The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta says the risk of Ebola reaching Malta is remote.
The Malta Independent features comments by John Dalli about Libya.
MaltaToday reports how the authorities have called on all Maltese to leave Libya.
In-Nazzjon reports that retail trade has declined.
l-orizzont says there are no grounds for alarm about Ebola in Malta.
The overseas press
Euronews reports Israel has withdrawn the last of its ground forces from Gaza as it and Hamas began a temporary ceasefire, setting the stage for talks in Egypt on a broader deal for a long-term truce and the rebuilding of the blockaded coastal territory.
The Daily Mirror says a passenger on a plane escorted into Manchester Airport by a fighter jet has been arrested on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat.
La Tribune de Genève announces that the World Health Organization is convening a two-day meeting of its emergency committee starting to discuss the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. According to WHO, as of 1 August, the number of Ebola cases stood at 1,603, including 887 deaths, in four countries: Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
La Republica reports an Italian Navy vessel has reached the port city of Salerno with 1,416 rescued migrants on board, most of them war refugees.
Clarin says the founder of Argentina’s leading human rights group has located the grandson taken from her daughter while a prisoner of the military dictatorship in the 1970s – one of the long-unsolved mysteries from the “dirty war” era that still haunts the country. Surrounded by her large extended family, an emotional Estela Barnes de Carlotto, founder of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, announced that her long hunt for her grandchild had ended, while acknowledging other families are still searching for hundreds of children taken under similar circumstances.
Times of India reports the lifeless body of a half-dressed 11-year-old girl has been found in a field in Gurgaon, one of New Delhi’s satellite cities. According to the local authorities, the girl had been raped and strangled.
ABC says child welfare officers have again visited the home of the twin sister of Thai surrogate baby Gammy after it was revealed the children’s father was a convicted paedophile. Western Australia’s Department for Child Protection is examining the safety and wellbeing of the baby girl who is in the care of the Bunbury couple. It was earlier revealed electrician David John Farnell, 56, was sentenced to three years’ jail in 1997 for sexually molesting two girls under the age of 13.Just months later, while still imprisoned, he was charged again - this time with six counts of indecent dealings with a child under the age of 13. Farnell was found guilty a second time and received an 18-month jail term.
The New York Times says the UN has warned the humanitarian situation in Ukraine is getting worse on a daily basis as access to power and water became more difficult, homes were destroyed and health workers fled. A senior UN official told an emergency Security Council session “immediate action” was required.
Universe Today reports Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft reaches its final destination today after a decade-long journey into deep space that aims to place the first lander on a comet. Rosetta will begin orbiting the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet to glean information about the mass of dirty ice, dust and gas, according to the European Space Agency, which launched the probe in 2004.
Avvenire says that for the first time in his papacy, Pope Francis addressed the faithful present in St Peter’s Square in German, honouring the national pilgrimage made by 50,000 people from German and Austrian dioceses. The Holy Father lived in Germany for about two years during the eighties when completing his doctorate.
Russian hackers have stolen 1.2 billion user names and passwords in a series of Internet heists affecting 420,000 websites. The thievery was described in a New York Times story based on the findings of Hold Security, a Milwaukee firm that has a history of uncovering online security breaches.
US TV stations WOOD and WZZM report a nine-year-old boy has died after being stabbed repeatedly by another child at a playground in Michigan. Michael Conner Verkerke ran to his home after being stabbed and collapsed on the porch and died after being taken to a hospital. Witnesses told police that four children were playing when one of them, for an unknown reason, pulled a knife and stabbed the boy.
Bild says a woman sneaked into the seal pool of Berlin Zoo on Monday night, risking serious injury, to take a swim with the animals after closing time.