MSE Share Index up 3.8% in 2012
During the last trading session this year, the MSE Share Index eased minimally below its seven-week high closing the year up 3.8 per cent at 3,211.906 points. Six equities traded during the final...
View ArticleVisit your parents, orders China
Visit your parents. That's an order, says China, where the law was today amended to require that adults visit their aged parents "often" - or risk being sued by them. The law does not specify how...
View ArticleIndia rape victim 'fights for life'
An Indian woman who was gang-raped on a bus in New Delhi has suffered "significant" brain injury and is fighting for her life, doctors say. The 23-year-old woman was flown to Singapore for treatment...
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Piecemeal scheduling undermining tourism policy - FAA
While the government was doing its best to recover parts of the fortifications that were in private hands, the planning authority’s practice of only scheduling parts of heritage gardens made the...
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Lotto receivers insist on collective guarantee
Lotto receivers have approved a motion for their union to negotiate with Maltco a collective guarantee on their behalf. The motion also called on them to follow a directive not to pay the personal...
View ArticleSheriff plans schools armed posse
An Arizona sheriff has announced plans to deploy an armed volunteer posse to protect students in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told KTVK-TV he has the...
View ArticleKarin Grech remembered
Violence can never be justified and the Karin Grech remembrance ceremony each year helped the people renew the promise for there never to be similar incidents again, Labour leader Joseph Muscat said...
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MPs, trade unionists play ball in aid of Dar tal-Providenza
Instead of in Parliament, MPs met at St Aloysius Football Ground today where they played football in a bid to collect funds for the Dar tal-Providenza. Joining the MPs in the game were officials from...
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Commission for Administration of Justice reacts to reports that magistrate is...
Reports that the Commission for Administration of Justice is investigating Magistrate Audrey Demicoli may be misleading, the commission said this evening. “The fact that the Commission informs itself...
View Article'14 killed' in Syria air strike
A government air strike on a town in north Syria has killed 14 people, including two women and eight children, activists say. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the 14 were...
View ArticleIs Pope Benedict a homophobe?
The Pope’s speech to the members of the Roman Curia on December 21 brought with it accusations that the Pope is a homophobe. It is not the first time that he had been so accused; in my opinion,...
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Tips For Celebrating in Style
Now that the Christmas fun is over, it’s time to concentrate on the New Year, and what better way to usher 2013 in than with a big grand celebration in the form of a party for family and friends ? But...
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Man injured in traffic accident
A 54-year-old man from Naxxar was grievously injured in a traffic accident in Triq il-Marfa, Mellieha at 9.45pm yesterday. The police said the accident happened when a 42-year-old man from Mellieha,...
View ArticleElephant 'abuse' settlement
An animal rights group will pay Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus 9.3 million US dollars to settle a lawsuit the circus filed after courts found that activists paid a former circus worker...
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Old meets the new
The trip lasted just eight minutes, but seven elderly men who took the ferry to Valletta out of curiosity managed a heated debate about the current state of political affairs, the new Upper Barrakka...
View ArticleChicago marks 500th murder of 2012
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says the city has logged its 500th murder of the year. Supt McCarthy issued a statement calling the milestone a "tragic number that is reflective of the...
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The Santa's Clauses Chapter 6
Conceited Whores! Selfish Adulterers! Egotistic Bastards! Narcissistic Fornicators! I had just found a street corner that looked ideal – sheltered from both the sun and the breeze, and out of the way...
View ArticleFrench reject 75% supertax
A French constitutional panel has thrown out a plan to tax the ultra-wealthy at a 75% rate, saying it was excessive. The constitutional council ruled today that the highly contentious tax, which...
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Man hit by car in Paola
A 42-year-old man from Cospicua was grievously injured this morning when he was hit by an Opel Cosra in Triq Hal-Saflieni, Paola, at around noon. He is not in a critical condition. The police said the...
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Captain to learn fate ‘after festive season’
An Air Malta inquiry has not yet determined whether pilot union president Domenic Azzopardi was responsible for a 30-minute flight delay last July. “The board of inquiry set up to investigate this...
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