The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times says an investigation has found there was no conspiracy for an arrest warrant to be issued over a VAT case against Harry Vassallo on the eve of the general election. The issue was excessive bureaucracy.
The Malta Independent says Georgia is seeking a ceasefire in its dispute with Russia. Like The Times, it also reports about a man who allegedly raped three grand-daughters.
l-orizzont also leads with the war in Georgia. Its top local story is a demand by former port workers to benefit from the Pension and Contingency Scheme.
In-Nazzjon says 14 companies are showing an interest in the privatisation of Malta Shipyards. It also says that 357 die from smoking every year.
The Press in Britain…
The Independent reports Georgia bowed to Russia's superior firepower on Sunday, saying it had pulled its embattled troops out of the separatist region of South Ossetia.
According to The Guardian, Russian forces were moving to take total control of South Ossetia last night as Georgia withdrew troops amid intense diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire.
The Financial Times says China is set to overtake the US next year as the world's largest producer of manufactured goods, four years earlier than expected.
The Sun carries a picture of a woman with a young girl, taken in Brussels within the last week, and asks if this could be missing Madeleine McCann.
The Daily Telegraph says that thousands are fleeing Georgia as Russia starts ethnic cleansing.
The Daily Mirror describes how Welsh cyclist Nicole Cooke brought a golden smile to Britain's Olympic hopes.
The Daily Express reports that up to 1,300 cancer patients have been condemned to an early grave after they were denied treatment.
Scotland’s Daily Record claims doctors took out a firefighter's healthy lung after he was wrongly diagnosed with cancer.
And elsewhere…
The International Herald Tribune says that as UN diplomats engaged in acrimonious finger-pointing, the fighting in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia intensified with reports of Russia sinking a Georgian warship and attacking an airfield near Tbilisi.
China Daily reports that at least eight people have been killed and a number of others injured in several explosions and rocket fire in China's north-western Xinjiang province.
South Africa’s Globe and Mail reports that Robert Mugabe is to remain as president of Zimbabwe while opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will be prime minister.
Toronto Star leads with a propane gas plant explosion which has forced thousands to be evacuated.
Kabul Press quotes Afghan President Hamid Karzai urging his Western military allies to change their strategy in the war on terror and focus more strongly on extremist hideouts in neighbouring Pakistan.
Times of India reports that 40 villagers travelling on a truck are feared dead after being swept away by flood waters in Andhra Pradesh
Mexico Daily says a 50-stone man, once considered the world's fattest when his weight hit over half a ton, has left his home for the first time in five months with the aid of a forklift truck. A forklift hoisted Manuel Uribe, still in his specially designed bed, onto a truck, which then hauled him to a lake, where he snacked on fish and vegetables and joked with a local boat operator.