Новости за 05.07.2016

Forensic Department police officers from the Scene of the Crime Unit followed a five-week course by the Netherlands Forensic Institute, the first of its type for the past 20 years. Training included touch DNA sampling, scene of the crime photography, investigation, and securing evidence in serious crimes.  Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela this morning visited the participants, who were sitting for their exams, at the Ta' Kandja Police Academy. On Friday, participants will prepare a report on... Читать дальше...

President Tayyip Erdogan has outlined plans to grant citizenship to some of the near 3 million migrants who have fled war in neighbouring Syria, particularly those with qualifications of use to Turkey. "Western nations open their doors to such skilled individuals and they have no choice but to go (to the West) when we do not open the gates (of citizenship) ourselves. We would like to benefit from their knowledge," Erdogan told reporters after praying at an Istanbul mosque. Turkey struck a deal with... Читать дальше...

DJ and l-Orizzont reporter Charlo Lautier has been jailed 13 months suspended for two years for working as a tour operator while receiving unemployment benefits. The case dates to 2012, when the police received a report that the accused was advertising his services as a tour operator under the name of 'DJ Charlo and Fun Travel'. The accused had also organised a number of tours with Virtu Ferries between January 2011 and September 2012. According to ETC documentation, the accused had been registering... Читать дальше...

A 30-year-old man was today jailed for 14 months after he admitted to trafficking cocaine in Paceville. Abdisalan Mahamed Afrah, from Somalia, was arrested on June 26 after police on patrol noted him behaving suspiciously. Prosecuting officer Frank Anthony Tabone had told Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera that a subsequent search of the accused yielded three sachets of a substance suspected to be cocaine. The accused admitted he had been planning to sell the three 0.5 grams sachets for €50 each. Читать дальше...

Stem cell research might be 20 years behind where it is today if Dolly the Sheep had never been born, according to the scientist whose team created the world's first mammal cloned from an adult cell. Speaking on the eve of Dolly's 20th anniversary, Professor Sir Ian Wilmut said widespread use of stem cell treatments was still likely to be "decades away". He admitted that in the early days, scientists including himself had been carried away by the prospect of revolutionary stem cell therapies. Controversially... Читать дальше...

Jose Mourinho was unveiled as the new Manchester United manager today, insisting he was a winner who aims to return the club to its traditional position of dominance. The 53-year-old former Chelsea, Real Madrid and Inter Milan coach said he did not want the players to think improving on last season's fifth place would be sufficient. "For United fans, for many years, success was just routine. In the last three years, I want to forget," the Portuguese manager told reporters at Old Trafford. "I don't want the players to think we need to do better.

Italian tycoon and former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said today he was close to sealing a deal to sell Italian soccer club AC Milan to a Chinese consortium. The Berlusconi family's Fininvest holding company, which owns AC Milan, entered exclusive talks with the consortium in early May. The club needs new capital and has failed to win a major competition in the past five years. "I have accepted the valuation for the club proposed (by the Chinese consortium) and demanded that they commit to invest... Читать дальше...

Oil fell below $50 (€45) a barrel today as concern about a potential slowdown in economic growth that would weigh on demand trumped supply outages in Nigeria and other exporting nations. Trade in one of Britain's largest property funds was suspended in one of the first signs of major financial stress following the country's vote to leave the EU. A flurry of data from China in coming weeks is expected to show weakness in trade and investment. Brent crude was down $1.04 at $49.06 a barrel at 8.47 GMT. Читать дальше...

Saudi Arabia's crown prince and anti-terror tsar has sought to reassure Saudis of the country's security after suicide attacks targeting the holy city of Medina, the US consulate in Jeddah and Shi'ites in the city of Qatif. At least four people were killed in the attacks on Monday. No group has claimed responsibility but Islamic State has carried out a number of similar bombings in the kingdom in the past year, targeting Shi'ite Muslims and Saudi security forces. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz... Читать дальше...

Italy's ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has left hospital three weeks after undergoing heart surgery. The 79-year-old said he hopes to still be useful to Italians but that he is gravely concerned about the state of Italy, Europe and the world. Mr Berlusconi walked slowly and gingerly, clutching the shoulder of an aide as he emerged from the San Raffaele clinic in Milan. The media mogul underwent surgery to replace a malfunctioning heart valve on June 14. He told reporters outside the hospital... Читать дальше...

Maltese singer Ozzy Lino will be lending his voice to Rockin'1000, the biggest rock band in the world, in what promises to be a unique rock concert in Italy. The Maltese/Australian singer was selected from thousands of applications to take part at the concert in Cesena, Italy on July 24 featuring a band of no less than 1,000 musicians. Rockin'1000 shot into the limelight after last year when 1,000 musicians gathered to sing the Foo Fighters' Learn to Fly to appeal to the American band to perform in Cesena. Читать дальше...

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump isn't having the best of weeks.  Having previously boasted that he had no need for lobbyists' money, Trump has started asking them for just that - only to hear many aren't interested. He's polling poorly in Ohio, a state he must win if he's to have any chance of clinching the election come November. A tweet he sent out yesterday which included a six-pointed star was so widely slammed as anti-Semitic that it was swiftly taken down.  And to add insult to injury... Читать дальше...

A woman from Bristol was banned from Facebook just because she shares her name with jihadi militant group, ISIS. Isis Thomas, 27, says she was trying to log on to her Facebook account when she was instructed to change her name. “I was on Facebook as Isis Worcester, because when I first signed up years ago I didn’t use my real name, which is Isis Thomas, because of where I worked at the time,” she told The Sun. “I thought it was about the surname, so I just changed it to Isis Thomas. But that didn’t... Читать дальше...

The clearing away of an illegal dumping site near the Vittoriosa Bastion, close to Żabbar, will have to wait until after summer, as the equipment needed for the task is tied up on beach duty. In recent days, residents have taken to social media to complain about the eyesore, with photos showing discarded furniture, tyres and construction waste dominating the ditch below the bastion. More than 1,700 tons of waste were removed from an adjacent area of the ditch in March in the first of a two-part initiative by the Cleansing Directorate. Читать дальше...

Eleanor Mangion Walker was not killed at the warehouse where her body was found late on Sunday, police have established.  Police are appealing for information to find Andrew Mangion, who they believe had a hand in the gruesome murder. "We don't know if he dealt the final blow, but we're almost sure he had a hand in the murder," a police source told Times of Malta this morning.  The 33-year-old mother was found dead in a pool of blood in an unused warehouse in Triq il-Kummerċ in Qormi. Mr Mangion held the key to the warehouse. Читать дальше...

Hungary will hold a referendum on 2 October on whether to accept any future European Union quota system for resettling migrants, Hungary's president said on Tuesday. Emboldened by Britain's shock vote to quit the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orban is forging ahead with his referendum on migration, after taking an anti-immigrant stance since the migration crisis escalated last year. Last year, when hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa crossed Hungary en route to richer northern Europe... Читать дальше...

More bodies have been recovered from the site of the weekend suicide bomb attack in central Baghdad, bringing the death toll to 175, Iraqi authorities have said. The figure, announced on Tuesday, comes as Iraqis mourn ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, under the pall of one the worst bombings in 13 years of war. An Islamic State suicide bomber struck Baghdad's bustling commercial area of Karada on Sunday night, as people came out to shop and eat after breaking their daily fast. Читать дальше...

Spain has recorded its first known case of the Zika virus being sexually transmitted, after a woman contracted it from her partner, according to health authorities in Madrid. Her partner returned to Spain from a Latin American country. The woman most likely contracted the virus just after her partner returned, a spokesman for Madrid’s health authorities said. The woman’s partner was diagnosed with the virus shortly after he returned from an unspecified country in Latin America, either in late April or early May. Читать дальше...

The majority of Maltese workers favour moving away from a ‘typical’ office environment, according to a survey conducted by Regus, a global workplace provider. The survey found that across the globe co-workers are seen as the most relaxed and balanced workers. Co-working is a style of work that sees employees of different companies working in a shared office environment. Two-thirds of business people globally (66 per cent) report that co-workers have a better work-life balance and are therefore more... Читать дальше...

All national newspapers today lead with the murder of Eleonora Mangion Walker, whose body was found in a Qormi warehouse last night. The police are still looking for her husband, the prime suspect in the case. In other stories, Times of Malta says conditions attached to the university licence offered by the regulator to the Sadeen Group are non-negotiable, but the Jordanian company may have other plans. The Malta Independent says PL whip Godfrey Farrugia has hit out at the Mriehel towers saying that... Читать дальше...

The Juno space probe has arrived in orbit around Jupiter in a historic moment for astronomy after a five-year, 1.4 billion-mile voyage. The spacecraft, named after the Roman goddess, completed a high-stakes manoeuvre that saw it fire a rocket to slow its 250,000 kph approach to the gas giant. Cheers and applause erupted in mission control at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology when a signal arrived confirming the burn was complete at around 4.54am. The mission's chief scientist... Читать дальше...

Contestants bellied up to the table to participate in a Key Lime pie eating contest, just one of a number of speed eating contests to mark the US Independence Day yesterday. Twenty-four people participated in the event which requires contestants to devour nine-inch Key Lime pie without using their hands. "A lot of people say nothing is more American than apple pie but the fact is apple pie was first created in Europe. So, really you can say nothing is more American than key lime pie because it was made right here in Key West... Читать дальше...

Conditions attached to the university licence offered by the regulator to the Sadeen Group are non-negotiable, but the Jordanian company may have other plans. Louai Twal, Sadeen’s legal representative, said the company was studying the conditions imposed by the National Commission for Further and Higher Education but indicated some form of compromise may be necessary. The company applied for a university licence to build and operate the American University of Malta from campuses in Cospicua and Marsascala. Читать дальше...

Hedgehogs are highly adaptable and adjust well to city living if they can find suitable gardens and parks, a study has shown. After 15 million years of evolution, the humble hedgehog has learned to cope with all kinds of environmental changes, including urbanisation, say scientists. To investigate how well street-wise hedgehogs were coping, a German team fitted a number of the prickly creatures with temperature-sensitive transmitters. The devices allowed the researchers to monitor hibernation patterns... Читать дальше...

Fr Hermann Duncan, O. Carm, looks at how the church dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Fleur-de-Lys was founded and how the Santa Venera suburb became a parish. When World War II broke out, many Maltese were looking for shelter, especially those from the Cottonera area. Many sought refuge in Rabat, Birkirkara and Santa Venera. The Dominican friars of Vittoriosa also had to relocate during the war as they lost their priory. They moved to Fleur-de-Lys where they were allowed to stay in a marble... Читать дальше...