These are the main stories featured in today's newspapers:

Times of Malta reports campaigners saying that the sex offenders register should be available on a specialised app that employers can use to avoid “unfortunate incidents” at schools and other sensitive workplaces. It also reports that Malta ranks first among a number of EU countries in a list of what a new study calls 24 “sink offshore financial centres”, typically characterised as tax havens.

The Malta Independent says the Marsascala will not be appealing an application to demolish the locality's oldest house. Another story reports the shocking court story of a man who tried to burn a woman alive. 

L-orizzont reports that the 2018 Budget could be presented by Finance Minister Edward Scicluna on October 2 or 9. It also features the ongoing works on the Paola square. 

In-Nazzjon accuses Prime Minister Joseph Muscat of relegating Malta to a worse status than Pakistan after the Pakistani prime minister was forced to resign in the wake of the Panama Papers scandal.