The following are the top items in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times quotes Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi saying the government and the PN needed to be more sensitive. He was commenting after the results of the local council elections were issued.
The Malta Independent quotes Dr Gonzi as saying he would step down if he was no longer sensitive to the people's messages, although, he said, a government needed to lead in the national interest and not necessarily according to the popular view.
l-orizzont quotes PL leader Joseph Muscat saying the national interest came first. It also says Dr Gonzi is blaming the recession for his government's slump in the elections.
In-Nazzjon says the outcome of the council elections was a vote of confidence for further improvement of local government.
The Press in Britain
The Times says hopes of reform are fading in Iran as protesters are met by the re-elected president's hardliners who are reclaiming control.
The Guardian reports from Teheran as thousands of people take to the streets following the vote.
The Independent leads with a 24-year-old student from Tehran who is devastated by the outcome of the Iranian election.
Metro says male unwillingness to see a doctor is making men 70 per cent more likely to die of cancer than women.
The Daily Express warns new research has found millions of Britons are risking cancer by eating red meat.
The main story in The Daily Telegraph is a condemnation of the school comprehensive system by the man who ran Britain's schools until last year.
The Daily Mirror has an interview with the Nolan sextuplets and claims Katie Price is over her ex-husband.
In the Daily Star, Jordan tells a Bollywood actress she can have former lover Peter Andre but not her children.
And elsewhere...
The Irish Times reports Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin will meet EU ministers in Luxembourg today for talks aimed at paving the way to a second Lisbon Treaty referendum.
The Jerusalem Post quotes Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsing an independent Palestinian state beside Israel for the first time under conditions which the Palestinians quickly rejected. Netanyahu said the Palestinian state would have to be unarmed and recognise Israel as the Jewish state, a condition would effectively amount to Palestinian refugees giving up the goal of returning to Israel. Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said the plan "closed the door" to negotiations.
Abrar reports that as protesters in Teheran continued with their a second day of violence, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed the unrest, the worst for a decade, as "not important" and insisted the results showing his landslide victory on Friday were fair and legitimate. Tens of thousands of Iranians have taken part in a Tehran rally to celebrate his re-election.
Meanwhile, EU Observer says the European Union expressed concern about the alleged irregularities, but said it hoped to resume dialogue with Tehran about its disputed nuclear programme, which Iran insists is only for civilian use. Responses in capitals around the world to the Iranian opposition's claims of vote-rigging were guarded.
Al-Thawra says the Yemeni authorities have arrested the financier of al-Qaeda operations in the country and in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
De Standaard reports that a building has collapsed in the southern Belgian city of Mons during local festivities, leaving people buried in the debris.
Los Angeles Times says hundreds of people have gathered to pay tribute to Kung Fu actor David Carradine at a hillside cemetery. His funeral was attended by family, former co-stars and other Hollywood friends. Carradine, 72, was found hanging in a hotel room in Bangkok on June 4.
According to Panapress, the head of the UN's aid operation in Somalia has launched an inquiry after being shown footage of stacks of bags of maize and wheat and tins of cooking oil bearing the World Food Programme logo widely on sale from 10 warehouses and 15 shops in the Mogadishu.
Citing Russian geologists, the RIA-Novosti news agency has reported that a volcanic eruption on a remote Russian island north of Japan has created a giant ash cloud that threatens passing airplanes.
Shanghai Post says China's first gay pride festival closed in Shanghai after a week marred by authorities' last-minute cancellation of events Homosexuality in China remains largely hidden.
New Straits Times reports that the Malaysian authorities have arrested 17 Iraqis and seven Indonesians after detaining a boat that was trying to smuggle some of them to Australia via Indonesia.
The Beijing Times says a recently-married couple, both aged 27, were killed in a lightning strike while climbing on a rugged section of the Great Wall of China. The force of the lightning strike caused the pair to fall off the wall in Huairou.
Croatia Post says a pair of jeans the size of six tennis courts, stitched together from 8023 unwanted pairs have gone on display in Zagreb. They have a leg length of 45 metres and a total width of 34 metres and were sewn up in a local factory. For each pair of donated jeans, the project paid one euro to a local association providing therapy to disabled people.