The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas newspapers.
The Sunday Times of Malta reports how cement and cow urine are ruining Hal Farrug. It also says the bus service may be split among a number of companies.
The Malta Independent on Sunday quotes Joe Mizzi saying Malta will have an efficient bus service.
MaltaToday says the police have been asked to investigate after 1,200 enforcement orders were deleted from the Mepa server.
It-Torca leads with the revised Church-State agreement on marriages and the refund of VAT paid on vehicle registration tax.
Il-Mument quotes Labour MP Marlene Farrugia saying the government was stubborn on the citizenship scheme
KullHadd lists actions taken by the EU against Malta under the PN government.
Illum says that according to Gonzi and Associates says there will be no negative impact from the citizenship scheme. The company is run by the former prime minister's son.
The overseas press
Al Jazeera reports Syrian government and opposition representatives will meet again today in a joint meeting with UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi when they are expected to focus on the issue of imprisoned and kidnapped people in Syria. Speaking after two sessions of talks in Geneva on Saturday, Brahimi said humanitarian issues were top of the agenda in the first tentative meetings. He said getting an aid convoy into the war-shattered city of Homs was discussed on Saturday, with prisoner releases on the agenda for Sunday.
Ukraine’ s opposition leaders have reacted guardedly to an offer from President Viktor Yanukovych that would give them the premier's and deputy prime minister's posts. Vitali Klitschko told Bild am Sonntag the deal was “poisoned.” The opposition in differed only slightly in their reception of Yanukovych's compromise offer, which would place former interior minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in the role of prime minister and would make former boxing world champion Klitschko deputy prime minister. The president outlined the proposal in talks on Saturday.
Libya Herald says gunmen have abducted five Egyptian diplomats and embassy employees in the Libyan capital. The abduction came hours after Libya’s state news agency reported the arrest of a militia commander, Shaaban Hadiya, in Egypt. The kidnapping appears to be retaliation for the detention of the Libyan militia leader in Egypt.
The Egyptian Gazette reports at least 29 people were killed in Egypt in street violence Saturday and 725 were arrested, as Islamists and military supporters staged rival rallies on the anniversary of the 2011 uprising. Officials said 26 were killed in clashes in Cairo and its suburbs, where Islamists and anti-government protesters fought with police and civilian opponents. Police also rounded up 725 suspected protesters, while thousands of pro-government demonstrators rallied in Cairo's Tahrir Square in support of the military-installed government.
Le Journal du Dimanche says that soon after confirmation from her partner, French President François Hollande, that they were no longer a couple, Valerie Trierweiler late Saturday tweeted her thanks to the staff at the Elysee Palace. The 48-year-old wrote she would never forget the staff’s devotion or the emotions at the moment of departure. In an exclusive declaration to AFP, Hollande confirmed he had split with his longstanding partner after his affair with film actress Julie Gayet. Trierweiler, a journalist, will leave for India on Sunday for a solo two-day humanitarian mission, but will no longer be able to do so with the retinue of first lady.
VOA News reports a man carrying a shotgun opened fire at a busy shopping mall in suburban Baltimore on Saturday, killing two employees of a skate shop and then himself as panicked shoppers ran for cover, police said. Five others were injured. Police were still trying to determine the identity and motive of the gunman who killed a man and a woman, both in their 20s, at a skate shop called Zumiez on the upper level of the Mall in Columbia.
Montreal Gazette reports firemen on Saturday recovered just two more bodies on the third day of an excruciating search through the charred remains of a Quebec retirement home, now covered in ice as thick as two feet. A total of 32 people are believed to have been killed in the massive fire, but only 10 bodies have been found. The cause of Thursday's blaze in the small town of L'Isle-Verte remains under investigation.
According to Süddeutsche Zeitung, a German 16-year old robbed a bank armed with a toy gun in the Bavarian town of Bad Fuessing, escaping on a bicycle with just a few hundred euros. He did everything as if playing a game but now he will have to face the world of grown-ups. The clumsy petty thief was caught just shortly after the robbery.