The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Sunday Times says Malta united in tears and applause for Guido de Marco yesterday. It also carries reactions to last Friday's fireworks factory explosion, the cause of which is still unknown.
The Malta Independent also leads with the outpouring of grief for Guido de Marco and carries a large picture of the hearse which carried de Marco outside PN headquarters.
MaltaToday carries a picture of a tearful Peter Paul Busuttil as the hearse carrying Guido de Marco stopped outside PN headquarters. It also reports that a new opinion survey has confirmed a pro-divorce majority.
It-Torca says an elderly Maltese who wanted to marry a Chinese woman ended up being held against his will and beaten in China for two months. It also says that the trade unions will not accept changes to cost of living compensation rules.
Il-Mument carries a supplement about Guido de Marco and says his demise is the biggest loss for the Nationalist Party since George Borg Olivier died 30 years ago.
KullHadd also features the mourning for de Marco. In other stories, it says the Mosta technopark has become a ‘cemeterypark', with a high percentage of vacant factory space. It also says the polluted waters of Delimara are not being monitored.
Illum says David Norbert Schembri is seeking a pardon after killing his partner.
The overseas press
Pakistan Today says Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has claimed 20 million people in the country have been affected by floods and were now homeless - more than the 14 million estimated by the UN. He made the claim in a speech on Pakistan's Independence Day, the celebrations for which have been much more subdued in tone than in previous years as a result of the disaster.
Le Republicain reports Niger is facing the worst hunger crisis in its history, with almost half the country's population in desperate need of food and up to one in six children suffering from acute malnutrition.
The New York Post says Barack Obama and his family have taken a swim in the Gulf of Mexico as he declared beaches along the oil-hit coastline "open for business". The President has urged Americans to visit Florida to help revive the economy stricken by the BP oil spill, saying oil was no longer flowing into the Gulf.
Former British Labour Cabinet Minister Alan Milburn was reported to soon be returning to government as David Cameron's "social mobility tsar". The announcement is to be made in the coming week by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, according to The Sunday Telegraph and the Sunday Mirror. Downing Street admitted Mr Clegg would be discussing social mobility but declined to comment on the reports.
According to Ireland's Sunday Tribune, a small gathering of concerned Catholics went to the residence of the Papal Nuncio in Dublin to protest at the Pope's refusal to accept the resignation of two Irish Bishops. A letter for Pope Benedict outlining the "extensive hurt and outrage" caused by this refusal was given to a representative at the residence. The letter accuses the Pope of undermining the authority of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and of choosing to preserve church structures ahead of caring for those suffering from church abuses.
Expresso says more than 600 firefighters are battling at least 26 serious wildfire outbreaks fanned by gusting winds in three separate areas of Portugal. Fires with several active fronts flared up close to the border with Spain. Wildfires are common in Portugal during summer and almost 10,000 firefighters and 56 aircraft are on standby this year. Two firefighters died earlier this month.
Australia's Sunday newspapers have backed Prime Minister Julia Gillard to win the election, saying Labour deserved a second term. But voters don't seem to agree, with the latest opinion poll suggesting Opposition leader Tony Abbott would win the 17 seats he needs for an election victory. Suprisingly, the paper that has hit Labor the hardest, The Sunday Telegraph, said it was willing to give Ms Gillard an opportunity to show what she could achieve as Prime Minister.
The New York Times says two men and two women have been shot dead and four others were injured after an argument at a wedding anniversary party in the city of Buffalo. Shooting broke out as about 100 guests were leaving the City Grill restaurant in the early hours of Saturday. A 25-year-old man has been charged with four counts of second-degree murder.
La Razon reports that the women's baseball World Cup in the city of Caracas in Venezuela has been suspended after a Hong Kong player was hit by a gunshot during a game. Cheuk Woon Yee was hit in the leg during a match against the Netherlands. She spent the night in the base's hospital but was not seriously hurt.
Japan has bowed to global pressure to end the parental abductions of children from broken international marriages. Asahi Shimbun says Tokyo has decided to ratify the 1980 Hague Convention that required the return of wrongfully kept children to their country of habitual residence. Thousands of Japanese have denied estranged foreign partners access to their children.
The Washington Post announces health authorities in the United States have approved a controversial new form of emergency contraception that can prevent a pregnancy as many as five days after sex. The decision to allow the sale of the pill, ella, was welcomed by family-planning proponents as a crucial new option to prevent unwanted pregnancies. But critics condemned the decision, arguing the drug could also induce abortion. Ella could cut the chances of becoming pregnant by about two-thirds for at least 120 hours after a contraceptive failure or unprotected sex,
La Republica says a topless sunbather is being investigated by police after being accused of sensuously rubbing sun cream on herself on a public beach. Police were called to a beach at Anzio, south of Rome, by a furious mother who said the way the "attractive" sunbather was rubbing lotion on her body had "troubled her sons, aged 14 and 12". The mother said she had asked the 26-year-old woman to cover herself up. But the woman, still topless, refused. An argument broke out and police were called.