The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Times of Malta says the gaming watchdog is under fire by a number of foreign gamers for alleged ‘gross negligence’.
The Malta Independent reports that the government is committed to drafting legislation to fight cyber-bullying.
In-Nazzjon quotes the mother of a man arraigned and held by mistake last week, saying he is going through a trauma.
l-orizzont refers to an American court decisions and asks if the MMR jab is dangerous.
The overseas press
Al Motamar quotes military officials in Yemen saying five soldiers have been killed in an attack by suspected Al Qaeda militants in the south-east of the country. The attackers opened fire on security forces guarding the country's only liquid natural gas export terminal. Last week fears of an imminent terrorist threat in the region forced the US to close its embassy in the Yemeni capital.
Al Ahram says supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi fortified their two Cairo sit-in sites as Egyptian security officials said their forces will move against the entrenched protest camps within 24 hours. At the main sit-in, vendors said they have sold hundreds of gas masks, goggles and gloves to protesters readying for police tear gas. Three waist-high barriers of concrete and wood have been built against armoured vehicles.
Al Ayyam reports that the Palestinians have reacted angrily to Israel's approval of nearly 1,200 new Jewish settlement homes, just days before peace talks are set to resume. Palestinian negotiators said the approval cast doubt on Israel's sincerity in the peace process. About 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Palestinians want to establish their state in those areas, as well as the Gaza Strip. The settlements are considered illegal under international law.
El Pais reveals Spain will seek to take its dispute with the UK over Gibraltar to the United Nations. Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister José Garcia-Margallo is proposing that both countries present a “united front” over Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands at the UN. Argentina is on a two-year term as non-permanent member of the UN’s Security Council and could potentially use its position to include discussions about Gibraltar on the agenda in New York.
Kathimerini says Greek police are still searching for eight Pakistanis and two Afghans who escaped during a riot at an immigration detention centre. Human rights groups say migrants and asylum seekers face unacceptably long periods of incarceration in often appalling conditions.
Aftenposten says Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has gone undercover as a taxi driver in an attempt to hear voters' real concerns. The leader of the country's Labour party revealed he made the outing in a video posted by his party on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The video was released with campaigning in full swing for a September 9 general election, which Mr Stoltenberg's ruling leftist coalition appears likely to lose, according to the latest opinion polls.
ABC reports Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition leader Tony Abbott are back on the campaign trail this morning after both claimed victory in the first election debate, which had a heavy emphasis on the economy. Meanwhile, two new opinion polls have shown there has been no movement in support for the major parties after the first week of the campaign. Newspoll, published in The Australian, has the Coalition leading Labour 52 per cent to 48 per cent. In a Roy Morgan poll, both parties are locked at 50 per cent each.
The Philippines is bracing for the arrival of Typhoon Utor with authorities warning of heavy rains and potential floods in what is expected to be the strongest storm to hit the country so far this year. Manila Times says the typhoon, packing gusts of up to 185 kilometres per hour, was forecast to dump up to 25 millimetres of rain an hour within a 600-kilometre diameter of the typhoon.
Manila Standard reports a tearful Philippine woman recounted Sunday how she was kidnapped by Japanese troops during World War II and coerced into sex slavery, as she and her supporters gathered to demand Japan do more to bring justice to former “comfort women”. Estelita Dy, 83, and her supporters met in Tokyo as part of events by the group to commemorate the day the first victim of Japanese sex slavery came forward on August 14, 1991, and helped lay the groundwork for other victims. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has back-pedalled from Tokyo’s past apologies, saying there’s no proof Japan’s wartime government coerced women into prostitution for the Japanese Imperial Army.
RIA Novosti says Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt won gold in the men’s 100-metres at the World Championships in Moscow on Sunday, crossing the finish line in 9.77 seconds, a season's best. With former world and Olympic champion and twice-banned doper Gatlin leading at halfway, Bolt was forced to race a rival, rather than the clock, although his time was still the second-fastest of the year behind the 9.75 of Tyson Gay, absent from Moscow after testing positive.