The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times of Malta reports a court judgement that Little Armier caravans lack legal title. It also reports how the Home Affairs Minister confirmed he was present for Security Service interviews.
The Malta Independent says EU leaders backed the EU budget deal, and MEPs are likely to follow.
l-orizzont reports how an ambulance in Gozo had to call for a doctor and wait for him before going to the scene of an emergency.
In-Nazzjon reports how there should be agreement on the method of discussion on the Constitution.
The overseas press
The Washington Post says the Obama administration has warned Americans not to travel to Egypt and has told non-emergency diplomatic staff to leave as violence continued across the country. There were deaths and injuries in clashed between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Moris, ahead of his first anniversay of his coming to power on Sunday. Egyptian officials said one of the dead was an American in Alexandria.
Fox News says a federal court in the US has lifted a ban on same-sex marriage in California with immediate effect. The court decision in San Francisco formally overturns a ban that had been in place since 2008 and follows a ruling on the issue two days ago bu the US Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the two couples who sued to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage were married late Friday afternoon.
ABC reports President Obama has arrived in South Africa after playing down speculation that he might visit Nelson Mandela in hospital. The US president said the last thing he wanted was to be in any way intrusive when Mandela’s family was concerned with the anti-apartheid legend’s condition.
Meanwhile, as Mandela remained in critical condition in hospital Friday, a family feud over where the 94-year-old former president should be buried went to the courts. According to South Africa's national broadcaster SABC, Mandela's oldest daughter, Makaziwe, and 15 other family members have pressed a court application to get Mandela's grandson to return the bodies of three of Mandela's children to their original graves in the eastern rural village of Qunu.
Lonnie Snowden, the father of the former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, came to the defence of his son on NBC News, saying his son was not a traitor. Edward, whose US passport has been revoked, is believed to still be in the transit area of a Moscow airport, out of sight since leaving Hong Kong. The father said he was reasonably confident his son would return to the US to face trial for espionage voluntarily if he was promised that he would not be imprisoned before any trial.
Jornal de Notícias announces that a Brazilian congressman sentenced to 30 years in jail for corruption has given himself up after several days on the run. Natan Donandon is the first serving congressman to be jailed in Brazil since the end of the military government in the late 1980s.
Avvenire reports the Holy See has said it would “cooperate fully” with Italian investigators after the arrest of senior cleric on suspicion of fraud and graft amid a wider probe into the Vatican Bank. Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said the body which oversees the Vatican's financial institutions was also across the case of Mgr Nunzio Scarano, a Vatican accountant arrested on Friday for suspected fraud, corruption and slander. Amid several money-laundering scandals, on Wednesday Pope Francis put under investigation Scarano’s account at the Vatican Bank.
CBS News says a Californian woman has been sentenced to life in prison to cutting off her former husband’s penis and throwing it into the kitchen waste disposal unit. Catherine Kieu, 50, attacked her former spouse with a knife in July 2011 after drugging him with sleeping pills. Her lawyers said she had mental health issues caused by abuse as a child and by her ex-husband. Police have said the couple were going through a divorce at the time of the attack. The victim said he lost part of his life and identity after the attack.