The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times leads with reactions to the relaunch of the bus service, notably complaints about delays. It also reports that BoV is facing a fresh battle with investors over the La Valette Property Fund.
The Malta Independent refers to the clerical abuse case and says compensation may consist of psychological assistance and assistance for employment. It also says that 180 migrants are threatening to sleep outside an open centre after they were asked to leave.
In-Nazzjon features the start of works on the Barrakka lift. It also reports that 82% of the Maltese are satisfied with their internet service. It also continues to report on concerns by then US President Reagan over Malta’s closeness to Libya.
l-orizzont says there is silence from the PN about a facebook page featuring racial abuse and in which several MPs and PN members are friends.
The overseas press
Deutsche Welle says investors have continued to pull their money out of European markets over as economists openly continued to express concern that Greece may default on its debt. Once again, banks took the biggest fall: on Germany, Europe's largest economy, stock in Deutsche Bank dipped 8.5 per cent while stocks in French banks also fell because of fears the country could be over-exposed to the Greek sovereign debt. French Finance Minister Francois Baroin, however, denied that his country was facing a crisis in its banking sector.
Meanwhile, Börzen Zeitung reports that Greece resumed talks with international lenders to receive its next €8 billion installment of aid in order to avert a default on its debt as the national government in Athens runs dangerously low on cash. Talks had been suspended over criticism that Greece had not been taking strong enough measures to restructure its economy and reduce public deficits in exchange for the bailout money. Athens approved a new real estate tax on Sunday to try to shore up its budget.
Al Jazeera reports that the chief of Libya's revolutionary movement has urged a cheering crowd to strive for a civil, democratic state, while loyalists of fugitive dictator Muammar Gaddafi killed at least 15 opposition fighters in an attack on a key oil town in Ras Lanuf, in Libya's east. Addressing a crowd of thousands in Martyr's Square in central Tripoli, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, called on Libyans to build a state based on the rule of law.
From hiding, Gaddafi urged his remaining followers to keep up the fight – a sign that Libya's six-month civil is not over even though revolutionary forces now control most of the country and have begun setting up a new government in the capital. In a message on Syria's al Rai TV, he described the opposition forces as traitors and willing to turn over Libya's oil riches to foreign interests.
Al Arabiya reports anti-Gaddafi fighters have entered Bani Walid, one of the last strongholds of the former regime. Earlier hundreds of anti-Gaddafi fighters moved into the outskirts of the city where they faced a barrage of rocket fire and bullets from snipers.
The BBC reports that Amnesty International has appealed to the transitional authorities in Libya to stop human rights violations by anti-Gaddafi fighters. The campaign organisation said it had evidence of serious abuses by opposition supporters.
Sky News says a British motorist has been killed and a passenger seriously wounded when a tree fell onto a private minibus during winds of over 80mph which were blown by the tail end of Hurricane Katia. Severe gales have left thousands of people without power and caused widespread travel disruption. An 11-year-old boy has been taken to hospital after being hit by a roof blown off a garage in Bradford. High waves have caused ferry companies to cancel services and train lines and roads have been affected by falling trees and branches.
France 24 reports a worker died and another was seriously injured in an explosion at a French nuclear waste site today. The country's Nuclear Safety Authority said no radioactive leaks were detected in the blast at an oven in the Centraco nuclear site.
Al Bawaba says gunmen in Iraq shot dead at least 20 Shia pilgrims in a remote desert region west of Baghdad. They appeared to have been forced off a bus and shot dead one by one.
According to East African Standard, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has appealed for calm among resident of a Nairobi slum after a fire killed more than 100 people. He promised that the government would compensate the families of those who died. Reports suggest the blast may have been sparked by a cigarette butt being thrown into an open sewer that was filling with fuel.
Le Parisien says French police have questioned former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn for three hours regarding claims that he tried to rape a writer eight ears ago. Tristane Banon accuses him of attacking her during a 2003 interview for a book she was writing. She claims Strauss-Kahn grabbed her hand and arm before the two fell to the floor of his apartment and fought for several minutes, with the politician trying to open her jeans and bra and putting his fingers in her mouth and underwear. Strauss-Kahn's lawyers have called the incident "imaginary".