The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta reports that an abuse priest has been barred from contact with minors.
The Malta Independent points out that Mr Justice Farrugia Sacco will escape impeachment through his retirement tomorrow.
In-Nazzjon focuses on a statement by the MHRA that the hoteliers did not need tokens, but a stable power supply.
l-orizzont asks if UFOs have been sighted over Cospicua.
The overseas press
CNN reports the Pentagon has revealed US special forces attempted to rescue a number of American hostages held in Syria earlier this year, including the journalist James Foley, whose killing by Islamic State militants has prompted international outrage.
The Washington Times says President Obama has spoken angrily of a video posted on line, showing the beheading of Foley. He said it was an act of violence that “shocked the conscience of the entire world”, adding that the group’s ideology had no place in the 21st century.
The New York Times says the UN Security Council has called on Israel and the Palestinians to agree an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.
Haaretz quotes Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning the bombardment of Gaza will continue until rocket fire out of the Palestinian territory stopped and Israel’s security was restored.
O Globo announces that the Brazilian Socialist Party has formally named the internationally-acclaimed environmental campaigner Marina Silva as its new presidential candidate. She replaces the late Eduardo Campos, who was killed in a plane crash last week.
VOA News reports US Attorney General Eric Holder has been meeting police and residents in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson torn by two weeks of racial unrest, sparked by the fatal shooting of an unarmed Afro-American 18-year-old by a white police officer.
Kyiv Post says Ukrainian troops have made a significant push into rebel-held territory, claiming control over a large part of the separatist stronghold of Luhansk and nearly encircling Donetsk, the largest rebel-held city.
San Francisco Chronicle reports a patient who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus is in quarantine at the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento hospital in California. The patient is in isolation and test results are expected back in a few days,
Meanwhile, Monrovia’s Inquirer reports riot police and soldiers used scrap wood and barbed wire to seal off 50,000 people inside their Liberian slum, trying to contain the Ebola outbreak that has killed 1,350 people and counting across West Africa.
Deutsche Welle says a German has been sentenced to death in China for the first time in modern history. The 36-year-old man had been convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her partner on a street in Xiamen in June 2010 using a hammer and a knife. Berlin has vowed to stop the execution.
Sky News reports UK entertainer Cliff Richard has turned down the freedom of Albufeira, his adopted Portuguese home city after finding himself at the centre of a police sex abuse investigation. Meanwhile fans have been showing their support by buying copies of his 1992 Number 7 hit “I Still Believe in You” and it is less than 500 copies off the Top 40.