The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times leads with the PL manifestation yesterday, quoting Joseph Muscat saying that the PM cannot be trusted. The newspaper says Valletta council has also moved a bye-law that would close down dangerous buildings. Such buildings would then be made safe by the council at the owners' expense.
The Malta Independent says Dr Muscat yesterday listed Budget proposals. It also reports Dr Gonzi says the PL demonstration does not inspire unity.
In-Nazzjon leads with comments by Dr Gonzi that a social pact should give priority to work and investment. It also reports that two men who were jailed for 30 years last week for murder are to appeal.
l-orizzont carries a picture across the front and back page of the PL demonstration. It says Joseph Muscat urged the Prime Minister not to repeat mistakes in the Budget.
The Press in Britain...
The Financial Times reports British Airways, American Airlines and Spain's Iberia could be forced by regulators to give up valuable take-off and landing slots.
The Independent says a pledge to protect the world's rainforests from being cut down has been dropped from a global treaty.
The Guardian reports that police are gathering personal details of thousands of activists and storing the information on a network of intelligence databases.
According to The Daily Telegraph, Gordon Brown is preparing to retreat over planned cuts of £20 million in Territorial Army training.
The Daily Express claims motorists could be forced to pay thousands of pounds in a new green tax.
The Times says Foreign Secretary David Miliband is among ministers backing Tony Blair's bid to become EU President.
The Daily Star says Army chiefs have turned down an offer by model Katie Price to visit troops in Afghanistan.
And elsewhere...
The Washington Times says President Barack Obama has led international condemnation of Sunday's double suicide bomb attack in Baghdad that left more than 130 people dead ad 520 injured. He called the attacks - the highest in Iraq for more than two years - "hateful and destructive".
The carnage in the centre of Baghdad is the lead story n many Arab newspapers. Al Quds al-Arabi says the powerful blasts went off less than a minute apart in car parks near the headquarters of the Baghdad provincial administration and the Ministry of Justice building.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has told Sky News Arab nations and "even the Palestinians'' should be allowed nuclear weapons as long as Israel's nuclear capabilities are tolerated. He said: "And, if we don't want this situation, so we'll have to disarm the Israelis from their nuclear weapons and capabilities.''
Abrar says UN inspectors have visited a formerly secret uranium enrichment site at Qom which has raised Western suspicions about the extent of Iran's nuclear programme.
Berliner Morgenpost quotes Foreign Minister-designate Guido Westerwelle renewing calls for a withdrawal of US nuclear weapons based in Germany, saying he would hold talks with the Obama adminstration on the issue. Westerwelle said the new German government would support the vision of US President Barack Obama for a world free of nuclear weapons.
Al Horria says Tunisians voted yesterday in large numbers in a election almost certain to hand a new term to President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, the 73-year-old who has run the North African country for more than two decades. Ben Ali, 73, is being challenged by three other candidates in his bid for a fifth term.
Police authorities in California have promised an investigation into a mobile phone video that shows police brutality. The video, posted by the San Jose Mercury News on its website, shows one officer hitting a 20-year-old Vietnamese student with a metal baton and another officer is seen using his Taser gun on the man.
El Pais says Spain's Iberia Airlines has cancelling 440 domestic, European and trans-Atlantic flights as some 4,300 cabin crew members started a two-day strike over pay. They claimed other Iberia workers, such as pilots, received wage increases despite a four-year wage freeze.
The Irish Times says An Irish archbishop is accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Africa before having a 20-year affair with her. The Vatican is investigating a complaint made against Archbishop Richard Burke, who stepped down as Archdiocese of Benin in Nigeria earlier this year.
USA Today reports that the congregation of St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Chatham, New Jersey broke into tears at evening mass yesterday as they heard that authorities investigating the murder of one of their priests arrested the church janitor, alleging he stabbed the cleric 32 times with a kitchen knife after arguing with him in the rectory. It was double blow to the church community where Father Ed Hinds had served for six years and the janitor, 64-year-old Jose Feliciano, had worked for 17.
Daily Times says singer Madonna is in Malawi to visit the girls' school she is building in the country from which she has adopted two children. Madonna will take part in a groundbreaking ceremony for the school she is building for poor girls.
Sydney Morning Times reports thousands of people have eaten breakfast on the Sydney Harbour Bridge as the steel span was transformed into a grassy picnic ground. Usually bustling with traffic, the bridge was covered by a lawn laid specially for the morning event attended by 6,000 lucky picnickers chosen in a ballot to enjoy food, music and the majestic view.
Jamhuuriya reports Somalia's hardline al Shabaab insurgents executed two young men in public yesterday after telling a crowd in a rebel-held port that they had confessed to spying.
El Universal says at least 10 members of an amateur Colombian soccer team had been found dead after being kidnapped on its side of the border.