The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press:
The Times leads with the launching of the national cancer plan.
The Malta Independent features the national cancer plan and also gives prominence to the arrival in Barbados of Thomas Cremona after rowing across the Atlantic.
MaltaToday says the factory service charge has gone up by 1,500% in housing estates.
In-Nazzjon also features the national cancer plan and the Atlantic row in its front pages.
l-orizzont leads with the warning by the GWU that it could take action if problems in the credit control section of Enemalta were not tackled
The overseas press
On the day of renewed anti-government protests in Cairo and other Egyptian cities – the biggest since the protests began last month – Vice-President Omar Suleiman has warned that his government could not put up with continued protests for a long time. Al Jazeera reports that in a sharply-worded statement reflecting the regime's impatience and frustration with the mass demonstrations, the newly-appointed Suleiman said the crisis must be ended as soon as possible. During a meeting with independent newspapers editors, Suleiman reportedly told them the regime wanted dialogue to resolve protesters' demands for democratic reform, adding, in a veiled warning, that the government did not "want to deal with Egyptian society with police tools". However, he re-affirmed there would be "no ending of the regime" and no immediate departure for President Hosni Mubarak.
Meanwhile, The New York Times says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has added his voice to the host of countries calling for "an orderly transition" in Egypt. Speaking at the UN headquarters, Ban said the Egyptian government must heed the call from its people for greater reform immediately.
The Washington Times says US Vice-President Joe Biden has called on the Egyptian government to immediately lift the country's emergency laws which have been in place for 30 years. In remarks released by the White House, Mr Biden told Mr Suleiman that the transition to a more broadly based government should produce "immediate, irreversible" progress. He also said the Egyptian interior ministry should immediately stop arresting and beating journalists and activists, and allow freedom of assembly and expression.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the US government has declared that electronic flaws weren't to blame for the reports of sudden, unintended acceleration that led to the recall of thousands of Toyota vehicles. Some of the acceleration cases could have been caused by mechanical defects that have been dealt with in recalls.
Corriere della Sera reports Milan prosecutors probing Premier Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly using an underage prostitute called Ruby would be filing a request later today for the premier to stand trial. Prosecutors allege Mr Berlusconi paid for sex with the 17-year-old Moroccan, who has since turned 18, and then used his influence to get her out of police custody when she was detained for suspected theft, fearing her relationship to him would be revealed.
The Daily Mirror leads on the pensioner who foiled a raid at a jewellery shop by hitting robbers armed with sledgehammers with her handbag. Ann Timson, the 71-year-old who The Sun hails as 'Supergran', has insisted she would do the same again.
Arizona Herald says an American drug addict has been jailed for 10 years for putting his seven-month-old son in a freezer. Chance Kracke, 24, told police he was high on methamphetamine when he put the boy on the bottom shelf of his freezer and closed the door because the kitchen floor was too dirty. Kracke said he removed the baby after a few minutes when he began crying. Kracke’s wife, Leanne, was also sentenced to lifetime probation for child abuse. Police say the baby suffered only a cut forehead, possibly from the freezer door.
Radio Netherlands reports a Dutch court has ruled that while the prison conditions of a "giant" prisoner were "somewhat cramped", they were not inhumane, and he must stay in jail. The inmate had asked to complete his two-year sentence for fraud under house arrest. Weighing 230kg (36st) and standing at 2.07m (6ft 9in), MacD has had trouble sleeping and using the toilet. Despite the setback, his lawyer hoped to get his jail conditions improved.
CBS News reports that a Pablo Picasso painting depicting his young lover Marie-Therese Walter has sold for £25.2 million (€29.7 million) at a London auction. The 1932 painting, called "La Lecture", shows Picasso's mistress and model for several paintings, asleep in an armchair. Walter was 17 when she met Picasso, and she later had a daughter, Maya, with the artist.
The National Enquirer says President Barack Obama has finally done what millions of fellow Americans are still struggling to achieve – he has given up smoking. First Lady Michelle Obama confirmed the news at the White House when asked whether he had conquered a nicotine habit that began as a teenager.
The Los Angeles Times reports prosecutors planned to charge Lindsay Lohan with felony grand theft of a $2,500 (€1,800) necklace reported stolen from a jewellery store last month. This is the most serious count the actress has faced in more than three years of trouble with the law.