Maddy returns to the front pages of the tabloids this morning as the McCanns give an interview to Spanish television.

Kate's torment is the headline in the Mirror

This is the moment brave Kate McCann finally crumbled after six months of desperately holding her emotions in check.
Suddenly, during a Spanish TV interview designed to breathe new life into the hunt for Madeleine, tears could no longer be held at bay.
And as she tried to explain the terrible emptiness she and Gerry have endured since Madeleine vanished, her voice was choked by sobs - then she wept uncontrollably.


I feel in my heart that she is out there says the Sun

SOBBING Kate McCann battled to contain her emotion yesterday as she said: “Madeleine needs our help — she needs her family.”
The anguished mum broke down time and again as she insisted she STILL believes her missing daughter is alive.
Red-eyed Kate, 39, said: “I don’t know why anyone could harm her.

The Express continues its own agenda

POLICE WANT ANSWERS TO 14 QUESTIONS

Detectives are travelling from the Algarve with an official request to interview Madeleine’s parents and the seven friends with whom they were on holiday in Praia da Luz.
They will table 14 key questions in an attempt to break the deadlock in the stalled investigation. The news came on the day Kate broke down and sobbed during a TV appearance in which she and Gerry spoke of their belief that Madeleine is still alive.
Investigators believe that members of the party – dubbed the Tapas Nine after the Spanish-themed restaurant they were in when Madeleine disappeared – may have been involved in the crime.

Amongst the broadsheets the Times leads with

Plans to relax law on early abortion

The most extensive liberalisation of abortion laws for 40 years is being planned by MPs, The Times has learnt.
MPs will propose that women be allowed to seek an abortion on the basis of informed consent – dropping the requirement for two doctors’ signatures – and perform the second stage of a medical termination at home rather than at a hospital or clinic.

According to the Telegraph

Doctors 'misused figures to back abortions'

The Tory MP Nadine Dorries said yesterday that the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) had submitted evidence to ministers showing the survival rate at 23 weeks was just 10-15 per cent, when some hospitals recorded survival rates of 40 per cent at 23 weeks and 66 per cent at 24 weeks.
Mrs Dorries also criticised the British Medical Association (BMA) for "working it" so that only pro-abortion motions were discussed at its annual conference.

A cheap, painless alternative to IVF? says the Independent

A landmark in the development of fertility treatment was announced by doctors yesterday with the birth of the first babies to be conceived using a revolutionary technique that offers a safer, cheaper alternative to IVF.
The twin boy and girl, who were born on 18 October at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, were conceived using In Vitro Maturation (IVM), a method that dispenses with the use of costly fertility drugs, saving up to £1,500 on the normal price of treatment.

Brown: we need bill of rights as well as Human Rights Act is the lead in the Guardian

Gordon Brown will try today to restore his reputation as a prime minister driven by principle by setting out his plans to reform the constitution with a new British bill of rights and duties that builds on the existing Human Rights Act.
Proposals to ease the restrictions on the right to protest near parliament and a limited "confirmatory role" for MPs in the appointment of senior judges are also expected to be among the options detailed in three official consultation papers to be published today.

The Telegraph leads with a warning

Investors warned of slide in shares

In an unexpectedly downbeat report on the state of the British financial system, the bank warns that the UK stock market is "particularly vulnerable" to a downturn.
Almost all British workers have money invested in shares – either directly or indirectly through their pensions and life assurance plans – and could lose out if share prices suffer a significant fall.
The bank warns that there is a significant risk of the City and Britain's financial system becoming embroiled in further turmoil as a result of the credit crisis gripping the world's money markets.

The papers carry extensive coverage of the fires in California,the front page of the Mail has the words

EXODUS.

California has changed hue.
The shades of azure blues and soft golds which normally make up its clear sunny skies and long beach strands have become swallowed by greys and reds.
Grey smoke and ash fills the air, covering the millionaire celebrities' mansions.

California sifts ashes of $1bn blaze says the Guardian

After four days of rampant fires whipped by fierce desert winds, southern California yesterday began to count the cost of what has been termed the biggest fire in the state's history. Up to 750,000 people were forced to leave their homes as the fires took hold in an area stretching from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border.
As evacuees began to return to their homes, state government officials estimated the cost of the fire to be $1bn (£500m), and as many as 1,500 homes are thought to have been destroyed.

Staying in America and many of the papers report

Condoleezza Rice faces bloody hands protester

The Telegraph reporting that

Condoleezza Rice received a hostile greeting on Capitol Hill yesterday when an anti-war protester waved blood-coloured hands in her face and shouted "war criminal".The secretary of state, America's top diplomat and one of the architects of President George W Bush's Iraq policy, had arrived to attend a Congressional hearing on developments in the Middle East.
But as she entered the room, the woman rushed up to her, screamed and flailed her arms around wildly.

I CAUGHT RICE RED HANDED is the Mirror's headline

The Guardian meanwhile reports that

Turkey attacks Kurdish rebels on Iraqi border

Several F-16 warplanes loaded with bombs and attack helicopters took off from an air base in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir, according to an AP cameraman. The warplanes and helicopter gunships bombed mountain paths used by rebels to infiltrate from neighbouring Iraq, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Kurdish fighters defy the world from mountain fortress as bombing begins says the Independent

Guerrilla commanders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were defiant in the face of an impending invasion. In an interview high in the Qandil mountains, Bozan Tekin, a PKK leader, said: "Even Alexander the Great couldn't bring this region under his rule." The PKK has its headquarters in the Qandil mountains, one of the world's great natural fortresses in the east of Iraqi Kurdistan, stretching south from the south-east tip of Turkey along the Iranian border. If Turkey, or anybody else, is to try to drive the PKK out of northern Iraq they would have to capture this bastion and it is unlikely they will succeed.

The Telegraph meanwhile reports that

Afghanistan is lost, says Lord Ashdown

The former United Nations High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina delivered his dire prediction after being proposed as a new "super envoy" role in Afghanistan.
Lord Ashdown said: "We have lost, I think, and success is now unlikely."
The assessment will be considered extreme by some diplomats but timely by those pressing for more resources for Nato operations.

HOLIDAY BALCONY MUM FOUND DEAD reports the Sun


MISSING holiday mum Sara Cooper was found dead last night after cops said she may have THROWN her little girl 50ft from a hotel balcony.
Police divers made the grim discovery just yards from the Majorca hotel where seven-year-old Gianna was found terribly injured.

Another tragedy in the Mail

Mother 'killed herself and disabled daughter' in car fireball

A mother is thought to have killed herself and her disabled child by deliberately turning her car into a fireball.
They burned to death when the Nissan Micra was engulfed by flames after apparently being soaked in petrol and set alight.
It slowly rolled along a remote layby and hit a parked lorry, in which a driver slept.

The paper is quite pleased with itself this morning

Victory for the Mail as Brown dumps pay-as-you-throw taxes

The Prime Minister quashed the scheme to make families pay to have their rubbish taken away less than 24 hours before Whitehall was due to rubberstamp it.
Mr Brown is understood to have abandoned the idea in the face of deep public disillusionment with fortnightly bin collections, bin police and other attempts to force householders to leave out less waste.

Brown backs down on plan to 'confiscate' school funds says the Indy

A U-turn is being prepared by Gordon Brown over a plan to claw back surpluses in school budgets, after the proposal provoked furious disagreement from head teachers and parents.
Mr Brown was attacked at the despatch box yesterday by David Cameron, the Tory leader, who said the scheme to "confiscate" 5 per cent of the £1.7bn in school surpluses had been criticised by head teachers as "unjust and ill-conceived".

The Guardian meanwhile reports that

PM warned to use 'temperate language' after Cameron clash

The speaker urged the prime minister to use "temperate language" yesterday, as the row over the Scottish elections debacle flared in parliament.
Gordon Brown accused David Cameron of "misleading people" by suggesting that this week's damning independent report into the problems had blamed only Labour figures. He argued that all parties had agreed to the electoral system's introduction.
Tory MPs accused him of using unparliamentary language and demanded that he withdraw his remarks. Members are not allowed to accuse each other of lying to the house.

Wealthy, healthy and aged 85: the women living ever longer reports the Times

Life expectancy for professional women has shot up by 30 months to 85 years in only the last four years, while the gap between the top and bottom classes has widened.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics published yesterday show that females in high-status, well-paid jobs such as medicine, law and finance are living longer than ever. Their counterparts in clerical and manual jobs, however, are struggling to keep pace as their lifestyles and life expectancy emulate their male colleagues.

The Telegraph reports that

Pupils born in summer more likely to struggle

Research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, commissioned by the Government, found that pupils born over the summer are likely to fall behind those born at the beginning of the academic year.
The effect can last throughout their schooling, it said, with a corresponding impact on GCSE results and their prospects at A-level and university.

SCRUM OFF IT SNOBS says the Mirror

How come almost everyone stating a newfound love for rugby union qualifies it with a tirade of loathing against football?
This contrasting of gentle giants with pampered scumbags has rained down unabated for 10 days (obviously it only started when England were winning).
A white-washing of rugby players as saintly heroes who have never driven while drunk, taken drugs, assaulted anyone or cheated.
Whereas footballers are all grasping, snarling, dishonest, over-paid pond life. What's all this about?
Football and rugby are different sports from different places.

The Sun reports on the Haunted Playground

A ‘HAUNTED’ playground swing that rocks backwards and forwards on its own for days has scientists baffled.
Parents and children are convinced a ghost is to blame.
They were so spooked they reported the swing to cops after it began moving four months ago. Locals claim the seat moves nonstop for TEN DAYS before stopping dead, while other swings remain still.
Teacher Maria de Silva Agustina said yesterday: “One child called it the Blair Witch Playground. We believe it is haunted.”

Finally the Express reports on

FEARS FOR ROLLING STONE KEITH AFTER HE SLURS SPEECH

ROLLING Stone Keith Richards shocked an audience of celebrities by slurring his way through a speech.
The veteran rocker struggled to get his words out correctly when he accepted his prize at the 2007 Scream Awards in America.
But few in the audience would have known that Keith, 63, has to take daily medicine to prevent him having a seizure after suffering concussion and brain surgery 18 months ago.