The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times on its front page features the devastating earthquake in Haiti. It also reports yesterday's meeting of the MCESD which discussed the utility tariffs. Further meetings will be held between the government and employer organisations in a bid to reduce the impact on industry and small businesses.
The Malta Independent reports on the visit to Malta by the president of the EU Council. It also reports that asbestos has been removed from Boffa Hospital.
In-Nazzjon says the PL is to remain without a general secretary. It also reports that an EU summit in June will discuss illegal immigration. The newspaper also features the MCESD meeting and the Haiti earthquake.
l-orizzont says the GWU rightly stayed away from yesterday's MCESD meeting, which took no decisions to reduce the tariffs.
The overseas press
Governments and aid organisations worldwide have begun mobilizing a massive relief operation for Haiti, where people are still reeling from the earthquake - the worst in 200 years - that killed thousands and left the fate of millions more depending on international aid supplies.
United Nations and Red Cross spokesman are quoted by The International Herald Tribune as saying between three and 3.5 million inhabitants - a third of the population of world's poorest nation - have been affected.
According to The New York Times, a UN report revealed that the number of Afghan civilians who died in war-related violence soared last year was the highest annual level since the conflict began in 2001. It said 2,412 civilians were killed in 2009 - a 14 per cent increase on the previous year. But deaths attributed to allied forces dropped nearly 30 per cent - a key US goal for winning over the Afghan people.
Avvenire says the Pope has met and forgiven Susanna Maiolo, the mentally disturbed woman who attacked him during Christmas Eve Mass.
Chumhuriyet reports that Israel has apologised to Turkey for publicly dressing down Ankara's ambassador to protest against a Turkish television drama that portrayed Israeli diplomats as masterminds of a child abduction ring.
In an interview with The Times, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has rejected claims that senior ministers gave their tacit approval to last week's failed plot to oust Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
The Daily Express reports that Gerry McCann has angrily dismissed Portuguese detectives' claims that his daughter Madeleine is dead. Senior officers told a court in Lisbon of their belief that the little girl died in her family's holiday flat and that her parents faked her abduction.
Bild reports that Princess Caroline of Monaco took to the witness box to defend her husband Prince Ernst August of Hannover against claims he beat up a hotel manager in Kenya in 2000. The princess told the court that her husband got angry with the owner of a hotel on Lamu Island, and slapped him twice with an open hand after becoming irritated at the noise from a disco.
The Australian says two speeding buses avoiding potholes were to blame for one of Papua New Guinea's worst road accidents that claimed 38 lives and put 18 others in hospital.The two overloaded 25-seater buses crashed head-on.
The Irish Independent reports that the trial has begun in Dublin of a 44-year-old Englishman man accused of subjecting his pregnant former girlfriend to a seven-hour ordeal during which he allegedly raped her and threatened to shoot her.