The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.
The Sunday Times of Malta says that fines for using the phone at the wheel are set to double.
MaltaToday reports that since 2011, the Maltese embassy in Libya issued 74,000 visas to Libyans.
Il-Mument says the PN will issue its first proposals for the general election by the end of the year.
The Malta Independent on Sunday reports that an investigation has been launched into the beating of a 10-year-old boy at Mt Carmel Hospital. The boy, who has behavioural problems, was allegedly physically and mentally abused by a nurse on Monday
It-Torca says that Chris Pace, who it describes as a PN 'spy' has resigned from the Central Bank. It also says Arms Ltd will receive applications for the temporary provision of electricity in boathouses, as a means to end abuse.
Illum says the value of property in Cospicua has tripled in two years. It also says horses will be banned from the roads between 7am and 9am.
KullHadd reports that new plans for a revamp of Ta' Qali crafts village are ready.
The overseas press
Saudi Radio announces the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation will hold an emergency meeting in Jeddah later today to discuss the Syrian refugee crisis. Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon are hosting four million people displaced by the conflict but there is growing criticism of the contribution made by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states.
Meanwhile, Magyar Hirlap says a record number of refugees crossed into Hungary yesterday as more than 4,000 walked across the border with Serbia as the Hungarian authorities were completing preparations for sealing the frontier before the introduction of stricter controls on Tuesday.
Euronews reports tens of thousands of Europeans have taken part in rallies in support of asylum-seekers entering the continent in Britain, Denmark, Spain, France, Germany, Sweden, Finland and Portugal. But at the same time, thousands took to the streets in Eastern Europe to voice their opposition to the influx, their numbers dwarfing those attending a handful of pro-migrant rallies.
LBC says leftist Jeremy Corbyn is the new leader of the British Labour Party after winning the primaries with 59.5 per cent of the vote. His first act as leader, immediately after the acceptance speech at Westminster, was to join the thousands of people who marched in the streets in London in solidarity with migrants.
Deutsche Welle reports that as 13,000 more refugees arrived at Munich’s main train station yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on refugee women to start a new life in the country through language learning and integration in society. In her weekly radio speech, she urged them not to “isolate themselves”.
The French government has suspended its honorary consul in the Turkish port city of Bodrum after a service of France 2 TV showed her in her shop selling boats and life jackets to would-be migrants hoping to reach the Greek islands. Admitting her involvement in the business, Françoise Olcay argued local Turkish authorities were also involved in the traffic.
Commenting on the issue of ISIS profiting from the human trafficking schemes contributing to Europe’s refugee crisis, Norwegian Centre for Global Analyses Christian Nellemann told Radio Sputnik that along with other forms of tax, profits from human trafficking have effectively replaced oil as the terror group’s main source of income. He estimates that through the smuggling business, ISIS will this year have a sum in excess of $2 billion.
China and the United States have reached an agreement on combating cyber crimes, the official Xinhua reports. The agreement was reached after three days of talks between President Xi Jinping’s special envoy Meng Jianzhu and US Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and US National Security Advisor Susan Rice.
Times of India says at least 89 people have been killed and around 100 injured after a cooking gas cylinder exploded at a crowded restaurant and triggered a second blast of mine detonators stored close by. Rescue workers have so far found 89 bodies under the huge heap of rubble, the inspector said.
The Libya Herald has been told that members of the Islamist-leaning Tripoli Revolutionaries Shoura Council have met Tripoli Prime Minister Khalifa Ghwell, urging him to ban women drivers unless they are accompanied by a male relative. Sources said they also demanded that there be completely separate universities and schools for males and females, that women be dismissed and replaced by males if the job they are doing can be done by men, and that secretaries must be male if they are working for a man.
Chicago’s ABC 7 TV announces a small baby girl is in a Michigan hospital after her mother, tired from the sleepless nights, mistakenly mixed her feeding powder with vodka instead water. The police said the father had filled a bottle of water with vodka to take it to a friend and left it in the fridge. A few hours after drinking the bottle, the baby became flushed, started shaking and breathing with difficulty. The father is being charged with assault.
Tennis: The Italian media is all praises for Flavia Pennetta who won the US Open for her first Grand Slam title at age 33, and then announced her retirement. In one of the unlikeliest major finals in women’s tennis history, the 26th-seeded Pennetta beat Vinci 7-6 (4), 6-2 at Flushing Meadows. She is the oldest woman in the Open era to become a Grand Slam champion for the first time. Meanwhile, this evening, Roger Federer will try to cap a superb run of form with his first major title in three years when he plays Novak Djokovic in the US Open final.