Новости за 18.12.2017

An Amtrak passenger train derailed on Monday during its inaugural run along a faster route through Washington state, sending part of the train crashing down onto a major highway and killing six passengers, authorities said. The derailment caused "multiple fatalities," Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the local sheriff's office, told reporters at the scene. The train struck several cars on Interstate 5, he added, causing injuries but no additional deaths. Seventy-seven people were transported to hospitals in Pierce and Thurston counties... Читать дальше...

GŻIRA UNITED                  3 Okoye 8 Muir 12 Cohen 63 LIJA ATHLETIC                  2 Beu 16 pen. Kooh-Sohna 30 Gżira took just four minutes to break the stalemate. In a quick raid, Amadou Samb picked Ndubisi Okoye and the Nigerian headed the ball into the roof of the net. The goal galvanised the Maroons who added a second on 12 minutes. This time, Okoye turned provider as he sent a low cross towards the unmarked Gary Muir who drilled the ball past Luke Bonnici, the Lija goalkeeper. When it looked... Читать дальше...

Blood donation does not cost anything but its absence can cost lives, a young mother, whose son was saved by donors from possible heart failure, has stressed. As a working mother of two boys, life was busy for Jade* who stretched her energy to fit in as much quality time with her sons as possible, because nothing was more precious than seeing them grow up. When she thought life could not get busier, her eldest son, aged four, fell ill with a slight fever and funny cough. When the symptoms persisted for three days... Читать дальше...

The Budget for 2018 was approved by the House of Representatives this evening. After three hours of voting on the various Estimates, totalling €3.58 billion, the Budget was approved with 36 votes in favour and 30 against. The House also approved over €200 million in supplementary expenditure for the year 2017. All Government MPs voted in favour and all Nationalist Party MPs voted against every vote, but in committee of supply, Democratic Party MPs Marlene and Godfrey Farrugia voted in favour of the... Читать дальше...

Education officials have dismissed the low score in Maltese reading achieved by 10-year-olds in a major international study as not being representative of the real situation in Malta. Recent results from the 2016 Progress in International Reading Study (PIRLS) ranked Malta in 40th place out of the 50 countries which participated. The Maltese pupils were awarded a reading score of 452, which is lower than the 457 awarded on the PIRLS test in 2011 and below the international average score of 500. In 2011... Читать дальше...

Cavaliers 106, Wizards 99 LeBron James registered his fourth triple-double in five games with 20 points, 12 rebounds and 15 assists as the streaking Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Washington Wizards 106-99 on Sunday night. Kevin Love led the Cavaliers with 25 points, while Jeff Green had 15 points. Cleveland has won 18 of 19 games, including the past five. Little separated the Eastern Conference contenders for much of the game as the teams were tied at the end of the second and third quarters. James's... Читать дальше...

US military personnel fired shots as they stopped a man who tried to force his way into a military base in central England used by the US air force on Monday, police said. The Mildenhall Royal Air Force base said security staff locked down the base, used by the United States to refuel US and NATO aircraft in Europe, at about 2pm following reports of a disturbance. A car reportedly rammed the gate. The US Air Force said the incident had been contained and that the suspect had been apprehended.  The 1,162-acre base... Читать дальше...

Workers will lay the final layer of asphalt of the Kappara project on Tuesday - all the way from the skate park till the flyover, on the San Ġwann side of the project. The contractor will also be laying the final layer of asphalt on the northbound slip road, the University of Malta tunnel, the slip road from the skate park and on the west side of the project, Transport Malta said.  The slip road from the skate park towards Kappara will be closed after 9am. Traffic will be diverted through Msida.... Читать дальше...

The MSE Equity Price Index moved 0.35% higher today to reach a fresh 3-week high of 4,472.514 points on the back of the rebounds registered in FIMBank and PG as well as marginal increases in the share prices of Malta Properties and Medserv. On the other hand, BOV and HSBC trended lower whilst a further four equities ended the session unchanged. New bids lifted the share price of FIMBank plc by 14.75% for the equity to recapture the USD0.70 level across four deals totalling 27,450 shares. PG plc also... Читать дальше...

Six properties are to be restored by the government in terms of a scheme by the Ministry of Justice and Local Government where local councils are invited to propose such sites. 25 submissions were made by the councils.  The sites are the chapel of the beheading of St John in Siġġiewi, the facade of the chapel of St John Baptist, Għargħur; the niche of Our Lady of Mt Carmel, Paola; tal-Matla wall in Mqabba; the facade of the parish centre in Ħal Safi and the facade of the Chapel San Pawl tal-Ħġejjeġ in St Paul's Bay. Читать дальше...

The lack of lifts makes the Mrieħel footbridge a barrier for those with mobility issues and cyclists, who are calling for the installation of ramps instead. Without lifts, which replaced the ramps in the original design, people with mobility issues, the elderly, those with pushchairs and cyclists are unable to access the bridge, and this make them risk crossing the road, possibly leading to another tragedy, the Bicycling Advocacy Group warns. The bypass bridge was a Labour electoral pledge in the wake of a fatal traffic accident in 2005... Читать дальше...

A man who was recently released from jail, is back behind bars after damaging several parked cars during a drunken spree in Pieta'. Mustafa Mohamud Mohamed, a 29-year-old Somali national, was jailed for 10 months after admitting to having damaged the cars on Sunday night. In the past he had several other brushes with the law which resulted in three separate arraignments.   On Sunday night, he was arrested after the burglar alarm of one of the damaged cars went off. Residents gave chase, and although he managed to give them the slip... Читать дальше...

A man was held in remand today after the latest episode of a long-running family feud which had children at its centre. The man was arrested on Sunday evening at around 6.30pm after turning up at Żebbuġ police station following an argument with his ex-wife and her father in Siġġiewi. He allegedly said he would kill his father-in-law or some other member of the family if allowed to leave. Sensing the man’s agitated state and knowing fully well that there had been repeated incidents involving the estranged... Читать дальше...

The Majjistral Nature Park near Manikata was established in 2007. After years of discussion, a decision was reached to allow hunting until 9 am, later extended to 10 am. A compromise was reached. Hunting and trapping is not compatible with people going for nature walks at the park, including children. Hunters are disturbed by visitors rambling through their hunting paths, and visitors are annoyed and unsettled by hunters and trappers. But on 27 October this year, the government decided to extend... Читать дальше...

A man dressed as Santa Claus scaled a skyscraper in Berlin on Sunday to delivere gifts to children waiting below. Perhaps a chimney would have been safer.

Google and Facebook will have to accept China's censorship and tough online laws if they want access to its 751 million internet users, Chinese regulators told a conference in Geneva on Monday. Google and Facebook are blocked in China, along with Twitter Inc and most major Western news outlets. "That’s a question maybe in many people’s minds, why Google, why Facebook are not yet working and operating in China," said Qi Xiaoxia, director general of the Bureau of International Cooperation at the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). Читать дальше...

The lampuki season has been extended until January 31, following an agreement with the European Union. Parliamentary Secretary Clint Camilleri also pointed out when announcing this on Monday that the government had also managed to ensure that fishermen were not bound by individual quotas for swordfish, even though an national quota is now in force.

Part of the old Malta Railway came to life again in miniature over the weekend at an exhibition of model trains in Paola. A model of the Ħamrun railway station, once a crucial part of the train line running between Mdina and Valletta, was one of several on display during the exhibition, which was organised by the Malta Model Railways Group. The exhibition also included two other working layouts, displaying British scenery but not based on real locations, as well as another that is still under construction... Читать дальше...

A third attempt at getting the compilation of evidence going in the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder case will be made tomorrow morning, with the case having been assigned to Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit. A second magistrate abstained from the case this morning, prompting the prime minister to say in reply to questions that it would be unacceptable for such a case to collapse because of a procedural issue after the sterling work by the police in such a short time.  READ: Courtroom drama as second... Читать дальше...

Substantial withdrawals from an ATM at a bank’s Msida branch raised the authorities' suspicions, leading to the arrest of a Romanian national. At least €10,000 are believed to have been withdrawn by means of a number of bank cards which appear to have been cloned. It is understood that the police have CCTV footage which show the suspect effecting the withdrawals. Prepelita Petrisor, 42, of Timisoara in Romania, told the court on Monday that he worked as a tourist agent back home, pleaded not guilty... Читать дальше...

Finnish police searched a reporter's home and seized her computer after she tried to destroy the hard drive to protect sources linked to a security story, her newspaper reported. The journalist, Laura Halminen, said she tried to smash up her computer with a hammer in her home, but the laptop then started smoking and she called the fire brigade, according to an interview published by her employer Helsingin Sanomat. Police officers who came to her home with the fire service to investigate the blaze... Читать дальше...

Mqabba's St Benedict College primary school has been turned into a Christmas wonderland thanks to the hard work of students, teachers and staff.  Wallpapered walls feature teaching staff 'elves' and young student 'reindeer'; classroom doors are an array of colour; even toilet cisterns have been turned into paper snowmen.  "Everybody (and by everybody we truly mean everybody, from the eldest to the tiniest one, be it pupils, teachers or staff) was on a mission" over the past weeks, the school said on its Facebook page. Читать дальше...

Getting people interested in cultural activities is no easy feat, Philippe Malgouyres says, noting that although Malta has made huge strides in highlighting the importance of art, change does not come overnight. Mr Malgouyres, the chief curator of the Department of Art Objects at the Louvre Museum in Paris, worked closely with Heritage Malta when the National Museum of Archaeology hosted the exhibition of Grand Master Jean de Valette’s dagger. Mr Malgouyres said that while the work being done by... Читать дальше...

Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna, Archbishop Emeritus Paul Cremona and Vicar General Joe Galea Curmi will be meeting members of the public to exchange best wishes for the season at the Curia in Floriana on Saturday December 30 from 10am to noon. The Archbishop will be making a speech to those present at 10.30am. Access will be through the door on Triq Vinċenzo Buġeja.

The Central Bank of Malta’s latest economic projections foresee strong economic growth over the coming three years from a historical perspective, though somewhat lower than in 2017. The CBM has revised its previous forecasts upwards, reflecting a stronger expansion in private consumption and in net exports. It said that growth in the coming years would be supported by both demand and supply factors. “In particular, the continued impact of the energy reforms, new investment projects, increased labour... Читать дальше...