# No Fun Being a Saudi Aramco Investor – And Why Malta Should Care **Valletta** – When the world’s most profitable company posts record profits of US $161 billion in a single year, you’d expect champagne corks to pop from Sliema boardrooms to Gozo farmhouses. Yet for the handful of Maltese who bought into Saudi…
# Historic Pay-Off Deal Ends Carlo Gavazzi Stand-Off, Hands Workers €4.3 Million Lifeline **By Charlotte Zammit** *Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 7:45 am* Birkirkara’s industrial estate fell quiet at dawn yesterday—not from the usual hum of forklifts, but from the collective sigh of 212 families who, after 19 tense months, finally know their futures are secure….
**Albania’s AI Minister: Could Malta’s Next Cabinet Pick Be a Bot?** Valletta woke up yesterday to news that sounded like a *Black Mirror* pitch: Albania’s newest cabinet member, “Minister AIA,” is literally lines of code—an AI-generated avatar tasked with stamping out graft in infrastructure tenders. While Tirana celebrated its pixelated under-secretary for public works, Maltese…
**Italian Students Investigated Over Alleged Gang Rape in Malta: A Dark Cloud Over the Summer Island** Valletta – A picturesque summer in Malta has taken a grim turn as police investigate two Italian university students over the alleged gang rape of a British tourist in Paceville, Malta’s neon-soaked nightlife capital. The incident, which occurred in…
Valletta, Malta – Just after dawn on Tuesday, Nepalese police opened fire on a crowd protesting a surprise ban on TikTok and Facebook, leaving 17 dead and more than 200 wounded on the streets of Kathmandu. As Maltese commuters scrolled through the news over their morning kafè, the images felt eerily familiar: young faces lit…
Christian spirituality: Settlers or nomads? A Maltese crossroads beneath the festa fireworks At 5:45 a.m. on any given Sunday, the narrow streets of Birgu echo with two very different rhythms. From St Dominic’s Priory comes the measured chant of Lauds, unchanged since the Knights. Fifty metres away, backpackers fresh off the Gozo ferry huddle around…
Għajn Dwieli tunnel closed for four days next week – here’s how Paola and the Three Cities will cope The rhythmic honk that once echoed through the Għajn Dwieli tunnel will fall silent next Monday to Thursday as Infrastructure Malta shuts both bores for urgent waterproofing works. For drivers who use the 400-metre underpass to…
Banners of crimson and gold will ripple across Beijing’s Chang’an Avenue this morning, but in a quiet living room in Gżira, Joseph Xuereb is already reaching for the remote. “Every parade is different,” the retired AFM sergeant says, settling into the sofa beside his wife Li—a Beijing native whose parents once marched in the 1959…
# In pictures: Australian soldiers in Malta during WWI – a forgotten chapter of island hospitality The black-and-white photographs look almost Mediterranean in their light: khaki-clad young men lounging on the bastions of Valletta, cricket bats resting against limestone walls, while the Grand Harbour glitters behind them. Yet these are not Maltese soldiers – they…
While you sleep: debunking the myths about Malta’s bats ——————————————————- By the time the last ferry from Gozo slips into Ċirkewwa and the Comino day-trippers have rinsed the salt from their hair, another shift clocks in. Above the honey-coloured bastions of Mdina, below the festa lights of Birkirkara, and even along the glass-and-steel skyline of…
