The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times leads with the bombing in Iraq yesterday which cost over 100 lives. It also reports calls for a buffer zone to protect people watching ground fireworks.
The Malta Independent says schools are expected to open normally despite H1N1. It also reports that school uniform prices and fees have continued to rise.
In-Nazzjon says the trial of former Chief Justice Noel Arrigo on alleged bribery may be held in November before a judge, rather than a jury. It also reports that three local councils have received assistance for studies on sustainability.
l-orizzont says the GWU has remembered the tenth anniversary of protests in Marsa when a number of the union's officials were arrested after a protest at the airport. It also continues its series on the power station extension, saying efforts are in train to hide what took place.
The press in Britain
The Scotsman says Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill will today announce whether Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, terminally ill with prostrate cancer, will return to Libya.
The Times claims Al Megrahi will fly back to Libya on Colonel Gadaffi's private jet if he is released.
The Herald says al Megrahi is being released in a secret deal to ensure his return home is not 'triumphant'.
The Financial Times says a shake-up has been ordered at the Ministry of Defence after auditors were unable to find £7 billion of equipment.
The Daily Express says MPs are still out of touch with voters who are angry over their huge expense claims, as Tory MP Sir Patrick Cormack calls for ministers' salaries to be doubled.
The Daily Mail says the Conservatives intend to increase taxes on alcohol in a bid to curb binge-drinking.
As A-level results are due to be published, The Guardian estimates 50,000 students will miss out on university places.
The Independent also looks at exam results, saying there is expected to be a rise in the number of A grades achieved.
The Sun claims Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray will be charged with the singer's manslaughter in the next few days.
And elsewhere...
Az-Zaman reports more than 100 people have been killed and over 500 wounded after a spate of bombs ripped through Baghdad. It was the single worst day of carnage in more than 18 months in the Iraqi capital. The European Union led the chorus of nations condemning the latest wave of violence.
Afghan Daily claims the country's elections have descended into chaos before voting has even begun as final preparations were disrupted by gunfire and explosions.
Asia Times says North Korea's leader has sent condolences to South Korea following the death of former President Kim Dae-jung.
According to Jakarta Post, a truck packed with more than 60 Indonesian plantation workers and their families has overturned, killing at least 25 and injuring dozens. Three children were among the dead.
O Globo reports two British law graduates arrested in Brazil on suspicion of fraudulently claiming they were robbed of belongings worth £1,000, have been sentenced to community service. They had admitted charges at a court hearing in Rio de Janeiro earlier this week.
Der Kurier says a 71-year-old German pensioner who went on a shooting rampage that left four people dead and one injured did so in order to teach people "not to mess" with him or his family. The dead included two lawyers and a surveyor who had gone to discuss the sale of a house in the town of Schwalmtal as part of a divorce settlement between the gunman's daughter and her ex-husband.
New Straits Times reports that a 32-year-old model, sentenced to six lashes of the cane for drinking beer, will become the first Malaysian woman to suffer the punishment under Islamic law. An Islamic court has ordered she be beaten with a rattan cane after she was caught in a raid on a hotel night club in eastern Pahang state last year.
La Stampa says the anti-immigration mayor of the northern Piedmont town of Varallo Sesia has barred Muslim women from wearing the controversial body-concealing swimsuit known as a "burqini". Women wearing the garment made up of a veil, a tunic and loose leggings face a fine of €500.
In an interview with the Italian celebrity weekly Chi, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has again denied having had "relations" with under-age girls as his estranged wife charged in April. He also insisted that the soirees he hosts at his lavish homes are elegant, serious affairs, rejecting accounts of frivolous gatherings dominated by showgirls.
The Daily Telegraph reports from Gafsa that a Tunisian teacher who claimed she was about to give birth to 12 babies has been exposed as a fraud.
Blick says the Swiss government has approved shifting its borders up to 150 yards into Italian territory because of melting glaciers in the high Alps. The changes were made after it was found the watershed that determined the border in 1942 had moved because of melting glaciers and snow fields. The change has already been approved by Rome.