The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times says the police have been cleared by a Magisterial inquiry of any involvement in the death of Nicholas Azzopardi, who had claimed he was beaten at police HQ. It also reports the death of a 14-year-old boy after swimming in Ghadira, and allows space on the front page for the announcement that Russia has ordered a halt to its war against Georgia.
The Malta Independent leads with the boy’s tragic death and the hold-up on Labour MP Anthony Zammit, who was beaten in his own home by thieves.
Malta Today says a Magistrate has 'claimed' Azzopardi jumped off a high wall at police headquarters and was not beaten. It reports however that a Dutch man is claiming he was beaten at the prisons after trying to escape. In another item, it carries comments from Jason Micallef on Joseph Muscat’s plans to revamp the MLP administration, with Mr Micallef saying the leader is supreme.
In-Nazzjon leads with government criticism of the GWU, which, it said, could hinder the privatisation of Malta Shipyards. In another story, it says the EU will grant £100 million for agriculture in Malta up to 2013.
l-orizzont leads with the GWU announcement that it will hold a meeting for dockyard workers and former workers today in Paola.
The Press in Britain…
The Times says a victorious Kremlin agreed to a ceasefire in the Caucasus on terms that left Georgia and its Western backers weakened.
The Telegraph leads with the Prince of Wales’ warning that the mass development of genetically modified crops risked causing the world's worst environmental disaster.
The Express heralds the good news that breast cancer patients have been given new hope in the battle against the disease, while the Daily Mail explains that a cheap drug used to treat brittle bones helps halt breast cancer in its tracks.
The Independent says the Bank of England is to dramatically downgrade its forecast for growth in the UK economy and warn that inflation is set to continue to rise.
The Scotsman says spiraling food prices have triggered a record inflation hike that makes an interest rate cut increasingly likely for hard-pressed borrowers.
The Herald claims Union leaders have demanded higher pay rises for workers and decisive government intervention after the rate of inflation jumped.
According to The Financial Times, top bosses at UBS knew some of their bankers had acted in a way that risked breaching US securities laws at least a year before the US inquiries began.
Both the Sun and the Daily Star lead with Peaches Geldof, daughter of Bob Geldof, who was jetting home after getting married in Las Vegas after a whirlwind romance to her boyfriend of four weeks.
The Daily Mirror says Britain's beaches have been invaded by poisonous jellyfish.
And elsewhere…
The International Herald Tribune says European foreign ministers are to hold an emergency meeting in Brussels to co-ordinate a response to the crisis in Georgia, which among other things, proposes sending in an UE peacekeeping force.
Al-Quds al-Arabi reports that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an Israeli proposal for a peace agreement in which Israel offered to withdraw from 93 percent of the West Bank. Calling the offer unacceptable, Abbas' government countered that Palestinians want a geographically continuous state corresponding with the 1967 borders and with Jerusalem as its capital.
Lebanon's Daily Star says parliament has overwhelmingly approved a national unity cabinet.
The Times of India says police have reportedly shot dead at least 13 people in Indian-administered Kashmir. Security forces opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim protesters who had defied a curfew in .
The People’s Daily reports that 24 people have been killed after a bus, carrying students and parents, overturned in the Xinjiang region.
Bild reports that four people have been shot dead at an ice cream parlour in the German town of Rüsselsheim. The police, who have launched a manhunt for the killers, said the victims were three men and a woman
The New York Times says Mark Chapman, who killed John Lennon in 1980, has been denied parole for a fifth time after he was felt to still be a threat to the public.
Sporting News leads with the feat of American swimmer Michael Phelps who has become the most successful Olympian of all time after winning the 10th gold medal of his career in the 200m butterfly final in a world record time at the Beijing games. He is still on target to win an unprecedented eight gold medals in a single Olympics. It was his fourth gold of the current edition, to add to the six golds he scooped in Athens four years ago.