The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Sunday Times says Wenzu Mintoff, editor of the PL weekly KullHadd, has been told by Malta Enterprise to choose between editorship and his job as legal officer at Malta Enterprise because of conflict of interest. It also reports that Sunny Portelli is favourite to become Air Malta chairman after the departure of Lawrence Zammit.
The Malta Independent on Sunday says a convicted Maltese paedophile priest was sent from Italy to a parish in Malta and then back to Italy. It also says controversy is continuing to rage over the freeport extension.
MaltaToday reports that the ship repair facilities of Malta Shipyards may be sold by the government for a miserable € 5.7 million to Italian company Palumbo, which is also seeking the company's superyacht facility. It also reports on a Wednesday deadline set by the government for bus owners to accept the offered when a new operator is introduced.
Il-Mument claims Toni Abela made undue pressure for the employment of a clerk in Mosta Council. It also says former Foreign Minister Alex Sceberras Trigona remains one of Joseph Muscat's 'favourites' and the Labour leader objected to any new nominations for the post he holds as international secretary.
It-Torca says there is pressure for Louis Galea not to stand in the casual election o succeed John Dalli. It also says new City Gate plans have to be submitted to Mepa, which was one of the reasons for the delay in the start of works.
KullHadd says contractor Zaren Vassallo has imported 500 tons of iron to use for the power station extension even though the contract is still being considered by the Auditor-General.
Illum says manoeuvres against John Dalli by some elements in the PN are continuing.
The international media
Le Journal du Dimanche reports that France has called for a European summit on immigration after the arrival of 124 illegal immigrants on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. Immigration Minister Eric Besson EU immigration ministers should hold a crisis meeting to introduce "emergency measures to strengthen controls" along the Mediterranean coast
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has told Welt am Sonntag he would play host to an international conference on market regulation ahead of the next G-20 summit of leading and emerging economic powers in Canada in June.
CanaNews says Haiti's government has ended the rescue phase of the country's devastating earthquake but humanitarian relief efforts were still being scaled up in Port-au-Prince, Jacmel, Leogane and other areas.
Canada's former ambassador to Iran, Kenneth Taylor, has revealed he worked as a CIA spy during the 1979 hostage crisis in the wake of the Islamic revolution. Mr Taylor broke his silence in an interview published in the Globe and Mail, as a book detailing his involvement hit bookstores. On November 4, 1979, Iranian students took control of the US embassy in Tehran and took 60 Americans hostage, beginning a 444-day crisis situation to get them freed.
The Sunday Telegraph claims the terror threat level has been raised because al-Qaeda cells have trained female suicide bombers, and two passengers on the 'danger list' were prevented from boarding flights at Heathrow. The Sunday Times leads on the same story, claiming terrorists were planning to hijack an Indian jet and crash it into a British city.
Belgrade News says the powerful Serbian Orthodox Church enthroned a patriarch Irinej Gavrilovic, a move that could lead to closer ties with the Vatican. The 80-year-old was elected patriarch on Friday and is considered a moderate. He raised the prospect of a visit to Serbia by Pope Benedict XVI in 2013. Relations with Roman Catholics in recent years have been strained.
L'Avvenire reports the Pope has urged priests to use the internet "astutely". In a message for this year's World Communications Day, the 82-year-old Pontiff said priests stood at the threshold of a new era'.
Deutsche Welle reports German Left Party politician Oskar Lafontaine, 66, has announced that he is giving up his parliamentary seat and his position as chairman of the party amid a battle with cancer. The announcement followed weeks of speculation over the issue. In November 2009, Lafontaine underwent an operation for prostate cancer.
La Sicilia reports two girls aged 14 and three died when a two-storey dwelling collapsed at dawn in the centre of Favara, Sicily. Marianna Bellavia, The family, worried about the stability of their home, previously requested government housing but was not on the waiting list, according to mayor Domenico Russello.
Dawn says a suicide car bomb attack killed at least four people in a town in troubled northwest Pakistan today, police said. bal region of South Waziristan where Pakistani troops were battling Islamist militants. Eleven people including five policemen, three passers-by and three prisoners in the police lock-up were injured.
Sydney Morning Herald reports Australians pay the highest prices in the world for text messages, which is more than 10 times what it costs in many parts of Asia and almost a third higher than in Europe and Canada. Industry experts say while the cost of mobile phone calls has declined in the past five years, the standard flat rate for a text message at Telstra and Optus has remained unchanged at 25 cents. At Vodafone, a text is 28 cents.
The Daily News reports two American men who were jailed for a week after police mistook their coconut candy for crack cocaine are planning to file a $2 million (€1.5 million) lawsuit. They were arrested on January 15 after police found a bag of what they thought was cocaine. The "drugs" were finally tested five days later and determined to be popular Coco (coconut) Candy. The charges were dropped.
Komsomolskaya Pravda says an unemployed construction worker, who alarmed Kremlin guards when he tried to barge past them tried to get into the Kremlin, said he wanted to become the son-in-law of Russia's president. He was told that Dmitry Medvedev does not have a daughter - he only has a single teenage son. The 35-year-old, was then taken to a psychiatric hospital.
Variety reports the death in California of British actress Jean Simmons, who played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, sang alongside Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls and co-starred with Gregory Peck, Paul Newman and Kirk Douglas. She was 80. She won an Emmy Award for her role in the 1980s mini-series The Thorn Birds, a Golden Globe and two Oscar nominations - for her role in Hamlet as best supporting actress and for best actress for The Happy Ending,