The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times leads with a report by the Today Policy Institute on the sustainability of the social security system.
The Malta Independent says MIA has revised its passenger movement projections downwards but says the worst may be over. It also reports the death of Dennis Vella, Curator of the Museum of Fine Arts.
In-Nazzjon focuses on a permit granted to Joseph Muscat in 1998. It also reports Parliamentary Secretary Chris Said saying a report on the work of the local law enforcement system has been completed..
l-orizzont says the GWU's top officials will not be contested in forthcoming elections.
The press in Britain
The Daily Telegraph says that more than 75 families in Corby could be affected by what it describes as 'the biggest child poisoning case since thalidomide' after it was discovered the steel works was dismantled negligently.
The Independent reports asylum seekers will be hit by a cut or freeze in government payments in autumn as the squeeze on public spending begins.
According to the Daily Mail, the Met Office's prediction of a sizzling summer was 'hopelessly wrong' after a wet July and the prospect of more of the same for August.
The Sun leads with a mother who is pregnant with her 14th child, despite having all of her previous 13 taken into care.
The Daily Express leads on new research which claims to show that eating organic food in order to improve your health is a waste of money.
Metro leads on the same story, saying that the Food Standards Authority compared research dating back over 50 years.
The Times says the largest ever review into the science behind organic food found that it contains no more nutritional value than factory-farmed meat or fruit and vegetables grown with chemical fertilisers.
According to the Daily Mirror, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has been forced to cut short his holiday and bring forward a review into the MoD's compensation scheme for injured soldiers.
The Guardian reports that a change in the law on assisted suicide could be inevitable if law lords agree with multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy at the high court.
The Daily Star claims that Jordan's latest lover was held by police over a drugs bust worth over £2 million.
And elsewhere...
Like most of the Spanish national press, El Mundo leads with the massive bomb attack by Basque separatists ETA which destroyed a police barracks in Burgos. There were no deaths and 38 people were treated in hospital for injuries, most caused by flying glass. No warning was given in time to evacuate the 14-storey family building where around 120 people were sleeping, 40 of them children.
The Irish Independent says Ireland will accept two detainees from Guantanamo Bay, the latest European country to help US President Barack Obama fulfil his pledge to close the controversial camp. Italy, Portugal, Hungary, and Bermuda have already pledged their acceptance of some 11 prisoners while other countries which have said they may be willing to accept former detainees include Belgium, Britain, France and Spain.
Al Jazeera reports that Iran plans to try 20 people accused of rioting in the aftermath of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election. The president was again under fire from his own hardline supporters who warned him to obey supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or face the consequences.
The International Herald Tribune quotes US Defence Secretary Robert Gates saying the US may speed up the withdrawl of US troops from Iraq. In a surprise visit to the war-scarred country, Gates said security conditions in Iraq were improving.
USA Today reports that an expectant mother has been found dead in her apartment in the United States with her foetus cut from her womb. Police are trying to find the missing baby, which they said may have survived. Darlene Haynes, 23, was about 8 months pregnant when last seen alive a week ago in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her body was found on Monday after her landlord went to investigate reports of a strong odour coming from her apartment.
Bild newspaper says a German treasure-hunter has netted around €7 million in booty from a pirate ship sunk off the coast of Borneo in 1806. Martin Wenzels, 42, is a property developer by day but moonlights as a part-time treasure-seeker and found 1.5 tonnes of silver coins, gold jewellery, cannons, crystal and porcelain in the wreck of the pirate vessel Forbes. The coins alone are worth up to $10 million.
Expresso reports that an escaped prisoner who hid out in caves and lived mainly on fruit has been recaptured in northern Portugal after 16 years on the run. The 54-year-old man had been serving a 10-year sentence for murder when he escaped in 1993 and disappeared into his native region of Vieira do Minho.
La Gazetta dello Sport announces that seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher is making a sensational return to Formula One to replace the badly-injured Felipe Massa. The German racing legend, who retired in 2006, is to undergo a rigorous training programme to make a comeback in the European Grand Prix in Valencia on August 23. Meanwhile France 24 reports that BMW are set to quit F1 t the end of the season.