The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times leads with a European Court ruling that emissions from the power stations in Malta exceeded standards. It also reports comments by the Chief Justice on the need to raise the retirement age and improve the conditions of judges.
The Malta Independent also leads with the opening of the forensic year at the law courts and the European Court ruling.
In-Nazzjon looks ahead at the Lisbon Treaty referendum in Ireland today. It says that Joseph Muscat's consultant Marisa Micallef recently criticised the University students' stipends. It also reports a PN statement criticising the social position on immigration at the European Parliament.
l-orizzont says the Irish referendum makes this is a decisive day. It reports the death of a man while working in a field near Luqa. In a third story, it says the President will today inaugurate the new entrance to the GWU headquarters.
The Press in Britain...
The Times says Tony Blair is in line to be proclaimed Europe's first president within weeks if the Irish vote "yes" in today's referendum. The paper says French President Sarkozy is supporting Mr Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has softened her opposition.
According to The Guardian, Britain was served notice by the International Monetary Fund that reforms to healthcare and pensions will be needed to repair the long-term damage to public finances caused by the global recession.
The Financial Times predicts a high-stakes court battle between BAE Systems and the Serious Fraud Office after corruption investigators decided to press for criminal charges against the arms manufacturer over its dealings in Eastern Europe, South Africa and Tanzania.
Metro says parents spoke of their revulsion and anger after two men and a mother-of-two nursery worker admitted abusing their children in a nursery. They swapped pictures online of themselves abusing the babies after meeting on Facebook.
The Daily Mirror carries the same story, saying the three defendants, who only met in person when their crimes were discovered, are facing lengthy jail sentences.
The Daily Mail says nursery paedophile Vanessa George subjected distraught parents to one last agony as she maintained her silence over the names of children she sexually assaulted.
The Scotsman says victims of child abuse at a Scottish council-run residential home are to receive £20,000 each and an apology from the local authority.
The Daily Express quotes a warning by striking postal unions that Christmas cards must be sent within three weeks or they may not arrive in time.
The Herald says Scotland's newest universities are facing damaging budget cuts in a shake up of higher education funding.
And elsewhere...
European eyes are on Ireland as some three million people cast their votes on the crucial second Lisbon Treaty referendum in almost 18 months, determining the fate of 500 million people across the EU. The Irish Independent says the official result is expected by mid-afternoon tomorrow. Ireland is the only EU country holding a referendum on the treaty because it has to amend its national constitution to ratify its provisions.
The Washington Times reports President Obama has called on Iran to take swift and "constructive" action on its nuclear programme and warned that respect should not be interpreted as weakness.
The People's Daily carries a full report and pictures of yesterday's China celebrations of 60 years of communist rule with the biggest-ever military review - a symbol of its rapidly expanding global might.
The Washington Post quotes the judge who led a UN inquiry into the Gaza invasion as rejecting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that pursuing both Israel and Hamas for war crimes struck a fatal blow to the peace process.
Adevarul reports that nine ministers from the left-leaning Social Democratic Party (PSD) had quit the coalition government "in solidarity" with Interior Minister Dan Nica. The move ends the shaky nine-month tenure of a coalition consumed by bickering and corruption allegations.
San Francisco Chronicle says US investigators probing two old kidnapping cases have said that bone fragments found on the property of a man charged over a separate abduction are likely to be from animals.
According to the Lancet medical journal, more than half of babies born in rich nations today will live to be 100 years old if current life expectancy trends continue. Kaare Christensen of the Danish Ageing Research Centre wrote in a study that increasing numbers of very old people could pose major challenges for health and social systems, but the research showed that may be mitigated by people not only living longer, but also staying healthier in their latter years.
Ekstra Bladet points out that it's D-day for the city that will host the 2016 Olympics as the IOC will vote in the afternoon in Copenhagen. The cities competing for the right to take charge are Chicago, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid. There will be a full house of heads of state or government for the vote: President Obama, King Juan Carlos, his Queen Sofia, Brazilian President Lula da Silva and Japan's new Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama.