Organizers are all geared up for the second edition of the Malta AI & Blockchain Summit (AIBC). Attendees can expect nothing short of a stellar show, in just less than a month from now, on 23rd to 24th May. It is expected to bring a whopping 5000 delegates, 700 investors, 300 exhibitors and 100 startups to convene for a grand show at the Hilton in St Julian’s, Malta.

The storied Knights of Malta shaped the Maltese capital of Valletta into a ‘city for gentlemen’, but how much longer can chivalry survive in the modern age?

Well-known entrepreneur Hugo Chetcuti has died, six days after he was stabbed in Paceville. Mr Chetcuti, 52, was stabbed by a former employee on a busy Friday night outside one of his own establishments. The attack was witnessed by several individuals.

A rescue ship stranded in the Mediterranean with more than 200 migrants on board will finally dock in Malta, Italy said Tuesday, as EU states remained at loggerheads over how to handle the influx of people trying to reach the continent. The German charity vessel Lifeline rescued the 234 migrants, including children and pregnant women, on Thursday but Malta and Italy initially refused to take it in.

In a fresh move confirmed by CEO Zhao Changpeng March 23, Binance will set up an office in the European nation and will close the requisite banking partnerships “soon,” Bloomberg reports. Binance has continued its astronomical rise which saw it overtake all other global exchanges’ volumes in January.

Business is booming in the tiny former British colony. But stories of corruption and assassination are filling the newspapers, and it may be headed for the EU’s naughty step.

Police in Malta have arrested 10 suspects over the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the country’s prime minister has said, nearly two months after the anti-corruption journalist was killed by a powerful car bomb. Joseph Muscat told a press conference that eight people – all Maltese nationals, most with criminal records – had been detained in early-morning raids in three different parts of the island. He tweeted later that two more suspects were also in custody.

Leaked papers revealing investments in tax havens by the world's wealthy suggest U2 frontman Bono used a company based in low-tax Malta to buy part of a shopping mall in Lithuania. The Guardian newspaper says the "Paradise Papers" document trove reveals that the singer was an investor in Maltese company Nude Estates, which bought the Ausra shopping center in 2007.

In her last blogpost, published the day she died, Daphne Caruana Galizia signed off with a sentence that seems particularly chilling now. “There are crooks everywhere you look. The situation is desperate.” Caruana Galizia, 53, felt she had good reason to feel pessimistic about Malta, and her enemies had good reason to fear her. Someone, it seems, was worried enough to want her silenced.

An investigative journalist who exposed Malta's links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers is killed in a barbaric car bomb.

A prominent blogger in Malta, who had accused the island's government of corruption, has died in a car bomb attack, according to police. Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, was reportedly killed when the car she was driving exploded shortly after she left her home in Bidnija, near Mosta. Local media say one of her sons heard the blast and rushed outside. PM Joseph Muscat, whom Caruana Galizia accused of wrongdoing earlier this year, condemned the "barbaric attack".

Daphne Caruana Galizia, a blogger whose investigations focused on corruption, was described as a ‘one-woman WikiLeaks’

MPs on the predominantly Catholic island of Malta have voted to legalise same-sex marriage.

Parliament this evening approved the introduction of gay marriage through the new Marriage Equality Act with Nationalist MP Edwin Vassallo voting against. Malta became the 15th EU state to introduce same-sex marriage, just six years after the introduction of divorce.

A Russia-backed Libyan warlord could start a “civil war” in Libya, increasing refugee flows to the EU, Malta has warned. The danger comes as the Libyan commander, Khalifa Haftar, advances on Tripoli, the seat of the UN-recognised government, Malta’s foreign minister, George Vella, told press in Valletta on Friday (13 January). “Haftar with his army is moving gradually, slowly from the east to the west … and possibly, eventually linking up with his colleagues from the west, from Zintane, and advancing in a pincer movement on the region of Bani Walid, and Misrata, and Tripoli”, Vella said.

Malta has made history as the first European country to ban gay conversion therapy. The island nation passed the bill that will mean any medical professional found guilty of prescribing the so-called ‘gay cure’ therapy could be jailed. Politicians voted through the Affirmation of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression Bill, labelling gay cure therapy as “deceptive and harmful”.

Ecuador remains at the top of the ranking. Mexico and Malta are also clear favorites, while Kuwait, Greece, and Nigeria find themselves at the bottom of the scale.

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