Baby P and the whole issue of social welfare continues to make the news this morning.

The Mail leads with

FIRST PICTURES: The chocolate smile that hid the terrible scars of abuse on tragic blue-eyed Baby P

He reaches out towards an unseen figure behind the camera, and the start of a smile lifts his chubby cheeks, exposing his first baby teeth.
This is one of the unbearably poignant photographs showing for the first time the dreadful and swift transformation Baby P suffered in the last months of his tragically short life.
The picture here was taken when he was 12 months old. It shows a youngster with bright blue eyes and white-blond hair.
That was before his stepfather set about seriously abusing him over the next few months under the nose of social workers

The Sun tells how it

convinced a judge the ban on showing the 17-month-old’s face deprived him of dignity and humanity.

and adds that

By last night 145,000 Sun readers had signed our petition to sack the child protection officials who failed the toddler

The Guardian meanwhile reports that

More than 80% of children who are killed or seriously injured as a result of abuse or neglect are missed by the national child protection register, the Guardian can reveal.
In the week that social workers from Haringey in London were lambasted over the horrific killing of a 17-month-old known as Baby P, and Manchester social services staff faced questions over the deaths of three-month-old Delayno Mullings-Sewell and his two-year-old brother, Romario, the findings show that scores of children who die at the hands of relatives are not on the radar of social services departments, even though in some cases injured babies have had medical treatment

The Independent says that

Ministers were last night under pressure to disclose the full details of their response to a whistleblower who raised grave concerns about child protection in Haringey just months before the violent death of Baby P.
The Conservative leader David Cameron yesterday demanded that Ed Balls, the Children's Secretary, release all internal memos about warnings from a senior social worker about apparent failings in the authority's social services department.

The Telegraph leads with the story that

Ovary transplant mother speaks of her "indescribable" joy after giving birth

Maja, appropriately named after the Roman goddess of fertility, is a symbol of hope to millions of infertile women around the world who could benefit from the same pioneering procedure which enabled her mother Susanne to conceive naturally.
Mrs Butscher, 39, who went through an early menopause, fell pregnant a year after being given an ovary by her identical twin sister.

The Front page of the Times carries the other story of the morning

Britain is heading for a “collapse of sterling” if Gordon Brown persists with trying to borrow his way out of trouble, George Osborne says in an interview with The Times today.
Risking accusations that he is talking down the pound, the Shadow Chancellor mounts a ferocious attack on the Prime Minister, accusing him of following a deliberate “scorched-earth policy” that would leave the economy in a mess for the Tories to inherit.

The Guardian meanwhile says that

Doubts raised over prospects of success for 'hasty summit'

More than 20 of the world's leaders gathered at the White House last night at the start of a two-day emergency summit on the global financial crisis that will continue in five hours of policy discussions.
But even as participants began to assemble in what is the largest collection of presidents and prime ministers in almost a decade, doubts were raised that it would achieve anything beyond immediate moves to stimulate the world economy and an agreement to meet again

Many of the papers report that

Hillary Clinton is in line for top job

Mrs Clinton flew to Chicago for a meeting to discuss the prospect of serving as leader of his foreign policy team and America's top diplomat.
The talks remained undercover until the former First Lady's Secret Service armoured motorcade was spotted leaving the president-elect's headquarters.
US media reports quoting Obama transition officials suggested the job was Mrs Clinton's if she wanted it.

The Guardian adds that

Clinton's visit to Obama's office on Thursday was not on her official schedule, and her Senate staff had previously said she was in Chicago for personal reasons.
She gave little away about her future yesterday, telling a conference in Albany, New York: "I'm not going to speculate or address anything about the president-elect's incoming administration."

According to the Times

Obama is warned to beware of a ‘huge threat’ from al-Qaeda

General Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, this week acknowledged that there were dangers during a presidential transition when new officials were coming in and getting accustomed to the challenges. But he added that no “real or artificial spike” in intercepted transmissions from terror suspects had been detected.

Insecticide! (An ecological disaster that will affect us all) reports the Independent

It is a realisation that may be dawning at last: the importance of the little things that rule the world. The great American biologist, E O Wilson, said insects were world-rulers, but although they play a central role in maintaining ecosystems and the whole web of life, most insects have long been viewed with distaste or even revulsion as creepie-crawlies (apart from butterflies, which have been viewed as something akin to honorary mini-birds).
But the recent alarms in Britain, Europe and America about the fate of the honey bee – colonies have been crashing in increasing numbers – have started to open people's eyes to insects' importance in a more general way, says Matt Shardlow, director of Buglife, the Invertebrate Conservation Trust

Petrol Rip Off claims the Express

PETROL stations were last night under growing pressure to slash prices at the pumps.
They were accused of ripping off drivers as forecourt prices failed to fall in line with the tumbling wholesale cost of crude oil.
Unleaded and diesel are down just 20 per cent from the record prices charged in the summer despite wholesale costs crashing by 60 per cent. The price of unleaded should have come down to 88.32p a litre, said the AA, and it ought to fall lower still if crude oil stays around the 50 dollars-a-barrel mark.

The Times reports that

sexual violence erupts in DRC and adds that

More than a quarter of a million people have been displaced during the past three months of fighting as the Democratic Republic of Congo’s messy, forgotten war flares once again.
Rebels loyal to the renegade army general Laurent Nkunda have closed to within a few miles of Goma, the regional capital. Their front line is now only about 600 yards from the closest government positions.

The Sun reports that

TWO hundred rare silverback mountain gorillas are facing slaughter in the Congo after rangers protecting them fled the civil war.
The endangered great apes — one of man’s closest relatives — live in the Virunga National Park.

How could the man who 'raped' me be cleared because he was sleepwalking? asks the Mail

A rape victim has hit out at the law after the man accused of attacking her was cleared because he was sleepwalking.
Jane McKenna, 33, was asleep at home when a friend's husband, who had been a guest at a barbecue, walked into the bedroom and started having sex with her.
Jason Jeal, a 37-year-old roofer with no medical history of sleepwalking, admitted sex had taken place. But he was cleared of rape after he insisted he had been asleep and had no idea what he was doing

The Mirror reports that

Michael Donovan's niece told a court yesterday that he was a "bit creepy" and a "fantasist".
Caroline Meehan said Michael Donovan, 40 - accused with Karen Matthews of kidnapping her daughter Shannon, nine - was a loner.
She agreed with Frances Oldham QC, counsel for Matthews, that he was "a loner, a strange character, a bit creepy and a fantasist?"

Troops' beer allowance a headache for Germans reports the Guardian

If the German defence ministry's figures are anything to go by, being a soldier in Afghanistan is clearly thirsty work.
According to military sources, around 1m litres (1.8m pints) of beer were shipped to German troops stationed in Afghanistan last year, as well as almost 70,000 litres of wine and sekt, a German sparkling wine.
The admission has shocked a country that has never had much time for the Afghan mission. Newspaper reports under headlines such as Drink for the Fatherland and Bundeswehr Boozers have suggested that alcohol is the only way of keeping soldiers onside at a time when it is becoming ever harder to recruit them

Many of the papers report on Prince Charles 60th,the Express reports

PRINCE Charles was treated to a stolen kiss on his 60th birthday yesterday. And he seemed to find it a huge joke that a cake he was presented with had no candles.
The heir to the throne, who is now entitled to a bus pass, also jokingly complained that his wife Camilla had given him only one present instead of a rumoured 60, although he didn’t say what the present was.

Finally the Telegraph says that

Top of the Pops looks set for a return to television screens, just two years after it was axed for falling ratings. BBC executives have hinted that the show could be revived, with music industry insiders suggesting that it could be revamped for the YouTube generation with more populist acts and exclusive songs that viewers could share online.