These are the main stories featured in Friday's newspapers:
Times of Malta reports that a lethal drug 100 times stronger than morphine and 50 times more powerful than heroin would be reaching Malta's shores imminently. It also reports that former PN leader Simon Busuttil will argue in court today that the ‘institutional paralysis’ over the Panama Papers scandal breached EU laws.
L-orizzont tackles the issue of abortion with interviews carried out with pro-choice and pro-life activists.
In-Nazzjon reports that students from Msida were being denied from attending their own school.
The Malta Independent quotes Minister Ian Borg saying that underground mass transit studies were at an "advanced stage". It also reports that the Manoel Island project had been approved.