The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times says Libya snubbed calls for assistance during the clash between fishermen and anti-tuna fishing activists. It also says that teachers have been offered reduced hours as part of family friendly measures.
The Malta Independent says the fishermen who clashed with tuna fishing protesters did not even have fishing equipment and were only towing a tuna pen. It also says the GRTU is adamant in its oppositiont o the FOR.UM of trade unions joining the MCESD.
In-Nazzjon says the two Nationalist MEPs in the past year did more work than the three Labour MEPs. The newspaper also highlights the restoration work at Victoria Gate in Valletta.
l-orizzont says a Russian man found dead in St Paul's Bay was a nuclear weapons expert.
The overseas press
Expansión reports that International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has thrown his weight behind recent unpopular austerity measures introduced by the government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in Spain. Following a meeting in Madrid, the IMF said the austerity measures aimed at slashing the budget deficit were taking Spain in the right direction. The country's prime minister predicted they would not impede economic recovery.
Haaretz quotes Israel's UN ambassador Gabriela Shalev urging the government of Lebanon and the international community to prevent a small group of ships from trying to break the blockade of Gaza, warning that Israel reserved the right to use all necessary means to stop the vessels. In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon she warned the attempt could escalate tensions and affect peace and security in the region.
The Lebanese newspaper Al-Liwaa quotes an anonymous Lebanese source as saying that Public Works and Transportation Ministry had asked Hezbollah to refrain from participating in the Lebanese aid ship "Miriam". Some 50 Christian and Muslim Lebanese women as well as foreigners are preparing to leave Lebanon tomorrow on board of the Miriam, which is loaded with medical supplies for cancer patients.
Roza Otunbayeva, Kyrgyzstan's interim leader, has told the Russian daily Kommersant that the death toll from ethnic clashes in the country's south could reach 2000, 10 times higher than the official figure of 200. Meanwhile the United Nations said up to a million people may need aid after the violence.
The Daily Mail reports UK airport departure levies will go up from November and after that a ‘per plane' levy could raise costs higher. The shift to environmentally friendly duty, where airlines will be taxed for each flight rather than passengers, is expected to be signalled by Chancellor George Osborne on Tuesday.
The Warsaw Times says Presidential candidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski paid a powerfully symbolic visit to the tomb of his twin brother, Poland's late president, yesteday, the 61st anniversary of their birth and the last day of campaigning. Poles will elect a successor on Sunday to Lech Kaczynski, who died in a plane crash in Russia on April 10 along with 95 others, including his wife Maria and much of Poland's political and military elite. Kaczynski decided to run for the presidency, saying he wanted to safeguard his brother's legacy.
Frettabladid reports Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen has resigned ending seven years of government marked by sound policies but tinged with scandal, making way for the Nordic country's second woman premier. Parliament will elect a new government on Tuesday, almost certainly led by Mari Kiviniemi, Finland's 41-year-old public administration and local government minister, who was voted the new head of Vanhanen's Centre Party at its congress last weekend.
Al Jazeera says the UN High Commissioner for Refugees is to investigate claims by 14 failed Iraqi asylum seekers who claimed they were mistreated by British officials before being deported back to Iraq. The men were among 42 deported to Baghdad. UNHCR said agency officials met six of the Iraqis and saw fresh bruises that indicated possible mistreatment.
Diaro reports the Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago, has died at his home in Spain. He was 87. An outspoken communist, Saramago was known for his dramatic, fantastical style as well has his page-long sentences.
Izvestia reports a 71-year-old Russian grandmother has been issued with a restriction order by Moscow police for swindling businessmen out of more than half a million euro. The geriatric fraudster posed as an influential lobbyist with close ties to Moscow's City Hall between 2007 and 2008. She promised to deliver the swindled sum of 16.4 million roubles (€430,000) to her alleged contacts within the authorities as a bribe on behalf of clients keen to purchase prime real estate in the heart of the capital. She then vanished with the money until authorities tracked her down on Thursday.