The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times reports that the Imam in Malta has welcomed the death of Islam’s enemy – Osama Bin Laden. The lead story, however carries the quote: “The world is a better place” as part of reactions to the terrorist’s death.
The Malta Independent says the world welcomed the death of Osama bin Laden.
In-Nazzjon carries the prime minister’s reaction to the death of Bin Laden. He augured that the world would be a safer place.
l-orizzont reports that on ‘half hearted’ ECG services at the Gozo hospital.
The overseas press:
Most of the world media is dominated by the killing of Osama bin Laden by US special forces in Pakistan. CNN reports that President Obama hailed the death of the al-Qaeda leader as a "good day for America" and that the world was now a safer place. But Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned that the battle against terrorism was not yet over. Obama got a standing ovation and a big round of applause at the White House, where he hosted a previously-scheduled dinner for Congressional leaders of both parties. He said that on Sunday night, the US experienced the same sense of national unity it did after the 9/11 attacks.
The Washington Times says President Obama, who together with his national security advisers watched the 40-minute operation unfold via satellite link, was expected to visit Ground Zero, the site of the felled World Trade Centre, in New York on Thursday. The White House said Mr Obama would meet relatives of those killed in the al-Qaeda plane attacks on the twin towers nearly 10 years ago.
The White House counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan, has been giving more details about the dramatic operation to capture Osama bin Laden. USA Today quotes him saying the elite US troops had been prepared to take bin Laden alive if the opportunity arose – but he resisted and was shot in the head. Bin Laden's whereabouts in Pakistan were deduced after US intelligence agencies found out the identity of one of his trusted couriers, said Mr Brennan. He added that Islamic funeral rites had been administered over the body, before it was buried in the Arabian Sea. CNN is reporting that the White House has "no plan" to release a death photo of Osama Bin Laden at the moment, although it has not ruled out this possibility at a later stage.
Associated Press has named the man who led the US to Osama Bin Laden's hide-out as the al-Qaeda leader's most trusted courier, Kuwaiti-born Sheikh Abu Ahmed. The agency reports Ahmed and his brother were killed in the same predawn raid on Monday.
The New York Times says the UN Security Council has welcomed the killing, calling it a "critical development in the fight against terrorism". It also urged all nations to remain vigilant and intensify their efforts to bring all perpetrators and sponsors of terrorism to justice.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari writes in The Washington Post, that although the killing of Bin Laden was a US-only operation, it was founded on "a decade of co-operation and partnership between the US and Pakistan". And he rejects suggestions that Pakistan neglected to pursue Bin Laden or even sheltered him. "Pakistan had as much reason to despise al-Qaeda as any nation," he writes.
Portico reports that the assault force of Navy Seals snatched a trove of computer drives and disks during their raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound. A US official said these were yielding what he called "the mother lode of intelligence".
Al Arabiya reports that while a number of Arab leaders have welcomed the news of Bin Laden's death, in Egypt – where there is still sympathy for al-Qaeda in parts of the country – the government response was muted. On Islamist websites dedicated to jihad, meanwhile, there has been a mixture of anger and sorrow, with many posters calling for revenge.
According to CBC, initial results from the Canadian general election suggest that the Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper was set to win a third consecutive victory. A late surge by the left-wing new democrats means that they would now become the official opposition instead of the Liberal party
Al-Libiya TV says the funeral of the youngest son of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, killed on Saturday when Nato missiles hit his villa in the leader's compound, has taken place in Tripoli. Col Gaddafi did not attend 29-year-old Saif al-Arab's funeral but two other sons, Saif al-Islam and Mohammed, both paid their respects at the ceremony. His funeral was attended by several thousand people as Nato planes circled in the skies above.
Japan Times quotes electronics giant Sony saying hackers may have accessed 25 million more customer accounts than previously thought. It said they included the bank details of more than 20,000 users.
Tribune de Genève reports that the Swiss government has uncovered almost a billion US dollars of potentially illegal assets belonging to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the former Tunisian leader Zin El-Abedin Ben Ali.
Al Thawra quoted a Syrian army spokesman saying security forces killed 10 people and arrested 499 others in house-to- house raids in Deraa on Sunday. Rights groups say 560 people have been killed across the country in protests against the repressive rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
Japan Today says an exceptionally well-preserved Stradivarius violin, the Lady Blunt, which fetched $10 million at its last sale in 2008, is to be auctioned for charity. The 1721 violin is being sold by the Nippon Music Foundation, with the entire proceeds going to their Northeastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund. Japan's latest police figures stated that 14,704 people are known to have died and another 10,969 remain missing following the earthquake and tsunami in March.