The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times, like the other newspapers, leads with yesterday's state funeral to former President Gudio de Marco. It says that the ‘ People's statesman' was laid to rest.
The Malta Independent says ‘So Long, Guido'.
In-Nazzjon says Guido de Marco was given a dignified funeral. It also highlights how the Pope described Guido de Marco as inspirational.
l-orizzont also leads with the state funeral. In another story, it quotes Church officials saying that a vote in favour of divorce would be a sin. The newspaper also asks if Fr Mark Montebello is being exiled.
The overseas press
The World Trade Organization has ordered the European Union to remove import tariffs on high-tech goods or risk retaliatory trade sanctions. The Wall Street Journal reports the EU declined to designate as high-tech three categories of goods: television cable converter boxes that also deliver the Internet, flat-panel computer screens and printers that also scan, fax or copy. It argued these were old-fashioned products and subject to tariffs of between six and 14 per cent.
EU Observer says annual inflation in the 16-nation eurozone last month rose to 1.7 per cent, the highest rate since November 2008. Eurostat said the figure was boosted by more expensive fuel costs for transport, and higher alcohol and tobacco prices. Across all 27 nations in the European Union, prices were up 2.1 per cent in July, compared with a rise of 1.9 per cent in June.
According to Asia Observer, the government of Pakistan has renewed its call for international help in dealing with the humanitarian catastrophy caused by the worst floods in the country's history. The Foreign Minister said the disaster, which has left one fifth of Pakistan under water, was too great for Islamabad to handle alone. The cost of rebuilding Pakistan once the water receded could exceed 12 billion euros.
Voice of America announces Barclays Bank has agreed to pay nearlt $300 million (234 million euros) to settle charges US charges that it altered financial records for more than a decade to hide hundreds of millions of dollars in payments flowing into the US from Cuba, Libya, Iran and other sanctioned countries. The fine was seen as the latest sign the Obama administration and US allies were intensifying efforts to freeze Iran out of the international financial system.
El Tiempo reports a Colombian airliner crashed and broke into three pieces during an early-morning thunderstorm while trying to land at a Colombian resort island off the Nicaraguan coast. All but one of the 131 people aboard survived. Five were seriously injured. Officials believe the death of a 68-year-old female passenger resulted from a heart attack, not the impact of the crash.
Adevarul says three newborn babies died were severely injured in an explosion at a maternity ward of a hospital in the Romanian capital Bucharest. Eight other babies and two pregnant women were badly burnt and they are not expected to survive. It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion but one report said it might have been caused by an electrical fault in the air conditioning system.
Haaretz reports an Isreali court has found the state responsible for killing a 10-year-old Palestinian girl in 2007 and has ordered the government to pay her family damages. The girl was struck in the head by a rubber bullet during a clash between border guards and stone-throwing youths in the West Bank town of Anata.
Yedioth Ahronoth says a former Israeli soldier has caused a media storm by posting photos of herself on Facebook posing alongside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. The photo album has since been removed. Israel's military has sharply criticised the actions of the former soldier, branding the images "shameless". A Palestinian Authority spokesman said they were "humiliating".
Two British nationals - The Independent and The Daily Telegraph - focus on the announcement by former Prime Minister Tony Blair that he is to donate the profits from his memoirs, to be published next month, to the British Legion. Anti-war campaigners and relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq have branded Mr Blair's gift as "guilt money".
Bild reports a former Eurovision singer went on trial yesterday accused of deliberately infecting her partner with the HIV virus. Nadja Benaissa, a member of German girl band No Angels, admitted in court she had unprotected sex despite knowing she was HIV-positive.
Taliban-run Radio Shariat announces that a young married man and a single woman have been stoned to death in Afghanistan for planning to run away after being prevented from marrying. The woman, 23, who was engaged to another man, and the 28-year-old man had hidden in a friend's house, intending to make their escape. But they were discovered and stoned to death in front a crowd of about 150 men.
According to La Journada, a doctor who certified dead a Mexican baby which later revived in its coffin, has been charged with homicide, abuse and misconduct. During the wake, the baby's parents heard a strange noise coming out of her little coffin and when they opened it found the baby crying. The baby was taken to hospital, but died three days later of asphyxia.