The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta reports reactions to the nomination of Labour activist Wenzu Mintoff to the judiciary.
l-orizzont leads with comments by the foreign minister that the situation in Libya is serious, but not dramatic.
The Malta Independent reports that Virtu Ferries and Medavia stand ready to evacuate people from Libya should the situation deteriorate.
In-Nazzjon says University and Junior College students are anxiously awaiting the outcome of talks between the government and UMASA (trade union) as exam results are held up.
The overseas press
Haartez reports the Israeli army has described the death of four Palestinian children by artillery fire, while they were playing on a Gaza beach, as “a tragic outcome”.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera says both Israel and Hamas have both agreed to a UN-requested six-hour ceasefire for humanitarian reasons.
Le Soir says EU leaders have failed to reach agreement at a summit in Brussels over who should get the senior EU jobs to steer the 28-nation bloc over the next five years. The talks will resume next month.
EU Observer says Lithuania would join the eurozone on January 1 next year. The European Parliament voted by 545 votes to 116, with 34 abstentions. Lithuania would become the 19th member of the Eurozone.
Bloomberg says both the US and the EU have imposed new economic sanctions on Russia with President Obama declaring that Russian leaders must see that their actions supporting rebels in Ukraine were having “have consequences”.
Vjesnik reports Croatian lawmakers have adopted a long-awaited law allowing gay couples to register as life partners, enjoying the same rights as their heterosexual peers except on adopting children.
Het Parool says a Dutch court has decided the Dutch State was responsible for the deaths of 300 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995. Relatives of the victims had filed a lawsuit against the Dutch peacekeepers accusing them of not having protected over 8,000 Muslim men and boys, brutally murdered during the conflict in Bosnia.
USA Today reports a Texas actress, who tried to blame her husband after sending ricin-laced letters to officials including President Barack Obama, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Sky News says 660 hundred suspected paedophiles including doctors, teachers and former police officers have been arrested in the biggest ever UK crackdown on obscene images of children.
Al Ahram reports seven Egyptian men have been sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting women during celebrations marking the inauguration of President Abdul Fatah al Sisi. Two others received terms of 40 and 20 years respectively.
Ryanair has ordered an inquiry into how six holidaymakers were allowed to board the wrong flight at East Midlands Airport in England. The Birmingham Mail quotes the carrier saying the passengers, who were booked on a flight to Spain but briefly boarded a service to Latvia, would be reimbursed for extra expenses incurred due to the blunder.
ABC reports Australian singer and songwriter Sia Furler's latest release has reached the No. 1 spot on the United States' albums chart. Her most recent effort – “1,000 Forms of Fear” – is her first chart-topper on the Billboard 200, a weekly ranking of top-selling albums. The Australian performer's latest hit single, “Chandelier “, has been her first solo top 20 hit in the United States and achieved triple-platinum sales in Australia, peaking at No. 2 on the charts.