The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times says there is a concern on the status of Valletta as a world heritage site owing to development in and around it.
The Malta Independent carries a picture of yesterday's traffic accident which caused a huge traffic jam on the Regional Road. It also features a judicial protest by gaming arcades and the warning given to a dog breeder found to be keeping 44 dogs on the roof and in the garage of a Birkirkara residence.
In-Nazzjon says the Labour media was deceptive in the way it edited an interview with Parliamentary Secretary Jason Azzopardi. It also reports that the authorities last year issued 8,000 charges against people found not wearing a seatbelt, and 4,000 against people using their mobile phone while driving.
l-orizzont gives prominence to a letter to the Prime Minister sent by the Pensioners' Alliance, complaining over the gas price increase. It also reports that an inquiry is still pending on whether a former diplomat, Ives Debarro, passed information to the British authorities in the early 1970s.
The Press in Britain...
The Independent tells "the untold story" as the torturers of Baby P are named by a High Court decision, more than two years since his death.
According to The Guardian, a High Court judge said naming Baby Peter's mother, Tracey Connolly, was a necessary move to maintain public confidence in the judicial system.
The Daily Mail says Tracey is a sex-obsessed slob who viciously attacked two of her other children, and boyfriend Steven Barker raped a two-year-old girl.
Metro claims baby Peter Connolly's violent male carers attacked their own grandmother, were sadistic to animals and obsessed with Nazism.
The Daily Telegraph says Baby P's killers will be given new identities at taxpayers' expense and lifetime protection from threat of exposure after being named publicly.
The Sun publishes a sepia-tone photo of Baby Peter with his mother and says lodger Jason Owen is the dominating elder brother of her killer boyfriend, Steven Barker.
The Daily Express focuses on "the evil mother of poor Baby P" but its lead story reveals that councils are planning a stealth tax to fill a £4 billion black hole caused by dwindling income during the recession.
Under mugshots of Baby Peter's convicted carers, The Times reveals supermarket two-for-one deals may disappear to reduce the nation's food waste mountain.
The Daily Star says Jordan, aka Katie Price, intends to get over her split from singer Peter Andre by having a baby with her cage-fighter lover.
And elsewhere...
Asia Observer says that five Asian nations - India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh - are on tsunami watch after two strong earthquakes hit the region. A 6.6 earthquake shook Tokyo and its surrounding areas and a massive magnitude 7.7 quake struck in the Indian Ocean.
Meanwhile, China Post reports that some 400 people are unaccounted for in Taiwan after a mudslide spawned by typhoon Morakot struck their isolated mountain village.
General-Anzeiger says delegations from 192 countries are meeting in Bonn to continue negotiations towards a global climate deal, which is to be finalised at a UN meeting in Copenhagen in December. Environmentalists warn that previous climate commitments are way off the mark.
Corriere della Sera announces that Somali pirates have freed the crew of an Italian ship that had been held hostage since April in the Gulf of Aden. The crew consisted of 10 Italians, five Romanians and one Croatian.
Irrawady says that a court in Burma is today expected to give its verdict on opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. stands accused of breaking the terms of her house arrest by allowing US national John William Yettaw to swim to her home-cum-prison on May 3, where he stayed until May 5.(She was convicted and jailed this morning)
Az-Zaman reports that more than 50 people have been killed and more than 200 injured when four bombs exploded in Iraq. Both blasts in Baghdad and Mosul targeted primarily Shiites in a new wave of sectarian violence.
Handelsblatt reports that the first of four alleged Islamist militants confessed his role in planning terror attacks in Germany. Suspected ring leader Fritz Gelowicz told the court in Dusseldorf that in 2006he had taken part in a terrorist training camp in Pakistan, where a plot was hatched to attack American targets, particularly military personnel, in Germany.
Diario quotes President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela telling his military to be prepared for a possible confrontation with Colombia, warning that Bogota's plans to increase the US military presence at its bases posed a threat to Venezuela.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the publication of the result of Michael Jackson's post-mortem examination is to be delayed. The Coroner's Office said it had completed its post-mortem examination of Jackson's body and related toxicology tests but police have asked the office not to release any findings while their investigation is going on.
Meanwhile, Variety reports that Sony would release on October 30 a film about Michael Jackson, This Is It. It is drawn from hours of rehearsal and behind-the-scenes footage. Central to the movie will be footage taken as the King of Pop prepared for his sell-out London comeback tour taken just days before he died.
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) publishes a study by Oxford University researchers suggesting that children should not be given Tamiflu to combat swine flu. They warn that the anti-viral drug can cause vomiting in some children, which can lead to dehydration and the need for hospital treatment.
Environmental Daily says one of the most spectacular meteor showers reaches its peak tonight and excited astronomers are planning to host the first images of the meteors - expected to occur up to 80 times an hour - on the Twitter site. The Perseid meteor shower has been occurring since late last month, but is expected to be most spectacular tonight and tomorrow.
Illinois Globe says an "over-exaggerated" yawn has landed a man in jail after a judge in the US sentenced him to six months in prison for criminal contempt. Clifton Williams was watching his cousin plead guilty to drug charges at Will County Courthouse in Illinois when he let out the noise while stretching in the public gallery. Judge Daniel Rozak had to stop proceedings for the loud sound to subside.