The following are the top stories in the local and overseas press.
The Sunday Times reports that Arriva could quit if losses continue.
The Malta Independent says the ODZ policy is to be revisited next week.
MaltaToday says contractors have complained of not being paid for work on the new Parliament building.
It-Torca says Inspector Elton Taliana had another case before the Police Board in 2010. It also says talks between the government and Arriva are at a delicate stage.
Il-Mument says Labour MP Silvio Schembri has been paid for work he did not do.
Illum says John Dalli has strongly criticised European Commission President Barroso, a year after he was forced to leave the commission.
The overseas press
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Italy yesterday to protest against budget cuts and the social cost of the economic crisis. TG Com reports 15 people, including an Albanian, were arrested following the clashes that broke out during the protest march in Rome. Eight police officers were slightly injured in the protests while a homemade paper bomb containing a 12 gauge shotgun shell was found and defused near the headquarters of Italy's state-owned and primary train operator, Trenitalia, where protesters against the planned high-speed railway from Turin to Lyon had passed a few hours before.
Meanwhile, Radio Renascenca says thousands also gathered in Portugal’s two main cities – Lisbon and Porto – to protest austerity measures in the draft 2014 budget. One of the most contested measures is a plan to cut civil service salaries by between 2.5 and 12.0 per cent, as well as reducing pensions for former civil servants by 10 per cent. The cuts would not apply for salaries or pension payments that are below €600 gross a month.
According to France 24, nine Lebanese Shiite pilgrims abducted by Syrian rebels last year and two Turkish pilots kidnapped by Lebanese gunmen in August were released as part of a negotiated hostage deal, and have returned home.
AFP says Arab nations have called on Saudi Arabia to reverse a decision to reject a seat on the UN Security Council in protest at its handling of the Syria war. The Arab ambassadors held emergency discussions after Saudi Arabia's surprise announcement and expressed "respect and understanding" for the "brotherly" Saudi position.
Canaal Z reports a plane carrying skydivers has crashed in southern Belgium, killing all 11 people on board. Twenty minutes after the aircraft took off from a small airfield close to Namur, the plane lost height and then crashed in a field near Fernelmont. The skydivers were not able to jump out.
El Universal says Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, the eldest brother of Mexico's once-feared Arellano Felix drug clan, was shot to death in the Baja beach resort of Los Cabos by a gunman wearing a clown costume.
Clarin reports a commuter train slammed into the bumper at the end of the line yesterday at the same station in Argentina's capital where 52 people were killed in a similar crash last year.
Sky News says the violin reputedly played by the Titanic’s bandmaster as the ill-fated liner sank, broke a world record yesterday when it sold for nearly €1 million.
The Los Angeles Standard reports a woman walked into a Los Angeles-area of Barnes & Noble looking for books and came out with a baby instead. Firefighters delivered the newborn in the bookstore's lobby after responding to a call of a woman in labour and were deciding whether to put her in an ambulance or keep her in the store when they realized the infant was coming. The store manager said occasionally, nature writes the script. Both mother and baby are doing well.