Vigil relit for Paulina Dembska one year after murder

Jan 3 2023

One year after the brutal murder of Polish student Paulina Dembska right after New Year’s Day, vigils were lit up at the Sliema site to commemorate the loss.

The murder led to a legislation which introduced the concept of femicide into the Maltese criminal code.

Dembska, 29-years-old, was sexually assaulted and killed in Independence Gardens at the promenade on January 2nd of 2022. The accused, Abner Aquilina, is currently pleading not guilty to the murder.

A mass prior to the relighting of the vigil was given at St Gregory parish church in Sliema, situated close to the murder site.

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Could Malta get a football stadium named after Pele?

Jan 3 2023

Following the recent passing of Brazilian football legend Pele at the age of 82 last year, FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced that he plans to ask every country in the world to name a football stadium after the great player.

Pele passed away on the 29th of December 2022 after a battle with colon cancer which he had been enduring since September 2021.

Infantino, who attended the sport legend’s funeral in São Paulo, Brazil, told local reporters that he plans to ask every country in the world to name one of their football stadiums with the name of Pele.

“His life is about more than football. He changed perceptions for the better in Brazil, in South America and across the world. His legacy is impossible to summarise in words” stated Infantino.

Rio de Janeiro had scrapped plans to name the famous Maracana Stadium after Pele after it was vetoed by the state governor in April of 2021.

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6.5 million increase in followers for Al Nassr after Ronaldo joins

Jan 3 2023

After Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo signed a deal to join Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr, the team registered a whopping increase of well over 6.5 million followers on their Instagram page.

The page stood at around 800K prior to Ronaldo’s jumping onto the team, but it now rests at a massive 7.4 million.

The post announcing the signing of the player also racked up around 32.4 million likes in 3 days as the team welcomed Ronaldo saying that ‘this is more than in history in the making.’

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‘This is a signing that will not only inspire our club to achieve even greater success but inspire our league, our nation and future generations, boys and girls to be the best version of themselves’ said the official post.

These have been some of the biggest weeks for football on social media, especially given the recent end to the 2022 World Cup.

Lionel Messi’s ‘Champions of the World’ Instagram post continues to dominate as the most liked post on the platform with a whopping 74.3M likes.

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New York is the latest state to approve ‘human composting’

Jan 2 2023

New York has become the latest US state to allow “natural organic reduction”, otherwise known as human composting.

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The process allows a person to have their body turned into soil after their passing and is widely considered as an environmentally-friendly alternative to being buried or cremated.

The first US state to green-light such a process was Washington back in 2019, with Colorado, Oregon, Vermont and California following suit soon after.

In the process, the body is deposited inside a closed vessel with materials such as woodchips, straw grass and alfalfa which gradually break it down; any remaining contagion is killed a month later via heating process and soil is then given to loved ones to be used in planting.

United States firm Recompose has state that its service could save a tonne of carbon when compared to traditional methods like cremation or burials.

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