The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press
Times of Malta reports how Eddie Fenech Adami faced losing the PN leadership in 1996 when Louis Galea started putting pressure for a change of leadership.
The Malta Independent reports how a man got a suspended jail term for killing his Dobermann.
In-Nazzjon says 5,800 young people are looking for jobs.
l-orizzont reports how the majority of ArrowPharm workers have joined the GWU. It also says the smart meters scandal is wider than originally believed.
The overseas press
Kyiv Post reports 310 lawmakers of around 380 in Ukraine's parliament have voted to release former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko from prison. It was one of several motions passed in the hours since opposition leaders and President Viktor Yanukovych signed a deal to end three weeks of bloody violence.
According to Reuters, President Barack Obama held a “constructive” phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and agreed it was important that Ukraine's peace agreement be implemented quickly and that Ukraine's economy is stabilized.
RAI News conforms Matteo Renzi has formally accepted the role of Italian prime ministery, kicking off hopes for a revival in the eurozone's third-largest economy and a fresh approach to the country's ills.
El Pais says the Basque separatist group ETA began to dismantle its weapons and explosives arsenal in a historic step towards disarmament. Inspectors from the International Verification Commission confirmed that the group “put out of operative use a certain amount of arms and explosives”.
Times of India reports India is looking for a diplomatic solution to the case of two Italian marines held in India over the killing of two fishermen while on anti-piracy duties. A said foreign ministry spokesman said talks were in progress to resolve the issue. India's supreme court asked the government on Monday whether or not to try the Italians under anti-piracy legislation, which can carry the death penalty.
Irrawady says soldiers have been sent to northern Burma to protect an enormous jade boulder that could weigh up to 50 tons. Still half buried, it is difficult to know its exact size but authorities believe it may be 18 feet high. The raw jade was discovered in the mining region known as Hpakant just over a week ago. Burma is one of the world’s biggest producers of jade, considered to be of the highest quality.
USA Today reports wildlife experts cut away more than 280ft of commercial fishing line being dragged by an endangered right whale off the Georgia coast, though some of the heavy rope had to be left tangled in the whale’s mouth. Entanglement in commercial fishing gear and collisions with ships off the East Coast are considered the greatest threats to the right whale’s survival. Experts estimate only some 450 of the large whales remain.
VOA News says a Massachusetts judge has rejected a plea for bail for an Irish nanny charged with murder in the death of a one-year-old girl in her care. Aisling Brady McCarthy is charged in the January 2013 death of Rehma Sabir. She was taken to the hospital with severe head injuries on her first birthday and died two days later.
Scientists have isolated a set of 13 gene defects that predisposes men to developing life-threatening prostate cancer. The Lancet says the discovery improves for the first time the chance of cancer screening for men who are most at risk of suffering from the aggressive and potentially-deadly tumour. The findings are important because they demonstrate not only that some men have a genetic profile that puts them at higher risk of prostate cancer, but that particular genetic profiles match to a higher risk of advanced, invasive disease. A big challenge facing prostate cancer researchers is to find ways of predicting which men will have life-threatening forms of the disease, to allow treatment to be tailored more effectively.