The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times leads with the ‘miraculous’ survival of four Maltese oil workers when a helicopter crash landed in the North Sea. It also reports the violent protest by Tunisian migrants demanding immediate repatriation.
The Malta Independent also reports the protest. In other stories, it reports that Malta tops an EU scoreboard on the transposition of EU Internal Market directives. It also features a report which insists that standards on the biodegradability of plastic bags exist.
In-Nazzjon also leads with the helicopter crash in the North Sea. It also reports the setting up of a road works quality assurance unit by the Roads Ministry.
l-orizzont’s focus is on a decrease in business confidence reported in the Central Bank's Quarterly Review.
The Press in Britain
The Daily Mail dedicates its entire front page to the 'staggering' level of British debt – £2 trillion.
The Scotsman says Britain's national debt will rise by at least another trillion to levels last seen after the Second World War.
The Sun says every every man, woman and child in Britain will have to pay £33,000 in Gordon Brown's debt crisis.
The Financial Times leads with a UN report's revelation that Iran has built up enough uranium to build a nuclear bomb.
The Daily Express says a think tank has accused a number of Muslim schools of promoting Islamic extremism.
The Daily Telegraph says children are being encouraged to imagine they are bombers plotting the July 7 attacks as part of the strategy to combat violent extremism.
The Guardian reports that a landmark study of primary schools calls for teachers to be freed of pre-determined targets.
The Daily Record reports that the survivors of the miracle North Sea helicopter rescue didn't know they had ditched in the sea.
The Herald says some of the biggest names in the Scottish leisure industry have made unified allegations of police threats and harassment.
And elsewhere…
The Jerusalem Post reports that the leader of Israel's right-wing Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu has won the backing of a leading far-right party, strengthening his bid to become the country's prime minister. Avigdor Lieberman told President Shimon Peres he would recommend Netanyahu to form a government if he pursued a broad coalition.
Globe and Mail says that winding up his first foreign trip since taking office, President Obama has welcomed efforts by Canada to strengthen its economy and said that a “buy American” clause in the new US economic stimulus law will not damage trade between the two allies.
Pravda reports that a Moscow jury has acquitted three men charged in connection with the killing of investigative journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya.
El Cronista says the Argentine government has given British Holocaust-denying bishop Richard Williamson 10 days to leave the country because his comments "profoundly insult Argentine society and humanity".
Kathemerini reports Greek police have fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing youths during a protest in central Athens linked to an acid attack on a woman in the city.
Environmental Reporter announces energy giant BP has agreed to pay almost £125m to settle a pollution case with the US government. BP Products North America agreed to spend £112m on pollution controls, pay £8.4m in penalties and spend £4.2m on cutting pollution at its Texas plant. The settlement follows a deadly explosion and fire at the refinery in March 2005 that killed 15 people and injured more than 170 others.
USA Today says tobacco giant Philip Morris was ordered by a Florida jury to pay US$8m (€6.3m) in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could set a precedent for around 8,000 other state lawsuits. The six jurors deliberated over two days before returning the award for Elaine Hess (aged 63), whose chain-smoking husband Stuart (aged 55) died in 1997. Mrs Hess's lawyers had sought up to $130m (€102.8m).
Shimbun reports doctors at a Japan hospital have admitted that an IVF patient was implanted with someone else’s embryo after a mix-up. She is now suing the local government for ¥200,000 (€170,000). Hospital officials have apologised for the mistake.
California Globe announces that cycling legend Lance Armstrong will be reunited with his stolen bike thanks to online appeals on Facebook and Twitter. The time-trial bike was one of several that went missing on Saturday as Armstrong's team was competing in the Tour of California. It was handed to police four days later to the delight of the seven-time Tour de France winner. About 900 people had pledged via the net to find the bike.