The following are the top stories in the national and internatonal press today.
All national newspapers lead with the arraignment of Jason Galea, 39, of Birzebbuga, a close relative of two men killed on Wednesday. Mr Galea pleaded not guilty to the charges.
In another story, Times of Malta says the Marsascala family park has been temporarily shut down after experts noted an acidic gas was being burnt at an adjacent recycling plant that developed a fault.
The Malta Independent gives a report of a tour journalists were given of detention centres at Safi and Lyster Barracks.
L-Orizzont says Standard and Poor’s has confirmed Malta’s credit rating and gave the country a positive outlook.
In-Nazzjon reports Prime Minister Joseph Muscat saying he believed the declarations by his ministers of their assets.
International news
ABC reports Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said asylum seekers who arrive by boat would have no chance of being settled in Australia as refugees. He has confirmed a deal that will see asylum seekers sent to Papua New Guinea for assessment, and if they were found to be refugees, they would be resettled there.
The Washington Post quotes US Secretary of State John Kerry saying Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will meet in Washington within “the next week or so” after an agreement on the basis to resume peace talks.
Espresso reports Portugal's Socialist opposition leader Antonio José Seguro has said that talks to end a more than two-week political crisis had failed and it is up to President Anibal Cavaco Silva to decide how to keep the country's bailout on track.
AFP says clashes between loyalists and opponents of Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi have left three women dead and seven others wounded by birdshot and stabbing attacks in the Nile Delta city of Mansura.
Los Angeles Times reports President Barack Obama has made his first public comments on the Trayvon Martin case, saying that 35 years ago he could have been the unarmed black teen who was shot dead by a neighbourhood watchman. In a surprise appearance before reporters, Obama also called for a review of controversial laws, which assert that citizens can use lethal force, rather than retreat, if they sense their lives are at risk.
Corriere della Sera says a Milan court on Friday sentenced three associates of three-time premier Silvio Berlusconi for providing him with prostitutes, one of whom was a showgirl known as Ruby who was underage at the time.
Pravda says a Russian court has released opposition leader Alexei Navalny from custody less than 24 hours after convicting him of embezzlement and sentencing him to five years in prison.
According to USA Today, DNA tests have confirmed that the man who once claimed to be the Boston Strangler did kill the woman believed to be the serial killer's last victim and was likely responsible for the deaths of the other victims.
The Guardian announces that Manchester City's former German goalkeeper Bert Trautmann has died in Spain aged 89. Trautmann, a former prisoner-of-war, became a legend in 1956 because of his heroic performance in his team's 3-1 FA Cup Final victory against Birmingham City in 1956.