The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times leads with the promotion of Msida and Hamrun to the Premier League after a council meeting of the Malta Football Association yesterday. It also carries comments by Finance Minister Tonio Fenech who insists that the government is acting to recover overdue income tax in full and the current amnesty is on penalties.
The Malta Independent says next year could be tougher for tourism. It also reports how the Mgarr Hotel will be converted to apartments in what could be the last change of use of this kind.
In-Nazzjon says €45 million will be spent on the rebuilding of four major roads.
l-orizzont continues its reporting on the power station extension, focusing on political interference at Enemalta. It also highlights the warrant of prohibitory injunction issued yesterday against one of the suppliers of energy-saving bulbs involved in a government scheme.
The Press in Britain...
The Guardian leads with President Obama's decision to scrap a missile shield plan in Eastern Europe, saying a redesigned defensive system would be cheaper, quicker and more effective.
The Times says the US President has justified his change of plan by claiming that Iran's missile threat is less advanced than previously thought.
The Financial Times claims Mr Obama is under fire for his U-turn on the missile shield.
The Daily Mail says the Attorney General faced a raid on her home and a fine of £10,000 for having employed an illegal immigrant as a housekeeper.
The Daily Telegraph reports the new Speaker of the House is to reveal which MPs have claimed expenses on second homes.
The Daily Express claims three-quarters of a million Britons die from heart disease "because doctors fail to prescribe statins".
The Sun says a 12-year-old boy changed sex over the summer holidays.
The Daily Mirror reports police have asked Katie Price, aka Jordan, to reveal the identity of the celebrity she claimed raped her.
The Daily Star says Jordan former fiancé Warren Furman has blasted claims he is the celebrity who raped her.
And elsewhere...
The International Herald Tribune reports that Czechs and Poles had mixed reactions to the US decision to cancel a European missile defence shield based in their countries. Many expressed relief that the system would not be built on their soil but former leaders in the Czech Republic and Poland said the decision reinforced a growing impression that Washington no longer views the region as indispensable to US and European security interests.
Meanwhile, Brussels' De Standaard quotes Nato Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen hailing the move as "a positive step". Pravda has a Russian analyst saying Mr Obama's decision would increase the chances that Russia will cooperate more closely with the United States in the heated dispute over Iran's nuclear programme.
Corriere della Sera quotes Italian Prime Mnister Silvio Berlusconi assuring that Italy would stay the course in Afghanistan despite its worst loss of life in its five years there.
Dawn says the Pakistani army has arrested a militant commander accused in the beheadings of troops in the Swat Valley. He had a bounty of €141,000 on his head and was the third from a list of 10 most wanted militants to be arrested.
The Irish Examiner reports that cash-strapped parents are turning to soup kitchens to feed their families.
Le Soir says Belgian farmers have continued their European-wide protests by spraying about three million litres of fresh milk onto their fields. On Saturday, German farmers dumped 7,000 litres of milk in front of agriculture ministry buildings in Bonn, and last week some 40 percent of France's 90,000 milk producers took part a major strike in France
USA Today reports that a Yale University lab technician has been charged with murdering a graduate student whose body was found stuffed behind the wall of a campus research building where they both worked. Police consider the crime as a case of workplace violence which is becoming a growing concern around the country.
Abendzeitung says an 18-year-old student ran through a school in Bavaria armed with several petrol bombs yesterday morning, injuring 10 classmates, two seriously. The police ended the attack by shooting the boy in the legs.
According to The New York Post, a 1966 magazine signed by John Lennon, containing his remark that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, has been sold for $12,713 (€8,648). The comment had provoked much anti-Beatles sentiment in the United States.
Bulgarian Post reveals that investigators have found no wrongdoing at Bulgaria's national lottery after the same winning numbers were picked in two consecutive draws. Lottery officials had said it was "a freak coincidence".
Mail & Globe reports the South African Government has lodged a complaint with the United Nations on behalf of world champion runner Caster Semenya, claiming questioning her sex was "sexist and racist". The International Association of Athletics Federations has refused to confirm or deny Australian media reports saying sex tests showed that the women's 800-metre world champion has both male and female characteristics.