The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press today:
The Times leads with the police clampdown on gambling shops but also gives prominence to the incident which saw a 13- year-old boy getting trapped between a van and the wall and the find of a corpse in a Qawra apartment.
The Independent says that gambling regulations have been approved and dedicates space to Lifecycle saying that the challenge team members have now left for Istanbul. Shirley Micallef, the wife of the late Cliff Micallef, said she was pleased the challenge went ahead as it was what her husband would have wanted.
In-Nazzjon says that investment in financial services has continued and that there has been an increase in jobs in March. It also reports on the clampdown on gambling shops.
l-Orizzont says that the General Workers Union was working hard for the benefit of tourism and continues with its reports on how to win a contract in Delimara.
The Press in Britain…
Four newspapers – The Sun, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Star and the Daily Express – lead with the hunt for an Aussie 'Posh Spice lookalike' linked to the kidnap of Madeleine McCann. Detectives searching for the girl, who vanished from a Portugal tourist resort three years ago, are hunting for an Australian woman who asked a British tourist if he was about to deliver her "new daughter".
The Daily Mail reports on Ronnie Biggs' "great escape" after his release from prison on compassionate grounds was confirmed by Jack Straw.
The Independent says Afghanistan's President Harmid Karzai is in secret talks to hang onto power.
The Guardian announces ministry are studying plans under which all pupils in the UK would be immunised against swine flu.
The Times leads with an announcement from the Bank of England that it would pump another £50bn into the economy to ensure continued recovery.
The recession is the lead in The Daily Telegraph, saying the slump is far from over and the Bank of England would pump an additional £50bn of newly created money into the economy.
According to Metro, a teenager who had sex with an 11-year-old girl escaped a jail sentence after a court was shown photos of the girl posing scantily clad on her Bebo site.
And elsewhere…
Palestinian Post reports that President Mahmoud Abbas has come up with a compromise to end a dispute between his Fatah followers.
Times of India leads with the death sentences imposed on three people, including a married couple, for planting bombs that killed 52 people in the 2003 Mumbai terror attacks
The East African Standard reports that Somalia's Islamist but pro-US President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has shaken hands with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's hand in front of the cameras as she left the podium at a joint news conference at the US embassy in Kenya.
The Washington Times reports the US Senate confirmed the country’s first Hispanic judge, Sonia Sotomayor, to the Supreme Court.
Cumhurriyet leads with the agreement signed between Russia and Turkey to build the South Stream undersea gas pipeline in Turkish waters.
Chugoku Shimbun says the Japanese city of Hiroshima has marked the 64th anniversary of the world's first atomic attack.
China Daily reports that a dog is suspected to be the origin of an outbreak of pneumonic plague in northwest China that has killed three people and left 10,000 under strict quarantine.