The Times leads this morning with

The You Tube Killer

The chilling home-made video shows a young man staring out of a blood-red screen, pointing a gun and declaring: “I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit.”
Hours after posting his “massacre manifesto” on the YouTube website, a gunman presumed to be Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, walked into Jokela High School in southern Finland and shot dead five boys, two girls and the headmistress with a .22 calibre handgun. About a dozen more were wounded.
The shooting marked the arrival in peaceful small-town Finland of US-style high-school massacres, a phenomenon spurred by the internet and the isolation of a troubled teenager.

YOU TUBE KILLER says the Mirror

A teenage gunman mowed down seven pupils and the head at his school after a chilling video rant on YouTube outlining his murderous plot.
The crazed shooter also wounded 11 others as he swept from class to class blasting indiscriminately with a .22 calibre pistol yesterday.
As armed police moved in, he shot himself in the head. Amazingly he survived for a while but doctors later said he died in hospital.

The Sun continues to lead on the latest from Perugia.

COPS FIND KNIFE says the paper

COPS probing the murder of student Meredith Kercher were last night examining a flick knife found at a suspect’s home.
The blade – said to be 8½cm long and “compatible” with a wound on Meredith’s throat – was uncovered in a search of Raffaele Sollecito’s house in Perugia, Italy. He is the boyfriend of Meredith's flatmate Amanda Knox.
Experts were checking the knife for blood and fingerprints.

Student's sex party that ended in murder reports the Telegraph

The American girl accused of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher, who allegedly died in a violent orgy, made a tearful confession saying they just wanted to "have some fun," it has emerged.Amanda Knox, 20, broke down in her police cell as she told Italian detectives that she invited Miss Kercher to join an impromptu drunken party in the house they shared in Perugia.

'Foxy Knoxy': I heard Meredith scream... then covered my ears says the Mail

The American student accused of murdering Meredith Kercher covered her ears to block out the sound of her housemate's dying screams, say Italian police.
In an extraordinary statement to detectives Amanda Knox claims she sat in the kitchen of their house and listened to the British student being killed.
The 20-year-old said she knew Miss Kercher was in her bedroom with musician Patrick Diya Lumumba - but did nothing to help.

It leads though with an older crime

EXCLUSIVE: Lawrence murder suspects face re-arrest after forensic breakthrough

The five prime suspects in the race-hate murder of Stephen Lawrence are set to be re-arrested, the Mail can reveal.

The move follows a sensational forensic breakthrough by a team of experts working in secret.
Using new techniques, they found fibres from Stephen's clothes on those thought to have been worn by the suspects.
Fibres from their clothes were on Stephen's bloodied garments - transferred as the 18-year-old fought desperately for his life.
Now the gang, named by the Mail as Stephen's killers a decade ago, could face trial for murder.

The Guardian reports that

Police have confirmed that they are investigating new forensic evidence surrounding the murder of London teenager Stephen Lawrence, which could lead to the rearrest of the five main suspects in the case. All five men could be questioned again following the re-examination by independent forensic technicians of hundreds of pieces of evidence related to the 1993 murder.

It leads with the continuing prolems for Ian Blair

Pressure piles up on defiant Met chief

Sir Ian Blair will again find himself fighting to keep his job today when an official report into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes highlights multiple errors that led to his death and identifies 16 areas where police must change to prevent a repeat of the tragedy.
The report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) will intensify the pressure on the Metropolitan police commissioner to resign, and will also criticise Sir Ian's decision to try to scupper their independent investigation into the shooting by asking the home secretary to block it.

Blair vows to stay despite losing confidence vote over De Menezes says the Independent

Sir Ian Blair, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, vowed to remain in his job yesterday after a vote of no confidence in his leadership was passed by the London Assembly following a stormy appearance before its members over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes.
The embattled head of Britain's largest police force shrugged off the 15-8 vote by the Assembly calling for him to resign by insisting he retained the support of Londoners, his own officers and key politicians.

MPs savage plan to double terror detention time limit reports the ame paper

MPs of all parties condemned moves to double the time terror suspects can be held without charge amid fears that the number of people jailed for terrorist offences could grow twelvefold in the next decade.
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, vowed to press ahead with extending the 28-day limit on the time terror suspects can be questioned as ministers braced themselves for parliamentary warfare over the proposals.
The future scale of terrorism convictions was revealed in internal Whitehall documents which estimate that the number of extremists in jail could leap from the current 131 to 1,600 by 2016. re

Equipment that could have saved life of 19-year-old soldier arrived too late reports the Times

The failure of the Army to bomb-proof a Land Rover in time led to the death of 19-year-old soldier in a roadside explosion in Iraq, a coroner ruled yesterday.
Element B, the electronic bomb-jamming equipment, had been in stock in Iraq for nearly two weeks before Fusilier Gordon Gentle, of the Royal Highland Fusiliers, died on June 28, 2004.
At the end of the inquest Selena Lynch, the assistant deputy coroner for Oxfordshire, said: “It is more likely than not that the bomb would not have detonated had Element B been fitted.” She said that the Army’s supply chain in Iraq “appeared chaotic and lacking in clarity”.

KIT CHAOS KILLS BRAVE IRAQ HERO says the Sun

A HERO soldier could have survived a bomb attack if his unit had been told to pick up a life-saving device waiting in a storeroom, an inquest heard yesterday.
Brave Gordon Gentle, 19, died when a roadside blast hit his Land Rover just ten minutes from his base in Iraq.

The Telegraph leads with the rises in petrol prices

Petrol prices hit new record

The price of unleaded petrol went above £1 a litre for the first time yesterday, as drivers felt the full force of turmoil in global financial markets.The increases came as crude oil in America approached $100 a barrel, with the weak dollar and worries about winter fuel supplies sending global markets into a fresh wave of turbulence. The price of gold was close to a record high.
The AA said car drivers - who recently suffered a tax rise of 2p per litre - could face even higher prices in the coming weeks.

Dow tumbles on new sub-prime fears reports the Indy

US stocks tumbled 2.6 per cent last night as an investigation of the home loan industry by New York's attorney general drew in the country's biggest mortgage finance companies, and the savings and loan company Washington Mutual warned the housing downturn would extend well into next year.
The Dow Jones index fell 360.9 to 13,300 after Andrew Cuomo said his office was sending subpoenas to the government-sponsored mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as part of an investigation of the home loan industry.
The move came as the dollar slumped below £2.10 against sterling, a level not seen since the early 1980s. The greenback dropped the most in two months against the yen, stumbled to a 23-year low versus the Australian dollar and, most galling of all, was down to a rate against the Canadian dollar not seen since 1950. In late New York trade, the dollar stood at $2.1023 to the pound.

Bush puts pressure on Pakistani president as Bhutto issues march ultimatum reports the Guardian

George Bush finally intervened in the Pakistan crisis yesterday, making a phone-call to his ally Pervez Musharraf to press the president to hold planned elections and to step down from the army.
The American president, who had not contacted General Musharraf directly since he established emergency law on Saturday, told a press conference: "You can't be the president [of Pakistan] and the head of the military at the same time. I had a very frank discussion with him."

The Times reports on the

End of the Rose Revolution as riot police are sent in to quell protests

The Rose Revolution in Georgia unravelled in a haze of teargas last night as riot police broke up protests and the pro-Western President declared a state of emergency.
Mikhail Saakashvili accused Russia of attempting to destabilise Georgia, while special forces troops fired teargas and rubber bullets and used water cannon on demonstrators in running battles in the capital, Tbilisi.
The violence is the most serious challenge to Mr Saakashvili since he swept to power on a wave of popular support in the pro-democracy Rose Revolution in 2003. It also threatens American policy in the strategically important Caucasus region.

Russia blamed for Georgian riots says the Telegraph

In an earlier announcement likely to enrage Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, Mr Saakashvili ordered the expulsion of three Russian diplomats and recalled Georgia's ambassador from Moscow, claiming that Russia was engaged in "subversive, espionage activity in Georgia".
The Russian foreign ministry rejected the accusation as a "provocation" and said that Moscow would issue an "appropriate response".
Moscow has sought to exact revenge on Georgia ever since it snubbed Russian proxy rule by sweeping Mr Saakashvili to power in the 2003 Rose Revolution.

The Independent reports that

Sarkozy's warm words mask deep divisions with US

Nicolas Sarkozy has proclaimed a new era in the often troubled relationship between the United States and France, urging Washington to "trust Europe", and throwing his weight behind tough new sanctions to force Iran to halt its uranium enrichment programme.
In an address to the US Congress interrupted only by several standing ovations, the French President spoke in glowing, at times emotional, terms of America and its role in the world, and of France's debt to the US in two world wars and the Cold War that followed.

The Mirror continues to report on Maddy

McCANN FRIENDS 'CHANGE THEIR STORY'

Two of the seven friends who were in a restaurant with the McCanns when Madeleine vanished are said to have told police they want to change their stories.
Lawyers acting for the pair are reported to have contacted Portuguese detectives and asked to "correct" their original witness statements.
They insisted their request be kept secret because they feared being pressured by supporters of Kate and Gerry McCann, according to a report in Spain's El Mundo newspaper.

Health matters are the lead in the Independent and the Express this morning.

Now doctors say it's good to be fat
After years of anti-obesity public health advice, a major new study causes an outcry by concluding that the overweight live longer says the former

A startling new study by medical researchers in the United States has caused consternation among public health professionals by suggesting that, contrary to conventional wisdom, being overweight might actually be beneficial for health.
The study, published yesterday in the respected Journal of the American Medical Association, runs counter to almost all other advice to consumers by saying that carrying a little extra flab – though not too much – might help people to live longer.

SUNSHINE VITAMIN IS SECRET OF YOUTH says the Express


According to the Mail

Pocket-money alcohol prices 'encourage the young to binge drink'

Supermarket alcohol is now so cheap that teenagers can buy enough to binge drink using just their pocket money.
For £7.29, it is possible to buy more than three times the recommended daily alcohol intake for men or four times that of women, according to an investigation by Alcohol Concern.
That sum compares with the £9.53 average weekly pocket money for 12 to 16-year-olds.
It is particularly worrying as previous studies have shown that around 29 per cent of under-18s are able to buy alcohol in pubs and 21 per cent in off-licences.

Many of the papers carry the story that

Sergeant 'boasted he could turn lesbian soldier'

A lesbian soldier was pestered for sex by a male sergeant who claimed he might be able to turn her "straight", an employment tribunal has heard.reports the Telegraph

LESBIAN ARMY'S SEX IN HAY reports the Sun

A LESBIAN soldier was caught romping in the hay with a blonde corporal at Army stables, a tribunal heard yesterday.
Lance Bombardier Kerry Fletcher and the other girl were kissing and fondling with their combat fatigues open, it was alleged.

The Mirror reports that

Shellfish 'feel pain'

The row over how to cook lobsters boiled up after scientists said yesterday shellfish can suffer pain.
Chefs cook them alive, claiming they do not suffer. But experts put acid on prawns' antennae and said they rubbed them for up to five minutes.
It could show "pain experience", the team at Queen's University, Belfast, told the New Scientist magazine.

Many of the papers feature the new Olympic stadium unveiled yesterday

Superbowl or Blancmange reports the Times

The final design of the 2012 Olympic Stadium, with its sunken bowl, removable seating and “steel crown” roof, was unveiled by Lord Coe yesterday to muted applause.
The stadium in Stratford, East London, costing £500 million, will have 25,000 permanent seats sunk into the main structure, 55,000 temporary seats which can be sold off after the Games and a roof covering two thirds of the spectators.

Finally the Guardian is one of the papers to feature the story

'Dear prime minister, I'm off to race cars in America'

With a seat in the House of Lords, a biotechnology fortune in the bank and good sight in just one eye, Paul Drayson is an unlikely candidate to become Britain's next motor-racing hero. But yesterday the 47-year-old minister for defence equipment and support wrote one of the most unusual resignation notes in political history and told Gordon Brown he was stand ing down to pursue his dream of winning the Le Mans 24-hour motor race. adds the paper

There was concern last night that his departure could destabilise Britain's defence procurement programme at a time of huge budgetary pressures on the armed forces caused, not least, by an ambitious weapons systems procurement programme including two aircraft carriers, a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and a new hi-tech armoured car.