The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times leads with the Prime Minister's speech in Parliament, saying that the setting up of a new aircraft maintenance facility belied Opposition doom and gloom claims. The newspaper also reports that sabotage is not being excluded as the cause of yesterday's power outage.
The Malta Independent quotes the prime minister saying he was disgusted by oppositions comments in Parliament on Monday. It also reports that the UK is to take 10 migrants from Malta
l-orizzont quotes the Prime Minister saying he was committed to fighting corruption. It also highlights a statement by the GWU criticising the Enemalta chairman for comments on suspected sabotage at Marsa power station.
In-Nazzjon says reforms have attracted work and jobs to Malta. It also reports the Arrigo trial, saying that the prosecution argued yesterday that the former chief justice violated his oath of office, while the defence said he never accepted gifts.
The Press in Britain...
The Financial Times says the Prime Minister has put Britain's economic revival at the heart of Labour's general election strategy, promising to "go for growth" and announcing a scheme to help young people find work.
The Guardian reports on the same subject saying fear of youth unemployment rising above one million prompted Gordon Brown to promise more money to ease the impact of the recession on the young.
But The Times says the strategy was condemned by members of his own party as irresponsible, unaffordable and based on a myth,.
The Daily Telegraph claims six MPs and peers are facing criminal charges of fraud following investigations by Scotland Yard into the abuse of the parliamentary expenses system.
The Daily Mail has a picture of three oil tankers sitting idly within sight of the British coastline. It says they are part of a flotilla of 10 vessels refusing to unload their cargo until market speculation has driven up oil prices.
The Independent says companies linked to Lord Ashcroft, the billionaire deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, helped finance the lavish lifestyle of the disgraced prime minister of Turks and Caicos islands.
The Daily Mirror tells how a woman will appear in court on child porn charges linked to the Little Ted's Nursery paedophile ring.
Metro says a vicar and his wife have forgiven two teenage girls who bullied their daughter to death.
The Sun says Kate Moss has been blasted for suggesting it was better to be skinny than to eat.
And elsewhere...
EU Observer says the union's 27 heads of state or government are meeting in Brussels today to appoint Europe's first President and Foreign Affairs representative - two posts created under the Lisbon Treaty. The man now most likely to be appointed president is Herman van Rompuy, the 62-year-old Belgian prime minister, who is strongly opposed to Turkey ever joining the European Union.
Aftonbladet reports Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has vowed to cut his country's greenhouse gas emissions by between 20 to 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
L'Osservatore Romano says the Pope has called for greater international effort to ensure basic human rights for children, saying he was praying for all young people who suffer.
Iran's foreign minister has told the semi-official ISNA news agency his country would not export its enriched uranium for further processing, effectively rejecting the latest UN plan aimed at preventing Tehran from building nuclear weapons. Instead, Manochehr Mottaki said Iran would consider a nuclear swap inside Iran as an alternative plan.
President Barack Obama has admitted in an interview with Fox News that he will miss his self-imposed deadline of January for closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison. He refused to give a new date but said he expected it to shut sometime next year. The timeline depended on cooperation from Congress.
Jamhuuriya reports a 20-year-old Somali woman was stoned to death and her 29-year-old unmarried boyfriend was given 100 lashes for having an affair. The stoning death was at least the fourth for adultery in Somalia in the last year and the second time a woman has been killed.
Az-Zaman says Iraq's election commission has suspended preparations for January's national elections after Sunni Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi sent part of the key electoral legislation back to parliament to be amended so that more seats would be allocated for Iraqis living abroad, most of whom are Sunni Arabs.
Pakistan Times reports dozens of people have staged a sit-in on a highway in north-western Pakistan after the army accidentally hit a house with an artillery shell, killing six people - three women, two children and a man.
Moscow Times says a £1.5 million package of funding to improve road safety in some of the world's poorest countries was announced by the British Government in Moscow at the first-ever ministerial global road safety summit.
Four US Marines convicted of aiding the kidnapping and killing of an Iraqi man in 2006 have been ordered out of the military. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus told the North County Times that the killing in the city of Hamdania did not happen in the fog of battle but was a carefully planned attack and cover-up.
New York Post reports an epileptic New York driver - who did not take his medication because it interfered with his enjoyment of alcohol - has been jailed for at least 20 years for mowing down a British couple with his dustbin lorry.
Jannet Jackson has told ABC News that the whole family wanted to help her brother Michael kick his drug habit, but he was not ready to acknowledge he had a problem. She added that she blamed Dr Conrad Murray for her 50-year-old brother's death.