The following are the top stories in the Maltese press:
The Times reports that an Italian firm has been fined €620,000 by the government for the nine-month delay in completion of the rebuilding of Manwel Dimech bridge.
The Malta Independent says Malta Enterprise is helping businesses by providing energy consumption advisory services. It also quotes Infrastructure Minister Austin Gatt insisting that the tender chosen for the power station extension was by far the cheapest.
In-Nazzjon leads with comments by the Prime Minister yesterday over the way how the EU has helped in job creation in Gozo. It also reports how the PN yesterday published on its website the full recording of a meeting addressed by PN candidate Alex Perici Calascione.
l-orizzont leads with a large picture of glass dumped at Wied Fulija, quoting PL leader Joseph Muscat saying it was shameful that all glass collected in Malta was being dumped there.
The Press in Britain
Three more MPs, including including a Tory whip and a former Labour Minister, are the latest to come under scrutiny by The Daily Telegraph for their questionable claims in the wake of the expenses scandal.
According to The Guardian, there is still pressure on the Gordon Brown and David Cameron to act against individual MPs found to have abused expenses.
The Independent leads on a claim by Muslim community workers that MI5 tried to blackmail them into becoming informants.
The Times claims thousands of Pakistanis from Taliban and al Qaeda heartlands have used a loophole in Britain's immigration system to get into the UK.
The Daily Mail focuses on the revelation that BNP leader Nick Griffin may be one of the Queen's guests at this year's Garden Party.
The Sun says Michael Jackson is set to have surgery on his skin cancer - hours after postponing this first four gigs in Britain.
And elsewhere...
La Tribune de Genève reveals swine flu cases worldwide have reached 10,243 with 80 deaths, mostly in Mexico. The 413 newly confirmed cases come mostly from the United States and Japan.
The Irish Times quotes a long-awaited report confirming allegations that Catholic nuns and priests abused thousands of children assigned to their care in special schools, reformatories and orphanages from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Corriere della Sera says that the European Union has earmarked 500 million in aid to the quake-stricken Italian city of L'Aquila. The decision comes as the region prepared to host the G8 summit.
Le Parisien says the European Space Agency has presented five men and a woman to begin training as new astronauts for missions to the International Space Station and beyond. The successful candidates are two Italians, a Briton, a Dane, a Frenchman and a German.
The International Herald Tribune reports that Iran has test-fired a missile capable of striking Israel, US Middle East bases and Europe. The US responded by saying Iran must choose between destabilising the Middle East or accepting the dialogue offered by President Barack Obama.
The Washington Times says the US Senate has overwhelmingly voted by 90 votes in favour to six against so reject President Barack Obama's plans to close down Guantanamo Bay. It blocked the transfer of inmates to the US and denied the administration the money it needs to shut the controversial detention camp.
The Jakarta Post reports an Indonesian military plane carrying troops and their families has crashed into a row of houses and burst into flames, killing at least 98 people. Several witnesses described seeing the 30-year-old aircraft's right wing fall off while it was still in the air.
Irrawady says Burma's military regime opened pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's trial to the press and allowed diplomats to meet her. The Nobel Peace laureate is accused of violating the terms of her house arrest, offence punishable by up to five years' imprisonment.
According to Lanka Chronicle, international aid groups are pushing for access to Sri Lanka's former battlefield to check on the fate of any wounded civilians stranded there. The government has barred journalists and international aid workers from the war zone for months.
Al Jazeera confirms at least 34 people have been killed in a car bomb explosion near several restaurants in a Shia neighbourhood of north-west Baghdad. Another 70 have been injured, some seriously.
The People's Daily said seven employees of a demolition company and two government inspectors have been arrested and six officials fired amid an investigation into the collapse of a viaduct that was being demolished in southern China. The overpass gave way during demolition work, killing six people and destroying more than two dozen vehicles.