# Denmark PM Labels Airport Drone Chaos a ‘Serious Attack’—What Malta Can Learn From Nordic Nightmare **COPENHAGEN/VALLETTA**—When Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stepped up to the podium on Wednesday and declared the overnight drone swarm that paralysed Copenhagen Airport “a serious attack on critical infrastructure”, Maltese ears should have pricked up. In Malta, where one…
Buskett, the island’s only semi-natural woodland, has always been where Maltese families escape the limestone glare—picnics under holm-oak shade, children chasing lizards, grandparents arguing over caper-pickle recipes. Yesterday, that gentle script was torn by barking and screams. A 62-year-old Siggiewi woman is recovering from bite wounds to her thigh and hand after two un-leashed Rottweilers…
Valletta’s iconic Grand Harbour will shimmer a little brighter this September as the historic Valletta Waterfront transforms into a harvest-hued playground for the inaugural Autumnfest, a three-day celebration promising to re-ignite the capital’s post-summer spirit. From 15-17 September the usually serene cruise-liner quay will burst with pop-up kitchens, folk troupes, street artists and local vintners,…
Valletta goldsmith Luke* still keeps the WhatsApp voice-note on his phone: a gravelly voice demanding €20,000 “for protection” and warning that his teenage daughter walks home past the old Opera House every afternoon. The message arrived on 12 August 2022, two weeks after he had refused to sell a €9,000 diamond cluster to a visitor…
From North Macedonia to Malta: Young musicians bring Mozart to Valletta By Hot Malta Staff Valletta’s Republic Street echoed with more than the usual café chatter on Saturday evening as a flash-mob of violinists, violists and cellists suddenly struck up Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik outside the National Library. Passers-by froze, phones flew into the air,…
As the last festa fireworks fade over Floriana and the August sea begins to cool, Maltese parents swap bucket-and-spade emojis for pencil-and-ruler ones. But beneath the flurry of back-to-school WhatsApp groups—bus routes, book lists, “Ħu l-uniformi tal-Ġunior?”—lurks a quieter current: children’s anxiety. This year, with inflation nudging €7 for a ħobż biż-żejt and classrooms still…
**Milan Fashion Week to Mourn Armani, Welcome New Stars – What It Means for Malta’s Style Scene** Milan Fashion Week is set to be a bittersweet affair this season, as the fashion world prepares to bid farewell to one of its most enduring icons—Giorgio Armani—while ushering in a new generation of designers redefining luxury and…
Knights College joins EURASHE: Maltese educators step onto the European stage By Hot Malta Staff Sliema’s seafront was still blinking itself awake last Monday when Knights College Malta fired off the announcement that has since ricocheted through every staff-room from Valletta to Victoria: the island’s youngest degree-granting institution has been accepted as full member of…
Microsoft’s decision to pull the plug on Windows 10 security updates in October 2025 has landed like a late-summer sirocco on the Maltese islands: hot, dusty, and impossible to ignore. From the family-run accounting office in Birkirkara to the gaming cafés of Paceville, an estimated 78 % of Malta’s 550 000 active PCs still run…
Trump to meet Zelensky, expected to lay out dark vision in UN speech – what it means for Malta Valletta’s September sun may feel a world away from the geopolitical thundercloud gathering over New York this week, but when Donald Trump strides into the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday he will carry a message…
Valletta’s streets were unusually quiet on Thursday morning, but the hush outside Parliament was deceptive. Inside the United Nations General Assembly hall in New York, Maltese Foreign Minister Ian Borg drew a deliberate breath, glanced once at the turquoise-&-white flag on the desk in front of him, and declared: “Malta formally recognises the State of…
# Four New Ultrasound Machines Arrive at Mater Dei, Promising Faster Diagnoses and Shorter Queues Valletta – Mater Dei Hospital has quietly rolled out four state-of-the-art ultrasound scanners that promise to shave weeks off waiting lists and give clinicians the sharpest images ever produced on the island, Health Minister Jo Etienne Abela confirmed on Tuesday….
