Updated 9am
The Times of Malta leads with a heart-warming photo of Nationalist MP Ivan Bartolo at Mater Dei after he donated a kidney to a stranger. Its second story reveals that the Smart City hospital is in default.
The Malta Independent focuses on the Panama Papers inquiry and says that Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi were appealing against a court decree. It also writes that the gas pipeline between Malta and Sicily will be up and running by 2024.
In-Nazzjon dedicates half its front page to a photo showing Opposition leader Simon Busuttil at the Nationalist Party headquarters, jovially chatting with the four contenders for this post. Its main story is that contracts awarded during the days of former Gozo Minister Anton Refalo are being investigated.
L-Orizzont focuses on news that a gas pipeline between Malta and Sicily is expected to be operational by 2024, with the newspaper dedicating its front page photo to archaeologists working to uncover the remains of a Roman Villa in Żejtun.