The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta says a contractor in the building of the new Parliament is being pursued for €375,000. It also reports how boathouse owners can get electricity supply for €1,500.
The Malta Independent says a hotelier has cleared the San Blas camping site.
In-Nazzjon reports on manoeuvres at Bank of Valletta for the chairman to have absolute control.
l-orizzont reports how Lidl no longer sells Benna milk. It also says there are suggestions for the dioceses of Malta and Gozo to merge.
The overseas press
Tele 5 reports the Spanish nurse who became the first person to contract Ebola outside West Africa has now tested negative for the virus.
Outgoing European Commission president Josè Manuel Barroso has warned British Prime Minister David Cameron there was “no possibility” of the UK reducing immigration and that a bid to bring in quota on migrant workers would be illegal, according to The Independent.
NHK TV announces Japan’s trade and industry minister Yuko Obuchi has resigned over claims she used funds from her political support groups and other donations on other items unconnected to politics.
Xinhua reports a key meeting of Chinese Communist Party leaders focusing on the rule of law and fighting corruption is due to open in Beijing later today. The plenum is the annual gathering of the 205 members of the party’s Central Committee and often entails landmark political reforms.
South China Morning Post says pro-democracy activists have strongly denied Hong Kong leader CY Leung’s claim that “external forces” were involved in protests in the territory.
Avvenire reports Pope Francis has said Christians would always remember the late Pope Paul VI with gratitude for proclaiming the Virgin Mary Mother of the Church.
Baltic Times says that Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama’s visit to Belgrade on Wednesday has been postponed, following the clashes that occurred during the football game between Albania and Serbia.
Le Soir says thousands crowded the streets in Brussels protesting against the “anti-social” measures launched by Charles Michel’s centre-right government. The Socialist Party says that the decision of moving up to 67 the retirement age by 2030 was “an inadmissible attack against workers”.
According to Aalatjah TV, Islamic State (IS) militants killed the chief of police of Salahuddin province in Iraq. Hamad Nams died when a car bomb went off near the vehicle in which he was travelling to Tikrit together with other officers. At least 20 people were injured in the blast.
AGI quotes a report by demographer Conrad Hackett showing that Iceland tops the list of unmarried mothers with 67 per cent of the births recorded. France comes second with 56 per cent and Sweden third with 54 per cent.