The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times leads with how a tip-off led to the arrest in Gozo of a 17-year-old boy carrying a large quantity of Ecstasy pills. It also carries a curtain-raiser about the MLP elections for the party administration today and tomorrow.
l-orizzont says that with good will, an agreement can be reached on early retirement schemes at Malta Shipyards. The GWU will convene a meeting for the dockyard workers today.
The Malta Independent also leads with a preview of the MLP elections.
In-Nazzjon says this is a day of reckoning for the MLP, and Jimmy Magro has accused his successor of 'arrogance'.
The Press in Britain…
Five newspapers lead or carry pictures on their front pages of Ben Mullany, the bridegroom who was shot with his wife Catherine on their Caribbean honeymoon in Antigua and who died yesterday.
The Daily Telegraph says it was an agonising decision for Ben’s parents to turn off his life support machine.
Metro says Ben’s life support machine was turned off after a scan for brainstem activity proved negative.
The Daily Mirror carries a picture of Clarence James – said to be the prime suspect in the murders of the honeymoon coupl.
The Scotsman looks back over the first year of Gordon Brown's leadership as the Prime Minister faces a raft of damaging headlines.
The Times leads with a story about Blairites plotting to oust Gordon Brown.
The Financial Times reveals Gordon Brown is working on a multi-million pound plan to protect the poorest of families from rising fuel bills.
The Guardian quotes Archbishop Rowan Williams blaming liberal North American churches for causing turmoil in the Anglican communion by blessing same-sex unions and consecrating gay clergy.
According to the Daily Express, Britain's biggest tour operator has announced sunshine breaks for £2.
The Daily Mail warns of a £110 fine if you overfill a bin.
And elsewhere…
The president of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, has called on Olympic athletes to demonstrate against human rights abuses when they line up in China.
Most world newspapers announce the death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winning author. The International Herald Tribune says he died late yesterday of heart failure, aged 89.
The Indian Express says thousands of panicked pilgrims stampeded at a remote mountaintop temple in northern India, sending dozens of people plummeting to their deaths and trampling scores more.
Vienna’s Die Presse quotes the International Atomic Energy Agency saying plutonium has leaked from its Seibersdorf laboratory but no radiation escaped the building.
Al-Ahrar says a truck bomb exploded during rush hour on a busy commercial street in northern Baghdad, killing at least 12 people and wounding about two dozen.
Al Jazeera says Al-Qaeda confirmed on Islamist websites that its chemical and biological weapons expert, Abu Khabab al-Masri, had been killed in a US airstrike on a Taliban hide-out in Pakistan. Abu Khabab al-Masri had a 5 million dollar bounty on his head from the United States.
The Moscow Times reports that hundreds of women and children have fled Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia to neighbouring Russia after fresh fighting again provoked fears that a full-scale war is about to break out in the troubled region.
The Jerusalem Post says Israel has begun sending back members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement to Gaza City which they fled on Saturday during a crackdown by rival Hamas security forces. In a rare move, Israel had allowed 180 members of the pro-Fatah Helles clan to leave Gaza after nine people were killed.
Kathimerini says a 40-year-old man killed his girlfriend on the Greek island of Santorini, beheaded her, then tried to flee in a patrol car. He ran over two women doctors on a motorcycle before being caught by police.