I sat through the fourth session of my elementary German course this morning. The Direct Method of teaching requires the teacher (lehrerin) to use nothing other than the German throughout the lesson so Estonians, Frenchies, Maltese, Hungarians and Swedes alike are fully immersed in the linguistic nuances of asking someone whether he/she (singular) is married…

Barack (From Hebrew Baruch meaning Blessed) The people of Iran are celebrating Naw-Ruz, the first month of the Iranian solar year. The first day of spring has been celebrated since time immemorial in the region of Iran – land of the ancient Persians. There are evident links to a pastoral fertility festival and legend attributes…

Got this weeks Economist and started browsing through it as I always do… starting from the back (Science and Obit). As I did so my eyes fell on an ad taken out in the Tenders section. The word MALTA stood out loud and clear and the title of the ad was “INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY – PROPERTY…

Pope Benedict XVI said on Tuesday, on his first leg of a trip to Africa, that condoms were not the answer in the continent’s fight against H.I.V., his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even the clergy who work with AIDS patients. (…)  Benedict also asserted that the Roman Catholic Church was in…

It’s really not as boringly predicatable as one would have thought it would be. The Malta EP election campaign is what I mean. We do not even have to rely on the usual renegade Mad Hatter style parties to be ever so mildly entertained and distracted from the usual banter of pot, kettle and prefabricated…