The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times of Malta leads with the panegyric during the feast of St Paul, where Canon Lawrence Zammit said God did not create gay marriage - man did.
The Malta Independent reports that Rock legend Brain May will perform in Malta.
In-Nazzjon says Labour-controlled local councils in the south did not discuss the danger from a floating gas storage depot moored in Delimara.
l-orizzont says Transport Malta under the Nationalist Government ended up without the tools it needed, and work was instead sub-contracted.
The overseas press
The Guardian reports hundreds of people in southern England have been evacuated from flooded buildings after the River Thames burst its banks following weeks of rain. Forecasters say the river will carry on rising in the coming days with more heavy rain on the way.
Swiss and European leaders have reacted warily to Swiss voters’ narrow approval of a proposal to limit the number of foreigners allowed to live and work in Switzerland. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told RTL radio that the European Union would have to reconsider its relationship with Switzerland.
Ansa reports that as part of the February 5 rescue operations for nine boats carrying migrants towards Italy, four people have been identified as human traffickers and arrested. They stand accused of taking 1,123 migrants from Libya to Italy on rafts in poor condition.
François Hollande has begun the full state visit to the United States by a French president in nearly 20 years. It comes at a time of improving relations between the two countries which fell out over the invasion of Iraq more than a decade ago
ABC quotes Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott insisting there was nothing he could do to prevent Toyota halting car manufacturing in Australia. The Japanese giant has said it would stop making cars in Australia in 2017, citing high production costs, a strong local dollar and a small domestic market.
Al Arabiya reports the UN saying that both government and rebel forces in the Syrian city of Homs have agreed to a three-day extension of the ceasefire to allow more residents to be evacuated. More than 450 vulnerable people – women, children and old men – were moved out of the city on Monday. The extension of truce comes as the Syrian government and rebels hold a second round of peace talks in Geneva.
USA Today says a court in Virginia has sentenced a former sailor to 30 years in prison for passing on secret information to people he believed to be Russian spies. They were in fact undercover FBI agents. Robert Hoffmann, a 40-year-old former cryptologist technician on US submarines, had given secret files about tracking ships on three separate occasions.
Ekstra Bladet reports staff at a Danish zoo where a healthy giraffe was put down has received death threats. Defiant officials defended the slaughter of Marius, a two-year-old giraffe, that was hacked apart in front of small children and fed to lions.
The Associated Press news agency says it is deleting seven photographs of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro from its archives because it believes they have been digitally altered. An editor said pictures released by a state-owned studio had had what appeared to be a hearing aid digitally removed from the president’s ear.