So now it's summer, and just as the Maltese Islands brace themselves for sweltering readings on the mercury and the annual deluge of tourists, the temperature actually starts cooling down at this time of the year in the southern hemisphere. Globalization is so fascinating! It makes that old saying even truer: you can only please some of the people some of the time. Right?

Meanwhile, the aboutmalta.com team prepares to delight you with yet another batch of online goodies in the coming weeks. We'll be with you throughout the summer, and though it may look like we're working on half-days, there's always something new brewing at our end.

If you're looking for a Maltese book to read this summer, my recommendation is for a new novel our very own Pierre J. Mejlak called Riħ Isfel, which is being published by Merlin Library on the 6th of July.

Toni Sant
Consulting Editor, aboutmalta.com

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1. Last Month's Daily News from MaltaMedia
2. Top Picks:
     a. San Ġorġ Preca
     b. L-Imnarja in Malta + Gozo
3. This Month in Maltese History
4. What's On This Month

01 Malta Shipyards loses Lm9.3 million in 2006
02 Man dies after vacant hotel roof collapses
03 Dun Ġorġ Preca declared Saint by Vatican
04 Efforts to trace runaway suspect underway
05 June rainfall record broken on Monday
06 Traffic jams over petrol station strike chances
07 Court for violent police officer caught on tape
08 MLP backs government's illegal immigration stance
09 New political party Azzjoni Nazzjonali launched
10 Dead dolphin sighted in Pembroke
11 Tourism Authority CEO tenders resignation
12 Maltacom Group is rebranded as GO
13 Church Commission criticises MEPA's boycott
14 Electric minicabs in Valletta by end of June
15 Foreign diver dies in Cirkewwa waters
16 Luqa man arraigned over hospital bomb threat
17 Man injured in shooting; corpse found
18 Minister urges EU to accept migration proposal
19 VF Jeanswear to close down Malta operations
20 New plant to increase electricity supply by 20%
21 Alleged Madeleine McCann sighting in Malta
22 Church in solidarity with redundant workers
23 More illegal immigrant arrivals to be expected
24 Malta to have sixth MEP from mid-2009
25 Protest to revoke Ramla development permit
26 Separate finds of two bodies investigated
27 Explosion at St. Helen's fireworks factory
28 EU to take Malta to court over airport tax
29 Mater Dei Hospital officially opened
30 Mario Friggieri appointed Refugee Commissioner

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

a. San Ġorġ Preca

This MaltaMalta special feature is designed to mark the canonisation of Dun Gorg Preca, whose successful process towards sainthood makes him the first modern Maltese man to be recognized as a saint by the Vatican.
 

b. L-Imnarja - The Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul in Malta & Gozo

Celebrating the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul is much more than a religious event in Malta. Among other things, it is a traditional celebration which marks the passing of spring. aboutmalta.com contributing editors Daniel Bartolo and Pierre J. Mejlak write about various aspects of the Imnarja in Malta and Gozo.

30 YEARS AGO (14 July 1977)
Air Malta inaugurates a once weekly service to Cairo. It is hoped that this service will later be extended to include Saudi Arabia.

20 YEARS AGO (29 July 1987)
The English Province of the Little Company of Mary, better known in Malta as the Blue Sisters, issue statement conveying and explaining to the Government and people of Malta their decision not to return to Malta to run the Zammit Clapp Hospital at St. Julian's.

10 YEARS AGO (1 July 1997)
Customs and Excise taxes replace the Value Added Tax (VAT).

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1 July 1953: Lawrence Gonzi, Prime Minister
5 July 1844: Fortunato Mizzi, Prime Minister
5 July 1911: Gorg Borg Olivier, Prime Minister
17 July 1933: Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, Prime Minister

DEATH ANNIVERSARIES
2 July 1997: Carmen Carbonaro, Broadcaster, dies at 92
6 July 1962: Paul Boffa, Prime Minister, dies at 72
28 July 1998: Josie Coppini, Actor, dies at 64
31 July 2004: Mario Ellul, Singer and TV Producer, dies at 40

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.

6 - 8 July 2007
European Judo Cadet Championships
More than 400 athletes and 200 officials from the European Judo Union Member Countries will attend these under 17 championships at the Cottonera Sports Complex.

7 July 2007
American Cars on Show
For the fourth consecutive year the American Auto Club Malta holds a show of over fifty American vehicles of all makes, some of which today are considered as classics.

7 July 2007
Joseph Calleja Anniversary Concert
A celebration of renowned classical operatic arias in Mdina.

29 July 2007
National Orchestra Goes Pop
As part of the Malta Summer Arts Festival 2007, the National Orchestra presents the fourth edition of the National Orchestra Goes Pop in Valletta.

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