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Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:05:00 +0100
It’s alive! Black-browed Babbler emerges after 170 years
A bird last seen more than 170 years ago in the rainforests of Borneo has been rediscovered, amazing conservationists who have long assumed it was extinct. The Black-browed Babbler has only ever been documented once – when it was f...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:54:00 +0100
Australia passes landmark law requiring tech firms to pay for news
Australia’s parliament passed landmark legislation on Thursday requiring global digital giants to pay for local news content, in a move closely watched around the world. The law passed easily after a last-gasp deal that watered dow...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:49:00 +0100
US designer Alexander Wang faces new sexual assault allegations
A New York student has become the latest person to accuse acclaimed American designer Alexander Wang of sexual assault. Keaton Bullen, a fashion student at the New York's Parsons School of Design, told the BBC that Wang assaulted him...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:13:00 +0100
Bringing social change through fashion
Josef Abela has just crowned a dream, that of graduating from a prestigious international fashion college. His achievement was surely not shorn of challenges and obstacles. And his last collection, which he presented as a dissertatio...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:06:00 +0100
Morgan’s Plus 8 GTR takes inspiration from firm’s racing heritage
Morgan has announced that it will be producing a new special edition model – the Plus 8 GTR – which harks back to the Malvern-based firm’s racing history.  Limited to just nine examples and arriving as the first of several new...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:04:00 +0100
Germans turn to hunting to ‘ethically’ source food
With her dreadlocks and nose piercing, Shanna Reis doesn’t exactly look the part of the camouflage-clad hunter tracking game in the forest. But the 28-year-old represents a new German generation of enthusiasts concerned about where...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:55:00 +0100
Celebrating Estonia’s Independence Day
Estonia celebrated its Independence Day yesterday. The origins of this national day go back to 1918. Estonia has a population of around 1,300,000 people. It is a member of the United Nations and also joined the European Union in 2004...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:53:00 +0100
Understanding preference shares
RS2 Software plc had issued an announcement on November 19, 2020, in which it laid out the agenda for an extraordinary general meeting. During the two extraordinary general meetings held in December, shareholders approved a number of...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:48:00 +0100
Bruce Springsteen fined $540 for drinking tequila in US national park
Bruce Springsteen has been fined $540 after pleading guilty to consuming alcohol in a national recreation area where drinking is banned, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The Thunder Road superstar was arrested on November 14, 2020 f...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:21:00 +0100
What happened on... February 25
The front pages of Times of Malta from 25 and 10 years ago.  Become a Times of Malta premium member to gain full access to our archive dating back to January 1930.

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:11:00 +0100
Editorial: Now that a killer has confessed
Police Commissioner Angelo Gafà was conspicuous by his absence on Tuesday when Vince Muscat, il-Koħħu, pleaded guilty to the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Muscat was also given a presidential pardon in connection with the 2015...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:02:00 +0100
Facebook bans Myanmar military accounts citing the coup
Facebook said it has banned all remaining accounts linked to the Myanmar military on Thursday, citing the junta's use of deadly force against anti-coup demonstrators.  The move, which takes effect immediately, applies to the militar...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:54:00 +0100
Tiger Woods’s car-crash injuries cast doubt on future
US golf legend Tiger Woods was recovering in hospital Wednesday after surgery for serious leg injuries sustained in a car crash that have raised fears for the 45-year-old’s career. Law enforcement officials said the 15-time major c...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:47:00 +0100
Commemorative events by Il-Ħaġar Museum
Il-Ħaġar Museum is organising a number of cultural events to mark the eighth anniversary of the museum’s opening and the third anniversary of the demise of Mro Joseph Vella. Tomorrow, the exhibition Joseph Vella and Oliver Friggi...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:38:00 +0100
Atalanta coach fumes at ‘football suicide’ in Champions League loss
Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini fumed over “football suicide” on Wednesday after his team played more than 70 minutes a man down in their 1-0 loss in the Champions League to Real Madrid. The Italian side had Swiss midfielder ...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:26:00 +0100
Guardiola demands more from Man. City despite Gladbach win
Manchester City moved to the verge of the Champions League quarter-finals with a 2-0 win over Borussia Moenchengladbach on Wednesday but coach Pep Guardiola insisted his team still need to “be more clinical up front”. A first ha...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:12:00 +0100
Today's front pages - February 25, 2021
The following are the main stories in Thursday’s newspapers Times of Malta leads with the Police Commissioner’s press conference on the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder during which he said the police believe every suspect involved ...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:05:00 +0100
Bill 181 and the legal profession – Louis De Gabriele
In 2008, the Chamber of Advocates published a consultative paper expressing the need for regulation of the legal profession, a regulatory architecture that would reflect the significant evolution within the profession in the last sev...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:01:00 +0100
Nurses claim UĦM action is straining emergency service
Directives issued to emergency ambulance workers by the Union Ħaddiema Magħqudin (UĦM) are “illegal” and have badly affected the provision of emergency services, the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses (MUMN) has claimed. In a ...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 06:55:00 +0100
Bulgaria scraps vaccine priority lists after low take-up
Bulgarians of all ages, some as young as 20, joined long queues at hospitals this weekend after low uptake on priority lists led the government to open up vaccinations to everyone. Fewer than a third of those designated as first in l...



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