The following are the leading stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times reports Alfred Sant saying at the MLP mass meeting that his party has more documents proving corruption but they cannot be published because they would expose those who had leaked them. It also reports the PN mass meeting, quoting Dr Gonzi saying the MLP has a losers’ policy.
The Malta Independent leads with the PN meeting, saying the MLP offers darkness, fear and uncertainty. It also reports Drin the MLP mass meeting saying the MLP offers better life and clean politics.
l-orizzont as usual carries a picture of the MLP mass meeting across the front and back pages. Its heading is “Firm determination”.
Malta Today shows a picture of Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando wipe his eyes under the heading “Tears for fears” as he reacted to MLP accusations during a PN activity in Mosta yesterday morning.
In-Nazzjon quotes Dr Gonzi at the PN mass meeting saying the electoral campaign brought out the differences between the two parties. The PN came out with ideas and the MLP came out with mudslinging.
The Press in Britain...
The Guardian says Israel is facing widespread international condemnation for its onslaught in Gaza, as the UN and EU demanded an end to a "disproportionate" response to Palestinian rocket attacks, which were also denounced.
The Independent continues that the attacks in Gaza have left 101 Palestinians dead, including many children.
The Daily Star alleges that Prince Harry has demanded 24-hour armed protection for his lover Chelsy Davy amid fears that al Qaeda assassins will make her a terror target.
But, says The Sun, the royal will be rewarded for his heroics in the army with a promotion and a pay rise worth £11 a day...which is "not quite enough for a drink at his No 1 bar".
The Daily Mirror announces that off-Licences that sell alcohol to under-18s will be shut down to tackle "the binge drinking plague". There will also be action to deal with the sale of alcohol by supermarkets, but no U-turn on relaxed pub hours.
The Daily Express says millions of householders could benefit from a payback scheme targeting the massive profits of gas and electricity companies.
The Daily Mail focuses on a study that claims three out of four ordinary families would be better off living apart than sharing a home under Labour's benefit system.
The Times claims Labour has resumed a secret courtship of influential donors before new funding rules are introduced to cover the party from future sleaze allegations.
The Daily Telegraph says MPs were under huge pressure to support a referendum on the new EU treaty after the biggest test of public opinion on the issue so far showed almost 90% of voters want a ballot.
The Financial Times quotes European Commission president José Manuel Barroso saying protectionist pressures are increasing, even among political forces traditionally committed to free markets.
And elsewhere...
London's Arabic international daily Ashar Al-Awsat announces that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has formally suspended all contacts with Israel in protest at Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip.
Moscow Times reports Russian leader Vladimir Putin has congratulated his protegé, Dmitry Medvedev, on his landslide 70 per cent victory in Sunday's presidential elections
Sueddeutsche Zeitung says that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union party (CSU), suffered setbacks in yesterday's municipal elections.
Börzen-Zeitung claims Germany will on Tuesday call for the European Union to clamp down on the continent's last tax havens, whose low taxes and bank secrecy rules it sees as an incitement to tax evasion.
El Nacional says President Chavez of Venezuela has sent tanks and thousands of troops to his country's border with Colombia. This follows last Saturday's Colombian army raid on a jungle camp just inside Ecuador on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia known as FARC, the country's largest rebel group
According to The Journal of Occupational Medicine, 39 per cent of French nurses suffer violence in hospitals from patients or their relatives, topping the European list of the most violent 10 European countries. According to research by the journal, they are followed by nurses from Germany (28 per cent), Belgium, Italy and Poland.
Belfast Times quotes scientists from N. Ireland and the UAE saying that slime from the skin of a frog native to the Amazon could provide a new treatment for diabetes. The paradoxical frog secretes a substance from its skin which protects it from infection. Researchers found that the molecule, pseudin-2, stimulates the release of insulin, the vital hormone which is deficient in diabetes sufferers.