The following are the top stories in national newspapers today.

Times of Malta says Senglea residents are delighted that Prime Minister Joseph Muscat acknowledged their struggles against Palumbo Shipyards, which they have accused of late night noise pollution. In another story, the newspaper says the controversial nomination of Caroline Farrugia Frendo as magistrate may have hit another constitutional stumbling block as members of the Commission for the Administration of Justice internally raised doubts over whether the time she spent as a court attorney could be counted under the constitutional requirement that appointees must have spent seven years in legal practice.

L-Orizzont also leads with a report about the Prime Minister’s expressed support with Cottonera residents in their fight against Palumbo.

The Malta Independent says the National Commission for Further and Higher Education will make changes to certain definitions in the law following the American Institute of Malta’s advertisements as a university a few months ago.

In-Nazzjon quotes Opposition leader Simon Busuttil saying that through its private member's Bill on amendments to the way judicial appointments are made, the Opposition did in three days what the government failed to do in three years.