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The National Statistics Office has reported that outbound tourists in January were estimated at 17,397, a decrease of 763 trips when compared to January last year. The vast majority of outbound Maltese tourists visited EU member states. During January, ou

Suggestions that the celibacy rule is in part responsible for the "deviant behaviour" of sexually abusive priests have swirled in recent days as the sex-abuse scandal has clearly shaken the Vatican.

Russia slid to second place on the list of world’s largest sellers of arms giving way to the United States of America. Russia covered 24 percent of the world arms market from 2005 to 2009, whereas the USA’s percentage is higher – 30%, AFP reports wi

March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Poland’s zloty weakened for the fourth time in five days on concern that China and India will seek to restrict economic growth, cutting demand for emerging- market assets.

In holding that the aim of science is truth alone, they misrepresent its real aims George Monbiot is surely right to bemoan the profoundly unsatisfactory state of affairs that exists between science and the public ( With complex science, we must take much