Earlier this morning a building scaffolding collapsed onto Triq Reggie Miller in Gżira, with footage showing the terrifying moment the scaffolding narrowly missed passing cars on the busy street. Footage from CCTV appears to show an excavator operating on the construction site moments before the collapse, with the scaffolding suddenly giving way and
Police seized 166kg of cocaine and 2,088 ecstasy tablets in the first six months of this year, more than the total amount confiscated throughout 2025, the Home Affairs Minister revealed on Friday. Speaking at a workshop organised by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Glenn Bedingfield said the police also seized 19 kg of khat in the first
The latest government finances figures published today by the government's statistics office confirm that, in May of this year, the country's debt continued to rise and now stands at €11,840 million, the Nationalist Party said Friday. The statement issued by the National Statistics Office (NSO) for the period between January and May 2026 confirms that,
Public health authorities have issued an Emergency Control Order and closed the kitchen facilities of a caterer as part of investigations into a case of mass food poisoning which affected a group of employees on Thursday evening. In a joint statement on Friday, the Superintendence of Public Health and the Food Safety and Security Authority said that
In his home country Kenya, Davis Maoga is spending some time alone, rented a house on a short-let basis and using his free time to focus on his studies and writing. “I’m spending time on my own because I want to overcome the depression I’ve been dealing with,” he said. “I didn’t know the meaning of depression until I came to Malta.” Maoga has just
Hundreds of households were left without electricity early on Tuesday evening after a private contractor damaged power lines that supply parts of Birkirkara Sta Venera and Qormi. Enemalta said that the damage was caused by a contractor it had engaged. It said that while its technical teams have restored supply to most households, it has also deployed
Airbus on Tuesday said it would inspect 16 A380 planes, five of them immediately, after cracks were found in a key wing component on aircraft used by the Emirates and Qantas airlines. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has ordered urgent inspections requiring airlines to examine the wing-spar structure on the affected jets after inspectors
