The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times leads with an Interview with architect Renzo Piano on his plans for the entrance to Valletta.
The Malta Independent says the government owes 116.5 million for land expropriation. It also reports Gonzi, Muscat comments on Tuesday's blackout.
In-Nazzjon says the Renzo Piano project for City Gate will be taken in hand early next year for completion in this legislature.
l-orizzont says it will continue to investigate the case of Yves de Barro, who is alleged to have given sensitive information about Malta to the British while posed in Tripoli as a diplomat in 1971.
The Press in Britain
The Sun leads on how two British dads held hostage in Iraq were identified as murder victims - on Father's Day.
The Daily Mirror says the bodies of Jason Creswell and Jason Swindlehurst were handed over to British Embassy officials in Baghdad late on Friday.
The Independent continues the identifications come amid questions and recriminations about the way the issue of the kidnappings has been handled by the British Government.
Metro adds he fate of three other Britons remains unknown,.
The Daily Mail says the number of British passports given to migrants is set to hit a record 220,000 this year.
The Daily Express reports experts warn that energy bills will go up to £5,000 a year and strike a blow to millions of struggling families,.
The Times claims the race to become the most powerful Commons Speaker in modern history is being undermined by party whips who are trying to install Margaret Beckett as their anti-reform candidate.
The Daily Telegraph continues that senior Labour MPs said they were being put under pressure to endorse the former foreign secretary in today's secret ballot to choose a successor to Michael Martin.
The Guardian quotes the first detailed analysis of how the global recession is hitting developing nations which shows the world's poorest countries will see £600bn drain from their economies this year.
And elsewhere...
European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet has told France's Europe-1 radio that governments that have borrowed heavily to fight the economic crisis should not accumulate any more debt as existing stimulus packages were "sufficient".
The International Herald Tribune reports that the streets of Tehran were relatively quiet as state media reported a new spate of deaths and the government arrested the daughter and four other relatives of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Family members said later all had been released.
Manwhile, Iran's state television reported that 10 "rioters" were killed and 100 injured in clashes with police during protests on Saturday.
Al Ahram quotes Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak saying Arabs must recognise his country as a Jewish state before an independent Palestinian state can be created. After meeting President Mubarak in Cairo, Barak said that there would be "intense efforts" in the coming weeks to set out the way forward in peace talks, but more needed to be done before a two-state solution became a reality.
Corriere della Sera reports that Pope Benedict has urged countries to continue receiving refugees despite the difficulties they create while. In his comments marking the UN World Refugee Day, the Pope said many people seek refuge in countries fleeing situations of war, persecution and calamity. He was speaking during a pilgrimage on Sunday to San Giovanni Rotondo in southern Italy to pray before the remains of St Pio of Petrelcina.
A businessman who recruited young women to attend parties at Premier Silvio Berlusconi's homes has apologised to the premier for having contributed to a new scandal. Giampaolo Tarantini also said in a statement to Italian new agency Ansa that he only reimbursed the women for their travel and expenses, refuting suggestions that he paid the women, reportedly including a high-end prostitute, to attend.
Canberra Post predicts there will be a showdown in Australian Federal Parliament today about who should quit over the OzCar affair. At issue is an alleged email from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's economics adviser, Dr Andrew Charlton, to Godwin Grech, the Treasury official overseeing the Government's $2 billion OzCar scheme, to assist a Queensland dealership, John Grant.
The South Korean news network YTN says a US Navy destroyer is tailing a North Korean ship suspected of carrying illicit missiles and related parts towards Burma. It said the US is using satellites to track the ship, which was expected to travel to Burma via Singapore.
Asia Times says meteorologists in Japan are puzzled by a recent series of downpours of fish and tadpoles falling from the sky. It all started in Ishikawa prefecture on the country's west coast when residents began to notice strange creatures lying dead in their gardens, on roads and in car parks. Japan is in the middle of its annual rainy season, but this mystery of the fish and frogs falling from the sky is a long way from being solved.