Quotes of the week

"I'm scared. They crushed me. Please defend me... Don't leave me alone."

The first words the late Nicholas Azzopardi, who alleged interrogating police brutally beat him, said to his father when he emerged from a coma.

"The policeman who was actually with him actually tried to stop him from falling."

Police sources deny Azzopardi was beaten and add a new twist to the mystery shrouding his death.

"All of a sudden shots rang out and there was panic. We had to duck for cover."

Labour MEP John Attard Montalto who witnessed the assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan.

"He was one of the most outstanding professors at the University."

President Eddie Fenech Adami paying tribute to Malta's first President, Sir Anthony Mamo, who died aged 99.

"People are no longer relying on a bowl of rice, they rightly expect more."

Economist Edward Scicluna points to China and India where millions of increasingly prosperous people are eating more; one of the causes behind the global food crisis.