The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times says 57 hunters have applied for the special spring hunting licence. Applications close at noon today. It also says Malta has offered to lend €30m to Greece.
The Malta Independent says the alleged victims of child abuse said their meeting with the Archbishop was a great help. It also reports on the prime minister's visit to Qatar and the possibility of the setting up in Malta of an education city.
l-orizzont says a man drowned when he slipped and fell while boarding a launch in Marsaxlokk. It also says that one in five youths shows signs of depression.
In-Nazzjon quotes the Prime Minister saying his Gulf visit had opened new opportunities in health and education. Businessmen had some 200 meetings, which they will follow up.
The overseas press:
As thousands spent a freezing night in the open, China Daily reports that more than 900 people have been pulled alive from the ruins of an earthquake in the Qinghai province. The powerful quake killed almost 600 people and injured more than 10,000 others.
Times of India suggests at least 100 people were killed and hundreds of others were injured as a cyclone demolished some 50,000 mud huts and uprooted trees in a cluster of villages in eastern India. The cyclone struck in North Dinajpur district of West Bengal state, snapping telephone links and electricity supply to the area.
EU Observer quotes the EU's Commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, Olli Rehn, saying the European Commission is searching for ways to hold its members to their promises related to budgetary spending and national debt. Rehn said in Brussels that while the bloc had imposed a solid set of rules, most were simply ignoring them.
Dnevni reports Croatian President Ivo Josipovic has told the Bosnian parliament he deeply regretted the role his country played in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia involving the country's Croats, Muslims and Serbs. President Josipovic, who is on a two-day visit to Bosnia, is the first Croatian leader to pay tribute to the victims of Bosnian-Croat violence during the war which killed more than 100,000 people, mainly Bosnians.
The first of the UK's historic televised election debates will take place in Manchester with the main party leaders going head-to-head this evening. The Independent bills the first-ever televised Leaders' Debate as "90 Minutes That Could Change Britain". But The Guardian says the parties are clashing over the rules behind Thursday's TV showdown. The Daily Telegraph leads on a poll which shows the Tories have a 12-point lead in the key 100 marginal seats.
Avvenire reports the Vatican has said Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone was not referring to gays outside the Church when he said homosexuality was linked to paedophilia. Responding to growing condemnation of the remark, Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi said it had statistics indicating some 60 per cent of cases of clerical abuse of minors were committed by gays.
USA Today says the US Boy Scouts organisation has been ordered to pay $1.4m (€1m) to a man who claimed he was sexually abused by a leader as a child. And there could be more financial damage as jurors are set to go back to court next week to decide whether the Scouts must pay up to another $25m (€18.4m) in punitive damages. A jury in Portland, Oregon, ruled the group had failed to protect the youngster.
Il Tempo reports Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has told Parliament that Italy was not "satisfied" with the answers supplied by Afghan Authorities in the case of the arrest of three Italian aid-workers, allegedly involved in a plot to assassinate a local Afghan governor.
Frettabladid says some 800 people in Iceland have been evacuated from their homes amid fears of a second volcanic eruption. The volcano erupted on March 20 after almost 200 years of silence. A heavy cloud cover was preventing scientists from flying over the glacier to determine what precisely was happening and whether the volcano had actually erupted.
Nature reports that scientists have, for the first time transferred, DNA from one human egg to another that could prevent serious - and often fatal - inherited diseases such as muscle weakness, blindness and fatal heart failure. The Newcastle scientists reject claims from anti-IVF campaigners that their work is unethical.
Bild says a 14-year-old Austrian girl has admitted stabbing her mother to death during a row over the family's computer. Police officers in Vienna say the woman was attacked repeatedly with a kitchen knife. Her body was later found by her husband and 12-year-old son.