted murder of a New York City plainclothes police officer who was shot in the head while pursuing the suspect in his unmarked car, authorities said. Officer Brian Moore, 25,...

May 3, 2015| Reuters
People searching for their belongings amid rubble of houses collapsed at Bhaktapur, Nepal. Photo: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

Quake survivor tells of ordeal

Improbable rescue of young boy buried alive for five days after Nepal tragedy

May 3, 2015| PA Media

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Seeks man she kissed on a dare

May 3, 2015| Times of Malta

Austria wants refugee quota for each EU member to help absorb influx

Austria wants a refugee quota for every country in the European Union to help absorb hundreds of migrants arriving every day by boat in southern Europe, Chancellor Werner Faymann said in a newspaper interview. Faymann described as "totally absurd" the...

May 3, 2015| Times of Malta

Update 2 - Busiest ever day in migrant rescues: Italy saves 4,800, MOAS picks up 369

Updated 7.45pm - About 4,800 migrants were plucked from boats off the coast of Libya over the weekend and 10 bodies were recovered, Italy's coast guard and navy said today, in what looked to be the biggest rescue operation of its kind so far this...

May 3, 2015| Times of Malta
A demonstrator wearing an ‘I am Freddie’ T-shirt holds flowers at North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. Photo: Reuters

Baltimore jubilant as officers are charged

A jubilant Baltimore headed into a weekend of rallies yesterday after six police officers were criminally charged over the arrest of a 25-year-old black man whose death led to rioting earlier in the week. Demonstrations are expected to continue around...

May 2, 2015| Reuters
Times of Malta

Death toll from US-led strike rises to 52 in Syria

The death toll from an air strike by US-led forces on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo has risen to 52 including seven children, a group monitoring the conflict said yesterday. Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the British-based Observatory for Human...

May 2, 2015| Reuters
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Gunmen open fire on Mexico army chopper

Armed men attacked a Mexican army helicopter on Friday, killing three on board and forcing it to the ground on a day of violence that left at least seven people dead and vehicles, banks and gas stations ablaze. Security in Jalisco state, one of the...

May 2, 2015| Reuters
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Relief goods for quake victims held up at customs

Bureaucracy at Kathmandu airport was holding up vital relief supplies for survivors of the earthquake in Nepal yesterday as the death toll from the disaster passed 6,600. UN Resident Representative Jamie McGoldrick said the government must loosen...

May 2, 2015| Reuters