The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta reports how women are cornering a new jobs market. It also gives prominence to the court decision on the Gozo cat killer.
The Malta Independent says the government will announce the party financing bill.
In-Nazzjon leads with criticism of SPED, the new plan to replace the structure plan.
l-orizzont quotes President Marie-Louise Coleiro saying the Malta Community Chest Fund will carry out financial assessment of beneficiaries.
The overseas press
Le Soir reports European Union leaders have held a ceremony in the Belgian town of Ypres to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.
Avvenire says a document prepared by the Vatican ahead of an extraordinary synod of bishops on the family next October urges the Catholic Church to reconsider how it deals with unmarried couples, people who are divorced, those who have married more than once and single parents.
Fox News reports President Obama is asking the US Congress for $500 million to train and arm moderate Syrian opposition fighters. The rebels are fighting both the Syrian government and ISIS, the Islamist al-Qaeda-linked militant group that has taken over part of Iraq. The White House says they would be vetted before any support was provided. If Congress approved the request it would mark the first direct US military participation in the Syrian conflict.
Al Jazeera says the Sudanese Christian woman who had been sentenced to death for renouncing Islam, has been freed from detention for a second time. Meriam Ibrahim has gone to the American Embassy in Khartoum. He husband is from South Sudan and is now a US citizen.
Kyiv Post reports pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have released four military observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe who were taken captive a month ago, have been released. Four other observers are still being held.
Haaretz says Israel has named two men who it says belonged to the Palestinian militant group Hamas, as key suspects in the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank. The Israel security service sais both men had served time in Israeli prisons.
The Sun quotes police reports saying says former BBC TV personality Jimmy Savile sexually assaulted victims aged five to 75 and “interfered with corpses” in British national health service hospitals over decades of unfettered access due to his charity activities.
Criminal organisations such as the ‘Ndrangheta mafia in the southern Calabria region are cashing in on Internet child pornography particularly on encrypted, or ‘dark net’ sites according to an investigative report published by Ansa
Meanwhile Especdador says Uruguay’s football association has said it would appeal after their star player Luis Suarez was given the longest ban in World Cup history.