The following are the top items in the Maltese and overseas press:

The Times says that 306,549 voters are eligible to vote in today's European Parliament elections. It also reports the Cabinet reshuffle in the UK as Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown tries to hold on to his office.

The Malta Independent features the crisis hitting Gordon Brown, as well as Silvio Berlusconi in Italy. It carries a story on yesterday's Sette Giugnio commemoration.

In-Nazzjon says the highest number of uncollected votes for today's election was in the 10th and 12th districts. It reports a denial that a yacht marina will be set up at Exiles beach, Sliema.

l-orizzont also leads with a curtain-raiser on today's elections.

The Press in Britain

The Times reports on Prime Minister Gordon Brown's determination to fight on despite a mutiny by ministers and local elections which saw the party lose all four county councils.

The Daily Express accuses Gordon Brown of 'losing the plot' in a day which saw more ministers resign and dreadful results for Labour in the local elections.

A picture-led front page on The Independent, with an image of Mr Brown next to a brilliantly ambiguous headline: 'I'm Going Nowhere'.

The Prime Minister's attempts to bounce back from the brink are exploited by headline writers at the Daily Mirror which also focuses on the ongoing turmoil in the Labour Party.

The Daily Star manages to combine its enthusiasm for TV's Big Brother programme with the woes of the Prime Minister using the headline Brown In Big Bother.

Caroline Flint's scathing resignation letter as Europe Minister to Mr Brown is the focus of The Sun's front page, which describes the resigning minister as a 'stiletto-wielding assassin'.

A glamorous picture of Ms Flint in a pink dress features on the front of The Daily Telegraph, which also picks up on the stiletto theme.

The Daily Mail also uses a sultry shot of Ms Flint, telling its readers she 'spat venom' as she departed for the back benches.

Not to be outdone, The Guardian features a similar shot as it presents its own interpretation of the turmoil at Downing Street.

And elsewhere...

The International Herald Tribune leads with President Barack Obama's visit to the Nazi ovens of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, where he declared world leaders must not rest against the spread of evil. He bluntly challenged Holocaust deniers and skeptics, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, to visit Buchenwald, where an estimated 56,000 people died.

Corriere della Sera quotes Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi reiterating he would resign immediately if he were shown to have lied about his relationship with 18-year-old Naples model Noemi Letizia.

Le Parisien reports that the first electronic clues as to what caused an Airbus A330 jet to disappear over the Atlantic emerged yesterday, though it was still unknown where and why the plane went down.

According to The People's Daily, 59 people, including 50 miners, have been buried by a landslide in the south-western Chinese iron mining region of Chongqing. The landslide did not appear to be related to mining activities.

Pakistan Times reports a suicide bomber has killed some 30 people and wounded 40 attending prayers at a mosque in Pakistan's northwest.

The Irish Times says union leaders fear a generation could be lost to unemployment as numbers claiming state benefit today soared to more than 400,000 for the first time on record.

Asia Observer reports that mystery remains over the death of American actor David Carradine whose naked body was found in a hotel room in the Thai capital. Police initially suspected suicide but now believe he may have died from accidental suffocation after finding a rope tied to his neck, wrist and groin area.

La Republica quotes a forensic expert telling an Italian court that British student Meredith Kercher died from suffocation caused by her murderers. American student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito deny charges of murder and sexual violence but Gianaristide Norelli said the suffocation and stab wounds inflicted to her neck showed a clear intent to kill.

The official Chinese Xinhua news agency says the police have rescued 33 children and 25 women who were kidnapped in southern China by a trafficking ring.

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