The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta says that the reform of the drugs laws is not expected to lead to a rise in abuse.
The Malta Independent features comments by a Dutch man who stands accused of having raped a Maltese woman.
MaltaToday leads with plans for a tax rebate on private health insurance, announced by the parliamentary secretary for health on Monday.
In-Nazzjon says a Labour activist created an incident on the Gozo ferry.
l-orizzont quotes GWU General Secretary Tony Zarb saying workers should not be made to pay for crises which they had not created. It also says several Lidl prices in Malta are almost twice those in Italy.
The overseas press
As the European Union demanded answers as to how the Ebola virus spread in a Spanish specialised disease unit, El Pais reports three more people have been placed under quarantine at the Madrid hospital where a Spanish nurse became infected, while more than 50 other people are being monitored. Officials in Madrid also got a court order to euthanize the pet of the Spanish nurse because of the chance the animal might spread the disease.
Cadena SER radio says about 20 health care workers at the hospital have protested amid claims by nursing union officials that Spain was not giving them enough training and the most modern Ebola protection equipment.
Euronews reports some parents at a school near Paris have taken their children out of classes after learning that three boys recently returned from Guinea. The boys, now in quarantine for three weeks, show no symptoms and are not considered contagious.
Meanwhile, Aftenposten says a 30-year-old Norwegian woman working in Sierra Leone for Doctors Without Borders has been brought home for treatment for Ebola. The worker was placed in isolation.
According to Libya Herald, dozens of corpses of migrants have been washed ashore in an area west of Tripoli. They are thought to be victims of the boat that sank last Friday with 250 people on board. Only 120 were rescued.
Xinhua reports one person has died and 324 others were injured after a 6.6-magnitude quake jolted southwest China’s Yunnan Province last night. According to local government officials, 56,880 of a population of 92,700 in Jinggu were affected, and have been relocated.
Al Wasat says the Libyan government has released 19 Ukrainians, three Byelorussians and two Russians, imprisoned for three years ago for being supporters of the late dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. The two Russians had been sentenced to 61 years and 53 years respectively.
Gazete Oku quotes the Turkish President saying Islamic State fighters were poised to capture the strategic Syrian town of Kobane on the Turkish border, as Kurdish forces battled to expel the extremists from their footholds on the outskirts.
Al Babwaba says the Hezbollah have claimed responsibility for yesterday's attack on the Israeli-Lebanese border in which two soldiers were wounded. This is the first time Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for an attack on Israel since 2006. Hezbollah militants exploded a bomb while Israel answered with artillery fire.
The Associated Press reports a North Korean official publicly acknowledged to the international community the existence of his country’s “reform through labour” camps – a statement that appeared to come in response to a highly-critical UN human rights report earlier this year.
Aftonbladet says the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to two Japanese scientists, Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, and US researcher, Shuji Nakamura, for having invented LED (Light Emitting Diodes) lights – a technological breakthrough that maximises energy efficiency and saving.
AGI reports Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano has lit a firestorm of protest by ordering the annulment of foreign gay-marriage registrations, with Bologna among the cities saying they would defy the order.
Times of India reports the beheaded body of a 15-year-old girl has been found in a forest in the State of Meghalaya. The girl’s naked body was without arms and had been burnt. It is thought she was raped before being murdered. Police in the area arrested the girl’s father following numerous charges of sexual abuse of the girl.
Sweden Globe says the world’s first baby born from a transplanted womb is soon to have company as two more women who became pregnant after having transplants are due in the next few weeks.
USA Today reports a four-year-old girl passed out packets of heroin she found in her mother’s backpack to her friends in a US nursery, believing them to contain sweets.