The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas newspapers.
The Times of Malta reports how migrants stranded on a tanker which rescued them are to be taken to Italy.
l-orizzont says this was a 'Victory for a firm government'.
In-Nazzjon says the Housing Authority has stopped four schemes. It also reports on the migrants stand-off and how the government was continuing to refuse entry to the tanker.
The Malta Independent leads with talks to alter the time of parliamentary sittings. It also quotes Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia insisting that Malta was legally correct to stop a tanker carrying migrants from coming to Malta.
The overseas press
The Wall Street Journal reports the US Justice Department has filed sealed criminal charges against a number of suspects in the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi that killed the American ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.
Yemen was thrust back into the forefront of the international fight against terrorism Tuesday when the US and Britain evacuated embassy staff due to a threatened attack, a suspected US drone killed four alleged members of al-Qaida, and militants shot down a Yemeni army helicopter. The Associated Press says as Westerners flew out of the country, Yemeni authorities launched a wide investigation into the al-Qaida threat to multiple potential targets in the Arab nation.
O Globo reports Brazil-based Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald has said he had received nearly 20,000 secret US government documents from intelligence leaker Edward Snowden. Greenwald, an American who was among the first to release details of Washington's vast electronic surveillance programme, gave no details of the content of the files as he testified before the Brazilian Senate's foreign relations committee.
USA Today says a military judge has reduced US army whistleblower Bradley Manning’s maximum possible sentence in the WikiLeaks case to 90 years in prison. Manning had faced up to 136 years after he was convicted of charges related to his disclosure of classified information to the anti-secrecy website, but the judge, Army Colonel Denise Lind, found during his sentencing hearing that a number of the charges refer to the same actions.
A baby boy allegedly sold by the doctor who delivered him in China, has been reunited with his parents, China Daily reports, in a case highlighting the problem of child trafficking.
Metro says a man whose wife gave birth while he raced to get her to hospital said the distraction caused him to roll the car four-times on a Swedish motorway. Samaher Mezban was entering the final stages of labour when her husband, who had taken his eyes off the road to see his daughter emerge, lost control of the car. It veered into a ditch before rolling over four times. When the car came to a rest, the baby's father could not find the child but finally spotted her under the passenger seat. Emergency workers then drove the family to hospital. No one was seriously hurt in the accident.
A toddler who served as the best man at his parents’ wedding over the weekend, has died due to complications associated with Fanconi anemia, a rare blood disorder, the Today Show reports. Logan Stevenson had been suffering from leukemia and malignant tumours on his kidneys since December 2011. When doctors recently told his parents, Christine Swidorsky and Sean Stevenson, that their son only had a few weeks to live, the couple decided to get married last Saturday instead of next July, as they had planned, so that their son could be there. But Logan took a turn for the worse on Monday when he began to have trouble breathing.