The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times says the Commission for the Administration of Justice has not taken any decisions involving Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera. It also says that Brussels has backed a ban on the international trade of tuna, despite Malta's no.
The Malta Independent says a process for the drawing up of a national environment policy has been launched. It also reports that Enemalta is conducting an exercise to iron out inefficiencies.
In-Nazzjon says the number of women in the labour force has increased by 12,000 since 2004 and the increase in the women's participation rate is twice as fast as in the EU. It reports the appointment of eight parliamentary assistants to help ministers and that Deutsche Bank has been granted a Maltese banking licence.
l-orizzont says Franco Debono has been brought under the eye of the Prime Minister through the appointment of parliamentary assistants, but Jean Pierre Farrugia did not take the bait. It also says that Labour MP Joe Mizzi has taken the utility tariffs issue to court.
The overseas press:
Le Monde reports that Europe's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has emphasised the importance of the EU's new diplomatic service to her vision of the EU's "stronger, more credible" foreign policy.
De Morgen says the European Union has joined the US in criticizing Israel's decision to build 1,600 Jewish homes on occupied land arguing that it could hinder planned peace talks.
Corriere della Sera reports a furious Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi blaming judges and the opposition for his party's exclusion from taking part in upcoming regional polls in Lazio after missing a deadline to submit candidates. The person responsible for registering the party for the elections missed the deadline because he was "mangiando un panino" (or eating a sandwich).
Meanwhile, according to a poll put together by the newspaper La Repubblica, support for Berlusconi's People of Freedom party has sunk to its lowest level since 2008. According to the survey, only around 44 percent of voters have faith in him a drop of over two percentage points compared to last month's poll.
Kathemerini reports that Greece was expected to grind to a halt for the second time in a month as hundreds of thousands of state and private workers stage a general strike in protest at the country's austerity measures.
Carla Bruni has told Sky News her husband, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, would never cheat on her. With the French media in a frenzy over speculation the singer and her husband were both having extra-marital affairs, Ms Bruni said she trusted her husband despite rumours he had had affairs in the past. Rumours were rife in France that Ms Bruni was seeing a French musician while the French President was involved in a growing relationship with his ecology minister Chantal Jouanno.
Three British nationals - The Guardian, the Daily Mirror and The Sun - report on a series of failures by child protection professionals that led two women to be repeatedly abused and raped by their father for three decades, enduring 18 pregnancies between them during the horrific ordeal and bearing seven of his children.
Il Tempo announces that the Italian government has signed a deal with Google to put the contents of two national libraries on the internet. Up to one million antiquarian books - including works by Dante, Machiavelli and Galileo - will be scanned and made available free on Google Books. There is no copyright issue as all the works were published before 1868.
Mexican telecom giant Carlos Slim has topped Forbes magazine's billionaire's list - the first time since 1994 that an American has not led the rankings. Mr Slim's fortune rose last year to €39.25 billion. That beat Microsoft founder Bill Gates (€38.9 billion) into second place, with US investor Warren Buffet €51.5 billion) third.
The Washington Post says at least a dozen couples tied the knot in Washington DC on the first day same-sex ceremonies were legally allowed in the city. The district became the sixth place in the US where gay couples can legally get married.
The Clarion Ledger reports education officials in Mississippi cancelled a high school prom after an-18-year-old lesbian student launched a public battle to bring her girlfriend. She challenged the district on its policy forbidding same-sex dates when school officials told her she could not bring her sophomore girlfriend to the April 2 prom and banned her from wearing a tuxedo.
The Daily News says a terrified seven-year-old boy, in hiding in a locked bathroom, made a dramatic 911 call begging emergency dispatchers to send police to his California home where three armed robbers were threatening his parents. When the suspects broke into the bathroom and grabbed the boy, he screamed and told them he called 911. The suspects fled without taking anything. The three men remain at large.