Internet

Worldwide panic among users as Facebook stops working for some minutes

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A few minutes ago, Facebook had a worldwide outage. Users all over the world found it impossible to post anything on their timelines, pages and groups.

Many users started panicking when they saw the following error message (see photo) which blocked users from using Mark Zuckerberg’s platform.
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It took a number of minutes for Facebook’s technicians to solve the problem and get Facebook back online.

From our tests, tweets and posts on Google+, it seems that on the Internet Facebook was temporarily unreachable from all over the world for around 30 minutes. It affected other sites such as Socialbakers.

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Malta, Malta Elections / Referendums

Today Malta votes for six MEP seats in a Europe-Wide Election (UPDATED with Election results)

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Europe-wide this weekend, Malta voted for six MEP seats which were up for grabs in the european parliament elections.

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Eurovision

Austria’s Conchita wins Eurovision 2014 Final – Malta in 23rd Place

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Firelight has made it to the Final of Eurovision 2014.. They will be singing “Coming Home” tonight.

Firelight is a folk band, which was set up in 2013. Richard, their lead singer tried out for The X Factor UK the same year Leona Lewis won, making it through to bootcamp.

It represented Malta in Eurovision 2014.

Malta ended up in 23rd place with a total of 32 votes. Very much unlike last year when Gianluca Bezzina ended up in 8th place.
Malta received 10 points from the UK and 12 from Italy. We gave 12 points to Italy too.

Conchita Wurst from Austria has won this year’s Eurovision with the ballad “Rise Like A Phoenix”.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNHdDaFrLTU

Some other entries from the Uk, Italy and Poland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nloomyEXfUA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RRqSOcUcJI

 

Earlier this year, Firelight won the Malta Eurovision Song Contest.

 

 

International

Federica Falzon Wins Ti Lascio Una Canzone 2014

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The song “Un amore così grande”, a hit for the famous italian singer Claudio Villa and recently revisited by Negramaro, is also the winning song for this final 7th edition of “Ti lascio una canzone”. The show was presented yesterday on Easter Eve (Saturday 19th April) by Antonella Clerici on Rai Uno. It features talented children competing weekly. The winning talented duo with wonderful voices were Vincenzo Carnì and the Maltese girl Federica Falzon. We Maltese are proud to have such a talented singer like Federica.

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View the winning song below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJk8NkJVD20

Guests on the show included Beppe Fiorello, Ricky Memphis, Emilio Solfrizzi and Max Tortora. Antonella Clerici at one point spoke in Maltese !

VIA velvetmusic.it

UPDATE: Federica will be representing Malta in Junior Eurovision 2014, which will be held in Malta after Malta’s Gaia Cauchi won last year’s edition.

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