Culture
Maltese Scuba Divers Find Ancient Pizza Ovens, Nation Debates Which Topping to Add Next
Ancient pizza ovens found underwater sparks urgent discussions about UNESCO and olives.
Latest
Culture
Government Declares National Holiday for 'L-Ikkalza tal-Pastizzi' — Citizens to Balance Bread and Calories
4 Apr 2026
Business
Maltese Government Declares 'Pastizzollar' as Official Currency, Citizens Now Pay in Flaky Pastry
30 Mar 2026
Malta
Maltese Government Replaces Buses with Luzzu Boats: Traffic Reduced by 100%, Along with Any Chance of Reaching Your Destination
25 Mar 2026
Malta
PMO Orders Valletta, Marsaxlokk And Ħamrun Balconies To Display Towel, Rosary And Pastizzi To Calibrate Festa Passive‑Aggression
After months of terrace wars, the government says a rolled towel, a rosary and a municipally stamped pastizzi will finally let neighbours argue with proper etiquette.
Malta
Entire Maltese Internet Now One Giant Cookie Banner, Everyone Keeps Clicking 'Accept'
After a successful tech consolidation, Maltese people now navigate the web by reflexively accepting one huge banner that covers everything, including their dinner and the ferry timetable.
Malta
Żejtun Introduces 14:14 Pastizz Pause — Offending Drivers Must Eat, Salute Statue, Apologise to Fiat 500
After a ferocious festa parking war, the band club and parish beadle signed a binding pact forcing offending drivers to stop at 14:14, eat a pastizz, salute the statue and tuck a handwritten apology under the wiper of whichever Fiat 500 is blocking the chapel.
Malta
Transport Malta Replaces Every Roundabout With A Scheduled Festa, Drivers Told To Bring Dancing Shoes And Spare Pastizzi
Transport Malta says festa-roundabouts will improve traffic flow, settle lane disputes with għana, and allow marshals to revoke licences between taralli and brass band.
Malta
Maltese News Site Now Requires Consent to Read That It Requires Consent
After a routine update the website now asks for permission to open the permission dialog, trapping readers in a polite but endless loop of buttons and 'I agree' clicks.
Malta
Government Creates Minister for Pastizzi and Peace to Legally Rota Fishermen, Tour Boats and Karaoke Aunties
After a summer of nightly luzzu karaoke in Marsaxlokk the government says a legally binding rota will finally stop boats and aunties from duetting over pastizzi.
Malta
Valletta Declares Every Wooden Balcony 'Festa Heritage Seating', Owners Must Rent Them to Band and Leave One Broken Mop and Half‑Eaten Ftira Each
A quiet council vote redefines balconies as communal festa infrastructure, triggering acute mop scarcity and an urgent call for ftira authenticity certificates.
Culture
Għarb Bans Midnight Pastizzi to Fireworks Crews After Ricotta Crumbs Make Statues Nod During Għana
Council says late-night pastizzi deliveries were 'altering the village rhythm' and causing statues to express mild, passive-aggressive disapproval.
Malta
Valletta Sells 20cm of Air Between Gallariji; First Buyer Pays Three Pastizzi and a Tallinja Card
Council quietly recognised tiny gaps between traditional gallariji as transferable private property, prompting electricians to sell notarised 'air deeds' in 20cm strips.
Culture
Qormi Bakers Get Pastizzi Declared 'Living Monuments'; PM Now Must Inspect Flakiness Annually
After a months-long campaign, Qormi bakers convinced the government to declare pastizzi 'living national monuments', obliging the Prime Minister to conduct annual flakiness inspections, the Heritage Agency to issue humidity warnings, and Gozo ferries to reserve an emergency pastry cabin.
Malta
Government to Tow Drifting Russian LNG Tanker to Manoel Island, Open Padel Courts and Stabbilta Kiosk
After weeks of contingency planning, ministers said repurposing the tanker will solve energy worries, parking shortages and the national pastizzi deficit — all at once.
Malta
Malta Clicked 'Accept All' At Once, Country Now Owned by Two Companies and a Script
In a rare moment of unity, every Maltese clicked 'Accept All', handing over their data, their hobbies, and possibly Marsa's roundabout to advertisers.
Malta
Local Man Spends 45 Minutes Finding Parking, Now Too Afraid To Leave Café In Case He Loses The Spot
Karmenu has been sitting at the same table since 9am, ordering coffee after coffee, waiting for a moment that experts say may never come.
Malta
Government Forms Committee To Decide Which Committee Should Form Next
A unanimous, carefully scheduled panel will meet to study whether more panels are needed to study panels.
Malta
Valletta Orders Pastizziera on Every New Gallarija After Pensioners Call Balconies 'Our Last Communal Oven' — Seagulls File Appeal
The Planning Authority quietly added a rule forcing a municipal pastizziera with a council‑approved ricotta dial to every new gallarija after a deputation of pensioners argued balconies are 'our last communal oven', a move immediately contested by the port's seagull cooperative.
Culture
Mdina Now Sells Silence: Pastizz, Candle and Correct 'għawdxi' Required or You Join the Banda
The city's parish committee voted unanimously that tourists may only admire Mdina's silence after buying a pastizz, lighting a votive candle, and pronouncing 'għawdxi' correctly — mistakes mean an immediate stint with the local band club.
Malta
Spinola Roundabout to Rotate 2° a Night to 'Improve' Balluta Bay Sunsets, Residents Must Remove Laundry and Pay in Pastizzi
Transport Malta will turn Spinola Roundabout two extra degrees counterclockwise each night, telling locals to recalibrate alarm clocks, take down balcony socks at sundown and bring pastizzi for the viewing levy.
Malta
Qormi’s Oldest Oven Registered as Microstate After Its Ftira Starts Issuing Parking Tickets
A ftira with strong opinions about illegal parking led the Ministry of Heritage to quietly grant sovereignty to Qormi’s communal oven after a carrier pigeon complaint from the Transport Authority.
Malta
Marsaxlokk Fishermen Withhold Anchovies From Pastizzerias Until Ferries Play 25‑Minute Għana Duet
The fishermen's cooperative says no anchovies in pastizzi until Transport Malta recognises their new national anthem — a 25‑minute għana performed under festa bunting before every ferry.
Foreigners
215 Maltese in Middle East Ask Consulate for Help — All They Needed Was Directions to a Pastizzeria
Government proud to report successful diplomatic operation that reunited Maltese abroad with their favourite snack, or at least with a Google Maps pin.
Malta
Abela Announces Election Date Will Be 'When The Ferries Start Running On Time'
Prime Minister says country not ready for polls until Gozo ferry schedule achieves national stability.
Culture
Malta Declares Clicking 'I Accept' On Every Website A National Sport
New scheme trains citizens to scroll, tick, and click through 37 consent boxes while drinking kahwa and eating pastizzi.
Malta
Government Declares Entire Country a Single Parking Spot to Finally Solve Crisis
New law reclassifies every inch of Maltese territory as one legal parking space — immediately ends tickets, creates philosophical debate about where to leave your pastizzi.
Malta
Entire Malta Clicks 'Accept All', Now Getting Ads For Their Regrets
After a weekend of unanimous consent, Maltese phones have started politely suggesting products that perfectly match citizens' most embarrassing moments.
Malta
Parliament Puts 'Accept Cookies' Banner On House Floor, MPs Click Agree And Vote For Everything
Speaker installs website-style consent banner across the chamber to speed up law-making; MPs admit they never read the options.
Malta
Budget 2026: Government Solves 'Dignified Living' By Making Everyone A Landlord
New measure reclassifies residents as landlords so official statistics finally show a 'dignified standard of living'.
Malta
Planning Authority Approves Apartment Block With No Windows To 'Encourage Community', Buyers Call It Open-Plan
Developers say removing windows will force neighbours to socialise; buyers call it 'cozy', pigeons call it a missed opportunity.
Malta
Local News Website Now Requires 14 Permissions Before You Can Read A Headline
Readers must grant ad_storage, analytics_storage, personalization_storage and other permissions while waiting for the article to load like a festa queue.
Malta
Planning Authority Now Counts 'Sea' as Extra Bedroom to Help Developers
To speed up permits, developers can now list the Mediterranean as living space — conditions apply, obviously.
Malta
News Site Now Asks For Permission To Ask For Permission
The new double-consent popup reportedly makes readers feel both very safe and very confused, especially when it asks if it can remember that it already asked.
Malta
Government Spends €1.2M Consulting Public On Whether Public Consultation Should Continue
After decades of asking Maltese people what they think, state decides first to ask whether it should keep asking.
Malta
Malta Declares “I Accept” Official National Language; Children to Learn Clicking Before Ħobż
After years of consent banners and reflexive clicking, the government has elevated the habit to policy — iva, ara, and click away.
Malta
All of Malta Stuck on 'Just a moment...' Page, Government Declares Pause a National Holiday
A mysterious 'Just a moment...' screen froze browsers across the islands so officials told everyone to take a break, drink tea and sort their pastizzi.
Entertainment
Pitbull Announces Malta Concert, Bald Maltese Men Finally Feel Seen
For the first time in recorded history, a globally recognised bald man is coming to the island, and the chrome-domed community is not coping well.
Malta
Planning Authority Grants Permission for Balcony That Overlaps Neighbour's House, Says 'If It's On Paper It Exists'
A Valletta man woke up to find his neighbour's new balcony approved to sit half on his roof, and officials said the problem was solved because the drawing looked nice.
Malta
Court Upholds Appeal Against Two 14-Storey Sliema Hotels; Planning Authority Approves 14 More To Keep Things Symmetrical
After judges said two towers couldn't go up, the Planning Authority responded with a perfectly logical plan: build fourteen instead.
Culture
Government's 'Pastizzi Standardisation Initiative' causes national queue, ferry lane, and one scaffolding collapse
A serious decree, a leaked table of flakiness standards, and an islandwide panic-buying of pastizzi that has traffic wardens issuing crumbs as evidence.
Malta
Planning Authority Declares Scaffold-Clad Msida 'Cultural Layering', Recommends More Bones For Towns
After a piece of Msida scaffolding briefly fell, the Planning Authority recommended installing additional scaffolding everywhere to 'preserve the Maltese skyline's authentic under-construction aesthetic.'
Malta
Transport Ministry Announces Nationwide 'Roundabout-for-Pastizzi' Swap To Solve Traffic, Shortage Of Pastizzi Remains Confused
After months of gridlock and empty pastizzi boxes, ministers unveil a plan that somehow relocates the Gozo ferry to Sliema and turns Mdina into a drive-through pastizz hub.
Entertainment
Ta' Qali Declares Itself Independent Nation to Avoid Pitbull Concert Noise Complaints
Ta' Qali has seceded from Malta in a bold move to handle its concert complaints internally.
Malta
Pastizzi Shortage Enters Day 12: Nation on the Brink of Collapse
Experts warn that without immediate intervention, Maltese society as we know it may cease to function by Thursday.
Gozo
Gozo Ferry Arrives Exactly on Schedule; Passengers Hospitalised for Shock
At least fourteen passengers required medical attention after the MV Nikolaos arrived at Mġarr Harbour precisely when it was supposed to.
Malta
Man Finds Parking Spot in Sliema on First Try, Vatican Launches Investigation
The Vatican has dispatched a team of miracle investigators after a Birkirkara man parked in Sliema without circling the block even once.
Business
Lone Construction Crane Spotted Without Companion Crane; Authorities Fear It May Be Lost
Wildlife experts have been called in after a solitary crane was observed standing alone in Gżira, separated from its usual herd.
Foreigners
Foreign Resident Pronounces 'Ħ' Correctly, Granted Immediate Citizenship
A British expat living in Marsaskala stunned onlookers at a Wied il-Għajn bar by correctly pronouncing 'ħobż' on his first attempt.
Culture
Mqabba Festa Fireworks Heard from International Space Station, NASA Confirms
Astronauts aboard the ISS reported 'a series of loud bangs coming from the direction of a very small island' during Saturday's festa.
Crime
Sliema Parking Warden Wins 'Most Feared Person in Malta' Poll for Eighth Consecutive Year
The warden, known only as 'il-Multa,' has reportedly issued more fines than there are registered vehicles on the island.
Malta
Valletta Man Who Walks to Work Accused of Witchcraft by Colleagues
Co-workers report deep suspicion after discovering that Pawlu Micallef, 38, commutes to his office on foot in under ten minutes.
Entertainment
Frank the Singing Goat of Nadur Releases Debut Album, Already Outselling Local Artists
A Gozitan goat named Frank has topped the Malta music charts with his debut album 'Baa-rok and Roll,' recorded entirely in a field in Nadur.
Malta
Pastizzi Shortage Sparks Full-Scale Uprising in Marsa
Residents of Marsa have barricaded the main road and are refusing to negotiate until pastizzi supplies are restored to pre-crisis levels.
Culture
National Flower of Malta Officially Chosen: It's the Plastic Bag Caught in a Tree
After years of deliberation, a parliamentary committee has unanimously voted to recognise the plastic bag lodged in a carob tree as Malta's national flower.
Gozo
Azure Window Finally Back After Local Handyman 'Fixes It With Some Cement and Willpower'
A Gozitan handyman claims to have rebuilt the iconic Azure Window overnight using leftover construction materials and 'a lot of determination.'
Culture
Government Declares National Holiday for 'L-Ikkalza tal-Pastizzi' — Citizens to Balance Bread and Calories
Hold onto your pastizzi, Malta! A new holiday requires residents to juggle culinary delight and culinary disaster.
Culture
Malta Unveils Mandatory Cooking Classes for Cats, Future of Pastizzi at Stake
In a bizarre twist, the government believes cats hold the key to optimal pastizzi preparation.
Business
Maltese Government Declares 'Pastizzollar' as Official Currency, Citizens Now Pay in Flaky Pastry
In a bold move, Malta has traded euros for deliciousness, making pastizzi the new money.
Malta
Maltese Government Replaces Buses with Luzzu Boats: Traffic Reduced by 100%, Along with Any Chance of Reaching Your Destination
In a daring maneuver to combat traffic jams, Malta opts for the sea over roads, despite the smell of fish.
Malta
Żurrieq Deputises Retired Bus Driver to Fire Pastizzi From Cherry-Picker as 'Austerity Rockets'
With fireworks cancelled, the parish council quietly hired a retired driver to launch pastizzi from a cherry-picker — now there's a police probe, two pastoral letters and an EU tasting delegation.
Culture
Marsaxlokk Fishermen Ask UNESCO to Save Luzzijiet Eyes From Scandinavian Decal Invasion
After a wave of minimalist Airbnb hosts started peeling painted eyes off luzzijiet and replacing them with calm, geometric stickers, local fishermen formally petitioned UNESCO to grant the eyes protected status.
Malta
PMO Orders Valletta, Marsaxlokk And Ħamrun Balconies To Display Towel, Rosary And Pastizzi To Calibrate Festa Passive‑Aggression
After months of terrace wars, the government says a rolled towel, a rosary and a municipally stamped pastizzi will finally let neighbours argue with proper etiquette.
Malta
Entire Maltese Internet Now One Giant Cookie Banner, Everyone Keeps Clicking 'Accept'
After a successful tech consolidation, Maltese people now navigate the web by reflexively accepting one huge banner that covers everything, including their dinner and the ferry timetable.
Malta
Żejtun Introduces 14:14 Pastizz Pause — Offending Drivers Must Eat, Salute Statue, Apologise to Fiat 500
After a ferocious festa parking war, the band club and parish beadle signed a binding pact forcing offending drivers to stop at 14:14, eat a pastizz, salute the statue and tuck a handwritten apology under the wiper of whichever Fiat 500 is blocking the chapel.
Malta
Transport Malta Replaces Every Roundabout With A Scheduled Festa, Drivers Told To Bring Dancing Shoes And Spare Pastizzi
Transport Malta says festa-roundabouts will improve traffic flow, settle lane disputes with għana, and allow marshals to revoke licences between taralli and brass band.
Malta
Maltese News Site Now Requires Consent to Read That It Requires Consent
After a routine update the website now asks for permission to open the permission dialog, trapping readers in a polite but endless loop of buttons and 'I agree' clicks.
Malta
Government Creates Minister for Pastizzi and Peace to Legally Rota Fishermen, Tour Boats and Karaoke Aunties
After a summer of nightly luzzu karaoke in Marsaxlokk the government says a legally binding rota will finally stop boats and aunties from duetting over pastizzi.
Malta
Valletta Declares Every Wooden Balcony 'Festa Heritage Seating', Owners Must Rent Them to Band and Leave One Broken Mop and Half‑Eaten Ftira Each
A quiet council vote redefines balconies as communal festa infrastructure, triggering acute mop scarcity and an urgent call for ftira authenticity certificates.
Culture
Għarb Bans Midnight Pastizzi to Fireworks Crews After Ricotta Crumbs Make Statues Nod During Għana
Council says late-night pastizzi deliveries were 'altering the village rhythm' and causing statues to express mild, passive-aggressive disapproval.
Malta
Valletta Sells 20cm of Air Between Gallariji; First Buyer Pays Three Pastizzi and a Tallinja Card
Council quietly recognised tiny gaps between traditional gallariji as transferable private property, prompting electricians to sell notarised 'air deeds' in 20cm strips.
Culture
Qormi Bakers Get Pastizzi Declared 'Living Monuments'; PM Now Must Inspect Flakiness Annually
After a months-long campaign, Qormi bakers convinced the government to declare pastizzi 'living national monuments', obliging the Prime Minister to conduct annual flakiness inspections, the Heritage Agency to issue humidity warnings, and Gozo ferries to reserve an emergency pastry cabin.
Malta
Government to Tow Drifting Russian LNG Tanker to Manoel Island, Open Padel Courts and Stabbilta Kiosk
After weeks of contingency planning, ministers said repurposing the tanker will solve energy worries, parking shortages and the national pastizzi deficit — all at once.
Malta
Malta Clicked 'Accept All' At Once, Country Now Owned by Two Companies and a Script
In a rare moment of unity, every Maltese clicked 'Accept All', handing over their data, their hobbies, and possibly Marsa's roundabout to advertisers.
Malta
Local Man Spends 45 Minutes Finding Parking, Now Too Afraid To Leave Café In Case He Loses The Spot
Karmenu has been sitting at the same table since 9am, ordering coffee after coffee, waiting for a moment that experts say may never come.
Malta
Government Forms Committee To Decide Which Committee Should Form Next
A unanimous, carefully scheduled panel will meet to study whether more panels are needed to study panels.
Malta
Valletta Orders Pastizziera on Every New Gallarija After Pensioners Call Balconies 'Our Last Communal Oven' — Seagulls File Appeal
The Planning Authority quietly added a rule forcing a municipal pastizziera with a council‑approved ricotta dial to every new gallarija after a deputation of pensioners argued balconies are 'our last communal oven', a move immediately contested by the port's seagull cooperative.
Culture
Mdina Now Sells Silence: Pastizz, Candle and Correct 'għawdxi' Required or You Join the Banda
The city's parish committee voted unanimously that tourists may only admire Mdina's silence after buying a pastizz, lighting a votive candle, and pronouncing 'għawdxi' correctly — mistakes mean an immediate stint with the local band club.
Malta
Spinola Roundabout to Rotate 2° a Night to 'Improve' Balluta Bay Sunsets, Residents Must Remove Laundry and Pay in Pastizzi
Transport Malta will turn Spinola Roundabout two extra degrees counterclockwise each night, telling locals to recalibrate alarm clocks, take down balcony socks at sundown and bring pastizzi for the viewing levy.
Malta
Qormi’s Oldest Oven Registered as Microstate After Its Ftira Starts Issuing Parking Tickets
A ftira with strong opinions about illegal parking led the Ministry of Heritage to quietly grant sovereignty to Qormi’s communal oven after a carrier pigeon complaint from the Transport Authority.
Malta
Marsaxlokk Fishermen Withhold Anchovies From Pastizzerias Until Ferries Play 25‑Minute Għana Duet
The fishermen's cooperative says no anchovies in pastizzi until Transport Malta recognises their new national anthem — a 25‑minute għana performed under festa bunting before every ferry.
Foreigners
215 Maltese in Middle East Ask Consulate for Help — All They Needed Was Directions to a Pastizzeria
Government proud to report successful diplomatic operation that reunited Maltese abroad with their favourite snack, or at least with a Google Maps pin.
Malta
Abela Announces Election Date Will Be 'When The Ferries Start Running On Time'
Prime Minister says country not ready for polls until Gozo ferry schedule achieves national stability.
Culture
Malta Declares Clicking 'I Accept' On Every Website A National Sport
New scheme trains citizens to scroll, tick, and click through 37 consent boxes while drinking kahwa and eating pastizzi.
Malta
Government Declares Entire Country a Single Parking Spot to Finally Solve Crisis
New law reclassifies every inch of Maltese territory as one legal parking space — immediately ends tickets, creates philosophical debate about where to leave your pastizzi.
Malta
Entire Malta Clicks 'Accept All', Now Getting Ads For Their Regrets
After a weekend of unanimous consent, Maltese phones have started politely suggesting products that perfectly match citizens' most embarrassing moments.
Malta
Parliament Puts 'Accept Cookies' Banner On House Floor, MPs Click Agree And Vote For Everything
Speaker installs website-style consent banner across the chamber to speed up law-making; MPs admit they never read the options.
Malta
Budget 2026: Government Solves 'Dignified Living' By Making Everyone A Landlord
New measure reclassifies residents as landlords so official statistics finally show a 'dignified standard of living'.
Malta
Planning Authority Approves Apartment Block With No Windows To 'Encourage Community', Buyers Call It Open-Plan
Developers say removing windows will force neighbours to socialise; buyers call it 'cozy', pigeons call it a missed opportunity.
Malta
Local News Website Now Requires 14 Permissions Before You Can Read A Headline
Readers must grant ad_storage, analytics_storage, personalization_storage and other permissions while waiting for the article to load like a festa queue.
Malta
Planning Authority Now Counts 'Sea' as Extra Bedroom to Help Developers
To speed up permits, developers can now list the Mediterranean as living space — conditions apply, obviously.
Malta
News Site Now Asks For Permission To Ask For Permission
The new double-consent popup reportedly makes readers feel both very safe and very confused, especially when it asks if it can remember that it already asked.
Malta
Government Spends €1.2M Consulting Public On Whether Public Consultation Should Continue
After decades of asking Maltese people what they think, state decides first to ask whether it should keep asking.
Malta
Malta Declares “I Accept” Official National Language; Children to Learn Clicking Before Ħobż
After years of consent banners and reflexive clicking, the government has elevated the habit to policy — iva, ara, and click away.
Malta
All of Malta Stuck on 'Just a moment...' Page, Government Declares Pause a National Holiday
A mysterious 'Just a moment...' screen froze browsers across the islands so officials told everyone to take a break, drink tea and sort their pastizzi.
Entertainment
Pitbull Announces Malta Concert, Bald Maltese Men Finally Feel Seen
For the first time in recorded history, a globally recognised bald man is coming to the island, and the chrome-domed community is not coping well.
Malta
Planning Authority Grants Permission for Balcony That Overlaps Neighbour's House, Says 'If It's On Paper It Exists'
A Valletta man woke up to find his neighbour's new balcony approved to sit half on his roof, and officials said the problem was solved because the drawing looked nice.
Malta
Court Upholds Appeal Against Two 14-Storey Sliema Hotels; Planning Authority Approves 14 More To Keep Things Symmetrical
After judges said two towers couldn't go up, the Planning Authority responded with a perfectly logical plan: build fourteen instead.
Culture
Government's 'Pastizzi Standardisation Initiative' causes national queue, ferry lane, and one scaffolding collapse
A serious decree, a leaked table of flakiness standards, and an islandwide panic-buying of pastizzi that has traffic wardens issuing crumbs as evidence.
Malta
Planning Authority Declares Scaffold-Clad Msida 'Cultural Layering', Recommends More Bones For Towns
After a piece of Msida scaffolding briefly fell, the Planning Authority recommended installing additional scaffolding everywhere to 'preserve the Maltese skyline's authentic under-construction aesthetic.'
Malta
Transport Ministry Announces Nationwide 'Roundabout-for-Pastizzi' Swap To Solve Traffic, Shortage Of Pastizzi Remains Confused
After months of gridlock and empty pastizzi boxes, ministers unveil a plan that somehow relocates the Gozo ferry to Sliema and turns Mdina into a drive-through pastizz hub.
Entertainment
Ta' Qali Declares Itself Independent Nation to Avoid Pitbull Concert Noise Complaints
Ta' Qali has seceded from Malta in a bold move to handle its concert complaints internally.
Malta
Pastizzi Shortage Enters Day 12: Nation on the Brink of Collapse
Experts warn that without immediate intervention, Maltese society as we know it may cease to function by Thursday.
Gozo
Gozo Ferry Arrives Exactly on Schedule; Passengers Hospitalised for Shock
At least fourteen passengers required medical attention after the MV Nikolaos arrived at Mġarr Harbour precisely when it was supposed to.
Malta
Man Finds Parking Spot in Sliema on First Try, Vatican Launches Investigation
The Vatican has dispatched a team of miracle investigators after a Birkirkara man parked in Sliema without circling the block even once.
Business
Lone Construction Crane Spotted Without Companion Crane; Authorities Fear It May Be Lost
Wildlife experts have been called in after a solitary crane was observed standing alone in Gżira, separated from its usual herd.
Foreigners
Foreign Resident Pronounces 'Ħ' Correctly, Granted Immediate Citizenship
A British expat living in Marsaskala stunned onlookers at a Wied il-Għajn bar by correctly pronouncing 'ħobż' on his first attempt.
Culture
Mqabba Festa Fireworks Heard from International Space Station, NASA Confirms
Astronauts aboard the ISS reported 'a series of loud bangs coming from the direction of a very small island' during Saturday's festa.
Crime
Sliema Parking Warden Wins 'Most Feared Person in Malta' Poll for Eighth Consecutive Year
The warden, known only as 'il-Multa,' has reportedly issued more fines than there are registered vehicles on the island.
Malta
Valletta Man Who Walks to Work Accused of Witchcraft by Colleagues
Co-workers report deep suspicion after discovering that Pawlu Micallef, 38, commutes to his office on foot in under ten minutes.
Entertainment
Frank the Singing Goat of Nadur Releases Debut Album, Already Outselling Local Artists
A Gozitan goat named Frank has topped the Malta music charts with his debut album 'Baa-rok and Roll,' recorded entirely in a field in Nadur.
Malta
Pastizzi Shortage Sparks Full-Scale Uprising in Marsa
Residents of Marsa have barricaded the main road and are refusing to negotiate until pastizzi supplies are restored to pre-crisis levels.
Culture
National Flower of Malta Officially Chosen: It's the Plastic Bag Caught in a Tree
After years of deliberation, a parliamentary committee has unanimously voted to recognise the plastic bag lodged in a carob tree as Malta's national flower.
Gozo
Azure Window Finally Back After Local Handyman 'Fixes It With Some Cement and Willpower'
A Gozitan handyman claims to have rebuilt the iconic Azure Window overnight using leftover construction materials and 'a lot of determination.'