One phrase dominates the front pages this morning

Our guilt will never leave us as the papers lead with an interview with the parents of missing Maddy.

Says the Mail

They told us it was worse than anyone's worst nightmare.
In a series of deeply moving interviews, Kate and Gerry McCann have spoken for the first time in detail about the loss of their "pretty special" little girl, and of the darkness that almost overwhelmed them in the days after Madeleine disappeared.
At the same time Portuguese police issued a detailed description of the man they believe may have taken the four-year-old. He was apparently seen, possibly carrying a child, near the holiday apartment in Praia da Luz from which Madeleine was taken 23 days ago.

ANGUISHED Gerry and Kate McCann yesterday opened their hearts for the first time over the abduction of daughter Madeleine.
Three weeks after she disappeared from their holiday home in Portugal, they spoke to Sky News man Ian Woods

reports the Sun

The Express reports

MADELEINE McCann's parents fought back tears tonight as they told how they felt guilt that they weren't there when she was abducted.
In their first interview Kate and Gerry McCann spoke about the “darkness” they felt in the first hours and days after their daughter’s abduction.The couple told how they had made arrangements with other families to regularly check on their children on the night of May 3.while dining a short distance away.Gerry McCann compared eating in the tapas bar at the Ocean Club Resort in Praia da Luz as like “having dinner in your garden”.

Elsewhere the Telegraph leads with

Private schools must share teaching 'expertise'

The moves by both parties suggest a consensus is building around the idea that state education can receive a massive lift if the methods and ethos of the private sector is transported into schools for less privileged children, particularly in deprived areas.
In an interview with tomorrow’s The Daily Telegraph, Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, says private schools must share their teaching “expertise” with the state sector - or risk losing their charitable status, worth a total of £100 million a year.

The Guardian leads with

Home packs by year end, vows Kelly

The government's home information packs should be operating across the country for all house sales by the end of the year, a defiant Ruth Kelly said yesterday.
Speaking at the end of a bruising week in which the communities secretary was forced to withdraw the Hips packs eight days before they were to be begin, she insisted she would not back down.
The government was left humiliated when Ms Kelly had to tell MPs that Hips would not start on June 1 because of a legal challenge and a shortage of assessors to survey energy performance of homes.

The paper also prominently carries an interview with Sir John Major who

Major to Blair: stop acting like Nellie Melba and go now

Sir John Major today calls on his successor to quit Downing Street and hand over power to Gordon Brown as soon as possible. In an interview with the Guardian, the former Tory prime minister criticises Tony Blair's drawn-out departure from office, mocking him for being "in the middle of the longest farewell since Dame Nellie Melba quit the stage".
Sir John warns that it would be "constitutionally desirable for Gordon Brown to become prime minister with the minimum of delay".

Who adds

He argues that the present situation, which will see Mr Blair continue as prime minister until Labour's leadership contest is concluded late next month, is unncessary. "It is clear that Gordon Brown has the support of the majority of the Labour party and is a certainty to become prime minister," he says. "It's known that the present prime minister is going, it's certain who will be replacing him, I can't see any reason for a delay - it is not a presidency."

The Independent reports on its front page that

Secret memo shows Israel knew Six Day War was illegal

A senior legal official who secretly warned the government of Israel after the Six Day War of 1967 that it would be illegal to build Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories has said, for the first time, that he still believes that he was right.
The declaration by Theodor Meron, the Israeli Foreign Ministry's legal adviser at the time and today one of the world's leading international jurists, is a serious blow to Israel's persistent argument that the settlements do not violate international law, particularly as Israel prepares to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the war in June 1967.
The legal opinion, a copy of which has been obtained by The Independent, was marked "Top Secret" and "Extremely Urgent" and reached the unequivocal conclusion, in the words of its author's summary, "that civilian settlement in the administered territories contravenes the explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention."

The same paper reports

Sadr uses dramatic reappearance to deliver blast of anti-US rhetoric

The nationalist Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reappeared before thousands of supporters for the first time in months to call for American troops to end the occupation of Iraq.
In an impassioned sermon to 6,000 worshippers in a mosque in the holy city of Kufa al-Sadr, wearing a white martyr's cloak thrown over his dark robes, he cried: "No, no to Satan! No, no to America! No, no to the occupation! No, no to Israel!"
He had appeared earlier in the morning in the nearby shrine city of Najaf to travel in a long motorcade to Kufa to deliver the Friday sermon.

The Times stays with Iraq

British forces face backlash after Mahdi Army chief is shot dead

Armed militiamen took to the streets of Basra last night after the local leader of the Mahdi Army was killed in a British-Iraqi operation.
As tension rose in Iraq’s second city, British forces prepared for a backlash from supporters of the powerful Shia militia, which is loyal to Hojatoleslam Moqtada al-Sadr.
The firebrand cleric made his first public appearance for several months to denounce the continued occupation of Iraq and to urge an end to the fighting between his followers and Iraqi security forces.
Within hours of his address, Iraqi special forces shot dead Wissam al-Waili, also known as Abu Qadir, along with two other men as they left one of Hojatoleslam al-Sadr’s offices in a car, a British military spokesman said. The Mahdi Army’s Basra chieftain had been trying to resist arrest, Major David Gell added.

It leads however with

Food test exposes ‘mis-sold’ superstore chickens

New food tests which could bolster consumer confidence in premium-priced products have been used to discover that Britain’s biggest supermarket chain has been mis-selling ordinary chicken as “corn fed”.
Government scientists found that birds from Tesco’s “Finest” range had not consumed enough maize to justify being labelled as corn fed in tests conducted for The Times.
A farmer said that a corn-fed label on a chicken could increase the retail price by as much as a third on a free-range chicken.

All of the papers report on

Earl's widow jailed for his murder

Jamila M'Barak, a 45-year-old former prostitute who met the elderly peer through an escort agency, looked impassively from the dock of a court in Nice as her sentence was read out.
Her brother, Mohammed M'Barek, 43, appeared equally unemotional as he received the same sentence for strangling the earl, 66-year-old Anthony Ashley-Cooper, at a flat in Cannes in November 2004.
A jury of seven women and four men, assisted by three judges, took just over two hours to deliver a majority guilty verdict on the joint charge of premeditated murder following a four-day trial. says the Telegraph

The Mail says

Franck de Vita, Ms M'Barek's lawyer, said it was a "bad day for justice", and added that he would launch an appeal.
The current earl told reporters he would fight an appeal, saying: "I come back despite the ordeal to fight for the memory of my father."
Under French sentencing guidelines, the M'Bareks will be eligible for parole in eight years.

A poll in the Telegraph reports

Less than half of Lib Dems support Ming

Sir Menzies Campbell's hopes of leading the Liberal Democrats into the next general election could suffer a severe setback as a poll shows only four out of 10 of his own party's own supporters think he is doing a good job.

The same paper tells us of

Prescott stretches 'junket' into family holiday

After a decidedly low-key, seven-day farewell tour of America and the Caribbean, which has been condemned as a pointless junket at the taxpayers' expense, it emerged yesterday that John Prescott intends to stay on in Barbados for a week's holiday with his family.
The news will strengthen claims by Opposition MPs that Mr Prescott was simply using the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery as a pretext for soaking up the sun in Jamaica and Barbados.

Exit polls show Ahern set for another election win says the Guardian

Bertie Ahern was on track last night to secure a triumphant third term as taoiseach, benefiting from a decade of sustained economic growth and his role in the Northern Ireland peace process.
But Sinn Féin's long-term strategy to build support in the Republic was left in disarray, with the party losing seats it had previously held. Despite an expected small rise in its popular vote, Mary Lou McDonald, the party's MEP and heavily promoted rising star, appeared unlikely to be elected in Dublin.

A close campaign which had initially left the outcome on a knife-edge ended with a strong surge for his Fianna Fail party in its last week. Ironically the results were also something of a triumph for the challenger for the post of Taoiseach, Fine Gael's leader Enda Kenny. But although Fine Gael made numerous gains, the smaller parties with which he had hoped to form a coalition did not win enough seats.

Says the Independent

The Mirror's front page does not feature the Maddy story instead proclaiming

SIR BEEFY
He's already a cricket legend ..now Beefy's a Sir for raising £10m on his charity walks

IAN Botham's knighthood is a fitting reward for his legendary cancer charity road treks that have raised more than £10million.
Big-hearted Beefy, 51, has completed 11 gruelling walks in a personal crusade to help children with leukaemia.
A senior Whitehall source said: "Ian Botham was a fabulous cricketer but his selfless charity work is out of this world.

The Sun reports on another sporting hero

Gazza's hospital heart scare

BOOZY soccer legend Paul Gascoigne dashed to hospital in a heart scare, it emerged last night.
Gazza, who is 40 tomorrow, complained of chest pains just days after a drunken trip to Dubai.
He was taken to Barnet General Hospital in North London yesterday and had tests including an ECG heart scan.
But the ex-Spurs and England star yesterday claimed he only went for treatment for his BURNT FEET. And he denied he was drunk.
A source who saw Gazza at the hospital at 2.30am said: “Paul looks terrible. He’s very thin and his hair is falling out. His trousers are hanging off and he must have lost weight.”

Cornishman sleeps after 11 days (but he's in for a rude awakening) says the Mail

After more than 11 days without nodding off, Tony Wright crawled into bed yesterday in the happy belief that he had broken the world sleeplessness record by two hours.
But the poor chap is in for a rude awakening.
His 266-hour feat of endurance will not feature in Guinness World Records because it has stopped acknowledging such attempts for health reasons.
And to make matters worse, someone has already beaten Mr Wright himself by a full ten hours.

PLANE STOPPED BY BEES reports the Mirror

A HOLIDAY jet carrying 90 passengers was forced to turn back and land after a huge swarm of bees was sucked into an engine.
The 8.10am Palmair Boeing 737 flight to Faro, Portugal, returned to Bournemouth airport an hour after take-off because of a power surge.
Engineers discovered thousands of dead bees in the engine. They ruled it unsafe to fly after tests.

According to the Guardian

US rejects all proposals on climate change

The US has rejected any prospect of a deal on climate change at the G8 summit in Germany next month, according to a leaked document.
Despite Tony Blair's declaration on Thursday that Washington would sign up to "at least the beginnings" of action to cut carbon emissions, a note attached to a draft document circulated by Germany says the US is "fundamentally opposed" to the proposals.
The note, written in red ink, says the deal "runs counter to our overall position and crosses multiple 'red lines' in terms of what we simply cannot agree to".


Meanwhile the Independent says

Congress gives Bush his Iraq money, but President faces mounting opposition to war

President George Bush was able to sign the "no-strings" Iraq funding bill he demanded. But this is likely to be a short-lived victory, as domestic opposition to the war grows, and a bloody summer of fighting lies ahead.
Congress finally approved the $120bn (£60bn) measure by relatively comfortable margins yesterday. In the House the majority was 280 to 142 - even though more than half of the Democrats opposed a bill they considered a betrayal of the platform on which they won back control of Congress last November.

Hillary and Obama vote to cut off Iraq funding says the Telegraph

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama went against their Senate colleagues yesterday by voting to cut off funding to American troops in Iraq after fierce pressure from anti-war groups determined to face down President George W Bush.

And staying with the Clintons the Indy reports that

Clintons planned to have eight years each as president, book says

Bill and Hillary Clinton drew up a secret plan 15 years ago under which each of them would occupy the White House for eight years, according to one of several new books about the leading Democratic candidate for the US presidency.
According to the book - which has been dismissed by Mrs Clinton's aides - even before they were married, the couple had formulated a plan to reinvent the Democratic Party and make it to the White House. That blueprint was updated after Bill Clinton's election victory in 1992, with the proposal that she would run once he had left office.
The claim adds to the perception of the methodical, driven nature of the Clinton campaign for the presidency - a race in which she is currently the front-runner within her party. Taken with other allegations contained in a separate book, it also boosts a widely held belief in political circles, that by the late 1980s, the Clinton marriage had become little more than a mutually-beneficial political arrangement.

Finally to the Guardian which reports on the

'Noah's Ark' of 5,000 rare animals found floating off the coast of China

Endangered, hunted, smuggled and now abandoned, 5,000 of the world's rarest animals have been found drifting in a deserted boat near the coast of China.
The pangolins, Asian giant turtles and lizards were crushed inside crates on a rickety wooden vessel that had lost engine power off Qingzhou island in the southern province of Guangdong. Most were alive, though the cargo also contained 21 bear paws wrapped in newspaper.
According to conservation groups, the haul was discovered on one of the world's most lucrative and destructive smuggling routes: from the threatened jungles of south-east Asia to the restaurant tables of southern China.