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Streets Project to improve accessibility to Malta and Sicily

Saturday, 23 November 2013, 13:37 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

The Streets Project was launched in October in Vittoria, Sicily. STreets (STRatEgia IntEgrata per un Trasporto Sostenibile_Italia-Malta) is a three-year project partly financed by the European Union...

Student of MA in Ocean Governance awarded scholarship

Friday, 22 November 2013, 13:34 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Phoenicia Energy, a subsidiary of Mediterranean Oil & Gas and Genel Energy, which is currently carrying out oil exploration offshore Malta, offered a scholarship to cover tuition fees to a student...

Rickets making a comeback in the UK, doctors say

Thursday, 21 November 2013, 14:46 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Rickets, the childhood disease that once caused an epidemic of bowed legs and curved spines during the Victorian era, is making a shocking comeback in 21st-century Britain.   Rickets results...

Czechs in quandary over legal medical marijuana

Wednesday, 20 November 2013, 14:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Just three years ago, the only thing that Zdenek Majzlik knew about cannabis was that it's good stuff for making rope. Today, the 67-year-old retired nuclear power plant employee is an experienced...

Whisky: It’s all in the Flavour

Tuesday, 19 November 2013, 15:56 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Colin Fitz discovered the best way to drink whisky with EWAN GUNN, the Global Scotch Whisky Ambassador and Category Training Manager at Diageo, the UK company with the widest range of whiskies in the...

Boys a bit more likely than girls to be born early

Tuesday, 19 November 2013, 14:44 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Boys are slightly more likely to be born premature than girls, and they tend to fare worse, says a new report on the health of the world's newborns.   "It's a pattern that...

Bird flu strain infects human for 1st time

Monday, 18 November 2013, 14:37 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

A strain of bird flu that scientists thought could not infect people has shown up in a Taiwanese woman, a nasty surprise that shows scientists must do more to spot worrisome flu strains before they...

Google opens how-to shop with live video advice

Monday, 18 November 2013, 14:35 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Google has opened a how-to shop that sells expert advice on everything from cosmetics to the cosmos in live video sessions streamed on computers and smartphones.   The service, called...

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