Press digest

The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press: The Times says that the Occupational Health and Safety Authority is failing to understand why a wall fell at the SeaBank Hotel. The Malta Independent reports how the Attorney General has lost an appeal on a rape ruling involving a former priest. It also says that a Turkish claim about a Malta trial exonerating his country of the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 is nonesense. In-Nazzjon says Norweigan killer Breivik has refused to reply to questions on connections he had in various countries, including, possibly, Malta. l-orizzont reports on the fishermen's dispute with the government. It also says that demolition of a Valletta building which was an eyesore has started. The overseas press: The head of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament, Martin Callanan, has urged EU politicians to put economics before politics and let Greece ditch the euro. The Irish Enquirer quotes him saying Greece was now a “lightning rod” for the continuing crisis and should revert to the drachma.  The International Monetary Fund has raised the prospect of a second global credit crunch as European banks...