The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times says allegations made in the past haunted Louis Galea yesterday when the European Parliament Budget Committee assessed his suitability for the Court of Auditors. The newspaper also reports the compilation of evidence in the murder of Il-Bona.
The Malta Independent says former UK diplomat Charles Crawford has commented that judicial appointments in Malta should be subject to public scrutiny. It also reports that the eurozone is considering a bailout of Greece.
l-orizzont says EU oil companies have been warned by Libya as the spate with Switzerland over travel visas continues. It also reports that Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici said Malta should leave the Schengen Agreement.
In-Nazzjon says that according to EU figures, the decrease in the gainfully occupied in Malta is the second smallest in Europe. It also reports that the GRTU expects a good summer for tourism. In another story, it says that former UK diplomat Charles Crawford has complained of having been used in an invented political story. The Labour media on Sunday said he had advised the prime minister on the appointment of parliamentary assistants.
The overseas press
Al Ahram reports that EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has kicked off her first official trip to the Middle East with strong criticism for Israel's recent announcement that settlement building in east Jerusalem would continue.
Meanwhile, The Jerusalem Post reports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuffed criticism of the move, both from Ashton and the US. He told members of his Likud party on Monday that construction will continue.
The European edition of The Wall Street Journal says eurozone finance ministers have taken steps towards drawing up plans for a possible Greek bailout, but they stopped short of agreeing to make one available, insisting they see no need for troubled Greece to receive any assistance.
In the UK, The Guardian says the Labour's strategy for controlling Britain's spending was under more pressure after it emerged that the European Commission was set to demand tougher government action to rein in the UK's record peacetime deficit. The Times predicts the intervention, a week before the Budget, will electrify the debate over the economy.
The International Herald Tribune says that in a European operation coordinated by Spanish anti-corruption prosecutors, police arrested 24 alleged Georgian mafia members in Spain and 45 in Germany, Austria, France, Italy and Switzerland. Those detained were held on charges of drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering, extortion and conspiracy to murder.
The Irish Independent reports two men - and Algerian and a Libyan - have been charged in connection with an alleged plot to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, whose controversial depictions of the Muslim prophet were printed in a newspaper in Sweden in 2007.
The Moscow Times reports Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party won in the eight regions that held elections in Russia on Sunday with between 43 and 70 percent of the votes cast. But it saw support fall by between nine and 24 percentage points in six regional parliaments compared to national election results in 2007, when it scored a landslide victory.
Uol Noticias says the Catholic Church in Brazil has suspended two bishops and a priest accused of pedophilia. Charges had been brought against them by parents of the abused boys.
Le Parisien reports that a French woman accused of strangling or smothering to death her six newborn babies has admitted killing the infants. Celine Lesage, 38, admitted before a judge in the Channel town of Coutances to killing the six infants between 1999 and 2007. She was arrested in 2007 after her partner at the time discovered the corpses in plastic bags in the cellar of their apartment building.
Metro reports that Hollywood couple Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes have announced they ended their six-and-a-half-year marriage by "mutual agreement". The Daily Mirror claims Oscar-winner Winslet, 34, began rowing with Mendes, 44, on the set of their movie Revolutionary Road in 2008. Mendes won Best Director at the 2000 Academy Awards for American Beauty while Winslet took home Best Actress in 2009 for The Reader. The pair have been married since 2003 and have two children.