The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times and the other newspapers give prominence to the parliamentary debate held yesterday on the energy tariffs and the protest held in Valletta. The newspaper quotes MUT president John Bencini saying he was disgusted by the insults hurled at the MPs by the crowd.
l-orizzont quotes GWU Tony Zarb saying the government had betrayed the people in the parliamentary. In-Nazzjon quotes the prime minister saying the current tariffs mechanism tackled the realty of high oil prices. The Malta Independent says the tariffs are to stand. It also reports that people who delayed cashing their energy vouchers because electricity bills were received late, have found out that the vouchers have expired.
In other stories, The Times says wardens would go easier on first time offenders. It also says that Maltese workers are extending their stay in Libya because replacements are not being let in.
In-Nazzjon reports that February was warmer and drier than usual.
The overseas press
El Mercurio reports that thousands of Chilean troops are heading to the country's devastated earthquake zone as reports emerge of desperate survivors turning to looting and arson.
Le Parisien says rescue workers in dinghies cruised flooded streets on France's Atlantic coast, searching for people still trapped in their homes by storms that smashed through concrete sea walls and killed at least 62 people across Western Europe.
Clarin reports Argentina has asked Washington for help in resolving a brewing dispute with Britain over the Falklands, where Britain has begun drilling for oil. Britain has opposed outside mediation.
The Irish Examiner says Foreign Minister Micheal Martin has criticised an Irish town council's decision to remove a page signed by the Israeli ambassador from its guestbook. Carrickmacross representatives voted to remove Zion Evrony's signature in protest at Israel's diplomatic record after reports that fake Irish passports had been used by suspected Israeli assassins in the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai. Mr Martin said diplomatic representatives should always be treated with respect.
De Telegraaf quotes former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused of Europe's worst genocide since the Holocaust, claiming his people were only defending themselves against Islamic fundamentalists. In his opening defence statement at the UN war crimes tribunal, Karadzic denied any intention to carry out ethnic cleansing.
About a hundred modern Russian tanks have been discovered abandoned on the side of a road in the country's Ural mountains. Video clips from the E1.ru website that were rebroadcast on Russian television showed local people clambering over some of the unguarded T-80 tanks that were parked in long rows in Kamishlovsk, about 100km from the Ural city of Yekaterinburg. State news agency RIA reports Russian military prosecutors are probing how Russia's main battle tank came to be left in such a situation.
The Manchester Guardian says the Glazer family have responded to reports of a summit meeting involving the key players behind the Red Knights group trying to oust them from Manchester United by again declaring they have no interest in selling the club. With debts mounting and alarm bells ringing following details contained within the prospectus for the recent £500 million (€552.7 million) bond sale, a group of mega-rich United fans are said to be planning to make a push to buy the Old Trafford outfit themselves. Their hope is to try to starve the Glazers of cash and persuade them to accept a deal that would net the Americans around £1 billion (€1.11 billion).
A baby girl survived three days with a bullet in her chest as she lay alone beside the dead bodies of her parents and toddler brother in Argentina. The Daily Mail reported Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their seven-month-old daughter and son, 2, before killing themselves. The pair allegedly agreed to a suicide pact over fears about global warming.
The Dominion Post reports that a New Zealand judge ruled that a nude cyclist had not met the test of offensive behaviour when he pedalled down a rural road in the buff and he quashed the conviction and fine. Nick Lowe told the court that he is just uncomfortable in clothes.