The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
Times of Malta reports how a Mafia boss was arrested in Bugibba yesterday.
The Malta Independent says a stench in Mgarr was caused by slurry on crops.
In-Nazzjon leads with the arraignment of five men, three of them soldiers, accused of attempting a major burglary in Gozo.
The overseas press
A series of suicide bombings in Libya has left at least 40 soldiers dead, as opponents and supporters of a renegade ex-general clashed for control of a key air base in the port city of Benghazi, Al Jazeera reports.
According to South China Morning Post, student leaders whose pro-democracy protests have brought Hong Kong to a standstill, have been meeting with the government to discuss their demands.
Gazete Oku reports Turkey’s parliament has given the government approval to deploy Turkish armed forces to combat Islamist jihadists in Syria and Iraq.
The International Monetary Fund has warned that any spread of the Ebola outbreak would be a severe risk to the global economy. Bloomberg quotes IMF managing director Christine Lagarde, speaking at Georgetown University in Washington, calling for “real” action to counter the Ebola crisis and said that talk alone was not enough.
ABC announces Australia will investigate sexual abuse claims at its refugee detention centre on Nauru, while removing 10 aid workers from the South Pacific island following reports of coaching detainees to commit self-harm protests.
Fox News reports the United States has announced it is partially lifting its ban on sales of weapons to Vietnam to help its maritime security.
Mail & Guardian says a group of Nobel peace laureates have suspended plans to hold an annual meeting in South Africa because they said the government there had refused to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama.
Climate change could affect the ratio of human males to human females that are born in some countries, a new study from Japan suggests. Nature says researchers have found that male fetuses may be particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Since the 1970s, temperature fluctuations from the norm have become more common in Japan, and at the same time there has been an increase in the deaths of male fetuses, relative to the number of deaths of female fetuses in that country, according to the study.
VOA News reports a US court has ruled that Texas can start enforcing an anti-abortion law that pro-choice campaigners say would close all but a handful of clinics.
Sky News reports Prince William, second-in-line to the British throne, has written to two freelance photographers warning them against trailing his baby son George during walks in London parks with his nanny, He said their behaviour amounted to “harassment”. The letter was sent after an incident in a central London park last week when one individual was spotted near Prince George and his nanny.