The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Sunday Times reports illegal dumping of construction waste in scenic Dwejra, Gozo. It also reports that a shortage of equipment is leading to delays for heart procedures at Mater Dei.
The Malta Independent says the PL is expecting an apology by tomorrow for what happened in parliament on Thursday and the claims by Tonio Borg that Justyne Caruana voted with the government. It will otherwise not attend meetings of the select committee on democratic change.
MaltaToday says Labour has drawn new battle-lines in the wake of the power station controversy.
KullHadd says Simon Busuttil is fighting corruption in the EU but stays silent in Malta. The newspaper also insists that Justyne Caruana did not vote against the Opposition on Thursday.
Illum claims that white taxis are still not using the taximeters.
It-Torca says Malta's aid to Greece will reach €74m in three years, including €27 million this year. It also reports that there will be no EU aid for the City Gate project. The newspaper also gives prominence to the death of Zejtun fireworks enthusiast Gianni Abela, a victim of last Monday's fireworks factory explosion.
Il-Mument quotes MP David Agius saying that what happened in parliament on Thursday recalled the unrest of the 1970s and 1980s. It also reports that President Abela has left hospital.
The overseas press
EU Observer says EU leaders are working round the clock to construct new crisis defence mechanisms to safeguard the euro currency and crack down on market speculation before the Asian financial markets reopen on Monday. The European Commission will propose plans to create a "European stabilization mechanism" at 1.00 pm ahead of an emergency meeting of finance ministers from the 27-nation bloc two hours later.
Berliner Zeitung reports that Germany's highest court has rejected a request by a group of four lawyers and one businessman to block the immediate release of Berlin's multi-billion-euro loan to debt-stricken Greece. They had argued that the financial rescue package broke German constitutional law, that it was not provided for under European Union treaties and that it would lead to policies that cause inflation.
Voters in North Rhine-Westphalia will go to the polls today to elect a new parliament in what the influential Die Zeit calls Germay's "mini national election". The state, with around 18 million inhabitants, is the country's most populous and swings among its 13.5 million voters have often preceded similar shifts at the national level.
In the UK, the front pages are dominated by the talks between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to form a coalition government as the country remained under the uncertainty of a hung parliament. According to the Sunday Express, David Cameron told veterans celebrating VE Day that he and Nick Clegg are close to a deal. Liberal Democrat MPs have endorsed leader Nick Clegg's decision to enter talks with the Conservatives.
The International Heald Tribune says European air traffic faced growing disruption as a cloud of ash spewing from an Icelandic volcano affected flights in Spain, France, Portugal, the north of Italy and the UK. Some 5,000 flights were cancelled while many transatlantic services were delayed as they skirted the plume of debris from the Eyjafjoell volcano, which plunged air travel across the continent into chaos last month.
Avvenire reports that the Pope has accepted the resignation of a leading German bishop Walter Mixa, who was being investigated over allegations of physically abusing minors and financial misconduct. The Augsburg bishop had offered to step down two weeks ago amid persistent allegations that he hit children while a priest decades ago and claims of financial misconduct.
Baltic Times says the police fired tear gas to disperse opponents of Lithuania's first ever gay pride rally after protests turned violent. Officers broke up a crowd of about 2,000 protesters as demonstrators threw water bottles, fire-crackers and stones from behind security barriers. Some 400 people took part in the two-hour Baltic Pride 2010 march in a sealed-off area of the capital Vilnius, demanding equality.
China Today says a man has stabbed eight people to death, including three family members - his mother, wife and daughter. Four neighbours and a migrant worker were also killed. A police and an investigation is under way.
El Universal reports gunmen burst into a wedding ceremony in Mexico and kidnapped the groom and his brother, his best man and his uncle. No ransom demands have been received and police say this was a case of apparent score-settling between rival drug gangs.
The Derrick says BP has encountered problems with the containment device it is trying to put over a blown-out well on the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico. The 98-tonne concrete-and-steel box had to be moved after ice-like crystals began accumulating inside it. The aim was to contain as much as 85 per cent of the escaping oil and then funnel it into a waiting tanker on the surface.
Börzen Zeitung reports that pirates firing heavy artillery have hijacked a German-owned chemical tanker off the coast of Oman. The European Union's naval force patrolling the area say crew members appear to be unharmed.
Al Quds al Arabi says the PLO have authorised the Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to restart indirect peace talks with Israel. The "proximity talks" will be mediated by US Middle East envoy George Mitchell.
RIA Novosti reports a second explosion has occurred in the Raspadskaya coal mine in western Siberia just four hours after an initial explosion killed eight miners. According to earlier reports, 66 miners remain trapped underground after the first methane gas explosion at the mine. There were 359 people in the mine at the time of the blast, and 282 people were already taken to surface.
La Gazeta leads with the swearing-in ceremony in San Jose of Costa Rica's first female president, 51-year-old Laura Chinchilla after a landslide victory in elections last February. The former vice-president has pledged to continue the free-market economic policies of her predecessor, Nobel laureate Oscar Arias.
Corriere della Sera announces the first divorce fair in Italy, to help couples facing marriage break-ups with legal proceedings and how to start afresh. More than 130,000 couples in Italy split up or divorced in 2007.
Zagreb's Sportnet reports that a football referee gave a yellow card to a player for diving - only to find moments later he had actually collapsed and died on the field from a massive heart attack. Goran Tunjic was playing for Croatian side Mladost when he fell to the ground in the 35th minute of the match against rivals Hrvatski Sokola. The referee immediately saw that he had made a mistake and called for medics.