The following are the top stores in the Maltese and overseas press.

The Times says the Medical Association has warned strike breakers as the closure of three health centres is due to start today. It says doctors at St James Hospital are to be considered as strike breakers if they provide services normally provided at health centres.

The Malta Independent says last ditch efforts to avoid the closure of the health centres have failed. It also reports that Malta is backing an Italian call for a EU summit on immigration.

In-Nazzjon leads with the Prime Minister's call for the electorate to back candidates who can be trusted to work in the interests of the country.

l-orizzont quotes PL leader Joseph Muscat telling hunters that they had been deceived by the government.

The Press in Britain

The Guardian reports the Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, will make a last ditch bid to save his job when he tells MPs he intends to lead a drive to reform Parliament's corrupted expenses system. The Times says both main opposition parties have declared his position untenable.

The Daily Mail says Mr Martin will make a desperate attempt to avoid becoming the first Speaker in more than 300 years to be forced out.

The Sun quotes Tory leader David Cameron saying that only a general election can end the sleaze.

Metro says Mr Martin's days as House of Commons speaker appear to be numbered after an unprecedented attack by Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg.

Leaked internal documents seen by The Daily Telegraph disclose that Commons officials colluded with MPs to let them make inflated claims on their mortgages.

The Independent tells how Sri Lanka's Liberation Tamil Tigers - once the most feared terrorists in the world - have finally admitted defeat.

The Daily Express says that, according to scientists, the secret of living longer is simply making sure you get a regular dose of sunshine because you can cut the risk of heart disease and diabetes.

And elsewhere...

Baltic Times reports that EU Budget Commissioner Dalia Grybauskaite appears to have won a resounding victory in Lithuania's presidential election.

Chumhuriyet leads with the protest by tens of thousands of people in Ankara to support Turkey's secular system, which they see threatened by the Islam-based government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Tribune de Geneve says health experts meet in Geneva today to look very closely at the spread of the swine flu epidemic as fears grow that the virus might mutate into a deadlier form.

Jordan Times quotes President Shimon Peres urging Syria to open direct peace talks with Israel.

USA Today reports President Barack Obama strode head-on into the stormy abortion debate and told graduates at the University of Notre Dame, America's leading Roman Catholic university, that both sides must stop demonising one another.

Irrawady quotes the lawyer representing the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi saying she is innocent of charges levelled against her by Burma's ruling military junta. Kyi Win said in today's court session, he will ask for an open trial and may also request bail. Suu Kyi is accused of violating the terms of her house arrest by being visited by an American man who swam across a lake to her home earlier this month.

Dawn quotes Interior Minister Rehman Malik saying a Pakistani military offensive against Taliban fighters near the Afghan border has killed more than 1,000 suspected insurgents.

Panapress says there are conflicting reports suggesting Islamic insurgents have captured a key town in southern Somalia but the government has denied the claim.

Naples' Il Mattino reports a mafia boss who was one of Italy's top cocaine importers has been arrested in Spain. Raffaele Amato, who was picked up in Marbella in a joint Italy-Spain operation, is accused of several homicides in connection with a Camorra feud, dating back to 1991.

Kuwaiti Times says that for the first time in almost 50 years, Kuwaiti women have won four seats in parliamentary elections.

Papua New Guinea's Post Courier says a woman was killed and parts of her body eaten by a cult

Corriere dello Sport reports that a 1957 Ferrari has sold for €9 million, setting a world record for the most expensive motor car ever to be sold at auction. The 250 Testa Rossa, one of 34 models manufactured at Ferrari's factory in Maranello, had completed several races in North and South America.

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