The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press today:

The Sunday Times says turnout for yesterday's European Parliament elections was around 78 percent. It also reports that two corpses from the Air France plane crash have been recovered in the Atlantic.

The Malta Independent on Sunday says turnout yesterday was 78.9 percent.

MaltaToday says exit polls see Simon Busuttil leading from Louis Grech and Joseph Cuschieri.

Il-Mument says the PL defended supporters involved in political violence in Zejtun yesterday.

It-Torca reports growing concerns over illiteracy in Cottonera

KullHadd carries a story on tax evasion running into thousands of euro by garages applying ofr licences for self drive and garage hire cars..

Illum also leads with the exit polls. It also claims three Nationalist MPs voted Labour to vent their frustration.

The Press in Britain

The Sunday Express believes Gordon Brown has just four days to save his Premiership as Labour MPs are set to confront him tomorrow and a no confidence vote will follow on Wednesday.

The Sunday Telegraph reveals details of what it says are the plots in Westminster to remove Mr Brown.

The Mail on Sunday prints emails sent by Lord Mandelson more than a year ago in which he expresses reservations about Mr Brown's ability to lead the country.

According to The Observer, what time the Prime Minister has left in office could depend on the European election results.

The Sunday Mirror offers a thank you to WW11 veterans as they remember comrades killed in the D-Day landings.

The News of the World says that following her split from Peter Andre, Katie Price is on the verge of a breakdown.

And elsewhere...

Radio Netherlands reported that fringe groups, including Geert Wilders' right-wing anti-immigrant Dutch Freedom Party, have taken a large percentage of the European Parliament vote. With 92.1 percent of the Dutch vote counted, the party won 16.9 percent of the vote and would receive four seats in the European Parliament, becoming the second-strongest Dutch faction after the Christian Democrats.

EU Observer predicts that turnout throughout the EU was expected to be mixed from a low of 14 percent in Latvia. Polls in Slovakia also predicted a low voter turnout of around 14 percent while in neighboring Czech Republic, polls were showing an anticipated turnout of about 20 percent.

In Germany, where voters go to the polls on Sunday, Rhein-Nekar Zeitung reports that Chancellor Angela Merkel urged voters to go to the polls, noting that there was little interest in the European Parliament elections as many Germans felt alienated from the European Union.

In Italy, Corriere della Sera says voters went to polls with the scandal concerning nude photos taken at Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's villa fresh in their minds. Berlusconi claimed the timing of the photographs was a smear campaign on the part of the left.

O Globo reports that after a massive round-the-clock air and sea rescue effort, Brazilian military authorities have confirmed the recovery of two bodies and a bag with a ticket from the ill-fated flight.

El Universal announces that the death toll from a fire which swept through a children's day care centre in Mexico has risen to 35 after a number of youngsters died overnight.

Le Monde leads with the commemoration by the leaders of Canada, France, the United Kingdom and the US of the sacrifices that World War II heroes made on the beaches of Normandy 65 years ago. The D-Day invasion that cemented the trans-Atlantic alliance.

Le Figaro says the global recession, Afghanistan, Iran and Middle East peace topped the agenda of talks between President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy before the D-Day ceremony.

Gazeta Polska reports that Poland has marked the 30th anniversary of Pope John Paul II's first pilgrimage to his homeland by unveiling a giant cross monument in central Warsaw in honour of the late pontiff.

Maine Times reports that a man was charged with drunk-driving after he and a friend went out on a lawnmower to buy some beer. Police said 51-year-old Danforth Ross driver's licence had been revoked, so the pair opted for the lawnmower.

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