The following are the top stories in some of the Maltese and overseas newspapers.
Times of Malta reports how the Data Protection Commission had approved a legal notice giving the Education Minister access to data about students.
l-orizzont follows up its stories about revenue by Simon Busuttil from his law firm before he became opposition leader.
The overseas press
Libyan Herald reports an agreement has been reached between the Libyan government and militants to reopen two of the main oil terminals in the east of the country which have been in rebels hands for eight months.
Kyiv Post says Ukrainian Acting President Olexander Turchynov has called an emergency meeting of his security chiefs to deal with growing unrest in the east of the country. Pro-Russian demonstrations stormed government buildings in three eastern Ukrainian cities – Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv – and clashed with police, hung Russian flags from the buildings and called for a referendum on independence. The government in Kiev has accused Russia of orchestrating the unrest.
Magyar Nemzet reports Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has declared victory in Sunday’s parliamentary elections winning a second consecutive term in office.
Times of India says polls are being held in India – the world’s largest democracy – to elect a new parliament. The governing Congress Party is facing its main from the right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP. A new anti-corruption party, the AAP, is also contesting the elections after a spectacular result state assembly polls in the capital Delhi and is standing for all the seats in the parliament. More than 800 million Indians are eligible to vote in a poll dominated by corruption and high inflation.
ABC News reports a UK ship with sophisticated detection equipment, HMS Echo, has arrived in an area where a Chinese vessel searching for the missing Malaysian plane has twice detected a pulse signal.
La Nouvelle Releve says a day of commemoration is being held in Rwanda to mark the 20th anniversary of the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people– mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus – were killed. The week of mourning begins with a wreath-laying ceremony at the national genocide memorial followed by the lighting of a flame by President Paul Kagame at the Amahoro Stadium in the capital, Kigali.
According to Vanguard, Nigeria has declared its economy to be the biggest on the continent – overtaking South Africa for the first time.
Afghan Post quotes Kabul’s Interior Ministry saying some 200 people died during the Afghan presidential elections. Afghan forces killed 176 Taliban and injured 75.
Huffington Post says US researchers have launched a new atomic clock they say will neither gain nor lose a second in 300 million years.