The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Sunday Times of Malta says an Ebola patient alert at Mater Dei Hospital yesterday turned out to be a case of malaria. It also reports how a dog helped foil a hold-up.
MaltaToday quotes MFSA chairman Joe Bannister saying it was unreasonable to expect the authority to prevent all failures.
The Malta Independent says that six months to the deadline (for a new gas power station) the partners in the Electrogas consortium still have to invest.
Il-Mument highlights an address yesterday by Opposition leader Simon Busuttil, who said the PN was being revamped into a modern, professionally run organisation.
Illum says there are deep changes within the police force under the new commissioner. The SAG and the Mobile Squad are making a return.
The new look It-Torca speaks of a ‘reshuffle’ by EU Commission President-designate Juncker amid concerns about seven commissioners-designate.
The overseas press
As Brazilians prepare to go to vote in the presidential election, O Globo reports that President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil has extended her lead while it is unclear which of her two challengers will make it to the likely second-round runoff .
The BBC quotes Mexican officials saying a mass grave has been found on the outskirts of the Mexican town of Iguala, where 43 students went missing on September 26.
As the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong enter their second week, South China Morning Post reports Hong Kong governor, C Y Leung, has told the Occupy Central movement to evacuate government offices and schools by next Monday, or the situation would “probably get out of hand”.
Israel is ready to carry out a military operation in Lebanon similar to the one in Gaza this summer, Israeli army Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said in an interview with Israeli daily Yedioth Aharonoth. Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah has noted that Israeli society did not break apart during Israel's war on Gaza in August and the military knows how to do in Lebanon what they did in Gaza, he said.
London’s Sunday Times reports British Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered the heads of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ to find Alan Henning’s murderer so he could send the SAS to capture or kill the man known as “Jihadi John”.Meanwhile, Colin Livesey, Henning’s brother-in-law, accused David Cameron's government of having done very little to obtain his freedom.
Libya Herald says a British teacher who was kidnapped by one of Libya’s militias in May this year has been released. David Boland worked at the international school in Benghazi. The BBC has been told a demand for a ransom was made to the school.
Avvenire says Pope Francis and a host of cardinals and bishops today start a two-week synod on the family at the Vatican. They are expected to be joined by lay Catholics to discuss some of the most controversial issues affecting the Church – abortion, contraception, homosexuality and divorce.
ABC reports archaeologists in Spain have found one of the world's earliest known images of Jesus: he has no beard, his hair is not too long and he is wearing a philosopher's toga. The image is engraved on a glass plate dating back to the 4th Century AD, believed to have been used to hold Eucharistic bread as it was consecrated in early Christian rituals. In the image, Jesus Christ is flanked by two apostles, believed to be Peter and Paul. The scene takes place in the celestial orb, framed between two palm trees, which in Christian iconography represent immortality, the afterlife and heaven, among other things.