These are the main headlines of the local and international newspapers:
The Sunday Times says that there are over 1,700 pending magisterial inquiries but leads with the news that the power surcharge is expected to more than double in the coming days.
The Malta Independent on Sunday leads with the Rent Reform White Paper, which according to Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, “seeks to gradually regularise the pre-1995 contracts”.
Il-Mument quotes Dr Gonzi saying that the White Paper offers a balance based on social justice.
Malta Today claims that Dr Gonzi’s plan to have Charlo’ Bonnici as secretary general of the Nationalist Party was thwarted when Dr Paul Borg Olivier was chosen instead in what the paper sees as a “veritable protest vote against the party’s internal bids to keep hold to the seat vacated by Joe Saliba.
Illum claims that former GWU Deputy Secretary General Mario Cutajar and former One News Head of News Gino Cauchi are aiming at high posts within the MLP.
it-torċa focuses on the privatisation of Malta Shipyards and claims that imported labour is costing the enterprise 150 percent more than local workers would have.
KullĦadd says the biological father of a child who was born and given for adoption without his knowledge, because her mother had told him she had miscarried, has never seen the girl, who is now eight.
The Press in Britain…
The Daily Telegraph says Gordon Brown has been plunged deeper into crisis after Labour’s Scottish leader Wendy Alexander quit and an MP resigned, triggering a potentially disastrous by-election in the party’s heartlands.
The Mail on Sunday says the two resignations and a claim that more than 100 MPs are involved in a capital gains scam are a triple blow to the Prime Minister’s hopes of political survival.
The Sunday Times adds that some of Labour's biggest financial backers have said Mr Brown was not up to the job and had botched the handling of the credit crunch.
The Sunday Independent claims three of David Cameron's lieutenants are among seven MPs identified as shareholders of companies still doing business in Zimbabwe and profiting from the undemocratic and inhumane Mugabe regime.
The Observer says the Home Secretary is at the centre of the worst race row to engulf the police service for almost a decade as chief constables stand accused of blocking an inquiry into discrimination against Muslim officers.
The Sunday Mirror claims Guy Ritchie has vowed to fight to save his troubled marriage to Madonna for the sake of their son Rocco.
The Queen is so strapped for cash that the News of the World says she plans to set up premium rate 'Dial-a-Royal' phone lines to boost her coffers.
Sunday Mail reports that a shamed Scots priest is suing the Catholic Church for sacking him over an affair with a parishioner.
The Sunday Herald reveals that the Edinburgh military tattoo's future is in doubt unless it raises £15m for a new grandstand over the next few years.
And elsewhere…
Al-Ahram quotes African foreign ministers meeting in Cairo saying international sanctions will not help resolve Zimbabwe's political crisis. The said sanctions would worsen the situation, and suggested leaders should push for talks between Robert Mugabe and his opponents
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe Independent quotes a foreign observer mission saying many Zimbabweans deliberately defaced their ballots in the Zimbabwe election, and voted only out of fear.
L’Avvenire leads with Pope Benedict’s call for Christian unity when he joined Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual head of Orthodox Christians, to launch a year dedicated to St Paul.
Prishtina’ Gazeta Besa says Kosovo's ethnic Serb leaders have formed their own parliament in the divided city of Mitrovica, defying the new state's independence and its United Nations administrators.
The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has told the conservative Jam-e-Jam newspaper that if his country is attacked, Tehran would strike back by barraging Israel with missiles and controlling a key oil passageway in the Persian Gulf.
Washington Post says the designated US Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, is planning a trip to Europe and the Middle East.
Dawn reports a top Taliban militant commander in Pakistan has suspended peace negotiations with the government.
USA Today says US President George W Bush has declared a state of emergency in California and has ordered federal aid to help battle more than 1,000 wildfires burning out of control.
Berliner Morgenpost says tens of thousands of German gays and lesbians gathered in Berlin to join the 30th annual Christopher Street Day parade through the streets of the capital. Thousands of people across Europe took part in Gay Pride events on Saturday.