An 18-year-old woman was hospitalised on Monday after being hit by a motorcycle. The accident happened at 10.30am in Luqa Street, Paola. The motorcycle was being driven by a 27-year-old man from Fgura, who was unhurt. The victim, who is from Naxxar, was given first aid on the scene and hospitalised in a serious condition, police said.
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after allegedly making a bomb threat, forcing the evacuation of a school in Mosta. The police said the threat was made in a phone call it received at 9am. A male voice warned of a bomb at Mosta secondary school. The students were evacuated and the army searched the school. Nothing was found. The police tracked down
A 21-year-old Scottish man suffered serious injuries after falling around three storeys from a balcony of an apartment in Mellieħa on Sunday night, the police said. In a statement, police said they were informed at around 9pm that assistance was needed near a block of apartments in Triq il-Fortizza, Mellieħa. A medical team and members of the Civil
Pope Leo XIV on Monday issued an unprecedented apology for the Vatican's role in justifying slavery and said the delay in condemning the practice was "a wound in Christian memory". In a major text warning about the risk of "new forms of slavery" behind the digital economy, Leo said Church institutions owned slaves until the Middle Ages. "In the early
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