The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Sunday Times carries a description by a young man who said he had been subjected to a humiliating strip search in an AFM roadblock in Gozo. It also carries an interview with Fr Hillary Tagliaferro who spoke against the introduction of divorce but argued that the Church should extend the reasons for granting annulment.
The Malta Independent on Sunday says the government is continuing to hold consultations as the spring hunting decision draws near. The newspaper also reviews the work of the trade unions and says that division in this sector is clear.
MaltaToday says two former ministers are defying calls to drop libel cases as the political parties discuss a truce.
Illum says a former consultant of then minister Louis Galea has lost libel proceedings against Joe Mifsud.
It-Torca says the government ‘lied' on the Fairmount contract in a letter to the GWU in 2008 about an inquiry into this contract. It also says that the Dominican Order has not imposed any sanction against Fr Mark Montebello and the priest's meeting with the Order's superior general was a friendly one.
Il-Mument says the promises of the PN electoral programme are being kept, the latest being the Mepa reform and the redevelopment of the entrance of Valletta. It also says that Joseph Muscat has ignored the disruption at Mosta council. In another story, it says that the PN won 63% of the votes in elections for administrative committees.
The overseas press
London's Independent on Sunday quotes Vatican sources saying the Pope was under mounting pressure to call an emergency synod of bishops from around the world to hammer out a new strategy to deal with the worsening child abuse scandal. It says a number of Roman Catholic prelates argue the Vatican could not cope effectively on its own with the spiralling image crisis.
Corriere della Sera says more than 40 million Italians go to the polls today and tomorrow in regional elections which are widely heralded as the first major test for Premier Silvio Berlusconi's two-year-old government.
Al Jazeera reports Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has ruled out attending indirect "proximity talks" with Israel unless it halted the construction of settlements. Abbas told an Arab League summit in Libya he would not resume negotiations as long as Israel maintained the "status quo" in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Al Arabiya quotes UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reiterating that Israel's settlements were illegal under international law, and calling for Jerusalem to be part of peace negotiations.
L'Echo reports Nato secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called for a new missile defence system that would protect the US and its allies. Speaking at an international forum in Brussels, he said the missile defence could include Russia. Mr Rasmussen said the threat of missile proliferation was real and growing and, in cases such as Iran, these missiles could threaten Nato territories.
EU Observer says The European Union and Libya have lifted bans on granting visas to each others' citizens. Spain, which holds the EU presidency, said the names of Libyans had been removed from a list barring them from the 25-state Schengen visa-free area. The Libyans responded by dropping a reciprocal retaliatory measure.
The International Herald Tribune reports Europe's best known landmarks - including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and the Colosseum - fell dark on Saturday, following Sydney's Opera House and Beijing's Forbidden City in joining a global climate change protest, as lights were switched off across the world to mark the Earth Hour event. Some 4,000 cities in more than 120 countries - starting with the remote Chatham Islands off the coast of New Zealand to Samoa 24 hours later - voluntarily switched off landmarks to reduce energy consumption.
Britain's biggest selling Sunday newspaper, the News of the World, has come out in support of the Conservative Party at the next election. The paper said it was "time for change and time for hope" and that the modernised Tories could be a force for good.
Az Zaman says Iraq election winner Iyad Allawi has said he was open to alliances with any faction and wanted quickly to form a government that would build strong relationships with its regional neighbours. Allawi's secular, cross-sectarian Iraqiya bloc won by a two-seat margin in preliminary results released on Friday over the State of Law coalition led by Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who said he would challenge the results.
The New York Times quotes a Human Rights Watch's report revealing that least 321 civilians - including some 80 children - were killed in a previously unreported massacre in Congo late last year. Villagers that escaped their rebel captors, Lord's Resistance Army, were sent back with their lips and ears cut off as a warning to others of what would happen if they tried to talk.
A Belgian man, who has been asked to pay a 72,743-euro bill for the prosecution of his former wife who killed their five children, has told Le Soir he was "disgusted and revolted". Genvieve Lhermitte was sentenced to life in prison last December for murdering their son and four daughters while her husband, Bouchaib Moqadem, was on holiday. Belgium tries to recover the cost of its prosecutions from those convicted but Lhermitte is insolvent.