Bus suffers major damage after falling tree smashes windscreen in Tal-Barrani road

Nov 21 2022

As a result of strong rain and heavy winds on Sunday morning, a bus in Tal-Barrani Road, Żejtun suffered major damage after a falling tree smashed its windscreen.

Two northbound lanes heading to Santa Luċija were closed off after the tree fell at 11am, with a brick wall also collapsing onto the lane.

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No injuries were sustained, with passengers aboard the affected bus being transferred to another one and dispatched by Malta Public Transport.

Civil Protection officials were on site to assist with the situation, with government cleaning and maintenance officials going on-site on Sunday after noon to clear the debris and reopen the road.

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Today’s the day! Here are 5 astounding facts about the Qatar World Cup

Nov 20 2022

After years of anticipation, the FIFA World Cup is finally back with its first match taking place today between the host nation of Qatar and Ecuador. The global competition is legendary good reason and with that said, here are some facts about this year’s World Cup!

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It is the most expensive World Cup ever

With a total spend of around $220 billion, with up to $10 billion of that spent on stadiums, the Qatar World Cup is the most expensive World Cup in history.

First World Cup held during Northern Autumn

Every single World Cup before 2022 was held in May, June or July but due to the host country’s intense summer heat, it will be held between November and December.

It marks the first time a men’s World Cup had female referees

Yamashita Yoshimi, Salima Mukasanga and Stephanie Frappart are bringing female representation to the World Cup for the first time ever this year, with three of 36 referees being female.

Qatar is the smallest host country on record

With a population of 2.985 million as of September 2022 and land area of 11,571 square metres, Qatar is the smallest World Cup host country on record.

It hopes to be carbon neutral

Attempting to follow a four-step process of awareness, measurement, reduction and offsetting, Qatar hopes to have a carbon neutral World Cup through involvement of renewable energy sources, recycled material, offsetting of greenhouse gas emissions and more sustainable practices.

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Cristiano Ronaldo & Lionel Messi break the internet with iconic photo for Louis Vuitton

Nov 20 2022

In what is being called the ‘best picture of 2022’, football legends Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi came together for a rare snap as part of a promotion by luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton.

Captioned ‘Victory is a State of Mind. A long tradition of crafting trunks’, the photo sees the two sitting opposite each other with chess board case between them.

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Posted on both Messi & Ronaldo’s social media channels, the photo has collectively garnered over 50 million likes on Instagram alone. Both entries have since entered Instagram’s Top 20 most-liked posts of all time.

By the numbers, the photo features two iconic individual who have won a total of 12 Ballon d’Ors, scored 1604 goals and secured 581 assists between them, with both the Portuguese and Argentine stars considered to be two of the greatest players of all time.

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Thundery showers, heavy winds and temperatures feeling as low as 10°C this evening

Nov 20 2022

If you’re heading out today, brace yourself for some stormy weather as the Met Office and other local weather pages are anticipating thundery rainstorms, dropped temperatures and even chances of hail later today.

Local weather page ‘It-Temp Madwarna’ anticipates temperatures to feel as low as 10°C, with forecasted highs of 20°C and lows of 14°C. Meanwhile, Malta’s Met Office forecasts highs of 19°C and lows of 16°C.

Facebook page ‘Malta Weather’ issued a gale wind warning with winds of up to Gale Force 8 at times between Sunday 20th and Thursday 24th. Winds are to vary between Southwest and Northwest, with sea waves to ‘reach heights of up to 9 metres’.

Stay safe!

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