The following are the top stories in the local and overseas press.
The closing ceremony of the Olympic Games features on all the newspapers. The Times carries a large picture of the ceremony, which it describes as “spectacular”.
The Malta Independent, below a picture of the Olympic Games “bird nest” says that an EU report shows that control of drugs and alcohol are a priority for youths.
In-Nazzjon says there are disagreements on EU policy within the MLP. It also reports that activity in Grand Harbour is growing.
l-orizzont reports on the new crackdown on littering.
The Press in Britain…
The Daily Telegraph reports on how the Olympic flag has been handed over to London as it prepares for the 2012 Games.
David Beckham is shown on the Daily Mirror's front page as he kicked off the countdown to 2012. The paper also mentions the row over a portrait of Myra Hindley which appeared in a video used to promote London at an Olympic party.
The Sun devotes its whole front page to the closing ceremony of the 39th Olympics and reports that Beckham could coach a British football team to compete in 2012.
The Times warns that Britain could lose some of its top sports coaches to countries who want to restore their national pride in the London Games.
The Daily Mail says the whole of Britain hoped Boris Johnson would not drop the Olympic flag as it was passed to him in Beijing and asks how can the Brits follow “brilliant Beijing”.
The Independent describes the Beijing Games as "the greatest Olympics we have ever seen and perhaps ever will".
The Guardian features a picture of the red bus which was part of London's contribution to the Olympic closing ceremony in Beijing. Its main story, however, says the Government has given the go-ahead for academies to take over struggling primary schools.
According to The Daily Express, doctors are being urged to prescribe a daily dose of aspirin for all healthy men over 48 and women over 57 to help them beat heart disease and strokes.
The Financial Times reports that the US is to put a high-profile nuclear deal with Russia on hold because of the conflict with Georgia.
And elsewhere…
Most of the world media feature on their front page the closing cereomony of the Beijing Olympics. International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge called the games truly exceptional. In an interview with Bild newspaper, Germany's Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that China had opened itself to the world to an extent that was unimaginable 20 years ago. But he also warned that Beijing did not respect many basic freedoms.
Le Monde reports that President Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, has called a special European summit for September 1 to address the crisis in Georgia and review the bloc's relations with Russia.
Meanwhile, Pravda says Russian lawmakers are to meet today to discuss pleas by Georgian separatists for Moscow to recognise their independence.
Georgian Times reports that a train, carrying fuel between Georgia and Azerbaijan, hit a mine and exploded near the stricken Georgian city of Gori.
Krygyz Press reports at least 65 people have been killed in a plane crash in Kyrgyzstan. A Boeing 737 carrying 90 people and bound for the Iranian city of Mashhaden crashed soon after take-off about 30 km from the capital Bishkek.
El Periodico says a Spanair flight from Barcelona to the Canary Island of Lanzarote made an unscheduled landing at Malaga airport because of an unspecified technical problem. Spanair, the airline involved in a crash that killed 154 people last Wednesday, said the stop was not an emergency landing.
According to Al-Mendhar, a suicide bomber has killed at least 25 people and injured dozens in Baghdad's western Abu Ghraib district.
El Pais says a fire at a nuclear power station in north-eastern Spain forced authorities to close down the unit. Spain's nuclear regulator said there was no radioactive leakage at the Vandellos II power plant, built in 1980, as a result of the fire.
Mareeg quotes Islamic militants say they have seized control of Somalia’s third largest city after three days of fighting that left about 70 people dead and saw thousands flee Kismayo.
Vancouver Globe reports that naked cyclists converged on a Vancouver police station to protest at the arrest of a fellow cyclist who took his young son on a nude ride.
Novine says the Serbian village of Banatski Sokolac unveiled what was claimed to be Europe’s first statue of Bob Marley, the late reggae star.
According to al-Watan, a Riyadh court is to hear a divorce plea for a girl of eight, married by her father to a man in his fifties without her knowledge. Her mother filed the case and relatives have urged a human rights group to intervene. A UN report says there are 60 million child brides in the world, aged between eight and 14.