The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times reports the meeting of the PN parliamentary group yesterday, with the heading: 'Resign, MPs tell Franco Debono'. Prominence is also given to the 31-year jail term to a man who fatally stabbed his wife.
The Malta Independent also features the PN group's call for Franco Debono to resign. It also says that the EU will today deliver its verdict about Malta's Budget.
MaltaToday focuses on yesterday's Bondi+ where Franco Debono was interviewed.
l-orizzont says the PN will hold an important meeting on Saturday for party district officials.
In-Nazzjon also reports the PN parliamentary group's call for Franco Debono to resign.
The overseas press
Voice of America reports former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has claimed victory in the Republican presidential primary in US state of New Hampshire. With more than half of the precincts reporting, Romney has a double-digit lead over Texas Congressman and anti-war advocate Ron Paul. Former US ambassador to China Jon Huntsman is in third place, with former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich and ex-US senator Rick Santorum battling for fourth place.
The International Criminal Court has extended a deadline for Libya to provide information on the health and status of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. The former Libyan leader's son was captured in southern Libya in November. A spokesman for the court told the BBC that the deadline - originally Tuesday - was now January 23. The ICC, based in in The Hague, has indicted him for crimes against humanity but Libya's new leaders say they want him to stand trial in Libya.
The New York Times reports that an estimated 400 people have been killed in Syria since an Arab League mission arrived to monitor the turmoil there in late December. The American ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice said the Syrian government had accelerated its killing of pro-democracy demonstrators.
The International Herald Tribune says the US and France have condemned a speech by Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad which blamed an "external conspiracy" for the mass uprising against his rule. The US State Department said President Assad had thrown responsibility on everybody but on himself. France's Foreign Minister said the speech amounted to "denial of reality". In a rare public address, Assad said international powers were trying to destabilise Syria, and vowed to crush "terrorists" with an "iron fist". He also criticised the Arab League, saying it failed to protect Arab interests.
Meanwhile Al-Arab says a group of Arab League observers were attacked in the northern city of Latakia and two Kuwaiti army officers were lightly injured. Video footage posted by activists online showed what appeared to be a white Arab League vehicle swarmed by pro-Assad protesters in Latakia, some of them dancing on top of the car. The League has suspended Syria and sent a team of monitors to assess whether the regime was abiding by an Arab-brokered peace plan that Mr Assad agreed to on December 19.
Pravda reports that Russia has expressed regret that Iran has begun enriching uranium to a higher grade than needed for power generation. It said it showed that Iran was ignoring international concerns about its nuclear programme.
Voice of Nigeria says gunmen have killed eight people, including several police officers, in a shooting at a bar in the north of the country. It is the latest in a series of attacks blamed on the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
Le Monde reports that an expert report presented to a French court has cleared associates of the Rwandan President Paul Kagame of orchestrating the 1994 assassination of the country's then-leader Juvenal Habyarimana. The killing helped spark the 1994 genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in just 100 days. The Rwandan government has welcomed the report.
Dawn quotes Pakistani officials saying at least three militants have been killed in an attack by an American drone aircraft. They say the attack took place in a compound outside the town of Miranshah in North Waziristan, near the Afghan border.
The Daily Herald reports Scotland’s devolved government says it intends to hold a referendum on independence from the United Kingdom in later 2014. The unexpected announcement has further fuelled the row on the timing and cope of any referendum on the centuries-old union.
According to The Irish Enquirer, up to 70 per cent of EU-based credit websites checked in an EU “sweep” failed to meet consumer law requirements. A survey revealed that out of a total of 562 sites monitored in the 27 EU countries, plus Norway and Iceland, as part of a co-ordinated investigation, 393 were found in breach of rules designed to improve clarity for customers seeking personal loans and credit card deals. EU Consumer Commissioner John Dalli said that when people looked for credit they sometimes discovered that this credit turned out to be more expensive than it had originally appeared because important information was sometimes unclear or missing.
La Prensa reports that former Sandinista guerrilla Daniel Ortega has been sworn in as President of Nicaragua for the third time. He had won a landslide victory last November. He has promised "no dramatic changes" during his next five years in office. The main opposition party boycotted the ceremony in Managua, saying the poll was fraudulent and unconstitutional.
Times of India says mire than two thirds of Indian milk is contaminated with substances ranging from salt to detergent. An Indian government watchdog said that, according to their research, the milk may not be safe to drink. Among the other substances found in milk were skimmed milk powder, fat, glucose and added water. Only two states sold unadulterated milk.