The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta reports that new school subjects are about to be rolled out.
The Malta Independent says a dementia patient 'living in 1950' is being requested to vote. The story is about whether dementia patients should be eligible to vote.
In-Nazzjon leads with Simon Busuttil's comments that the government is unable to negotiate with the European Union.
l-orizzont insists that the Curia has raised prices for funerals.
The overseas press
The Libyan government is insisting it remains in control of the country despite a series of heavy attacks and clashes over the weekend. Libya Herald reports a militia leader has called on parliament to cease all work and hand over power to a body drawing up a national constitution.
Voice of Nigeria reports a suicide car bomber has killed four people and the bomber on a street of popular bars and restaurants in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, in an area mostly inhabited by southern Christians.
Kathimerini says exit polls showed Greece’s radical leftist party Syriza, which opposes the government’s austerity policies, was leading in the Athens area with between 20 and 31 percent of the vote in the first round of local elections.
Baltic Times reports some 40 people are reported to have died in the worst flooding in the Balkans which has triggered landslides across Serbia and Bosnia.
Voters in Switzerland have rejected a proposal that would have introduced the world’s highest minimum wage. The vote count by Swiss TV showed some 77 per cent of voters and 24 of the Alpine nation’s 26 cantons rejecting the idea mooted by trade unions to create a minimum wage of 22 Swiss francs (€20.22) an hour.
The British Labour leader’s plans for the minimum wage is the lead story in a number of British nationals. The Guardian claims Ed Miliband is to tackle low pay, saying a future Labour government would set a statutory minimum wage target linked to average hourly earnings.
San Francisco Gate announces the death of Clyde Snow, a forensic anthropologist who worked on cases ranging from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to mass graves in Argentina. He was 86.