The Express describes the trial of the alleged suicide bombers


'Moment would-be suicide bomber put baby in firing line'

FOOTAGE of the moment an alleged Muslim fanatic tried to blow up a crowded Tube train was shown in court yesterday.The CCTV clip appeared to show Ramzi Mohammed (pictured) triggering his home-made rucksack bomb and aiming it at a mother with a child in a pushchair standing near him.Jurors at the trial of the alleged July 21 bombers watched as the detonator fired but the bomb failed to explode.

Caught on CCTV: fear and panic as 'attackers tried to detonate bombs'

Says the Independent,

The alleged attempts by two would-be suicide bombers to detonate their rucksack bombs on a crowded underground train and on top of a double-decker bus, both in the middle of London, were shown on dramatic CCTV recordings to a hushed courtroom yesterday.
Although both detonators exploded, it appeared that the main "bombs" failed to ignite and CCTV films showed how the bombers fled as passengers panicked. Other photographs of the four failed bombs in the July 21 2005 attacks showed the rucksacks ripped apart by the detonators, leaving what is said to be the main charge of hydrogen peroxide and chapatti flour on the floor, still "live" and packed with tacks, screws and washers as shrapnel.

Whilst the Mirror reports

SEE YOU IN PARADISE

ONE of the alleged 21/7 bomb plot attackers left a suicide note in which he promised to meet his two sons "in paradise", a jury heard yesterday.
Ramzi Mohammed, 24, also begged Allah to "accept this action from me" and referred to the promise of martyrdom.

The top story of yesterday however doesnt make the headlines in any of the papers this morning who all lead on varying topics.

The Guardian's lead story describes

Catalogue of abuse in NHS care homes

Describing how

The NHS faces being stripped of its responsibility for learning disability services after inspectors today issue the second damning report in six months into the care of some of the most vulnerable members of society.
People with learning disabilities had been subjected to physical and sexual abuse at a hospital in London, according to an investigation by the Healthcare Commission. One member of staff was jailed for six years last summer after being charged with rape of a woman resident who was considered unable to give consent due to her low mental age. A second staff member had been given a suspended sentence for a sex offence against the same woman a year earlier.

The Times reports on

Terrorist suspect flees police in mosque

A British-born terror suspect was on the run last night after breaking his control order and evading police by taking shelter in a mosque.

The man, aged 26, is thought to have escaped abroad after claiming that he wanted to undertake terror training in Afghanistan.

The Independent describes it as further embarrassment for the Home Secretary

The authorities have now lost track of three of 18 men they believe to be such a serious threat to security, either at home or abroad, that they have to be constantly monitored.
In a further damaging blow to the embattled Home Secretary, a Home Office report raised serious questions over border controls at major airports. It warned that immigration officers felt under "intense pressure" to allow foreign travellers into Britain, even where there were doubts over their status.

According to the Telegraph,

Bush says death of Saddam like revenge killing

In an apparent about turn for the President he said

"I was disappointed and felt like they fumbled the – particularly the Saddam Hussein execution," Mr Bush said in an interview by public broadcast television's Jim Lehrer.
"The message is confusing. It basically says to people, 'Look, you conducted a trial and gave Saddam justice that he didn't give to others. But then, when it came to execute him, it looked like it was kind of a revenge killing."'

Yesterday's inflation figures are reported in the Times

Homeowners face another rate rise after inflation reaches 15-year high

Rising fuel bills and prices on the high street sent inflation on all measures soaring last month, official figures showed.
On the widely-used retail price index (RPI), inflation soared to 4.4 per cent, the highest level since December 1991, when interest rates stood at 10.4 per cent amid the depths of the last recession.
The startling figures helped to explain the Bank of England’s decision last week to raise interest rates to 5.25 per cent, a move that caught the City off guard.

The Mail leads on the same story

Homeowners' triple whammy

Homebuyers were rocked by a triple dose of depressing financial news.
First they were warned to brace themselves for yet another interest rate rise, the fourth in seven months.
That threat came in the wake of figures showing inflation is running at its highest for 15 years, risking a vicious circle in which rising prices trigger higher interest rates and vice-versa.
Finally, the plight of first-time buyers was painted as bleaker than ever, with a report showing they are taking on unprecedented levels of debt to secure a toehold in the market.

The Independent's front page reports that the nuclear clock is moving,

The Doomsday Clock: Nuclear threat to world 'rising'

Five years of international headlines tell of growing turmoil in the Middle East, international terrorism in Western capitals and more countries seeking the ultimate national security insurance policy.
Now climate change and oil insecurity is driving countries to seek nuclear power, bringing with it new dangers of proliferation in volatile parts of the globe.
Today the Doomsday Clock, devised by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947 at the dawn of the nuclear age, will make official what most thinking citizens feel in their bones - that the world has edged closer to nuclear Armageddon than at any time since the most precarious moments of the Cold War in the early 1980s.

Both the Mirror and the Sun lead on the racism of Big Brother,the Sun reportng that

Cops to probe BB house of hate

CELEBRITY Big Brother bosses may face a POLICE probe over alleged racism and bullying of Indian housemate Shilpa Shetty.
By last night they had been bombarded with nearly 10,000 complaints from angry viewers.
Hertfordshire Police confirmed yesterday that one of the complaints had been made to them — which could spark a criminal inquiry.
They revealed emails have been sent to Channel 4 containing threats against housemates but would not say if it was over alleged racism.

The Mirror simply says

EVICT THEM

The Telegraph describes the

Race row as Big Brother sinks to vile spectacle

Reporting protests led by comedy star Meera Syal.

The actress and author said the Channel 4 show had slipped into "vile spectacle" after more than 7,600 viewers accused contestants of racially abusing the Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.

She said: "There is a very thin line between what is entertainment and a vile spectacle and I think we are in that area now."
Whipped up by an internet campaign, the protesters claim that Shetty is being victimised and bullied. Shetty, 31, broke down in tears after allegedly being taunted about her skin colour, accent and cooking.


The Guardian reports form the Campaign trail in America revealing

Senator Barack Obama, the rising young star of the Democratic party, took his first step into the 2008 presidential contest yesterday, raising the temperature in an already heated race.
Mr Obama's video address on his campaign website was merely a dress rehearsal: the announcement of an exploratory committee to raise funds and build a campaign team. He is to make an official announcement of his candidacy in his home town of Chicago on February 10.

Moving to Central America the Independent headlines

Castro 'very grave' after failed surgery

Speculation over the health of Cuba's President, Fidel Castro, reached a new level of intensity yesterday after a report in a Spanish newspaper that he remained gravely ill following three failed operations last July to treat intestinal infections.
Citing sources at Madrid's Gregorio Marañon hospital, El Pais said that six months after Castro's first operation to stem severe intestinal bleeding triggered by diverticulitis, from which he had suffered for 20 years, his prognosis was "very grave".

Finally the Independent reports

Intellect not lust made me fall for a Cheeky Girl, says Opik

The Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik says he fell for "Cheeky Girl" Gabriela Irimia because of her brains rather than her looks.
Mr Opik, 41, who is 17 years older than Ms Irimia, describes their relationship as a "meeting of minds" in an interview for Hello! accompanied by photo-graphs of the couple at a hotel near the MP's Montgomeryshire constituency.
The magazine is in effect special issue on the once private life of the Liberal Democrats' Northern Ireland and Wales spokesman. He shares the cover with his former partner, the TV weather presenter Sian Lloyd. Mr Opik says: "She [Gabi] challenges me intellectually... Our relationship is not based on lust; it's primarily a relationship of intellect, a meeting of minds, and that I find really interesting and attractive."