The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times of Malta says Sunday open market stall owners are also demanding an alternative site.
The Malta Independent reports comments by Claudette Buttigieg after Saturday's vote for the PN deputy leaderships, saying Beppe Fenech Adami was no ordinary contestant.
In-Nazzjon says the government is being miserly even with the 'eternal' flame at the War Memorial which will be lit in the evenings.
l-orizzont under a picture of Mario de Marco and Beppe Fenech Adami says the dynasties are still reigning in the PN.
The overseas press
The Guardian reports British efforts to persuade the European Union to lift the arms embargo to Syrian rebels are likely to be rejected today in the face of continued opposition from EU members alarmed that weapons could fall into the wrong hands.
Meanwhile, Berliner Zeitung quotes Chinese Premier Li Keqiang saying that China was open to any solution for resolving the conflict in Syria that was acceptable to all parties.
The Daily Star reports two rockets have struck the southern Beirut, raising fears that spillover violence from the conflict in neighbouring Syria could be spreading to the Lebanese capital. Four men, all Syrian labourers at a used-car lot, were injured. The attacks targeted a district where the Shiite militant group Hezbollah is a dominant force.
ABC says Cardinal George Pell, who was the Archbishop of Melbourne between 1996 and 2001, will appear before the Victorian parliamentary inquiry into child sexual abuse today.
CNN reports President Barack Obama visited tornado-devastated Moore, in Oklahoma yesterday, consoling people staggered by the loss of life and property and promising that the government would be behind them “every step of the way”. He offered moral and monetary support in the wake of the monstrous EF5 tornado that killed 24 people, including 10 children, last Monday.
All India Radio says the government has vowed to crack down on Maoist insurgents after a deadly attack that killed at least 24 people in central India. Five policemen and a number of politicians were killed, including the local head of the Congress Party. Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi, who visited some of the wounded with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said she was “devastated” by the attack, which she denounced as "barbaric".
According to Le Parisien, tens of thousands of people have rallied in Paris against a new French law allowing same-sex marriage. Police estimated that up to 150,000 people joined marches that converged on the city centre, but organisers put the figure close to one million. Clashes erupted after the rally finished between far-right activists and riot police. The authorities said nearly 100 people were arrested.
South Africa's City Press newspaper says Oscar Pistorius has been fined for unpaid taxes after having to declare his assets in court during his bail hearing. The South African Revenue Service audited and fined the double-amputee runner “less than one million rand”, which he paid. The Olympian is charged with premeditated murder for the Valentine’s Day shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his house in Pretoria.