The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times says a new fruit and vegetable market is to be set up for sales directly from farmers. It also says that Pullicino Orlando's parish has stressed its anti-divorce stand.
The Malta Independent quotes the Prime Minister saying that Air Malta is to be restructured. The Leader of the Opposition said measures which would undermine the airline would be unacceptable.
l-orizzont leads with remarks by Opposition leader Joseph Muscat that divorce is a solution for failed marriages. It also highlights the arrival of 28 migrants yesterday, the first arrival in nine months. The newspaper also reports that an 18-year-old man was arrested yesterday after a police chase. The man, who has his driving licence suspended, failed to stop when directed to do so by the police.
In-Nazzjon reports how three men and a boy were rescued from a sinking cabin cruiser. It also reports that Magro Brothers are to export gbejniet.
The overseas press
Magyar Nemzet reports the International Monetary Fund and the EU have suspended a review of Hungary's existing credit line, saying Budapest needed to do more to slash its deficit and improve fiscal conditions. Hungary has vowed to slash its deficit to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product this year, and three percent in 2011, as part of the lifeline agreement reached with the EU, IMF and World Bank in 2008. Last month, Prime Minister Viktor Orban unveiled austerity measures, including efficiency savings worth up to 430 million euros and a tax on banks.
Al-Ayyam ays that EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has pressed for the further easing of Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip during her visit to the region. On her second trip to the Hamas-controlled territory in four months, Ashton said she wanted Israel to furthesr lift its four-year blockade of the enclave and that goods should also be allowed out of the region in future.
According to The Press Trust of India, at least 35 people have been killed in a train collision in eastern India. Scores of commuters are believed trapped in the wreckage of the crash which happened when an express train slammed into a stationary train at a station, some 200 kilometers from Calcutta.
Pravda reports 11 people, including two children, were killed and another 14 injured in a bus crash in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia. The bus, with 24 passengers aboard, fell down a ravine as it traversed the high-altitude highway which links southern Russia with the region.
El Tiempo says 17 people have been gunned down by men who stormed a party in northern Mexico. At least 18 people were wounded in what seemed like drug-related violence. More than 120 bullet casings were recovered from the scene.
The Mail & Globe says South Africans celebrated Nelson Mandela's birthday yesterday by planting gardens, painting clinics and calling for unity. Mandela, who turned 92, spent the day with his family in Johannesburg. Mandela Day, inaugurated last year and falling on the anti-apartheid leader's birthday, was conceived as an international day devoted to public service.
Der Kurrier reports experts at the International Aids conference in Vienna have urged wealthy nations not to cut spending. Michel Kazatchkine, head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said it needed up to 15.5 billion euros in the next three years to sustain progress. He said he was "afraid" and "concerned" that wealthy countries would cut development aid "because of competing priorities" in the wake of the global recession.
El Pais says Spain's parliament will debate a proposal by the opposition Popular Party this week to ban the burka in public, joining other European countries considering similar moves on the grounds that such garments are degrading to women. Justice Minister Francisco Caamano has said the government favours barring the wearing of burkas in government buildings. Barcelona, the country's second-largest city, decided last month it would ban the use of burkas and niqabs in municipal buildings, joining a handful of Catalan towns that have taken similar steps.
Meanwhile, in the UK, Immigration Minister Damian Green told the Telegraph that banning the wearing of burkas in public would be "rather un-British", as it would be at odds with the UK's "tolerant and mutually respectful society". According to a recent opinion poll, more than two thirds of voters back such a ban.
Amanda Knox has told Italian glossy magazine Oggi of her battle to prove she did not kill her British flatmate Meredith Kercher. The American student was found guilty along with Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito in December of killing Miss Kercher but said she will "fight to prove" she is innocent. She also revealed she exchanges letters with 26-year-old Sollecito, who is being held in a different prison. Knox, from Seattle, is serving 26 years while Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.
Metro reveals Ruth Madoff, the wife of jailed financier Bernie Madoff, has been helping a charity delivering meals to the elderly and housebound in Florida to 'atone for the sins' of her husband. Bernie started a life sentence in June 2009 after being convicted of swindling investors out of £45billion. The 67-year-old, who drives a 14-year-old car for her rounds, has denied any knowledge of her husband's con. His homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach were seized by US authorities leaving Mrs Madoff staying with her sister.
Ruhr Nachrichten says an estimated three million people had taken advantage of the good weather and partied on one of Germany's busiest motorways as part of the Ruhr 2010 European Capital of Culture festivities. The world's longest table, stretching 60 kilometres, was laid out to allow tens of thousands of revellers to picnic in peace.