The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times says that all those who "cooperate" in the introduction of divorce, including judges who apply the law, would be "committing a grave sin", according to the head of the Church tribunals. It also reports that Brussels has announced plans to tax financial operators.
The Malta Independent highlights the Prime Minister's visit to the AFP Air Wing where he paid tribute to soldiers who risk their lives for others.
In-Nazzjon says Mepa has approved the permit for the Valletta bus terminus to move to St James ditch. It also reports that unemployment in Gozo has decreased.
l-orizzont say columnist Daphne Caruana Galizia was found guilty of libel. It also quotes GWU General Secretary saying the Church should speak out on precarious jobs. In its main story, however, it says that more witnesses in a trial yesterday linked the accused Norman Bezzina to drugs. He has denied all charges.
The overseas press
Euronews reports that proposed changes in retirement age have triggered protests by thousands of workers in Bulgaria and Macedonia. Thdere was also a political stand-off in Romania about whether men and women should retire at the same age. European workers are suffering benefit reductions and high unemployment as governments impose austerity measures in an effort contain government debt.
Meanwhile, a new study commissioned by the BBC shows that immigrants have been disproportionately hit by the downturn in the global economy. It quotes the example of Spain, where up to 40 per cent of immigrants, were now unemployed.
Magyar Hirlap says the toxic red sludge overflow from a Hungarian factory, enough to fill 266 Olympic size swimming pools, has reached the Danube, Europe's second-longest river. As well as providing much of the country's drinking water, the river flows through Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Moldova before emptying into the Black Sea.
The Scotsman says Scottish MEPs hailed a major victory as a call to end all new drilling for oil in European waters was overturned in the European Parliament. MEPs on the Environment Committee last month voted in favour of a moratorium in the wake of the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But a 323-285 vote approved an amendment deleting the moratorium call from a resolution on ensuring high safety standards in European offshore oil drilling.
Chilevision says engineers drilling to rescue 33 miners, trapped underground in Chile for more than two months, say they expect to break through to the man by tomorrow. The Chilean Minister for Mines, Laurence Golborne, said one of the drills had already carved through 535 metes of rock and had was now within 19 metres of a tunnel the men could reach.
The Guardian quotes senior Pakistani diplomats and European intelligence officials claiming that a US terror alert about al-Qaeda plots to attack targets in Western Europe was an attempt to justify a recent escalation in US drone and helicopter attacks inside Pakistan. They claimed President Obama was reacting to pressure to demonstrate that his Afghan war strategy and this year's troop surge, which are unpopular with the American public, were necessary.
Deutsche Welle reports EU interior ministers have come away from a meeting in Luxembourg stressing a need for the EU to speak with one voice on security matters such as terrorism threats. In the wake of the US travel alert, only a handful of EU countries issued travel warnings, while Germany refused to do so, instead warning against overreacting.
The Wall Street Journal reports concerns of an escalation of the war of words between the US and China over the level of the yuan sent the US dollar to an eight-month low against the euro. The heads of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund used news conferences before this weekend's annual meetings to urge international co-operation to address worsening tensions among countries vying to keep their currencies weak and exports competitive.
The Financial Times reports that HSBC has been ordered by US regulators to overhaul its internal controls in the US after a probe found the bank's ineffective compliance programmes created "a significant potential for unreported money laundering or terrorist financing". The bank, under a separate investigation by the Department of Justice and the US Attorney's Office, neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing and was not fined.
Both the Daily Express and the Daily Mail lead on British Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's comment that taxpayers should not have to support large families on benefits. He said that British middle families, who will have their child benefits scrapped, were right to believe people living on handouts must "take responsibility" for their children.
Puglia's Nuovo Quotidiano says Italians were questioning the merits of reality crime TV after 3.5 million viewers saw a shocked mother learn her daughter had been murdered and her brother-in-law allegedly responsible on live TV. Concetta Serrano was participating in the "Chi l'ha visto" programme. Italian news agencies had broken the story while the show was being broadcast live from inside the uncle's house in the southern Italian town of Avetrana, where Sarah disappeared on August 26.
Caledonian Mercury says a lost flute concerto by the 18th century Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi has been discovered in the national library of Scotland in Edinburgh. The score was found by a researcher examining the estate of a Scottish nobleman thought to have acquired it on a tour of Europe 250 years ago. A flautist with the Scottish opera, who played part of the concerto, described it as "beautifully melodic and typically Vivaldi".