The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press today.
The Times says that the police have no way of checking tinted windows on cars and only rely on sight. It also reports how an elderly person died from a heart attack after a yacht crashed into his boat.
The Malta Independent leads with the Mass held to mark the police anniversary yesterday. It also reports that Joe Borg raised controversy by joining a maritime lobby agency.
l-orizzont says the European Parliament has backed new rules to streamline cross-border divorce procedures.
In-Nazzjon reports how a company director and a driver were each condemned to six months imprisonment for negligence after a schoolgirl fell off an overcrowded van seven years ago.
The overseas press
CNN quotes BP saying it had completed the installation of a new cap on the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well. The valve has been designed to be a much tighter fit than its predecessor, so as to completely contain the oil that had been gushing 1,600 meters beneath the surface. BP has said the total cost of the operation to contain the oil spill has now hit $3.5 billion (€2.8 billion).
Canberra Times reports on growing speculation that Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard could call a general election as soon as this week. Gillard, 48, is Australia's first woman prime minister. She replaced Kevin Rudd on June 24, in a move that has resurrected Labor's electoral standing and reshaped Australian politics. Two new opinion polls put Labour ahead of the Conservative opposition at 52 percent.
The European edition of The Wall Street Journal leads with President Sarkozy's appearance on prime time television to deny allegations that the nation's richest woman helped finance his 2007 election campaign. In a combative hour-long interview on France 2, he called the allegations lies and calumny, and claimed his opponents were trying to destabilise the government as it tried to reform the pension system.
The Washington Times quotes US justice officials saying they were "deeply disappointed" over Switzerland's decion not to extradite film director Roman Polanski to the US to face sentencing for a case dating back to 1977. The filmmaker is wanted in California over a conviction for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Associated Press reports from Havana that a relaxed and lucid Fidel Castro returned to the limelight, discussing world events in a raspy voice in his most prominent television interview since falling seriously ill four years ago. In the interview on Mesa Redondo (Round Table) - a daily Cuban talk show on current events - the 83-year-old former president talked about how tension between the United States and both North Korea and Iran could ultimately trigger a global nuclear war.
Belfast Times says police battled Irish nationalists for control of a road as a day of peaceful Protestant parades across Northern Ireland turned violent when night fell. Riot police in helmets and body armour dragged kicking, flailing protesters as other protesters packed into side streets pelted police with rocks, bricks and Molotov cocktails.
The Times leads on the dying days of the British Labour government in exclusive extracts of Lord Mandelson's memoirs, which revealed members of Gordon Brown's former Cabinet saying Labour was "finished" in the run-up to the general election.
ABC states that an estimated one million people gave a heroes' welcome to Spain's victorious football squad as it returned to Madrid carrying the coveted World Cup trophy. After meeting Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the players enjoyed an audience with King Juan Carlos and then paraded the World Cup trophy - which Spain won for the first time in history - aboard an open-top bus tour through the capital.
Meanwhile, Vanguard reports from Kampala that an al Qaeda-inspired militant group from Somalia said it was behind the bomb blasts in the Ugandan capital that killed at least 74 people and injured some 70 others as they watched the World Cup final on TV. It is the first time Al Shabab has carried out attacks outside of Somalia.
The Irish Times says seven friends, aged between 19 and 23, were killed along with another man in the worst road accident on record in Ireland after watching Spain win the World Cup. All the men died at the scene. Police said alcohol was not a factor in the crash.