Malta and international press digest

The following are the top items in the Maltese and overseas press:

The Times says a man charged with fatally stabbing a woman and grievously wounding her daughter, who was his former partner, told the police that he hated his former girlfriend. It also reports the doctors' dispute has erupted again.

The Malta Independent reports the same stories, saying that the accused was jealous of his former partner's new boyfriend

In-Nazzjon reports comments by the Prime Minister on job creation and on an additional €2 million allocated for education in Gozo. It quotes Social Policy Minister John Dalli saying there are enough doctors to man health centres.

l-orizzont says the man accused of the Cospicua murder had been going around armed with a knife for two days.

The Press in Britain

The Madeleine McCann investigation features on the front of the Daily Mail amid reports that police are hunting a British paedophile over the disappearance.

The Sun leads with the same story featuring a photo-fit of a man originally wanted over the disappearance.

The Daily Mirror claims the exclusive over the Madeleine story with a large hospital picture of the suspect Raymond Hewlett on the front page.

The Daily Express reports that one in four children in the UK are now born to immigrants.

As The Daily Telegraph has more revelations on the MPs' expenses scandal, The Independent leads on the story of a "maverick" MP who claims the public anger is borne of jealousy.

The Times focuses on more resignations in the wake of revelations about MPs' expenses.

And elsewhere...

China Daily reports Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is back in Beijing after failing to find much common ground with the European Union. At the summit in Prague, disagreement persisted over Tibet, Burma, North Korea and global warming.

Meanwhile, Pravda says Russian and European Union leaders are holding a two-day summit which is being clouded by tension over gas supplies to Europe and last year's war in Georgia.

The Jerusalem Post quotes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisting that all of Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty.

The Washington Times says President Obama has defended his decision to close the Guantanamo Bay US prison camp, saying it probably "created more terrorists around the world than it ever detained".

Meanwhile, USA Today quotes prosecutors saying that a gang accused of plotting to blow up New York synagogues expressed disappointment that the World Trade Centre was no longer around to attack.

The Washington Post says a former 24-year-old US soldier, convicted of rape and murder in Iraq, has been spared the death penalty and will now be sentenced to life in prison.

Geneva's Le Courier reports that a girl born in Japan today will probably live to celebrate her 86th birthday, the longest life expectancy anywhere in the world.

Il Tempo says that Andrea Riccardi, a Catholic layman who founded the Sant'Egidio Community in Rome, has been awarded the prestigious Charlemagne Prize at a ceremony in Germany.

Le Monde announces Louis XVI's final testament, written shortly before his execution, has been recovered more than two centuries after it disappeared during the French Revolution. The king wrote the 'Declaration to all the French' in 1791 and, during his trial, it was cited by prosecutors as proof that he wanted to "plunge France into the horrors of civil war".

Berliner Zeitung reveals the German telecoms company Deutsche Telekom hired private detectives to snoop into the sex lives of job applicants.

China Times says a large number of goats in Taiwan may have died of exhaustion because of noise from a wind farm. A farmer on an outlying island claims he had lost more than 400 animals after eight giant wind turbines were installed close to his grazing land. The Taiwanese Ministry of Agriculture says it suspects that noise may have caused the goats' demise through lack of sleep. The company has agreed to part-compensate the farmer for his losses.