The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:

The Times reports that ST workers have voted to save their jobs. The story also features in all the other newspapers. In other stories, it reports that Brussels has defended the Italy-Libya agreement on the repatriation of migrants rescued on the high seas.

The Malta Independent says thieves targeted animals at Inspire. It also reports that two men alleged to be involved in the attempted HSBC hold-up were arrested in a doctor's clinic.

In-Nazzjon says it is not excluded that those who attempted the hold-up at HSBC Centre used the same kind of pistols as the police. It also reports that €3.2m are being spent on a new radiology unit at the Gozo hospital.

l-orizzont also reports how a man alleged to have been injured during the attempted HSBC hold-up called at the prison doctor's private clinic to have a bullet removed.

The overseas press

As the Pentagon scrambled to determine the source of the leak of 92,000 secret military files and whether it would endanger lives, Fox News reports the huge security breach has triggered an outcry from nations fighting in Afghanistan. The documents were released to The New York Times, Britain's The Guardian and Germany's Der Spiegel by the website WikiLeaks, which posted them on Sunday. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange defended the decision to publish the leaked files, saying they showed "thousands" of war crimes may have been committed in Afghanistan.

The Times says British Foreign Secretary William Hague has challenged Iran to resume talks on its nuclear plans after the EU agreed tough new sanctions hitting Iran's energy needs, banks and businesses. Mr Hague said Iran's refusal to co-operate with the West over its nuclear programme left the EU no option but to tighten the sanctions screw. Tehran has condemned the measures but at the same time signalled it was willing to resume negotiations over its nuclear programme.

Reuters report from Ankara that British Prime Minister David Cameron would promise to fight for Turkey to join the EU and would dismiss opponents of Turkish membership as "protectionist" or "prejudiced".

Neue Ruhr Zeitung says the death toll from the Love Parade disaster in Duisburg has risen after a 20th victim died in hospital. The authorities earlier raised the number of people injured in the crush at the German dance music festival to 511, including 43 seriously hurt and one in critical condition.

The BBC has learned BP chief executive Tony Hayward will get an immediate annual pension worth about £600,000 when he leaves the company in October. Mr Hayward is to stand down after sustained criticism of his handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil leak. However, a BP source said he would be nominated for a non-executive position at the firm's Russian joint venture.

Phnom Penh Post reports that in a historic first, a UN-backed court has sentenced a Khmer Rouge prison chief to 30 years in jail for crimes against humanity. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, is the first Khmer Rouge cadre to face justice in an international tribunal over the deaths of up to two million people through starvation, overwork and execution under the 1975-1979 regime. The court took into account the years he had already served since his arrest in 1999, meaning that the 67-year-old could walk free in about 19 years.

Sky News reports a 31-year-old Spanish farmer, who accidentally shot himself in the face five years ago, has appeared before TV cameras after becoming the first person in the world to have a full-face transplant. During the 24-hour surgery last March, doctors at Vall d'Hebron in Madrid lifted an entire face, including jaw, nose, cheekbones, muscles, teeth and eyelids from one person and placed it, mask-like, onto the man, who was unable to breathe or eat on his own after the shooting incident.

Celebrity news web TMZ.com says health authorities in Los Angeles are investigating whether Brittany Murphy and her screenwriter husband Simon Monjack were killed because of mould in their LA home, which was previously owned by Britney Spears. The "Clueless" star collapsed and died in her shower last Christmas, with a ruling of death from pneumonia complicated by use of prescription drugs. Five months later her husband went into cardiac arrest and died at their home. Mould poisoning attacks the respiratory system. Mould can hide in a house for years without anyone realising it.

East African Standard reports poisonous moonshine has killed at least 17 people and blinded a dozen more in Kenya. Police said the home-distilled drink may have contained traces of methanol.

A painting touted as a possible new Caravaggio is not in fact the work of the 16th-century master, the director of the Vatican museums has told Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano. Antonio Paolucci Paolucci said "The Martyrdom of St Lawrence", hanging in a Jesuit church in Rome, was "only a modest copy" of a lost painting by a "quality" painter, not Caravaggio.

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