Man involved in Tarxien garage fight granted bail Tarxien, Wednesday – The quiet cul-de-sac off Triq il-Bahar in Tarxien was buzzing again this afternoon after Magistrate Marse-Ann Farrugia granted bail to 42-year-old Kevin “Kev” Spiteri, the man at the centre of a fist-fight that turned a sleepy village garage into a Saturday-night boxing ring. Spiteri,…
Fuelling sexism: AI ‘bikini interview’ videos flood internet – and Maltese creators are cashing in By Maria Grech, Hot Malta Scroll through TikTok or Instagram Reels at 11 p.m. on any weekday in Sliema and you’ll probably see it: a bronzed, bikini-clad “influencer” reclining on a luzzu-red towel at St Peter’s Pool, nodding earnestly while…
Australia Vows to Slap Down Deepfake Nudes and Digital Stalkers – What Malta Can Learn From the Crackdown By Maria Pace, Valletta MELBOURNE might be 15,000 kilometres away, but when Australia’s federal government announced sweeping new laws this week to criminalise AI-generated “deepfake” nudes and online stalking, the ripple was felt almost immediately in Maltese…
**Fact-check: Adrian Delia’s 800,000 population claim is inaccurate – and why the real number matters for every Maltese family** At a Tuesday evening political rally in Birkirkara, Opposition leader Adrian Delia warned an animated crowd that “Malta is already bursting at the seams with 800,000 people”. The line drew loud applause, but it also raised…
Festa Fireworks and Fixed Deposits: How Money Markets Shaped Malta’s Final August Weekend Valletta’s Grand Harbour may have crackled with the last major festa petard of summer 2025, but inside the newly air-conditioned Malta Stock Exchange boardroom the loudest bang came from Governor Edward Scicluna’s one-line statement on Thursday morning: “The European Central Bank will…
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…
