The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times of Malta reports that Italy and Malta are close to a deal on joint oil exploration. It also quotes Simon Busuttil saying the Budget is dishonest, a story also reported in The Malta Independent.
l-orizzont reports how former PN president Victor Scerri is selling his controversial farmhouse in Bahrija for €850,000.
In-Nazzjon quotes Simon Busuttil saying the Budget did not provide for job creation.
The overseas press
Global News says relief efforts in the Philippines are being slowed by extensive damage as a picture of the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan, thought to be the most powerful storm ever to hit the country, gradually became clearer.
Manila Times reports Philippines President Benigno Aquino has declared a national state of calamity, which allows the government to set price controls and quickly release emergency funds.
Avvenire says Pope Francis posted on Twitter an appeal to Catholics to “be generous with your prayers and material help”. The Pontiff's appeal reached the ten million followers of his “@Pontifex” account.
Polskie Radio reports UN climate talks meant to lay the groundwork for a new pact to fight global warming have opened in Warsaw with thousands of delegates from nations and environment organisations from around the world.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that world powers came extremely close at the weekend to reaching an agreement with Iran on its nuclear programme. He told the BBC none of the remaining differences were big enough to prevent a possible agreement but the rest f the world had to be certain that Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapons programme.
Italy's embattled former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has vowed he would fight on even if the upper house of parliament votes later this month to expel him following his tax fraud conviction. “It will be a boomerang for the left,” Berlusconi told the Italian edition of the Huffington Post website.
The New York Times reports four Iranian musicians living in New York have been shot dead in a row over money. Police said one of them shot three others, including two members of a rock band called The Yellow Dogs before killing himself.
Dawn says a bus has collided with a truck in South Africa, killing at least 29 people and seriously injuring 11 others on a road notorious for deadly accidents, 100 kilometres east of Pretoria.
L’Osservatore Romano has announced the Vatican will display for the first time bones believed to be the relics of St Peter the Apostle. The bones were discovered in the 1940s during excavations in Vatican City. Although the Church has never declared their authenticity it says scientific tests have identified them in a convincing way.