The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times leads with the manifestation held in Valletta by the Labour Party yesterday, quoting party leader Joseph Muscat calling for action to end the people’s hardship.
It also reports on a fist fight at the Church of the Hold Sepulchre and the Remembrance Sunday commemoration.
The Malta Independent leads with the Labour manifestation and also reports that the MEPA reform document should be completed by the end of the year.
In-Nazzjon highlights the GWU presence at the MLP manifestation yesterday. It also reports comments by Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi that the PN’s commitment remains wealth creation for the people. It says there has been a strong take-up of the government’s subsidies on solar heaters.
l-orizzont’s front page focus is on the MLP manifestation, saying its purpose was to instil courage in the people. It also reports that the Malta Union of Teachers will participate in Thursday’s GWU protest against the budget and the utility rates.
The Press in Britain…
The Daily Express reports that a new cholesterol-lowering drug has proved so successful in trials that doctors want to see it fast-tracked on to the market.
The Daily Mail leads with the same story and reports that the wonder drug cuts the heart attack risk for everyone, even those without high cholesterol.
The Financial Times leads with the news that the number of jobs in the City has fallen well below the number of candidates seeking work for the first time in three years.
The Daily Telegraph has learnt that middle-income families and small businesses are to benefit from billions of pounds of tax cuts in the Chancellor's Pre-Budget report within the next two weeks.
The Independent quotes an exclusive report claiming that police and security agencies would be given powers to ban the media from reporting matters of national security under proposals being discussed in Whitehall.
Metro reports that police are spending most of their time dealing with binge drinkers and boozed-up football fans.
The Times covers proposals to force council house tenants to face regular reviews of their housing situation - which will require them to have or be looking for a job.
The Daily Mirror has an exclusive picture of Ipswich football player David Norris making a handcuffed wrists gesture after scoring - which the paper says is in honour of the team's goalie who was jailed for killing two brothers while driving under the influence.
And elsewhere…
Al Ahram reports that the so-called Middle East Quartet – the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations – has called on Israel and the Palestinians to press ahead with peace negotiations even though a year-end target date will not be reached.
The Jerusalem Post says Israeli police burst into one of Christianity’s holiest churches and arrested two clergyman after an argument between monks erupted into a brawl next to the site of Jesus’ tomb. The clash broke out between Armenian and Greek Orthodox monks in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, revered as the site of Jesus’ crucifixion, burial and resurrection.
Kommersant quotes Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko telling the Interfax news agency that if Washington halts its plans to deploy 10 missile interceptors and radar in the Czech Republic there will be no need for Russia to place short-range Iskander missiles in its western Kaliningrad region.
L’Avvenire leads with Pope Benedict’s admission that he still feels pain at remembering 'Kristallnacht', known in English as the Night of Broken Glass when 70 yars ago, Nazi Germany launched its first pogrom against Jews.
Frankfurter Allgemaine Zeitung reports that German police have arrested a Rwandan woman sought for questioning by a French judge about what sparked her country's infamous genocide in 1994.
Le Matin announces that Haitian police have detained the owner of a school that collapsed last Friday, killing at least 95 people and injuring 150.
El Universal says a Vatican envoy has tried to reassure disillusioned Mexicans that Pope Benedict is not snubbing them by not attending the World Family Day in January. The Pope feels Mexico City is too high above sea level for someone his age.
Trabajadores reports that waves caused by Hurricane Paloma have destroyed hundreds of homes along the coast. The storm has now weakened into a tropical depression.