The following are the top stories in the Maltese and and overseas press:
The Times reports that the PN yesterday started an internal debate on the issue of divorce.
The Malta Independent highlights HSBC's half-year results and the stress tests held by the MFSA and the Central Bank on local banks.
l-orizzont asks if the Marsa racetrack is next on the privatisation list. It also reports how an appeal has been filed in the election corrupt practices case.
In-Nazzjon reports that €9.2 million will be spent on preservation works at Tarxien Temples, St Paul's Catacombs and Ggantija. It also highlights the narrowing of the government deficit.
The overseas press:
Al Jazeera says Israel has carried out air strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory exploded in the city of Ashkelon. The air strikes hit a training camp in Gaza City used by Hamas and smuggling tunnels along Gaza's southern border with Egypt. Another air strike struck an empty caravan in the central Gaza Strip. Palestinian medical workers said four people were lightly wounded.
Corriere della Sera says the speaker of Italy's lower house, Gianfranco Fini, has refused to step down after being censured by his own party. He said his supporters could vote against the government of former ally Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, raising the spectre of early elections. Berlusconi, who accused Fini of being a traitor and conspirator and trying to inflict a "slow death" to their party, met party leaders late on Friday to decide his next move.
Kathemerini quotes a Greek government spokesman saying that military trucks and navy vessels may be used to restore fuel supplies cut by a strike that has hurt industry and tourism at the height of vacation season.
The Irish Times says eurozone unemployment was flat at 10 per cent for the fourth month running in June and inflation remained muted in July, boosting the case for the fragile economic recovery to be nursed with low interest rates.
The founder of the website Wikileaks has rejected US claims he has blood on his hands after releasing 90,000 leaked classified documents on the Afghan war. Julian Assange told the BBC there was no evidence that any informants had died as a result of the leaks.
MSNBC reports that Afghan police has to fire shots to disperse hundreds of people protesting the death of four Afghan civilians in an accident involving a US Embassy vehicle. A crowd of angry Afghans shouted "Death to America," hurled stones and set fire to two SUVs after the crash on a road leading to Kabul's airport.
Pravda says forest fires are raging across Russia, destroying villages and killing at least 29 people, including three firefighters.
The Irish Independent reports that a woman who stole a total of €125,000 from her employers in order to pay her overdue income tax bill has been jailed for two years. Cheryl Byrne, 34, pleaded guilty. As a book-keeper with the firm, she hid the theft by entering random transactions for sundry supplies in the account books.
Aftonbladett says a former Swedish police chief known for his lectures on gender equality and sexual harassment has been convicted of rape and other sex crimes and sent to prison for six and a half years. He was also ordered to pay 300,000 kronor (€32,000) in damages to three of the victims. In a case that shocked this Nordic nation, the court found Goran Lindberg, 64, guilty of more than a dozen sex offenses, including aggravated rape and buying sexual favors. The former police commissioner denied all charges, except a few cases of buying sex.