The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta and the Malta Independent get reactions following the suggestion by the PL deputy leader that Malta should regulate brothels.
In-Nazzjon reports that the PN has approved the first group of local election candidates.
l-orizzont leads with yesterday’s storm. It also asks if the Aldo Moro Road bus lane is suspended or not.
The overseas press
Official results show leftist President Dilma Rousseff will face a run-off vote against challenger centre-right Aecio Neves in the country's presidential election. TV Globo announces that based on 92 per cent of votes counted, Rousseff, who is seeking a second term, is leading with 41 per cent support compared to 34 per cent for Aecio Neves.
Focus news agency quotes the former Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov warning that it would be difficult to form a new government after exit polls suggested an indecisive outcome to the snap election.
Newsvine reports a party mainly backed by ethnic Russians won the largest number of votes in Latvia’s parliamentary elections this weekend, but is likely to be shut out of government as the centre-right ruling coalition wins won a clear majority after taking a hard line over the actions of Russia, its neighbour and former ruler, in Ukraine.
Il Tempo says Pope Francis has opened a Roman Catholic Church synod of more than 200 bishops by urging them not to impose “intolerable moral burdens” on believers.
France 24 reports tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris to oppose what they call the government’s “anti-family” policies. The protesters, including a mix of hardline Catholics and traditional conservatives, declared their opposition to a number of causes, including surrogate mothers and artificial insemination technology for non-married couples.
According to Izvestia, five police officers have been killed and 12 others were injured by a suicide bomber in the Chechen capital, Grozny.
South China Morning Post says hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators remain on the streets of Hong Kong in a tense stalemate with the government. The city's embattled leader Leung Chun-ying has warned he would “take all necessary actions to restore social order”.
CNN reports fierce clashes around the besieged Syrian town of Kobani near the border with Turkey. At least five people were wounded when a projectile hit a house.
The Washington Post says US vice-president Joe Biden has apologised to the UAE after suggesting that it had supporter Al Qaeda fighters in Syria. He had already apologised to the Turkish government.
Somali government forces are reported to have taken the last coastal stronghold of the militant Islamist group Al Shabab. A BBC reporter in Somalia said government soldiers were inside the town of Barawe, 220km south-west of the capital Mogadishu, which has not been run by the central government for 23 years.