The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times says an investigation is underway into the sudden death of a 23-year-old medical representative, five days after a took the H1N1 vaccine. The Health Department says the death is unrelated. The newspaper also reports the launching of the Mepa Reform Bill, saying quick and clear decision-making has been promised.
The Malta Independent says John Dalli went through yesterday's hearing before the European Parliament with flying colours. It also refers to the Mepa reform saying the Bill provides for stronger enforcement measures,
In-Nazzjon says Mepa will become more efficient thanks to the reform. It also says there was a positive reaction to John Dalli's appearance before MEPs.
l-orizzont features pictures of the damage done to Marsalforn promenade by the rough seas. It also complains of worker exploitation in Malta.
The international press:
The relief effort in Haiti after the devastating earthquake dominates Friday's newspapers. Relief organisations reported difficulties getting aid into Haiti, with congestion mounting as multiple planes converged on the island. The Times says the aid that is not getting through as some relief flights are turned back from Haiti's wrecked tiny airport and the port is closed. Haiti's infrastructure has been almost entirely destroyed, making the aid effort very difficult.
The Wall Street Journal reports President Obama has promised Haitians they would not be forgotten as he pledged $100 million (€69 million) in immediate aid. He said some US resources were already are on the ground providing water and medicine, as well as helping in search and rescue operations. He announced he was sending more than 5,000 troops, as well as ships, helicopters, planes and a floating hospital to the impoverished Caribbean island.
The Financial Times says the US has called on other countries to follow its lead and impose hefty fines on bailed out financial institutions. President Obama has defiantly said he wanted to get back all of the $117 billion (€81 billion) spent on the country's Troubled Asset Relief Programme during the downturn. Describing bank bonuses as "obscene", the US leader said US banks would cover a predicted shortfall in the government's financial crisis bail-out fund with a new tax.
Al Rayaam reports six Sudanese men have been executed for their part in a riot at a refugee camp in Khartoum in 2005. The men were held responsible for killing 13 policemen during the riots in which five civilians also died. The violence flared when police tried to clear the Soba Aradi camp, which housed refugees from the two-decade long north-south civil war.
The New York Times says a Pakistani scientist, who is the only woman accused of working with the al-Qaeda leadership, has demanded that Jews should be excluded from the jury at her trial in New York. Aafia Siddiqui called for jurors to undergo genetic testing in an outburst in federal court in Manhattan yesterday.
Expresso reports Goncalo Amaral has declared he would appeal all the way through the country's courts and on to the European Court of Human Rights if he loses his bid to overturn the Maddy McCann's parents' injunction on his book, "Maddie: The Truth Of The Lie".
Haaretz says police in Tel Aviv have arrested an Israeli man who maintained a harem of 17 women and fathered 37 children with the women he kept in apartments in the Tel Aviv area.
Cape Times reports that a Zimbabwean tourist has been killed by a "dinosaur-sized" great white shark off a beach in Cape Town. Eyewitnesses told of seeing the "gigantic" shark drag, savage and eat 37-year-old Lloyd Skinner at Fish Hoek beach.
China Daily reports firefighters in China spent 12 hours rescuing a cat from a cash machine after bank customers heard mewing. When the fire crew finally broke into the machine in Nanjing they found the animal had vanished up a ventilation shaft.