The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press. All newspapers follow-up the death of an AFM soldier following a training exercise last Friday.
In other stories, The Times announces a moratorium agreed with the banks on capital repayments for loans taken out by hoteliers. It also reports that no one was injured when a crane overturned in Safi yesterday.
In-Nazzjon says multinational Philips has made Mater Dei Hospital a point of reference for the central Mediterranean region. The newspaper says Gnr Matthew Psaila's death has had a profound impact on the AFM.
The Malta Independent says house price growth dipped last year.
l-orizzont dedicates all of its front page to the death of Gnr Matthew Psaila.
The Press in Britain
The Independent says the British and French submarines involved in the underwater collision in the Atlantic earlier this month had enough radioactive weapons to carry out 1,248 Hiroshima bombings.
According to The Scotsman, MPs have demanded an inquiry into the 'hushed-up' nuclear subs crash. Damage to French Le Triomphant suggested that the Navy's HMS Vanguard had passed over the top of her.
The Guardian claims Whitehall devised the interrogation policy for detainees in Pakistan that led to them being tortured.
The Telegraph leads on a warning from the former MI5 head Dame Stella Rimington that the government has exploited people's fear of terrorism to restrict civil liberties and risked handing a victory to terrorists by making people "live in fear and in a police state".
The Bank of England's Deputy Governor has issued a fresh warning in The Times over Britain's recession, saying it could be even worse than suggested last week by his boss.
The Daily Mirror says the lorry driver will serve two months for each life taken by the crash.
The Daily Star has new photos of Jade Goody, the Big Brother star, who has terminal cancer, in a "fantasy" wedding to fiancé Jack Tweed.
The Sun also features a picture of Jade, as she accepted fiancé Jack proposal.
And elsewhere…
Haaretz reports that Israel has taken control of a large area of land in the occupied West Bank to expand construction of Jewish settlements by another 2,500 homes. Both the US and Palestine authorities have renewed calls for a halt to settlement construction in the West Bank, which is currently home to 300,000 Jews.
El Pais says at least 21 migrants drowned when their boat capsized near the Spain's Canary Islands. Most of the victims were minors. Authorities later intercepted another boat containing 65 African migrants off the coast of Lanzarote.
Tokyo Shimbun quotes US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Japan on her first overseas visit as the top US diplomat, saying America's ties with the region were "indispensable" to addressing global challenges.
Berliner Zeitung says Germany is planning to send 600 additional soldiers to Afghanistan to help safeguard presidential elections in August.
Cambodia Daily reports that the long-awaited UN-backed trial of a former Khmer Rouge leader has opened at a Phnom Penh court, 30 years after the murderous regime fell.
Berliner Morgenpost says German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has announced plans for a special law to improve the data protection of employees. Calls for stricter data protection of employees have increased after companies, such as Deutsche Bahn and Deutsche Telekom, admitted to secretly spying on workers to uncover suspected cases of corruption.
Expressen says four men behind the popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay went on trial in Stockholm accused of helping millions of users worldwide break copyright law.
Japan Times quotes Japan’s finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa insisting he had overdosed on cold medicine and was not drunk at a press conference following the G-7 finance ministers meeting in Rome.
New Strait Times reports authorities in Malaysia have arrested 26 unmarried Muslim couples in hotel rooms during Operation Valentine, aimed at curbing illegal premarital sex. The couples, most under 30 years old, face a maximum fine of 1,000 ringgit (€216) and up to six months in prison. Sharia laws make it illegal for unmarried Muslims to meet behind closed doors.