Новости за 17.08.2018

Gżira United have set their sights on qualifying for European football for a second successive season as the Maroons unveiled their new signings during a press conference at the club’s premises, yesterday. Since making a return to the top flight of Maltese football three years ago, Gżira United have grew in stature as they managed to establish themselves among the top teams in the Premier League. Last season, they reached new ground when they ended a 45-year wait and qualify to European football after placing third in the Premier League. Читать дальше...

BIRKIRKARA 1 Grech 15 pen BALZAN       0 Birkirkara opened the new campaign on a fine note after they needed a Jake Grech first half penalty to overcome Balzan 1-0 at the National Stadium.  The Stripes' all important goal arrived on 15 minutes when Justin Grioli was judged to have fouled Thiago De Brito inside the area and from the spot Grech made no mistake.  Balzan should have drawn level a minute later when Kaljevic did the impossible when driving the ball widefrom underneath the crossbar, with the goalkeeper already beaten. Читать дальше...

QORMI             1 SENGLEA ATHLETIC       0 Qormi enjoyed a perfect return to the BOV Premier League as they needed a second-half goal from Alessio Cassar to see off Senglea Athletic in their league opener at the Tedesco Stadium. The Yellow-Blacks enjoyed the initiative right from the outset and they came close on 11 minutes when Davide Mansi connected with Seo In Kim’s cross but his header finished just wide. Senglea responded minutes later with a Karl Cutajar shot finishing off target. On 28 minutes... Читать дальше...

An 18-year-old student from Georgia solved six Rubik's Cubes under water in one breath on Friday, in a bid to set a new Guinness World Record. Vako Marchelashvili was submerged in a glass tank for just over one minute and 44 seconds as he flipped, turned and solved the cubes in front of a crowd at the Gino Paradise aqua park Tbilisi. He said he had been preparing for the underwater challenge for six months, training several hours a day. "I trained a lot planning to break a record - and to ensure my safety... Читать дальше...

A deadly Ebola outbreak in a conflict-hit area of the Democratic Republic of Congo poses an "unprecedented" challenge to health workers trying to access victims and contain the disease, medical charities said on Friday. At least 44 people have died in Congo's tenth Ebola outbreak since the deadly virus was discovered in the 1970s, according to the World Health Organization. It started just a week after the country declared an end to an outbreak and marks the first time responders have had to work in an active conflict zone... Читать дальше...

Whether you have been out of work for two years or 20, you can catch up with the rest of the local workforce through a training programme that is accrediting scores of people. “When you are all alone at home mulling over the idea of going back to work, you do not feel motivated much,” Josianne Grech, 45, told Times of Malta. “However, when you join a class and realise there are several others in the same boat, you know that you too can do it.” Ms Grech stopped working some 20 years ago after a decade in employment. Читать дальше...

US President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States was not going to take Turkey's detention of US Christian pastor Andrew Brunson "sitting down", a day after his Treasury chief said Washington could hit Ankara with further sanctions. "They should have given him back a long time ago, and Turkey has in my opinion acted very, very badly," Trump told reporters at the White House. "So, we haven't seen the last of that. We are not going to take it sitting down. They can't take our people." A Turkish... Читать дальше...

A recent Daily Mail article announced that: “Beer is officially good for you”. The article claimed that beer “reduces heart risk” and “improves brain health”. Even if “heart risk” sounds a bit vague, the news sounds good. But let’s take a closer look at the evidence. The Daily Mail cites the source of the research as The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. The journalist even provides a quote from the study, which was published in 2000: The antioxidant content of beer is equivalent to that of wine... Читать дальше...

An engineering study commissioned by Italian motorway operator Autostrade last year warned about the condition of a bridge that collapsed this week in Genoa, the head of the university department that conducted the study said on Friday. Autostrade per l'Italia, controlled by infrastructure group Atlantia, manages the section of the A10 motorway linking the French border to the port city where the 50-year-old bridge gave way on Tuesday, killing at least 38 people. Stefano Della Torre, head of the Department of Architecture... Читать дальше...

A group of 171 migrants who refused help by Maltese rescuers remain stranded off Lampedusa awaiting instructions by the Italian authorities. The boat got embroiled in fresh controversy between Italy and Malta over who should assume responsibility for the migrants. Malta retorted on Thursday that the boat was not in distress and the migrants were picked up closer to the Italian island. On Wednesday, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Malta should take the migrants since they sailed through its rescue zone. Читать дальше...

The story of Jacob Cachia, “the boy who lived”, has made it to Queen Elizabeth’s book collection. Jacob survived a rare brain infection in 2013 and his family has since reached out to others dealing with the trauma. This included the setting up of the NGO Survivors Malta and the publication of the book Jacob – My Titanium Man, whose royalties kickstarted the dream of opening a coffee shop. The young man’s shop is called Jacob’s Brew – Pay It Forward and was opened as a social enterprise. To their delight... Читать дальше...

The man identified as the main suspect in the gruesome murder of a young Dutch woman told investigators he had “freaked out” during an argument, a court heard on Friday. The victim, Shannon Mak, 30, was found with her neck slashed outside an apartment in St Venera on August 3. Read: Ex-boyfriend held after woman found with 'throat slashed' in Sta Venera Just hours later, police officers went to the suspect’s flat, where they found him lying on a sofa bed, and fairly calm, inspector Lydon Zammit testified. Читать дальше...

The MSE Equity Price Index climbed by 0.27% to 4,310.498 points as several equities performed positively while only FIMBank trended lower. Despite Friday's gains, the local equity index retreated by 0.73% during this shortened week, mostly driven by the drops in share prices of FIMBank (-5.5%), HSBC (-4.8%) and BOV (-1.3%). MIDI plc surged 4% to a new record high of €0.52 across 50,790 shares. The company is scheduled to publish its interim results on August 30. Within the same sector, Malta Properties... Читать дальше...

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho on Friday dismissed talk of a fallout with Paul Pogba, saying that he "couldn't be happier" with the World Cup-winning France midfielder. Pogba scored in United's 2-1 opening day Premier League win over Leicester City last week but appeared to fuel speculation about his future at the club afterwards by saying he would be punished if he said the wrong thing. The 25-year-old, who joined United in 2016 for $114 million, has been linked with a big-money move to... Читать дальше...

Repair works began in Mrieħel on Thursday on part of the 17th century Wignacourt Aqueduct, built by the Knights of St John. A section of one of the arches was damaged when the driver of a concrete-mix truck ignored traffic signs and tried to go through an arch with his massive vehicle. The central corbel stone of the arch was damaged as a result. WATCH: Road signs and common sense not enough to deter this driver

A 77-year-old man was seriously hurt after the Yamaha 80 scooter he was driving was involved in a collision in Kirkop on Friday at 9.30am. Police said that a car driven by a 38-year-old woman from Kirkop was involved in the accident. Investigations are still underway.

Pictures taken on Friday show how some of the migrants who were evicted from a former cattle farm in Qormi have set up mattresses and blankets in nearby fields.  Some 120 immigrants, many of whom came to Malta from Italy, were kicked out of the farm where they were living on Monday. The pictures show the migrants were sleeping on mattresses thrown on the ground or placed on wooden pallets. Others found refuge in another Qormi farm, after learning about it through friends. One 27-year-old migrant... Читать дальше...

Air France-KLM shares fell on Friday in response to the hostile reception from unions to the company's new boss Benjamin Smith, while the airline's Dutch pilots threatened to strike over working conditions. Unions representing workers at the French company were openly hostile to the appointment of Smith, chief operating officer at Air Canada, accusing the group of handing control to a foreigner and not protecting Air France's interests. Air France-KLM shares fell 4 per cent and were among the worst-performing stocks on Paris' SBF-120. Читать дальше...

A change in breakfast routine may provide benefits for the management of type 2 diabetes, according to a new study published in the Journal of Dairy Science. Douglas Goff and the team of scientists from the Human Nutraceutical Research Unit at the University of Guelph, in collaboration with the University of Toronto, examined the effects of consuming high-protein milk at breakfast on blood glucose levels and satiety after breakfast and after a second meal. Milk consumed with breakfast cereal reduced... Читать дальше...

Clumps of giant reed, which are an invasive species, probably bore the brunt of the flames which have been burning at Il-Maqluba for the past two days, the Environment and Resources Authority said. Il-Maqluba is both a Tree Protection Area and a Special Area of Conservation of International Importance. ERA said on Friday that it had worked incessantly with the Civil Protection Department (CPD) on the fires, a day after Partit Demokratiku accused the authorities of allowing the flames to rage. Watch... Читать дальше...

Consumer price inflation reached 2.1 per cent in July when compared to the same month the previous year, new data released on Friday by the National Statistics Office has shown. The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices, which measures monthly price changes in the cost of purchasing a representative basket of goods and services, rose by 0.1 percentage points when compared to June. When the 12-month HICP moving average is calculated, price inflation stood at 1.5 per cent. Restaurant and hotel costs saw the largest increases in July... Читать дальше...

A man bit one of the police officers escorting him to a homeless shelter, ending up in custody. Kevin Yanick Malthide Compaore, 22, from Burkina Faso, was arraigned just hours after the alleged violence, which broke out when two officers were escorting him from Rabat to the Birkirkara shelter where he resided. Read: Police sergeant bitten and left bruised Police were called to a residence in Rabat, after the man allegedly kicked up a racket in the early hours of Friday morning. On the way to the shelter... Читать дальше...

The worst floods in a century in the Indian state of Kerala have killed 164 people and forced more than 200,000 into relief camps, officials said on Friday, with more misery expected as heavy rain pushed water levels higher. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to visit the southwest state later on Friday and its chief minister said he was hoping the military could step up help for the rescue effort, which is already using dozens of helicopters and hundreds of boats. "I spoke to the defence minister... Читать дальше...

A man who allegedly attacked two others with a knife on the streets of Paceville last Wednesday night has been remanded in custody after pleading not guilty to charges against him. Mohammed Misrati, a 26-year old unemployed Tripoli-born national living in Swieqi,  pleaded not guilty to having committed the aggression, to having slightly injured the men and to having breached the peace. Prosecuting inspector Leeroy Balzan Engerer explained how two men had reported the violent incident, which allegedly... Читать дальше...

Beachgoers at Ġnejna Bay were met on Thursday with a considerable amount of algae and metal bins overflowing with burnt charcoal from the previous evening’s BBQs. Cleansing Department personnel were on site as soon as Times of Malta raised the matter with them. Director general Ramon Deguara explained that the bins were still too hot when the beach cleaner tried to empty them in the morning. The algae is expected to be removed on Friday as this has to be done manually due to the turtle eggs on the beach.