A Maltese traffic jam near the airport received worldwide exposure on Tuesday when Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks got stuck behind an Arriva bus. Videoing the long line in front of him, he tweeted his frustration to his four million Twitter followers. He spotted a traveller on two wheels overtake the bus (below right) and wrote: “My morning commute. Maybe I should get a bike”. The double Oscar-winning actor is in Malta shooting Captain Phillips, a film about an American captain who was taken hostage by armed Somali pirates.

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