The following are the top stories in the local and overseas press:
The Times says an investigation into school transport costs has not been concluded yet. It was launched by the Office of Fair Trading a year ago. The Office claimed it has been awaiting current prices.
The Malta Independent says FKNK members are determined to hunt next spring in view of the European Court of Justice verdict. It also reports that Malta does not feature in a new EU campaign against child obesity.
In-Nazzjon says the new €8 million Pembroke school opens today. It also reports that a foreigner was found importing drugs in stomach capsules.
l-orizzont quotes Labour leader Joseph Muscat urging his party to be open for change and new members. It also reports that efforts are underway for the Pope to come to Malta in May instead of April to coincide with the feast of St George Preca.
The Press in Britain...
The Guardian says Gordon Brown has moved to lift Labour's morale by mounting a populist warning to reckless banks.
The Times predicts Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling will today widen Labour's attack on "greedy" bankers, telling the Labour Party conference there will be no return to "business as usual" for banks and no more "automatic" bonuses for bankers.
The Daily Telegraph says the BBC has stunned the Prime Minister by on-air questions about whether he took pills to help him "get through".
The row over questions to the Prime Minister about whether he was on anti-depressants or prescription painkillers is also the lead in the Metro.
The Independent says a poll shows support for Gordon Brown is so flimsy that Labour could head off an election defeat by ousting him.
The Daily Mail says Scotland Yard is facing a potentially huge compensation claim over its failure to prevent the murder of Rachel Nickell, who was stabbed on Wimbledon Common in 1992.
The Daily Express reports pensions for town hall staff swallow up £1 out of every five paid in council tax.
According to the Daily Mirror Robbie Williams is back with Take That, secretly working on songs in a studio.
And elsewhere...
Berliner Morgenpost reports Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have emerged from Germany's election as the strongest party and are on track to form a new centre-right government with the Free Democrats, ending her "grand coalition" with the centre-left Social Democrats of challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Expresso says the centre-left Socialist Party has retained power in Portugal's parliamentary elections.
Agence France Press reports government ministers, movie directors, writers and intellectuals have expressed shock and outrage after the detention of Oscar winning director Roman Polanski in Switzerland on three-decade-old child sex charges.
Cesky Noviny reports that some 100,000 cheering faithful from the Czech Republic and neighbouring countries - Austria, Germany, Poland and Slovakia - packed an airfield in Brno for a Mass by Pope Benedict XVI.
Al Jezeera says Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela have urged some 30 leaders from Africa and South America to form a strong intercontinental alliance to press for their interests.
Manila Times says at least 73 people were killed and more than 337,000 others displaced after the heaviest rain in more than four decades plunged the Philippine capital into chaos.
Afghan Times reports a 30-year-old man has shot dead 15 family members, including his wife and children, with an automatic rifle before committing suicide in a village in central Afghanistan.
Nan Dhan says two British tourists, a French man and two Vietnamese people drowned when a packed boat carrying 25 passengers and seven crew members capsized in wild seas in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Sydney Morning Herald says residents of Bundanoon have become the first in the world to ban the sale of bottled water, saying the cost of making, transporting and disposing of the plastic bottles is damaging the environment
Bild reports a male brown bear attacked and killed a female bear in front of horrified onlookers at a German zoo. Officials are still trying to determine why the male, a Syrian brown bear named Balou, attacked the female, Klara.