The following are the top stores in the Maltese and overseas press today:
The Times said Malta and Libya have agreed to coordinate search and rescue operations in the waters that separate them. It also reports that Stephania Carabott, one of the widows of the Simshar tragedy, is to keep her residence. The newspaper carries a picture of President Obama who early yesterday made a video message to the Iranian people
The Malta Independent leads with the EU Spring summit, which raised the allocation of funds for energy projects by Malta to €25m. It also highlights the Libya-Malta search and rescue agreement.
The two stories also feature on the front page of In-Nazzjon.
l-orizzont says head teachers are being burdened with administrative work related to Parliament. It also reports that a 16-year-old Russian girl fell three storeys and was seriously injured yesterday.
The Press in Britain
The Times focuses on President Obama's appeal to the Iranian people to end decades of hostility.
The Independent claims Britain wants an open detention centre in France so asylum seekers can be deported more easily.
The Daily Express says there is widespread anger that an exiled Islamic preacher was able to address followers in Britain.
The Guardian says police officers who assaulted a terror suspect have been accused in 60 other cases.
According to the Daily Mail, couples having IVF treatment will be warned that their children have a higher risk of genetic flaws and health problems.
The Daily Mirror leads with a frank admission by TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson that she was to blame for a situation which led to her being raped.
The Daily Star leads with dying Jade Goody's battle to stay alive long enough to hug her boys on Mother's Day.
The Sun says it would have cost Natasha Richardson just £6 to hire a ski helmet that could have saved her life.
Metro says former England footballer Robbie Fowler has lost 12 points on his licence, been banned from driving for six months and ordered to pay £265 in fines and costs after using his mobile phone while driving.
And elsewhere…
EU Observer says European Union leaders have agreed to double a crisis fund to prop up struggling eastern European nations outside the eurozone to €50 billion.
Meanwhile, Le Monde reports that the EU has criticised French carmaker Renault for moving jobs out of Slovenia and into France. Renault denied the move was linked to a pledge to keep jobs in France in exchange for state aid.
Jornal de Angola says that the Pope, in Luanda on the second stage of his African pilgrimage, has condemned sexual violence against women in Africa and chided those countries on the continent that have approved abortion.
Gulf News says that two US Navy vessels — a nuclear-powered submarine and an amphibious ship — have collided in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil passes. Although no damage and no disruption to shipping was reported, the unusual collision sparked a sudden rise in oil prices.
Al-Quds al-Arabi reports that Tehran has cautiously welcomed a video olive-branch from US President Barack Obama, in which he offered renewed ties with the Islamic Republic. A statement from Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomed the fresh approach, but urged the US to take concrete steps to repair past mistakes.
The Australian says that a judge was jailed for at least two years for lying to police that someone else was driving his car when it was clocked speeding. Marcus Einfeld (aged 70) pleaded guilty to perjury and making a false statement with intent to pervert the course of justice to avoid a €38 traffic fine.
Newsday says Michelle Obama and 26 local elementary school children-helpers broke ground on Friday on the first White House kitchen garden since the Roosevelt era. The garden, part of the First Lady's promotion of healthy food for America, will include 55 kinds of vegetables. Some of the produce will be given to a soup kitchen where Obama recently helped serve lunch.
Il Mattino reports that a neurosurgeon continued performing a brain cancer operation despite suffering a heart attack during the procedure. Dr Claudio Vitale, 59, of Naples, said he suffered an angina spasm about halfway through the procedure but he insisted on continuing to remove the brain tumour of his patient. Vitale underwent his own operation to clear an artery after he was finished with the surgery.
Dominion Post says that a Samoan woman gave birth in a toilet on an airplane – and then left the child behind in the rubbish bin when she disembarked. The infant was found by an airline worker in the toilet rubbish bin more than an hour after the plane landed in Auckland. Both mother and child are now recovering in hospital in New Zealand.
The Lancet publishes the results of a study by a team of British scientists which confirms that, left to graze on the skin, maggots can clean wounds that fail to heal five times faster than conventional treatments.