Новости за 07.07.2016

Two goals from Antoine Griezmann helped hosts France overcome world champions Germany 2-0 to reach the final of Euro 2016, a first competitive victory over their old rivals in 58 years. Twice winners France will face Portugal in Sunday's final in Paris after defending stoutly against a Germany side who dominated possession but conceded a needless first-half penalty before being picked off on the break in the second period. The opening goal arrived in stoppage time when Italian referee Nicola Rizzoli... Читать дальше...

HIBERNIANS 0 SPARTAK TRNAVA  3 Mikovic 5, Oravec 57 Tambe 90 Their fate virtually sealed after a 3-0 defeat in their away leg, Hibernians were looking to earn a respectable result today in the second leg of the Europa League first qualifying round this evening. However, an insipid display against strong and in-form opposition has rendered their task virtually out of reach as Spartak Trvana advanced to the second round 6-0 on aggregate. The Slovaks took little time to stamp their authority on the match. Читать дальше...

Clashes with an individual claiming private ownership of paths and a medieval settlement in Simblija, limits of Dingli, have led farmers to call for the agricultural lease to be renegotiated, ensuring access to all. The area, which includes fields and the important historic site and public pathways, has, since 1993, been designated as one tenement split between nine farmers who have the right to use the land. The Times of Malta is informed that eight of the farmers have now written to the government... Читать дальше...

Malta cannot stop a company from importing a morning-after contraceptive pill that has EU approval, Joseph Muscat said this evening. Speaking at one of the meetings in the Gvern li Jisma series, the Prime Minister said he was not in a position to make moral statements, but to speak to the experts. In this case, the expert was the Medicines’ Authority, whose reply had actually surprised him,” Dr Muscat said. “We were told that there are people who take other pills in larger amounts than they should... Читать дальше...

Serena Williams earned more in every two and a half minutes play in her Wimbledon semi-final than a UK nurse does in an entire year. Williams beat the Russian Elena Vesnina in just 48 minutes, the fastest ladies' semi-final at the Championships since IBM started keeping records in 2002. The defending champion earned herself £500,000 by progressing to the final, equating to £10,417 for every minute she played. In little more than two minutes she had earned as much as an average nurse, whose salary in the UK... Читать дальше...

Car park attendants not licensed by the transport authority are still subject to inspections by the Tax Compliance Unit, a spokesman for the Finance Ministry has confirmed. Contacted by this newspaper following reports that land owners were using their privately-owned fields as car parks, the ministry spokesman said such sites were monitored regularly. “It is normal procedure for VAT inspectors to carry out inspections at car parks to check whether VAT receipts are issued. “It is very easy to estimate the income of car park operators... Читать дальше...

The full magisterial inquiry report on the Paqpaqli motor show incident has not yet been given to lawyers defending those charged over the incident. Though almost a month has passed since the arraignment of 13 people over the incident, the full 1,700-page report has not been passed on, sources have confirmed. The  report was compiled by Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera. According to the inquiry, millionaire driver Paul Bailey was mainly to blame for the incident, which saw his Porsche 918 Spyder... Читать дальше...

A German court has convicted two men of sexual assault in a New Year's eve mob attack on women in Cologne which sparked outrage and hardened public opinion against Berlin's decision to allow in more than one million migrants. The District Court of Cologne gave a 20-year-old Iraqi and a 26-year-old Algerian a one-year suspended sentence each in a ruling that came just hours after the parliament in Berlin unanimously toughened sex crime laws. It was the first such conviction from the incidents in Cologne on New Year's Eve... Читать дальше...

A Vatican court has cleared two Italian journalists charged with publishing leaked documents that claimed the Church was riddled with graft, ruling that the Holy See had no jurisdiction over them. The court found two other defendants, Italian public relations expert Francesca Chaouqui and Spanish priest Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda, guilty. Vallejo received an 18-month sentence and Chaouqui, who has a three-week-old son, was given a 10-month suspended sentence. The fifth defendant, Nicola Maio, an assistant to Vallejo... Читать дальше...

Britain will have a woman as prime minister in September after Conservative MPs today selected Home Secretary Theresa May and Junior Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom to face off in an election for the leadership of the Conservative Party. The MPs, in their second round of voting in the party leadership contest, eliminated Justice Secretary and former Leave campaigner Michael Gove when they voted today. Under Conservative Party rules, the two remaining candidates will now face a vote by the party membership. Читать дальше...

Labour deputy leader Chris Cardona said today that former minister and parliamentary secretary Chris Said had given a new interpretation to political responsibility when he accepted responsibility after a damning report by the Auditor-General yesterday, but did nothing about it. Dr Cardona was reacting after the National Audit Office in a report yesterday criticised Dr Said for undue interference in the allocation of funds to local councils.  Dr Said had accepted responsibility, but insisted he had... Читать дальше...

Evidently dealing with a sacred cow, Chief Electoral Commissioner Joseph Church believes that every step in the digital transformation of elections in Malta “is a journey that includes difficult, yet not impossible, tasks”. A firm believer in the opportunities offered by the new technology to “improve the electoral process”, Mr Church, however, rules out a big bang approach. “I am conscious that any development has to take place within a mature debate with political parties. The dialogue among all stakeholders... Читать дальше...

This truck owner, photographed in Birkirkara this morning, packed everything but the kitchen sink, as the saying goes.  Perched precariously - and dangerously - on his vehicle were old remains of bedrooms, a dining room and a sitting room. The photographer could not verify whether a kitchen sink was also included in the cargo.

Microsoft tried to speak to their young interns “in their language”... but the message only prompted embarrassment. "Kim" from Microsoft’s recruitment team sent out an e-mail invitation to an office party, assuming she was imitating the language used by millennials. But once the cringe-worthy result was posted online, it started spreading through internet. The mail begins with the words: "Hey bae intern!

A couple who owned a timeshare company has been ordered by a court to refund €126,000 to a former employee who had asked them to handle his financial affairs when he was imprisoned. Irish born Hugh Glass had filed the application against Anthony and Carmen Spiteri, for whom he worked as a sales manager between 1999 and 2006. He claimed that after serving his prison sentence he only received €1,165 of his money, which he used to take up a new job in Hong Kong. The court heard that in 2006 Mr Glass... Читать дальше...

A suspect package triggered a security alert at the British parliament today but there were no reports of illness or injury, police said. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said a suspect package had been received in parliament at around 12.30pm local time and was being examined. A reporter for The Times said on Twitter that a letter to a member of the upper house of parliament, the House of Lords, was being analysed by the police after white powder was found in the envelope. A spokesman for... Читать дальше...

The Planning Authority has rejected an application for the construction of a sprawling villa, complete with swimming pool and deck, in an outside development zone area overlooking Wied il-Kbir, Swieqi. Swieqi local council and environmental NGOs had all campaigned against the development, raising serious concerns over the take-up of land in the aesthetically and scientifically important valley system. The application, which was turned down unanimously by the PA board earlier today in line with the case officer’s recommendation... Читать дальше...

After closing at its highest level in the last three months yesterday, the share index retreated by 0.08 per cent to 4,578.358 points today as the declines in five equities outweighed the gain registered in the share price of Lombard Bank which climbed to a fresh five-month high of €2.28 (+0.9 per cent) across 2,550 shares. In contrast, both Bank of Valletta and HSBC posted declines today. BOV retreated by 0.2 per cent to the €2.24,5 level on activity of 16,596 shares while HSBC dropped by 0.3 per cent to €1.58,1 ... Читать дальше...

We know now for certain that if the truth was known and said about the inexistence of Saddam Hussein’s chemical warfare capability, the British Parliament would have voted against going to war in Iraq. It would have happened despite Saddam Hussein being one of the worst dictators in the region, mostly installed and supported in the past by the same forces that bombed the hell out of the Iraqi people. Likewise, almost immediately after the Brexit vote, many have witnessed Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson... Читать дальше...

An artist who had produced Paola's old titular statue of Christ The King has filed an injunction against the parish priest and the archbishop in a bid to prevent his work of art being transferred to the sacristy  to make way for a new titular statue donated to the parish a few months ago. The injunction was filed just three weeks before the Paola feast which is celebrated on the last Sunday of July. In his application, sculptor Ganni Bonnici asked the court to forbid any modifications to the niche... Читать дальше...

A record-breaking number of breeding black-winged stilts has been recorded at the Għadira Nature Reserve since the first signs of courtship behaviour and nest building were observed in 2008, Birdlife said. This year, the reserve saw three pairs of black-winged stilts breed successfully, each producing four chicks. This has been the highest number of successfully breeding pairs of this distinctive black-and-white wader at the reserve. Moreover, two of the black-winged stilts nesting at Għadira were... Читать дальше...

A 34-year-old unemployed man who is well known to the police due to his past convictions has been remanded in custody after pleading not guilty to stealing €41 from a kiosk at City Gate in Valletta. The incident happened yesterday afternoon when officers patrolling the area saw a damaged shutter, indicating a possible break in.  The defendant, Claudio Mallia, was apprehended in the vicinity of the kiosk soon after. He was found in possession of some cash.  During the arraignment, police inspector... Читать дальше...

Angry residents battling with cuts to education and health services take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro in protest over a government spending for the Olympics. Watch video above.

Half the candidates who sat for the Primary Benchmark 2016 scored 73 marks or more in Maltese and in English and 78 marks or more in mathematics, the Education Ministry said today. The Primary Benchmark 2016 recapitulation was held in the last week of May and the first week of June. A total of 62 state schools, 22 church schools and seven independent schools took part. The assessment was taken by 3,627 students - 1,682 (46%) boys, and 1,945 (54%) girls. This represented 93 per cent of the whole cohort of children in Year 6. Читать дальше...