A 92-year-old woman has been taken to hospital after she fell off a balcony at the St. Vincent de Paul home for the elderly.Police told The Malta Independent that the accident happened at around 7:30am this morning.The woman fell just over a storey o...

A humanitarian NGO based in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv is seeking to find sponsors as it expands its operations in the outskirts of the city. The NGO is the same one interviewed by The Malta Independent a few weeks ago. TMI journalists Neil Camill...

A gunman opened fire inside a busy shopping mall in the Danish capital Sunday, killing three people and critically wounding three others, police said.A 22-year-old Danish man was arrested after the shooting, Copenhagen police inspector Søren T...

The 12th Edition of the Volleyball Marathon that got under way on Friday was over at midnight on Sunday but not before the sum of €519,721 was raised for Id-Dar tal-Providenza .  The players went through 53 hours of volleyball challenged by...

The Scout Association of Malta has taken umbrage at the use of the term “boy scout” in an opinion piece, saying that the term is “antiquated and derogatory.”The term was used in an opinion piece written by Saviour Balzan on Ma...

A man has been hospitalised with grievous injuries after he fell a storey and a half off the balcony of his residence.Police said that the accident took place at around 4am on Monday in Triq il-Genista in Kalkara.Preliminary investigations showed tha...

A large chunk of an Alpine glacier broke loose Sunday and roared down a mountain in Italy, sending ice, snow and rock slamming into hikers on a popular trail on the peak and killing at least six and injuring nine, authorities said, warning that the t...

Romania's Foreign Ministry said Sunday that a tourist from the country was killed in a shark attack while vacationing in Egypt, making it the second shark attack death there in recent days.A 68-year-old Austrian woman died on Friday after l...

The Mosta fireworks factory accident that occurred last month proved that in a moment of crisis, the health and safety regulations did work, former politician Dr Godfrey Farrugia said. What happened at the factory, which was built according to the Pl...

Profiles of children up for adoption cannot be shared because of privacy issues, the Foundation for Social Welfare Services CEO Alfred Grixti, told The Malta Independent on Sunday.“As an entity entrusted by the State with the responsibility of ...

The second Robert Abela government will be celebrating its first 100 days in office this week.They were not uneventful, as the government embarked on its mission to accomplish all that it promised its election campaign.What has stood out is a reduced...

Five hundred new Covid-19 cases were identified on Sunday and one person has died, according to data published online.The number of active cases has now risen to 7,161, while the total number of cases so far ahs reached 104,919. The death toll now st...

The CEO of the Malta Freeport and his wife have been arrested in connection with a police investigation into possible money laundering and corruption, Times of Malta reports.The investigation is reportedly linked with a multi-million euro contract th...

The PN will be voting in favour of embryo testing as part of the government’s amendments to the IVF reform, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said Sunday, but former PN leader Adrian Delia has expressed different opinions.Speaking on a phone call...

Russia claimed control Sunday over the last Ukrainian stronghold in an eastern province that is key to achieving a major goal of its invasion. But Ukraine's president said the fight for the city of Lysychansk was ongoing.If confirmed, a Russian seizu...

Malta 68 Armenia 84 (19-15, 11-24, 18-23, 20-22)There was a bright light shining throughout this final, as the naturalised american, Chris Jones, was unstoppable, and dictated play, to lead the Armenian side to the Gold.This was the first ever compet...

Malta has just emerged from the FATF grey list, something which involved work from a number of institutions, one of which being the MBR. What work was carried out over the course of the past year in order to reflect the recommendations put forward by...

Even knowing what an unusual Wimbledon this has been, what with so many unexpected results and new faces popping up, and so few top seeds — and major champions — remaining, surely Novak Djokovic would not lose to a wild-car...

Carlos Sainz Jr. won his his first career Formula One race on Sunday with a victory at the British Grand Prix — the most dramatic race so far this season. It began with a frightening first-lap crash and ended with intense wheel-to-wheel battles...

Tourism is booming again in France — and so is COVID-19. French officials have “invited" or “recommended” people to go back to using face masks but stopped short of renewing restrictions that would scare visitors away or ...

Lara Azzopardi will be returning to her character on Ic-Caqqufa later this year, a role which enabled her to win the best female actress award in 2017.A nurse clinical specialist by profession, she wanted to be a vet when she was young and, given her...

Last February, this newspaper carried an editorial which said that questions had to be raised on whether Victoria Buttigieg’s position as Attorney General remains tenable or not.That was in response to a fiasco in court when the prosecution&rsq...

With the latest technological gadgets available for anyone and everyone constantly changing and improving, the lines between generations have become blurrier than ever. What is the cause for this and what is the recipe for this so-called digital agel...

The latest in a litany of horrors in Ukraine came this week as Russian firepower rained down on civilians in a busy shopping mall far from the front lines of a war in its fifth month.The timing was not likely a coincidence.While much of the...

 On 5 July, Fortunato Mizzi would have turned 178 years old. Seeing as both his party and country has forgotten about him and his legacy, I took the initiative of at least commemorating some of his achievments.During his life, he fought for thre...

A man was critically injured after a fall on a construction site in Marsascala.The police said the accident happened in Artillieri Street at 9.45am.The man, aged 45 of Qormi, fell down the stairs are hit his head, the police said.He was taken to Mate...

Infrastructure Malta said Saturday that it obtained €21.8 million in European funds for its road projects at Luqa and Kirkop.The agency announced on Facebook that this week the European Commission DG Mobility and Transport awarded Infrastructure...

A man was critically injured on Saturday morning when he fell off a ladder, the police said.The accident took place in a residence in Cameron Street, Gzira, at 8.30am.The man, aged 74, and resident in Gzira, fell off a ladder.He was taken to hospital...

The number of active Covid-19 cases has shot up again, to near 7,000, as 583 new cases were reported Saturday.Three more deaths were recorded, taking the tally to 747.Figures released by the health authorities show that the number of active cases is ...

A dog owner has profusely thanked the police and the Civil Protection Department for their assistance in rescuing her dog after it bolted over a wall and into a ditch after being scared by fireworks.The Malta Police Force Facebook page uploaded the w...

Valletta: New British Dispensary, 109/110, St John Street; Ħamrun: The Cross Pharmacy, 859, St Joseph High Road; Żebbuġ: Tal-Grazzja Pharmacy, Franġisk Farrugia Street; Birkirkara: St Anne Pharmacy, 24, Misraħ Sant’Elen...

An aircraft that crashed in the Mediterranean 80 years ago during World War II has finally been identified as a rare RAF bomber, experts say. The Daily Mail reports that the plane, which came down 1,640 feet (500 metres) off the Italia...

Institutions are there to safeguard our rights but when they do not do their job the people responsible must go, ADPD said Saturday, calling for the resignation of the Attorney General, Victoria Buttigieg.Deputy leader Sandra Gauci said that just thi...

Malta-Azerbaijan 59-52(16-12, 12-15, 11-8, 20-17)After beating them by a basket difference, Malta again had to meet Azerbaijan, in the semis. Another tough encounter, with the visitors having their American naturalised player, Jordan Davis, missing t...

A motorcyclist was grievously injured when he lost control of the bike he was riding and crashed, the police said.The accident took place on Saturday at 6.30am in Aldo Moro Street, Marsa.The biker, a 21-year-old man of Birkirkara, was riding a Kawasa...

The Nationalist Party on Saturday called for changes within the police force to strengthen it.In a statement signed by MPs Joe Giglio and Ivan Castille, spokespersons for home affairs and employment respectively, the PN said police officers are dishe...

Russian forces are pounding the city of Lysychansk and its surroundings in an all-out attempt to seize the last stronghold of resistance in eastern Ukraine's Luhansk province, the governor said Saturday.Ukrainian fighters have spent weeks trying to d...

It took 151 attempts for Carlos Sainz to earn his first Formula One pole. Now he'll chase that elusive first win.But starting alongside Sainz on the front row Sunday at the British Grand Prix will be defending F1 champion Max Verstappen, a year remov...

That the price of property has risen drastically over the past years is a well-known fact, but a recent study has given a shocking picture of the real situation. The study, produced by Grant Thorton and Dhalia and published earlier this week, showed ...

Lisa Cassar Shaw has been appointed as the new CEO of the Social Care Standards Authority, the government announced Saturday.The authority regulates standards in homes and care facilities for the elderly.Cassar Shaw will take on the new role as from ...

For the first time in the history of the Malta Ship Registry, Malta has been recognised by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) under the QUALSHIP21 initiative, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Aaron Farrugia, said.This is ...

At a tourism conference in Phuket last month, Thailand’s prime minister looked out at attendees and posed a question with a predictable answer.“Are you ready?” Prayuth Chan-ocha asked, dramatically removing his mask and launching wh...

The World Health Organization's Europe chief warned Friday that monkeypox cases in the region have tripled in the last two weeks and urged countries to do more to ensure the previously rare disease does not become entrenched on the continent.And Afri...

Starting in January, Venice will oblige day-trippers to make reservations and pay a fee to visit the historic lagoon city, in a bid to better manage visitors who often far outnumber residents in the historic center, clogging narrow streets and heavil...

#occupyjustice activists symbolically left a bunch of suitcases outside the Attorney General’s office with the message “Ippakkja u Itlaq!” (Pack your Bags and Go!).Buttigieg has been under fire after a series of errors, with th...

The Police Force has published new images of missing Karmenu Fino, as a search for the elderly man continues.The new images include one (above) of what Fino was wearing when he was last seen.Fino was reported missing on Tuesday, and it later emerged ...

Charles Polidano known as ic-Caqnu was arrested on Friday morning for questioning over suspected money laundering and corruption, Times of Malta reports. Polidano, 62, was arrested at his home by officers from the police’s Financial Crime ...

Nobody was injured as an explosion rocked the Bahar ic-Caghaq caravan site on Friday afternoon.Police told The Malta Independent that they received reports of a blast at around 1:15pm – a blast which was subsequently followed by a fire.Three st...

Inflation in countries using the euro set another eye-watering record, pushed higher by a huge increase in energy costs fueled partly by Russia’s war in Ukraine.Annual inflation in the eurozone's 19 countries hit 8.6% in June, su...

Trustin Farrugia Cann is no longer the CEO at Infrastructure Malta, having only held the position for just over a month.Farrugia Cann said in a Facebook post on Friday that while he appreciated the faith shown in him to serve as the head of Malta&rsq...

A man has been reported missing to the police.He is Salvu Bonnici, aged 70, and a resident in Gudja.Anyone with information is asked to call 21 224001 / 119, or report to the nearest police station.

Land at Smart City with a value of €63 million will be given to Sadeen Group for €15,000 instead of Zonqor land, the Nationalist Party said.Speaking at a press conference, PN MPs Darren Carabott and Rebekah Cilia said that the land for the ...

The election of Joseph Muscat to head the Premier League clubs association is just an excuse to push for the commercialisation of the football stadia premises, independent candidate Arnold Cassola suggested.This corresponds to Joseph Muscat's point 2...

704 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Friday, as three patients died while positive for the virus.It is the highest number of cases reported since 7 April this year, when 731 cases of the virus were reported.266 recoveries ...

Lassana Cisse’s remains have finally been repatriated to his home country, the Ivory Coast, some three years after he was killed in a drive-by shooting.Foreign Affairs Minister Ian Borg announced the news on Twitter, stating: “Informed th...

A man is in danger of dying after he suffered burns while he was carrying out maintenance work on a boat.Police said that the accident happened at around 11am in Triq San Pawl Kuntent in Rabat.Preliminary investigations on site showed that a 36-year-...

MEP Josianne Cutajar has demanded that the European Commission takes action concerning various recent challenges in the air travel industry. The MEP noted that the situation that has developed during the last few weeks, with an increasing number of p...

Russian missile attacks on residential areas in a coastal town near the Ukrainian port city of Odesa early Friday killed at least 19 people, authorities reported, a day after Russian forces withdrew from a strategic Black Sea island.Video of the pre-...

Disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for using his fame to sexually abuse young fans, including some who were just children, in a systematic scheme that went on for decades.Through tears and anger, severa...

Due to the current situation affecting ground service capabilities in Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Air Malta said Friday it has been compelled to transfer six flights scheduled to operate between Malta and Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS), to instead ...

Over four years have passed since the start of a turbulent political period that ended with the resignation of a prime minister and several key government officials, yet none of the many officials linked to crime and corruption have been arraigned in...

Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has been appointed as the chairman of an association representing Malta's professional football clubs, even though half of the Presidents of Malta’s professional football clubs did not vote in his favour.The ...

Health Minister Chris Fearne has asked for a review of Malta’s laws after the case of an American woman who faced pregnancy complications but was denied an abortion in Malta made international headlines.Answering questions from the media about ...

539 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Thursday, as one patient died while positive for the virus.265 recoveries from the virus were reported, taking the number of active cases up to 6,231.1,871 swab tests were carried out i...

The prosecution's failure to exhibit complete documentation regarding a European Arrest Warrant has led to the collapse of extradition proceedings against a man wanted by Italian authorities in connection with an large-scale Ndrangheta drug traf...

The Malta Independent’s newsroom is undergoing a process of renewal, with Stephen Calleja taking over as the new Editor-in-Chief. Calleja takes over from Neil Camilleri, who has served in the role for the past three years. Camilleri has decided...

The Civic Amenity Site in Ħal Far will welcome second-hand items, thanks to an investment done by WasteServ to open its first Reuse Centre.At this reuse centre, the public will be able to get used items that are still in good condition through a...

A man has been hospitalised after a suspected medical issue led to his truck crashing into a service room, police have told The Malta Independent.The accident happened at around 1:30pm at the mouth of the Regional Road tunnels in St. Julian’s l...

A report detailing the work of the Positive Parenting Taskforce over the last three years has been launched by the Ministry for Social Politics and Children’s Rights Michael Falzon. The taskforce was created in 2019 with the aim of creatin...

A survey by the Malta Union of Teachers found that 85.1% of respondents conduct extra voluntary duties at the workplace, with 62.2% carrying them out because they want to give more to their clients, students and/or parents. 54.7% have experienced an ...

The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses said the incident of a man who went missing from St Vincent de Paul home for the elderly confirms what the union has been saying for months – that the shortage of nurses is jeopardising the safety of patie...

Health Minister Chris Fearne acknowledged an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases but “we are living a normal life without endangering public health.”Answering questions from the media, Fearne said that although the number of active c...

The lone survivor of a team of Islamic State extremists who terrorized Paris in 2015 was convicted Wednesday of murder and other charges and sentenced to life in prison without parole for the deadliest peacetime attacks in French history.The spe...

Residents of low-lying coastal areas like St Julian’s, Qawra and Marsascala this morning experienced a natural phenomenon that saw seawater rising to higher-than-usual levels.  St Julian’s resident Frances Grech posted the video...

A flimsy rubber boat collapsed and sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya’s coast, leaving at least 30 people including women and children missing and feared dead, an international charity said Wednesday.Officials said meanwhile they found the...

Students who finished the Real Estate Training Award Course provided by JobsPlus last November are still waiting for the scheme’s promised 75% refund after six months. Several students who contacted the Malta Independent have expressed frustrat...

With life having returned to normal, children back in schools, workplaces repopulated and the nightlife returning to our villages, the desire to move on from the pandemic is irresistible to all. As the ambers of society are reignited, it may seem bar...

A man and a woman were injured when the bike they were on was involved in a collision with a car in Luqa on Wednesday evening.The accident happened in Luqa Road, at 9pm.It involved a Peugeot Kisbee and a Mazda Demio.On the bike were a German 26-year-...

Russian forces battled Wednesday to surround the Ukrainian military’s last stronghold in a long-contested eastern province, as shock reverberated from a Russian airstrike on a shopping mall that killed at least 18 in the center of the...

A girl who had been reported missing to the police last week has been found safe and sound, the police said.Sharona Grima, aged 12, had been reported missing on 22 June. She had last been seen in the Xaghra area.The police thanked the public for thei...

An internal investigation has been launched after an elderly man went missing from St Vincent de Paul residence, the government said.Earlier, the police said 83-year-old Karmenu Fino had gone missing. He was last seen in Luqa on Tuesday afternoon.In ...

Health authorities found another 570 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, according to data published online.The number of active cases now stands at 5,958.The total number of cases since the start of the pandemic has climbed to 102,593. Total recover...

A 45-year-old man was remanded in custody after being charged in court with corrupting his niece, who is a minor, and for subjecting her to physical intimacy.The prosecution explained that the report to the Police against the uncle was made by the mi...

NATO declared Russia the “most significant and direct threat” to its members’ peace and security on Wednesday and vowed to strengthen support for Ukraine, even as that country's leader chided the alliance for not doing mor...

Nobody likes to be summoned to a hospital appointment, but at least a sharp-eyed client broke into a smile when going through a letter he received from Mater Dei.Our Constitution says that Maltese and English are both official languages, and governme...

EU expert and PN spokesperson Peter Agius has called out the Labour Party for its failure to protect the national interest in Europe when it comes to the new air travel rules, arguing that Malta will face significantly higher costs in air travel if t...

Immigration and border control will remain a priority for the European Court of Auditors, Malta’s representative on the court, Leo Brincat, said Wednesday.Brincat, responsible for the ECA’s principal audits on the subjects, was speaking d...

During a meeting of EU environment ministers which lasted close to 17 hours, Malta “fought long and hard to achieve a better deal under the Fit-for-55 package,” the environment ministry said.On Tuesday, EU environment ministers met in Lux...

The Life Network Foundation Malta and the Malta Unborn Child Platform said that no international treaty recognizes the right to abortion as a fundamental right, adding that the law has an obligation to protect those who have no voice.In a statement, ...

Woman grievously injured after being hit by carA woman was grievously injured on Tuesday evening after she was hit by a car, the police said.The police said that the woman was hit by a Mazda which was parked, but which suddenly rolled forward.The wom...

The government has committed €140,000 through an agreement with the University of Malta for continued studies on an underwater Punic wreck off the coast of Xlendi.The agreement was signed by Gozo Minister Clint Camilleri and university Rector Al...

A skateboarder was grievously injured following a collision with a vehicle, the police said.The accident took place in Mgr Mikiel Azzopardi Street, Siggiewi, at 10pm.The skateboarder, a 15-year-old boy of Siggiewi, was involved in a collision with a ...

Last week the government announced that University Professor Frank Bezzina had been named as Acting President, a role he will fill each time President George Vella is abroad.Over the past few days, Bezzina took over the position for the first time as...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia on Tuesday of becoming “a terrorist” state carrying out “daily terrorist acts” and urged Russia’s expulsion from the United Nations.In a virtual address to the...

Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, ending an impasse that had clouded a leaders’ summit opening in Madrid amid Europe’s worst security crisis in decades, triggered by the war in Ukraine.After ...

A court has ordered that some €96 million held at Bank of Valletta by the heirs of one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons are returned to the Libyan state. The case was filed six years ago by the Libyan Attorney General. The money belonged to Mutas...

Keith Schembri and Yorgen Fenech are among five to be charged over a phantom job given to Melvin Theuma, according to reports published on Tuesday.Nationalist party media arm NET News reported that Schembri and Fenech – along with former OPM cu...

Leaders of the world’s biggest developed economies said Tuesday they would explore far-reaching steps to cap Russia's income from oil sales that are financing its invasion of Ukraine and struck a united stance to support Kyiv for “as long...

Housing prices have doubled since 2013, a study published by Grant Thorton and Dhalia on Malta’s property showed Tuesday. The findings show that between the first half of 2013 (2013H1) and the first half of 2022 (2022H1) house prices increased ...