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1. Last Month's Daily News from MaltaMedia
2. Top Picks:
     a. Wired Temples: Malta on the Web
     b. MMON Podcasting
3. This Month in Maltese History
4. What's On This Month

01 1,600 tonnes of illegal dumping collected in August
02 Al Qaeda targets Pakistani President
03 No more trapping allowed in Malta after 2008
04 Maltese in Australia may have pensions reduced
05 Katrina hinders Maltese student's plans further
06 680 motor vehicles registered for every 1,000 inhabitants
07 Influx of illegal immigrants continues in Malta
08 103 Croatians arraigned over riot at Malta-Croatia match
09 EU membership support in Malta down to 40%
10 Life Cycle challenge over
11 Dutch government accepts refugees from Malta
12 Imports, exports down in July
13 EU grants Lm161,000 in funds for Comenius projects
14 Man dies in fireworks factory explosion
15 PM affirms Malta's readiness to implement UN measures
16 Three foreigners charged with forged money
17 Illegal fireworks factory discovered at Armier bay
18 Malta has lowest rate of sexual assault-UN
19 Government to sell some MIA shares
20 Ryanair willing to reach one million tourists in 2 years
21 Malta marks Independence Day
22 Foreign Minister against undermining refugee rights
23 Cruise passengers decrease in August
24 Rock-throwing hooligans attack Maltese bus driver in the UK
25 Thea and Friends for Junior Eurovision Song Contest
26 209 illegal immigrants brought ashore
27 GWU candidates not to accept media interviews
28 Man on danger list after stabbing
29 Woman murdered in St Luke?s Hospital
30 140 illegal immigrants land at Cirkewwa

Read and/or listen to the latest daily news from MaltaMedia.com.

a. Wired Temples: Malta on the Web

A daily blog about Malta on the web has now been integrated into the MaltaMedia Online Network. Robert Micallef, creator/editor, is also aboutmalta'com contributing editor for our section on Maltese blogs. This is one of the best ways to discover all the new things about Malta on the web.
 

b. MMON Podcasting

To mark the fourth anniversary since September 11, 2001, the MaltaMedia Online Network presented a series of podcasts featuring webcasts produced following the 9/11 attacks. This is the world's first podcasting series in Maltese. Other podcasts from the MaltaMedia Online Network in the coming months.

30 YEARS AGO (14 October 1975)
R.A.F. Vulcan Bomber crashes in Zabbar; five crew and one woman killed, 20 injured.

20 YEARS AGO (16 October 1985)
Film director Cecil Satariano and producer Ronnie Demajo win Primero Premio at the XII International Film Festival Ciutat d'Igualada in Barcellona with their film Katarin which also obtains the Special Prize as Best Film in the Fiction Class making it eligible for showing on National Spanish TV.

10 YEARS AGO (26 October 1995)
Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shqaqi is gunned down in broad daylighted outside the Diplomat Hotel at Fond Ghadir in Sliema; he had entered the country under a different name and the authorities did not know about his presence in Malta.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
3 October 1937: Richard England, Architect
16 October 1950: Matilde Balzan, Broadcaster
25 October 1947: Mary Spiteri, Singer
28 October 1934: Hilary Tagliaferro, Priest and Sports Journalist

DEATH ANNIVERSARIES
3 October 2002: Bernard Scerri, Bass player, dies at 36
13 October 1961: Karm Psaila, Priest and Poet, dies at 90
15 October 2002: Alicia Joy, Dancer/Choreographer, dies at 42
29 October 1980: George Borg Olivier, Prime Minister, dies at 69

See aboutmalta.com's daily full list of birthdays, deaths, and events in Maltese history.

Today in Maltese History is produced exclusively for aboutmalta.com by Mario Axiaq.

1 October 2005
Ruby&friends #44 - Athens
Limited to 2000 clubbers only, the 44th R&F party at the unique open plan club XS in Victoria in Gozo promises to be another all night ride.

6 - 16 October 2005
Historic Cities Festival
Nearly all of the opening day’s events take place at the Valletta Waterfront including a re-enactment of a visit by Grandmaster Pinto to the Pinto Wharf Chapel, the opening of an exhibition entitled ‘Fantasy by the Sea’, and two concerts.

8 October 2005
National Orchestra Goes Pop
Ira Losco and other pop singers perform with the National Orchestra at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta; special guests Ruben Zahra and Nafra.

21 - 22 October 2005
Tarżan & Ġejni
Unusual pantomime in time for Halloween, branded as a Pantoween, at St Aloysious College Theatre in B'Kara.

View aboutmalta.com's full calendar for this month's events in Malta and Gozo, or to submit a future event to our calendar.