The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Sunday Times says the Prime Minister has been having private meetings with Nationalist MPs, although not all the meetings were necessarily linked to disagreements on the backbench. The Nationalist Parliamentary Group is also to discuss next month's Opposition motion on the utility tariffs. The newspaper also reports that 18-year-old Thea Garrett won the Malta EuroSong contest last night.
The Malta Independent on Sunday says that according to a European Parliament report, Malta has the least capacity to host migrants. It also reports BirdLife Malta complaints that the courts are being lenient with law-breakers.
MaltaToday asks if there was a conflict of interest after a company headed by the chairman of the Maritime Authority, now part of Transport Malta, won the Manoel Island Yacht Yard concession.
Il-Mument also features the Malta Eurosong contest. In other items is says that when the Labour government raised utility tariffs, the GWU said the best way forward was around the negotiating table.
It-Torca says collective agreements have been frozen because of uncertainty caused by the increase in utility tariffs. It also reports that the auditor-general will not complete his report on the power station extension on time because of new information received from overseas.
KullHadd complains that the Sette Giungo monument has been abandoned in a yard among the weeds. It also says that 751 divorce cases have been registered in Malta.
Illum says Joseph Muscat wants a super candidate in every district.
The overseas press
Expresso reports that the Portuguese authorities have sent naval ships with helicopters and medical supplies to Madeira, where floods and mudslides killed at least 32 and injured another 68 after torrential, described as the deadliest since October 1993, hit the tourist island. The main city, Funchal and other towns and villages on the south coast have been worst affected.
The weekly German newsmagazine Der Spiegel says eurozone countries are considering an aid deal for Greece worth around 25 billion euros in the form of loans and guarantees. The report said each country's contribution to the package would be calculated according to the proportion of capital each holds in the European Central Bank.
Het Parool reports Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has offered his government's resignation to Queen Beatrix in a telephone call. His coalition government collapsed after the Labour Party quit the government over irreconcilable differences over the Afghan deployment. Mr Balkenende made no mention of elections but he does not have a workable majority.
Meanwhile, Berliner Zeitung says protests have been held in Berlin in opposition to Germany's ongoing troop presence in Afghanistan. Some 2,000 demonstrators turned out asking for a recall of the country's 4,400 troops stationed in the north of the country.
Scotland on Sunday reports that calls have been stepped up for the medical evidence behind the release of the Lockerbie bomber to be published in full. Six months have passed since the Scottish government allowed Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi to go home to Libya on compassionate grounds - after medical evidence indicated he only had three months to live. Both Labour and Tory opposition in Scotland have demanded that full details of why he was released are published.
Kyiv Post quotes Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko saying she has withdrawn her legal challenge to the results of the country's presidential election. She said she saw "no sense" in continuing her appeal since the administrative court had refused to consider the documents she claims show the falsification of some election results which gave pro-Russian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych a win by just 3.5 per cent.
The Irish Examiner reports Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin will meet his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Liberman tomorrow to discuss the use of fake Irish passports by a team of assassins. Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed in Dubai last month by suspected agents from Israel. Five forged Irish passports linked to the hit squad were found in the Emirate with authentic numbers but names which did not match.
Meanwhile, Al Quds al Arabi quotes Hamas legislator Salah Bardawil saying al-Mabhouh exposed himself to attack when he breached security protocol by talking about his trip over the phone and making hotel reservations on the internet.
Le Soir Echos says the death toll following the collapse of a minaret in Meknes during a crowded prayer service last Friday has risen to 41 people. The collapse of the tower also injured 75 people. Officials have blamed the accident on heavy rain that weakened the minaret.
In the UK, The Independent on Sunday devotes its front page to an exclusive interview with the British Prime Minister in which he vehemently denied ever hitting anyone amid claims in a new book that he was abusive to members of his staff at Number 10. Gordon Brown insisted that when he got angry it was mostly with himself and while he might throw papers to the floor, he was never violent with staff. But he did admit that sometimes things get said "in the heat of the moment". The Observer prints extracts from a book by its chief political correspondent Andrew Rawnsley, showing Mr Brown was told by the country's top civil servant to change his behaviour after claims he had frightened staff with violent outbursts.
USA today announces the death of former US Secretary of State Alexander Haig. He was 85. President Barack Obama described Mr Haig, was chief-of-staff to President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s, as a "great American who served our country with distinction".
Times of India reports that authorities in a Christian-majority state in India's remote north east have confiscated all copies of a primary class textbook that carried pictures of Jesus Christ holding a can of beer and a cigarette. The education minister of the state said she is "appalled" and condemned the portrayal of Christ in the textbook which meant for young children. More than 70 per cent of the state's 2.32 million population are Christians.
The Georgian Times covers extensively the funeral of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili who died during a training run at the Winter Olympics. The funeral took place in his home town of Bakuriani, where the athlete was considered a hero. The 21-year-old came off the Whistler track at high speed and crashed into metal pillars hours before the opening ceremony in Vancouver, Canada.