The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times in a souvenir issue, shows Pope Benedict going through the crowds yesterday. It says the Pope was given an emotional send-off.
The Malta Independent shows a group of youths with the Pope on the catamaran which crossed Grand Harbour.
In-Nazzjon highlights the Pope's call for Malta to preserve and disseminate the faith.
l-orizzont also carries many pictures showing various stages of the Pope's visit to Malta yesterday.
Illum says the Pope cried with the victims of child abuse during a meeting yesterday.
The overseas press:
The International Herald Tribune reports that hopes of a swift resumption of commercial flights have been raised as the EU said air traffic could return to 50 per cent of its normal level today if forecasts confirmed that skies over half the continent were clearing of volcanic ash that has thrown global travel into chaos. EU transport ministers are to hold emergency talks by video conference on easing the chaos.
The Aviation Herald says several airlines safely flew test flights without passengers over Europe on Sunday despite warnings about the dangers of the ash. That fuelled a corporate push to end an economically-devastating ban on commercial air traffic as 63,000 flights have been cancelled in four days, with millions of passengers stranded worldwide. The flight bans came amid fears that the ash - a mixture of glass, sand and rock particles - can damage aircraft engines.
Warsaw Voice reports that thousands of mourners paid their last respects during the funeral Mass and burial of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria in Krakow. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets with outstretched hands, some holding flowers and national flags, and many wiping tears from their eyes.
Cyprus Observer says official results indicate that hardliner Dervis Eroglu has won the election for president in the breakaway republic of Northern Cyprus. With 95 percent of Sunday's vote counted, Eroglu won 50.3 percent, slightly more than the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff against incumbent president Mehmet Ali Talat. The outcome could stall talks aimed at bringing the Turkish and Greek sides of the island together.
Abrar quotes President Ahmadinejad extolling Iran's military might during an annual army parade, saying the country was so powerful that no one would dare attack it. The parade in Tehran showcased Iran's surface-to-surface Ghadr, Sajjil and Shahab-3 missiles, which have a range of up to 1,250 miles that put Israel and US bases in the region within Iran's reach.
Bangkok Post reports that the Thai army has moved hundreds of soldiers into the business district of Bangkok to prevent anti-government protesters entering the area. The the red-shirts, who have been camping out for weeks in a shopping district nearby, are trying to force Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to step down and call an election.
China Daily says a 68-year-old man has been pulled from the rubble of the earthquake that struck China earlier this week killing more than 1,700 people. The man had been trapped for 100 hours following the 6.9 magnitude quake.
Afghan Post reports President Hamid Karzai has taken key steps to reform Afghanistan's electoral system, naming a respected former judge to head an organising body and ending his bid to exclude international representatives from a fraud-monitoring group. The moves meet long-standing international demands that the electoral process be cleaned up after massive fraud in last year's presidential balloting.
The Sydney Morning Herald says a publisher is reprinting 7,000 cookbooks after a mistake which gave a recipe for pasta with "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of "pepper". Penguin Group Australia's head of publishing, Bob Sessions, said the proof reader should have spotted the "silly mistake". The reprinting will cost the publisher €13,707.