The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times quotes the Prime Minister saying "Don't speak of divorce referendum yet."
The Malta Independent asks MPs if divorce is a civil right or a matter of opinion.
In-Nazzjon says the government will invest in three more childcare centres. It also says another MCESD meeting on the budget will be held today.
l-orizzont says the government is hiding EU procedures against Malta in the BWSC power station contract. It also says that the GWU recruited 226 new members during University freshers' week.
The overseas press:
La Tercera reports Chile's 33 rescued miners were reported in good health as they met President Sebastian Piñera who pledged tougher safety laws. As the Chilean president posed with the miners, some were set to be released much earlier than expected, after they emerged from the San Jose mine in surprisingly good condition. .
Fox News says PR experts have estimated that the miners could earn a collective €115 million from interview, book and film deals. Chile's football federation has offered a youth team job to Franklin Lobos, a former national team player, who later drove a taxi to make ends meet before he was trapped in the mine. A Greek mining company offered to fly them, with companions, for a week's rest in the Mediterranean. Bookmaker William Hill said "33" was 6/4 favourite for the name of the film likely to be made about the ordeal.
Al Jazeera reports President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has taunted Israel from just across the tense border in Lebanon, rallying tens of thousands of Hezbollah supporters, as Israeli attack helicopters buzzed nearby. To the cheers of the crowd waving a sea of Lebanese, Iranian and Hezbollah flags, he said occupied Palestine would be liberated from "the filth of occupation" by the strength of resistance and through the faith of the resistance.
In the UK, The Independent says some 10,000 jobs could be lost in the government's cull of 192 quangos. Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said a further 118 bodies would be merged and another 171 ‘substantially' reformed in what has been dubbed the ‘bonfire of the quangos'. He said people had been fed up with ministers they voted for often avoid taking responsibility for difficult and tough decisions by creating or hiding behind one of these quangos.
Le Parisien announces that the French Senate has delayed a vote to reform the pension system, with parliament now expected to debate the issue until next week. As protests against the plans continue, France faced the possibility of fuel shortages. The strikes shut down 70 percent of the its oil refining capacity.
Kathemerini says rioters barricaded the Acropolis for a second day, as protesting Culture Ministry staff voiced fresh opposition to government austerity measures. Police used tear gas to disperse the protesters.
Adevarul reports 4,000 striking Romanian tax employees have promised to go back to work, after the Finance Minister promised to restore bonuses, which often constitute half an employees wage. The cuts were part of government's austerity measures necessary to maintain the terms of an IMF bailout.
The Washington Times says the US still believed Europe was at grave risk from a terrorist attack. US State Department counter-terrorism co-ordinator Daniel Benjamin said the terror plot remained active and a travel alert would stay in force.
Le Soir reports that for the first time in over a decade, all the foreign and defence ministers of NATO member states have convened in Brussels to discuss plans to reshape the military alliance. Top of the agenda was a nuclear-missile shield to protect Europe and North America.
The New York Times quotes UN envoy Margot Wallstrom saying government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo might have committed rape and murder. Briefing the Security Council on her visit to North Kivu province, she said UN peacekeepers there had information suggesting soldiers had committed such abuses and urged the government to investigate the allegations.
Environmental Daily reports that mankind would need two planets to produce enough food, materials and water to sustain itself by 2030 if exploitation of the land and oceans continues at the present rate. A report by the Zoological Society of London and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has found that mankind is plundering the earth's natural resources at 1.5 times the rate it can replace them. The demand on natural resources has doubled since 1966.
Tages Anzeiger says the world's longest tunnel would be created later today when a massive drilling machine breaks through the last few metres of rock underneath the Alps. The 60-km Gotthard Base rail tunnel is being hailed as an environmental triumph as much as an unprecedented engineering feat.
According to the Malaysia Star newspaper, the captain of a Qatar Airways flight from the Philippines to Qatar died as it was in the air, forcing the plane to be diverted to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. The 43-year-old pilot, an Indian national, complained of chest pains, and the co-pilot requested to land at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
London's Metro leads with the story of a slimmer who collapsed and died at work after losing 9kg (20lb) on a crash diet in an effort to look good on holiday. An inquest heard how Lucy Prince replaced meals with slimming shakes and exercised heavily to try to shed the pounds. But her heart stopped and she collapsed in front of her manager at work.