The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Sunday Times says the future of ST Microelectronics is conditional on austerity measures which the company wishes to take. The newspaper carries comments by former presidents and Fr Peter Serracino Inglott about divorce. It also reports that the Russian girl who fell off a balcony yesterday had been trying to jump onto a friend's balcony.
The Malta Independent on Sunday says it is up to Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando to decide on progress for his divorce bill. It also says that online sexual predators face one to four-year prison terms.
MaltaToday quotes Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando saying divorce is a matter of when, not if. It also reports that Marica Mizzi has kept her post as PRO of the Presidency.
It-Torca says Christina Higgins, 6, will accompany players as they emerge for their World Cup match. It also reports that paintings for an exhibition in Gozo have been censored.
Il-Mument says all is ready for this evening's World Cup final. It carries comments from the Dutch and Spanish ambassadors to Malta. The newspaper also says that price cuts include several frequently used medicines. The newspaper also reports on a Labour 'coup' at Fgura labour-led council.
Illum says that two-and-a-half storeys at Dar Malta in Brussels remain vacant. It also says that the Mayor of Valletta has called for a revision of parking arrangements.
KullHadd focuses on the fact that only one consortium submitted a bid for the €150 million electricity inerconnecter tender. The consortium, the newspaper says includes a company involved in corruption abroad.
The overseas press
Avvenire says the Vatican has posted its third straight financial loss, registering a €4.1 million deficit for 2009. Revenue was of €250.18 million while expenditure amounted to €254.28 million. The Vatican said annual donations from churches worldwide, the so-called Peter's Pence, were up in 2009, with Catholics donating €65.26 million last year.
Al Jazeera saya a ship with supplies for Gaza would dock at el-Arish in Egypt after Israeli pressure to stop the vessel breaking its Gaza blockade. The Moldovan-flagged ship chartered by a charity run by the son of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, left a Greek port on Saturday. It is loaded with about 2,000 tonnes of food, cooking oil, medicines and pre-fabricated houses. Israel, anxious to avoid a confrontation similar to that of last May that killed nine Turkish activists, had talks with Greece and Moldova.
La Vanguardia reports that more than a million people marched in Barcelona to call for greater autonomy for the Catalan region. The demonstration came a day after a constitutional court declared that there was no legal basis to recognise Catalonia as a nation. The ruling also said the Catalan language should not take precedence over Castilian Spanish.
The life and death of fugitive gunman Raoul Moat dominates the front pages of the UK nationals, with The Sunday Telegraph showing a picture of him holding a gun to his head. The Observer says the police face an inquiry after tasers were fired at the 37-year-old, possibly causing him to take his own life. One of Moat's friends has told the Sunday Mirror he was set to give himself up until the tasers were fired. The Independent looks at the police's handling of the drama and asks why floral tributes were laid outside Moat's house.
The Miami Herald quotes BP saying that preparations were under way to replace the containment cap over the damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Remotely-operated vehicles would be used to start the process of removing the current cap and installing the new sealing cap this weekend. The company warned oil was expected to temporarily flow uninterrupted into the sea while the operation is carried out.
Grandma says Cuba's former president Fidel Castro visited a scientific facility in his first known public appearance since December. Images posted on a pro-government blog showed the 83-year-old head of the Cuban Communist Party surrounded by workers. Fidel Castro led Cuba for almost five decades before a health crisis led him to step aside as president in 2006.
The 10 spies sent to Russia after being uncovered as sleeper agents in the United States have received a tepid reception. Russian state news media today reported their arrival on Friday in Moscow with little of the usual patriotic spin. The Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper decided it was the fourth most-important story on Saturday, leading with the octopus Paul and a parakeet predicting World Cup victories. No national TV channels carried live coverage of the plane's landing.
Asahi Shimbun reports Japanese voters have started casting ballots in a parliamentary election that is viewed as a test of confidence in the ruling Democrats' 10 months in power. Polls show that Prime Minister Naoto Kan's party would likely lose seats in the 242-member upper house partly because he has suggested that Japan needed to raise its sales tax in coming years as the country's population ages and shrinks.
Al Horria says eight men have been sentenced to up to 12 years in prison in Tunisia after being found guilty of inciting terror. They were convicted on charges of belonging to a militant Islamist cell and advocating terrorist acts.
Al Sumaria reports that 12 teams of veterinarians and police shooters have killed some 58,000 stray dogs in and around Baghdad as part of a campaign to curb an increasing number of strays blamed for attacks on residents. The strays are said to number some 1.25 million.