The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Sunday Times says no buses have failed the emissions tests since the tests were reintroduced. It also reports that as the elections expenses row rumbles on, MEPs are being criticised by unsuccessful candidates for not making sworn declarations of their expenses.
The Malta Independent on Sunday reports that morning band marches on feast days are to be retained, for now. It also reports that the Cabinet has approved building site regulations to protect third parties and that SmartCity Malta has parted ways with its American architects.
MaltaToday says the Valletta local plan is being rewritten for Renzo Piano.
Il-Mument focuses on the rent reform, saying it is an instrument of social justice. It reports further on a permit issued to Joseph Muscat in 1998 and also says the PL wants to cling on to a public property given to it at Siggiewi.
It-Torca continues its series of articles on the award of the power station extension contract. It also says that millions due in taxes have been forgiven.
Illum highlights the inquiry into the death of a soldier while training at Chadwick Lakes and says everyone is being freed from responsibility before the case is concluded.
KullHadd says Nationalist MP Philip Mifsud would not comment on his involvement in the granting of a development permit in Bahrija when he was a member of the Development Control Board seven years ago.
The Press in Britain...
The Sunday Express tells how a bride who basked under a sunbed walked up the aisle unaware that she had sentenced herself to death. Louise Johnson was struck down by skin cancer on the eve of her 34th birthday.
The Independent on Sunday carries a special report on fertility treatment, telling how thousands of couples may soon be spared intrusive tests.
The Sunday Times says Harriet Harman has demanded that one of Labour's two top posts should always be held by a woman - because she believes men cannot be trusted to run organisations on their own.
The Daily Star Sunday claims glamour model Kate Price is suffering from swine flu.
The Observer reports universities are embroiled in a furious row over dumbing down after a parliamentary inquiry revealed that the number of first-class degrees has almost doubled in a decade.
The Mail on Sunday says an illegal immigrant is on the run after smuggling himself into Britain underneath a coach full of Border Agency officers returning from France.
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Sally Thorneloe has spoken for the first time about the death of her husband Rupert, the highest ranking Army officer killed in action for 30 years.
The Sunday Mirror reports ministers are slammed by MPs for giving British soldiers too many objectives in Afghanistan.
The Sunday Herald quotes scientific surveys showing almost half of the fresh fruit and vegetables sold in the UK is contaminated with toxic pesticides.
And elsewhere...
The head of the health committee of the European Parliament, Jo Leinen, has told Neuen Osnabruecker Zeitung that the number of swine flu infections in the 27-member bloc could jump sharply with up to a million cases expected by autumn.
The new head of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen has told the Danish newspaper Politiken he is ready to open a dialogue with moderate Taliban elements.
Expresso reports Portugal's highest court has maintained a ban on same-sex marriage in the Roman Catholic country
Al Jazeera reports that as Iran began its first trial of more than 100 post-election protesters, a prosecutor pressed the government's claims that the opposition was a tool of foreign enemies. He accused the three biggest opposition parties of receiving money from foreign non-governmental organisations as they plotted to overthrow the government.
Iran's state owned Arabic-language al-Alam TV station has confirmed that three Americans were detained after they crossed the border from northern Iraq. The Kurdish regional government's envoy to Washington said the three were tourists and had mistakenly crossed into Iranian territory on Friday while hiking in a mountainous area near the town of Ahmed Awaa.
New Straits Times reports police in Malaysia broke up the biggest street protest in nearly two years, firing tear gas and chemical-laced water. Thousands of opposition supporters were demanding an end to a law that allows detention without trial.
The Jerusalem Post says Isreali police are hunting a gunman who killed three people and injured 11 others at a youth club for gay teenagers in Tel Aviv when he sprayed the inside with automatic rifle fire.
The New York Times says a homeless man has been accused of creating a bomb scare that interrupted flights at La Guardia Airport for several hours. The airport's central terminal was evacuated for several hours after the man entered the building with a fake bomb in a bag, then acted like he was trying to detonate it.
Toronto Star reports that more than 500 fires are raging out of control in British Columbia, fuelled by dry forests and record-high temperatures.
L'Observateur says the Moroccan government has seized all issues of the country's leading French-language independent weekly because it contained a survey of how people viewed the king.
The Scotsman reports that a former banker, who is unable to quit smoking, is to spend this month on a remote uninhabited Scottish island in a bid to break the habit.