The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Sunday Times of Malta reports how inner harbour areas top the child truancy list. It also says that Ivan Grech Mintoff was axed from the Adoptions Board after criticising the government during the same sex partnerships debate.
The Malta Independent on Sunday says an area near San Blas Bay has been cleared in preparation for an exclusive beach for a hotel or a camping site.
MaltaToday says fewer Labour voters are supporting the spring hunting ban.
Il-Mument quotes Labour MP Marlene Farrugia saying she wants a government that is more transparent and democratic.
It-Torca says parliament will this week debate a ban on circus animals.
Illum says priests have complained that they are punished for criticising the Church.
KullHadd leads with insistence by Malta and Italy that the burden of migration must be shared.
The overseas press
USA Today reports Ahmed Abu Khatallah, a key suspect in the 2012 deadly attack on the American diplomatic consulate in Benghazi pleaded not guilty to criminal charges during his first federal court appearance Saturday. The alleged senior leader of the Benghazi branch of the terror group Ansar al-Sharia, had been detained and questioned on a US warship. Khatallah faces criminal charges in the deaths of the US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans.
Sunday World says two Ryanair aircraft were damaged in a collision at Stanstead Airport. The incident between a Warsaw-bound plane and a plane from Frankfurt Hahn that had just landed happened in the parking area. The wing tip of one plane and the tail cone of another made contact while one was taxing to stand and the other was commencing pushback. A wing of the departing plane was ripped as a result and part of it fell to the ground. There are no reported injuries. Two replacement aircraft were brought in and departed following a three-hour delay.
Business Insider reports North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast, three days after Pyongyang staged a similar launch in an apparent show of force ahead of a visit to Seoul by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Yonhap news agency, citing a military official, said they were short-range Scud missiles with a range of about 500 kilometres.
Al Ayyam says the Iraqi government launched its biggest push yet to wrest back ground lost to Sunni militants, as soldiers backed by tanks and helicopter gunships began an offensive to retake the northern city of Tikrit. There were conflicting reports as to how far the military advanced.
Euronews reports artists and diplomats declared a new century of peace and unity in Europe in the city where the first two shots of World War I were fired exactly 100 years ago.
According to Radio Nigeria, an explosion in Bauchi killed ten people and wounded at least 14 others. The explosion wracked a local brothel. No claim of responsibility has yet been made.
New Dehli Times reports 10 people, including five children, have been killed after a 50-year-old building collapsed in the Indian city of Delhi.Two others were plucked from the rubble and are now in hospital. It is believed that a construction site opposite destablised the four-floor residential building.
El Universal says Mexican authorities have arrested medical doctor Jose Manuel Mireles, a vigilante leader, and 82 other people of a group set up ostensibly to battle drug gangs. Officials say Mireles was carrying “weapons of exclusive military use”.
Itar-Tass reports the last of the OSCE observers being held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have been freed. Their release was a key demand at Friday's EU summit. OSCE has expressed hope that this would help to improve the conditions of their work in that country.
Al Raayam says lawyers for Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, the Sudanese woman whose death sentence for renouncing Islam was overturned, will seek dismissal of document forgery charges against her so that she can leave Sudan. Meriam, meanwhile, is currently in the U.S. embassy.
Hague News reports Dutch King Willem-Alexander has officially reopened the renovated Mauritshuis museum, home to Vermeer's “Girl with the Pearl Earring” and a treasure trove of other Golden Age masterpieces. The museum's reopening and the return of Vermeer's masterpiece are expected to draw many more foreign tourists to The Hague.
L’Equipe says FIFA president Joseph Blatter has proposed guidelines for the use of instant-replay technology on the pitch.