The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Sunday Times of Malta reports how Cyrus Engerer has remained defiant.
Illum reports anger among some Labourites over the party's stand on Cyrus Engerer.
It-Torca leads with the visit to Malta by Martin Schulz, the social-democratic candidate for the presidency of the European Commission, and his praise for Malta for its economic growth.
Il-mument says family and friends are continuing to rake in under Labour.
MaltaToday says the Maltese consul in Libya has been probed over a visa scam.
KullHadd claims that in 2012, PN European Parliament candidate Stefano Mallia benefited from a €25,000 contract by the Resources Ministry which involved 25 days of work.
The Malta Independent on Sunday reports that Brussels is questioning the government over €100m in missing Enemalta tax arrears.
The overseas press
Ukrayinske Radio reports that voting has begun in the controversial referendum for the secession of the Donets Basin, Ukraine's eastern and Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Die Welt quotes the German and French leaders saying Russia could face more EU sanctions if Ukrainian elections do not go ahead as planned.
Voice of Nigeria reports Islamic extremists of the Boko Haram group blew up a bridge, killed an unknown number of people and abducted the wife and two children of a retired police officer in northeast Nigeria, amid mounting condemnation by Muslims of the Nigerian terrorist network that abducted more than 300 schoolgirls nearly a month ago. News of Friday night's attack came as international efforts to help rescue the 276 missing girls got under way.
Associated Press says President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria for weeks refused international help to search for the girls – one in a series of missteps that have led to growing international outrage against the government.
Al Ahram reports Egypt's chief prosecutor has charged 200 suspected militants with carrying out over 50 terrorist attacks, killing 40 policemen and 15 civilians and conspiring with the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Avvenire reports the Vaticansaid it would beatify the late pope Paul VI on October 19 following the Catholic Church's recognition of a miracle attributed to him, which will leave him one step from sainthood. contraception.
VOA News says the remains of unidentified victims of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York have been taken to Ground Zero ahead of the opening of a memorial museum at the site.
Ekstra Bladet says the winner of this year’s Eurovision song contest, Austria’s 25-year-old Tom Neuwirth, using the stage name Conchita Wurst, has told President Putin that gay tights were unstoppable.