The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Sunday Times says turnout figures favour a Labour victory. It also says John Dalli's stay abroad has been extended.
The Malta Independent on Sunday says PN-leaning districts saw the sharpest drops in turnout.
MaltaToday reports how there was lower turnout in PN strongholds.
It-Torca highlights the 93% turnout figure. It also reports how Trafigura and Total won 73% of Enemalta's oil contracts.
Il-Mument says turnout figures were almost the same as 2008. Turnout for local council elections was 82%.
KullHadd says turnout yesterday was 93%.
The overseas press
AFP quotes Argentine's Ambassador to Britain Alicia Castro saying today’s referendum in the Falklands Islands over whether to keep the archipelago under British rule would not affect the legal status of the disputed islands. In a move instigated by residents of the island chain, the 1,672 eligible voters are being asked whether they want the Falklands to retain their status as an internally self-governing British overseas territory. Britain has held the windswept South Atlantic Ocean islands since 1833, but Buenos Aires claims they are occupied Argentinian territory. The two countries fought a brief but bloody war over the islands in 1982.
Deutsche Welle announces that some 765,000 employees of Germany's state governments have won an above-inflation, 5.6 per cent pay increase over two years. The agreement – the first major wage deal made in Germany this year – came after marathon talks between employers and the Verdi trade union. The pay deal came for employees, including police officers, firefighters and workers at ministries in all but one of Germany's 16 states. The state of Hesse did not take part in the negotiations because is not part of the collective agreement.
Capital FM Kenya reports that Uhuru Kenyatta is Kenya's newly-elected president, having garnered 50.03 percent of the vote – a margin of just 4,099 votes out of a total of 12,338 million votes, enough to prevent the country going back to the polls for a run-off vote. His opponent, incumbent Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who obtained 43.28 per cent of the vote, said he would not concede defeat and would challenge the result for voting irregularities.
Avvenire says the 115 cardinal electors will walk into the Vatican residence known as Casa Santa Marta on Tuesday morning right before the “Pro Eligendo Pontiff” mass, and not on Monday evening, as had been expected. Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi said it was a unanimous decision and added that the cardinals would hold another General Congregation meeting on Monday. The rooms where the cardinals will stay in Domus Santa Marta were assigned by lot drawn during yesterday's congregation.
A crowd of some 3,000 people has broken into a Christian community in the Pakistani city of Lahore and attacked the house of a Christian accused of blasphemy and repeatedly insulting the prophet Mohammad. The Express News reports the crowd entered the Joseph Colony community, setting fire to the house and beating the father of the Christian. About 130 families living in the area were forced to flee their homes. The police were also attacked by the raging mob.
Voice of Nigeria says the Islamist extremist group, Ansaru, announced it had killed seven foreigners taken hostage from a construction site in northern Nigeria last month. The online post made on an extremist website on Saturday has been identified as coming from the group, but has not yet been verified by Nigerian officials, or the countries where the hostages are reportedly from.
Al Ahram reports a protester has been shot dead in central Cairo during fresh clashes with Egypt's police forces, as violence continues to spread across the country. The headquarters of the Egyptian football federation and a nearby police station were set alight by fans, after a court cleared seven police officers over their alleged involvement in deadly riots in Port Said. More than 70 people died during stadium riots at a game there in February last year. The court upheld 21 death sentences issued over the violence.
Al Jazeera says Syrian rebels freed 21 UN peacekeepers on Saturday after holding them hostage for four days, ending a sudden entanglement with the world body that earned fighters trying to oust President Bashar Assad a flood of negative publicity. The peacekeepers were part of a force that has spent four decades monitoring an Israeli-Syrian cease-fire without incident.
Afghan Post says a suicide bombing in Khost, eastern Afghanistan, has killed eight children and a police officer. The province governor said the suicide bomber blew himself up as a patrol unit of NATO and Afghan soldiers was passing.
Globovision TV has announced that Venezuelans would vote on April 14 to elect a successor to Hugo Chavez. The constitution mandated the election be held within 30 days of Chavez's March 5 death, but the date picked falls outside that period. Critics of the socialist government already complained that officials violated the constitution by swearing in Vice President Nicolas Maduro as acting leader Friday night.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports a man who spent 11 years in prison on a murder conviction that was later reversed has won a $13.2 million award in a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Cleveland. A federal jury found Friday that two Cleveland detectives fabricated or withheld evidence in the 2000 trial of David Ayers, convicted of aggravated murder in 1999. He always maintained his innocence and the Ohio Innocence Project took up his case in 2008.
Films screened on Panamericana TV show dozens of naked and half-naked cyclists rolling through Lima on Saturday to press for more bike-friendly streets. A few of the protesters stripped down completely for the 10-kilometer ride through Peru's capital. Nilton Lopez, head of a cycling group Cicloaxion, said the idea behind their nakedness was to show that the human body was fragile compared to the chassis of a car. "We are using nudity as a way to show that we are vulnerable," Lopez said.