The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times says the Libyan rebels are closing in on Sirte.
The Malta Independent reports that a Maltese ship has evacuated workers from Tripoli. It also says that the Libyan rebels have rejected a Gaddafi offer of talks.
In-Nazzjon says 800 small businesses have benefited from government investment aid schemes.
l-orizzont reports that a restaurant in Cospicua has been closed for weeks because of the seafront project works.
The overseas press
As hurricane Irene pounded the US east coast, causing flooding and damage, the death toll North Carolina, Virginia and Florida has risen to eight. Fox News reports the storm, the size of Europe with winds of around 130km/h, is moving slowly northwards with New York and other large cities in its predicted path. More than two million people have been ordered to leave their homes. President Obama, who cut short his holiday to return to Washington, had a conference call about the hurricane with emergency officials on Saturday. He earlier warned Irene could be "a historic hurricane" and that everyone sho uld take the storm seriously.
The BBC says more than 50 charred bodies have been found in a burnt-out warehouse next to a military base south of Tripoli. Local residents told reporters they were killed by machine-guns and grenades by forces loyal to Gaddafi but this could not be independently verified. Three soldiers were among the dead.
Albawaba quotes a report by Egypt's official news agency saying a convoy of six armoured vehicles that could be carrying senior Libyan officials, maybe even fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi, crossed from Libya into Algeria on Friday. The report said six armoured Mercedes had entered Ghadames. It was escorted by pro-government troops until it entered Algeria. An Algerian border official, however, said the reported crossing was unlikely as no such sighting had been reported by local residents. Rebel leaders in Libya say they believe Col Gaddafi could still be hiding somewhere around Tripoli.
Al Jazeera reports that the Arab League has restored Libya's membership in the bloc, turning over the country's seat to the National Transitional Council, the rebels' political leadership. The 22-member League had suspended the country's membership in February in protest to Muammar Gaddafi's crackdown on demonstrators. At a Saturday League session, Mahmoud Jibril led the Libyan delegation in the meeting and urged the Arabs to help rebuild and stabilise his country and asked the League to help in unfreezing Libyan assets abroad.
Reuters reports a ship carrying ammunition for the Libyan rebels fighting for control of the coastal road, west of Tripoli to the Tunisian border, blew up on Saturday at Zuwara port. A huge plume of smoke could be seen rising over the town and smoke was billowing from the burning ship behind a sea breakwater at the port.
Associated Press quotes a senior US official saying the second-in-command of Al Qaeda has been killed in Pakistan. Atiyah Abd al-Rahman died near the Afghan border on Monday. He said the death was another big blow to a terrorist group that the US believes to be on the verge of defeat.
Abrar says Iran, has warned that a power vacuum in Damascus could spark an unprecedented regional crisis while urging Syrian President Assad to listen to some of his people's "legitimate demands". Thousands of protesters, meanwhile, insisted they will defy tanks and bullets until Assad goes.
El Universal says 300 solders had arrived in the Mexican city of Monterey and together with federal agents raided casinos after more than 50 people were killed in an arson attack. Relatives have begun burying the victims of what was one of worst attacks in the conflict between rival drug gangs. The stunned the country that had become numb to massacres and beheadings.
The Los Angeles Times reports a California store owner was released on $10-million bail after being charged with holding a female worker in a box bound with tape and dressed only in an adult diaper. Robert Yachen Lee pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and attempted murder charges. Prosecutors alleged Lee lured the female employee into a soundproof storage room above his establishment and knocked her out. He then allegedly removed her clothing, dressed her in the diaper and put a collar around her neck, bound her with tape and put her in a box. The woman later escaped and went to a nearby optometrist's office and police were notified.