The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times of Malta says Maltese children are the second fattest in the world, after those in Greece. It also reports that a man who suffered a heart attack complained that lifeguards need better training.
The Malta Independent reports that Islamists have attacked Christian churches in Egypt.
In-Nazzjon says there is an uncertain future for licensed port workers as the government plans to issue more licences.
l-orizzont asks if Meusac employees are on precarious employment.
The overseas press
The Al Ahram announces that supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi cancelled some Cairo marches on Sunday for “security reasons”, as the country's military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said security forces would confront further violence from protesters. The Islamists said they cancelled the marches for fear of vigilantes and snipers. In the evening the interior ministry issued a statement announcing a ban on vigilantes who have formed self-styled “popular committees” and urged citizens to respect a nightly curfew. The government, meanwhile, dismissed reports that it could ban the Muslim Brotherhood.
The latest developments come as senior European Union diplomats – Herman van Rompuy and José Manuel Barroso – are to hold emergency talks tomorrow in Brussels to discuss the situation in Egypt and future EU action. Le Soir reports the EU said it would review ties with Egypt's army and government unless the bloodshed ends. They say calls for democracy and fundamental rights “cannot be disregarded, much less washed away in blood” adding “the violence and the killings of these last days cannot be justified nor condoned”.
Al Akhbar says at least 36 Muslim Brotherhood prisoners have died in Egypt while attempting to escape during their transfer to a prison on the outskirts of Cairo. Initially the interior ministry said the inmates died in an exchange of fire after some of them took a military officer hostage and the convoy was attacked by unidentified gunmen. But later the ministry said the prisoners died from inhaling tear gas used by the military.
Tripoli Post announces Libya's interior minister, Mohammed Khalifa al-Sheikh, has resigned citing differences with Prime Minister Ali Zeidan and the country's parliament. Al-Sheikh had only taken the job in May.
The partner of Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programmes by the US National Security Agency, was held for almost nine hours on Sunday by UK authorities as he passed through London's Heathrow airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro. David Miranda, who lives with Greenwald, was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The controversial law, which applies only at airports, ports and border areas, allows officers to stop, search, question and detain individuals. Officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles. Greenwald described Miranda’s ordeal as “a profound attack on press freedoms and the news gathering process” and “a failed attempt at intimidation”.
The Greek Finance Minister, Yannis Stournaras, has asked the privatisation agency chief, Stelios Stavridis, to step down. Proto Thema reports Stavridis had frequently travelled in a plane belonging to the businessman who bought the OPAP gambling firm from the state in May.
Al bawaba says A UN team of chemical weapons inspectors arrived in Damascus on Sunday. The experts will visit three different sites over two weeks to ascertain whether chemical weapons have been used in the more than two-year Syrian conflict. Led by Swedish arms expert Aake Sellstroem, the team is expected to investigate Khan al-Assal, near Aleppo, where the government says rebels used chemical weapons on March 19, killing at least 26 people, including 16 Syrian soldiers.
Sky News says the Royal Navy has repelled an “armada” of 40 Spanish fishing boats which sought to enter Gibraltar's waters. The protest flotilla was the latest episode amidst rising tensions between the two nations.
The world's 136 largest coastal cities could risk combined annual losses of €750 billion from floods by 2050 unless they drastically raise their defences, a study warned Sunday. According to a report in the journal Nature Climate Change, current losses are about €4.5 billion a year, with four cities – Miami, New York and New Orleans in the United States and Guangzhou in China – incurring 43 percent of the costs. World Bank economist Stephane Hallegatte and colleagues composed a loss risk scenario based on city population growth as well as different levels of sea level rise, protection upgrades and subsidence -- the sinking of surface areas often linked to the extraction of oil or other ground resources.
Bloomberg reports a 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 NART Spider was sold at an auction for the record-setting sum of $25 million – $27.5 million after the auctioneer’s 10 per cent fee. Only 10 of these North American Racing Team cars was ever built. The Spider appeared in 1968's The Thomas Crown Affair with that movie's star, Steve McQueen numbered amongst the first NART owners (he crashed his). The new owner is Lawrence Stroll, a Canadian entrepreneur who helped develop the Tommy Hilfiger clothing brand in the 1990s.