The following are the top stories in Maltese and overseas press:
The Sunday Times says underwater caves threaten the building of the planned wind farm at Is-Sikka l-Bajda. It also reports that an Emirates flight from Malta was delayed because Opposition leader Joseph Muscat was an hour late for check-in.
The Malta Independent says 200 tonnes of flyash were emitted into the atmosphere by Marsa power station between the end of January and October last year. It also reports that the EU is confident that normal operations in EU education programmes will resume shortly.
Malta Today says the police have called in the Mimcol CEO as part of their inquiries into alleged bribery in the processing of a tender for the privatisation of superyacht facilities. It also gives prominence to a Church statement that cohabiting couples should not receive Holy Communion.
Il-Mument quotes Palumbo officials saying they are eager to start operations at the Malta dockyard. It also reports that Geitu Mercieca may take over from Tony Zarb as GWU general secretary, making the union super-militant.
It-Torca says contractors implicated in corruption over the Delimara scandal have remained hidden. It also quotes Lawrence Grech saying he still cannot understand how the Church had protected priests involved in child abuse. It also reports that parents who were fined for not sending children to school have not paid their fines.
Illum says the rate of miscarriage is far higher in Marsa than anywhere else in Malta.
KullHadd says the government has been belied by the freeport and Polidano group who said they had no knowledge of plans for freeport waste to be taken to the freeport for shipment.
The overseas press:
Times of India reports pilot error was being blamed for the death of 158 passengers and crew after a Boeing 737-800 overshot a hilltop runway in Magalore, plunged over a cliff and exploded in flames. There were eight survivors.
Abrar quotes the speaker of the Iranian parliament Ali Larijani saying that Iran could abandon a nuclear fuel deal brokered by Brazil and Turkey, if world powers do not accept it in full.
Asia Observer says the UN Command's Military Armistice Commission has started an inquiry into whether the sinking of a South Korean naval ship blamed on North Korea broke the Korean War truce. Representatives from 11 countries will review the findings of a multi-national probe into the sinking of the ship to determine the scope of any North Korean armistice violations.
In the UK, a late draft of the Queen's Speech, obtained by The Sunday Telegraph, reveals Prime Minister David Cameron's 500-day programme for turning Britain into a "strong and fair society" will see 21 Bills introduced in the next 18 months. The speech contains many key policies demanded by the Liberal Democrats as the price for their entry into the coalition government.
Meanwhile, The Independent on Sunday says Britain's banking industry faces up to £8 billion of new taxes under plans being drawn up in Whitehall for the emergency Budget next month. And The Sunday Times claims that at least 300,000 Whitehall and other public sector workers are facing the axe as the coalition government sets to work on reining in the £156 billion budget deficit.
The Irish Independent says Irish twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf, back home after being separated in a 14-hour operation at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, are expected to remain at Cork University Hospital for several days while their progress is monitored by an expert paediatric team. Surgeons were taken aback by the speed of the five-month-olds boys' recovery, just over six weeks since the operation. They had been joined from the chest to the pelvis.
Meanwhile, Metro in England reports that the surviving five babies of sextuplets born last week are in a stable condition and "doing well". Andy and Vicky Lamb, both 31, are mourning the loss of one of the two boys after he died on Friday. The remaining boy and his four sisters are now in a stable condition. The babies weighed between 590g and 885g at birth. Live births of sextuplets are rare, occurring approximately once in every 4.5 million pregnancies.
Asia Times says Jordan Romero, the 13-year-old Californian teenager with the looks of a budding pop star, silenced his detractors yesterday by reaching the top of Mt Everest after almost four years of hard training
La Provence reports a Picasso lithograph and four paintings have been stolen from a collector's home in Marseille. French police say two men managed to get past two security gates at the home of the collector in his sixties, beat him, and take the Picasso lithograph and four works by other artists. The theft comes after the €100m art heist on Thursday from the Paris museum, whose security alarms were broken.
Il Tempo says Italy's first woman priest was ordained at a church in central Rome, a stone's throw from the Vatican, a fierce opponent of women entering the priesthood. Maria Vittoria Longhitano, who is 35 and married, belongs to the Italian Old Catholic Church, a small congregation that exited Roman Catholicism in the 19th century.
Corriere ella Sera quotes Jose Mourinho admitting he was likely to leave Inter after guiding the Nerazzurri to an historic treble. The Portuguese, whose side beat Bayern Munich 2-0 to win the Champions League final last night, said it was almost for sure it was his last game with Inter. The 47-year-old former Chelsea boss added that only Real were interested in him. "I believe my target now is to win another championship that I've never won and win Champions League with third club and then come back to England."