The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times reports that a man has been accused of a woman's murder in Surrey after travelling from Malta and giving himself up to the police in London.
The Malta Independent says the possibile connection between an H1Ni case suffered by a Japanese student in Germany and Malta is very remote . The boy had previously visited Malta.
l-orizzont carries a front and back picture of excavation works in Bahrija in what it says is a scandalous project.
In-Nazzjon leads with new investment in Malta by a pharmaceutical company and new schemes for job creation funded by the EU.
The Press in Britain
The Daily Express says Business Secretary Lord Mandelson let it slip that ditching the pound in favour of the euro remained an "important" objective.
The Daily Telegraph also leads with Lord Mandelson’s claims, reporting that Gordon Brown will face another challenge to his leadership in the autumn.
FT Weekend says sterling has surged to its highest level this year against the world's major currencies, propelled higher by growing investor confidence.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband came close to quitting the Government after his ally James Purnell stood down, reports The Guardian, which has an interview with the minister.
The Independent has a striking picture of Iranian women queuing to vote. In an analysis of the election, the paper remarks that mullahs - not ordinary people - will ultimately get their way.
The Times reports that the editor of Vogue magazine has slammed fashion houses for supplying sample clothes in tiny sizes for photo shoots, pushing ever thinner models into fashion magazines.
The Daily Mirror leads with the news that Madonna has been given the go-ahead to adopt her second child from Malawi, and quotes critics who say the decision was down to the cash the star has given to aid projects.
The Daily Star leads with a picture of a grinning Ronaldo, reportedly showing off text messages from Paris Hilton after the pair partied together in Los Angeles.
According to The Daily Record, 83 other people have been diagnosed with swine flu, in the biggest daily increase so far.
And elsewhere…
Al Jazeera reports from Iran that official results showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took an unbeatable lead in Iran's election, but his challenger alleged irregularities and claimed victory for himself.
The New York Times says the UN Security Council has approved tough new sanctions against North Korea following its recent nuclear test. The resolution imposed new sanctions on the reclusive communist nation's weapons exports and financial dealings and allowed inspections of suspect cargo in ports and on the high seas.
Baltic Times reports that the Latvian government has agreed to slash pensions and state sector salaries in a bid to save the country from bankruptcy. It is seeking to avert the possible devaluation of its struggling currency, and it needs to reduce budget shortfalls in order to qualify for crucial financial aid from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
Corriere della Sera quotes the head of the UN World Food Programme saying high food prices have pushed another 105 million people into hunger in the first half of 2009, raising the total number of hungry people to over 1 billion.
Vancounver Sun reports that the leader of Canada's main opposition party, Michael Ignatieff is set to seek to topple Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority government if Thursday's progress report on the country's stimulus package did not show enough progress in rolling out funds. This could triggering an election.
Berliner Zeitung says German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung announced that NATO would send four AWACS surveillance planes to Afghanistan, along with 100 German military personnel, as part of NATO's air security agreement.
Italy’s state-owned news agency Ansa reports that an Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident. Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner, and her husband managed to pick up a flight from Rio the following day but died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck. The husband was seriously injured.
Times of India says a furious young Indian bride burned her husband to death because he kept saying she was not as beautiful as one of his female friends. The couple had been married only a month when she tied him up and pour paraffin over him. She also claimed he threatened to abond her for not bringing sufficient money as dowry