The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times leads with the warnings by the Bishop of Gozo on divorce. It also highlights the findings of the auditor-general on the power station extension.
The Malta Independent says war crimes prosecutors are seeking Gaddafi’s arrest. It also says that local inflation has slipped below the eurozone average.
In-Nazzjon carries comments by Cana Movement founder Mgr Charles Vella insisting he is against divorce.
l-orizzont says that a person currently in prison is saying he knows who killed Raymond Caruana and is ready to reveal all in the presence of the minister of home affairs, Carm Mifsud Bonnici.
The overseas press
CNN reports that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund has settled in for his third night at New York's notorious Rikers Island jail complex – one of the toughest in the US – after a court denied him a one-million-dollar bail on charges including trying to rape a hotel chambermaid.
At a meeting in Brussels, EU finance ministers approved an EU-IMF bailout package worth €78-billion for Portugal. L’Echo says the eurozone financial leaders said the loan was to "safeguard financial stability in the euro area and the EU as a whole". Portugal, the third country after Greece and Ireland to be given financial help, has agreed to reform its health care system and pursue an "ambitious privatisation programme".
Meanwhile, The Economist announces that the next president of the European Central Bank – the world’s second-most-important central bank – would be Italy's Mario Draghi, replacing Jean-Claude Trichet when he steps down in October. The appointment of Mr Draghi, who is the current governor of the Italian central bank, was expected to be given the final green light by European institutions next July.
The Irish Examiner says that the Irish Republic is mounting its biggest-ever security operation at the start of a visit by Queen Elizabeth – the first by a British Head of State since most of Ireland gained independence from Britain 90 years ago. The Queen will lay a wreath commemorating those who died fighting for Irish independence.
The International Criminal Court has requested arrest warrants for Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and his son Saif al Islam for crimes against humanity. Le Soir says that at a news conference in The Hague, chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said forces loyal to the dictator had attacked civilians in their homes, shot at demonstrators, shelled funeral processions and used snipers to kill people leaving mosques. He also announced that he had requested a warrant for the country's head of espionage, Abdullah al Senussi, over the violent crackdown on protesters in February.
Pravda says Russian officials are having talks today with envoys loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The meeting in Moscow is expected to be followed by talks between the Russians and representatives of the Libyan National Transition Council.
Al Ahram reports Suzanne Mubarak, the wife of the deposed Egyptian president, has agreed to hand over her assets to the state after being detained on Saturday in a corruption investigation. Hosni and Suzanne Mubarak are both accused of illegally acquiring wealth while he was in power. Meanwhile, according to a report in the independent daily al-Shorouk, Hosni Mubarak is to apologize to the nation and plead for amnesty.
Assabah reports that police in Morocco have used tear gas to control a riot at a prison holed alleged Islamists militants. Some 150 inmates climbed onto the roof of the prison demanding a review of their cases.
Clarin says that a court in Argentina has sentenced eight former Army officers to life imprisonment for killing unarmed left-wing rebels during military rule. The guerilla fighters had surrendered to the army in 1976and were tortured and shot dead.