The G8: What they said and what they meant is the lead in the Independent

Leaders of the world's richest nations were accused of watering down pledges to help the poorest countries after they failed to get back on track to deliver aid promises they made two years ago at Gleneagles.
The G8 summit in Germany agreed a $60bn (£30bn) package to relieve suffering from Aids in Africa. But the leaders angered aid campaigners by merely reaffirming their 2005 pledges, which are already $8bn behind schedule, without taking action to bridge the gap.
The $60bn headline figure amounts to $12bn to be spent annually on Aids, TB, malaria and reinforcing health systems.
Of that $12bn, up to $9bn has either been pledged already, according to Oxfam estimates, or is part of existing aid packages. So, the total annual increase in Africa spending amounts to just $3bn.
Adding to the frustration, the leaders' declaration set no specific timetable, saying the money would flow "over the coming years".

Geldof and Bono blast G8 for betraying Africa says the Telegraph

The G8 summit ended yesterday with world leaders pledging to spend £30 billion on fighting Aids, malaria and tuberculosis and stressing their determination to help Africa.

But anti-poverty campaigners denounced this as a "betrayal" and said the headline figure was "misleading".
Earlier announcements from President George W Bush account for half of the £30 billion and there is no sign that any new money arose from the summit in Germany.

But relations with Russia seem to take the headlines

Blair talks of ‘deep freeze’ after tense encounter with Putin says the Times

Tony Blair told Vladimir Putin yesterday that the world was becoming more and more afraid of Russia’s behaviour at home and abroad.
And as he left his last G8 summit in Germany Mr Blair predicted a lengthy period of deep freeze in relations between Russia and the West.
The two men, who have been sparring with each other from a distance for weeks, had a tense, hour-long encounter in the Caroline Room at the Kempinski Grand Hotel. Mr Blair emerged alone, a fixed smile on his face.
But when he spoke to reporters later at Rostock airport shortly before flying home he did not attempt to disguise that it had been a hard encounter or that he had been frustrated by the outcome

We've Vlad quite enough says the Sun

FURIOUS Tony Blair last night told Russian bad boy Vladimir Putin he is out of order for terrifying the West.
The PM blasted him for threatening to start Cold War II by aiming his nuclear warheads at Europe.
And Mr Blair gave a gloomy assessment of the Russian President’s muscle-flexing — warning that world leaders will have to be wary of his actions for years.
The PM threw official photographers out of his meeting with Putin at the end of the G8 summit in Germany to get down to brass tacks — leaving only the two leaders and their translators.

West 'fearful' of Russia, says exasperated Blair says the Guardian

Tony Blair admitted differences with Russia would remain unresolved for a long time after one hour of very frank but wholly fruitless talks with President Vladimir Putin at the close of the G8 summit in the Baltics yesterday.
An exasperated Mr Blair admitted: "There are real issues here that are not going to be resolved any time soon". He warned the west was "worried and fearful" at the political direction of Russia

For the third day running it leads with Bae

The Bandar cover-up: who knew what, and when? says the paper

The government was last night fighting to contain the fallout over £1bn in payments to a Saudi prince as the attorney general came under renewed pressure to explain how much he knew about the affair.
While in public the government was issuing partial denials about its role in the controversy, in private there were desperate efforts to secure a new BAE £20bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
And any hopes that the furore could be halted were dashed last night when the Guardian learned that the world's anti-corruption organisation, the OECD, was poised to resume its own inquiry into why the British government suddenly abandoned its investigations into the £43bn al-Yamamah arms deal.

Goldsmith denies cover-up over BAE's alleged Saudi fund says the Indy

Lord Goldsmith has angrily denied claims that he banned officials from releasing details of alleged payments totalling £1bn made to a Saudi prince.
The Attorney General insisted that reports that he ordered investigators to keep details of the payments from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development were simply "untrue". The Serious Fraud Office also weighed into the dispute, insisting that it alone decided what information about the Al Yamamah arms deal were passed to officials from the OECD, the economic research group for 30 industrialised countries which also takes action acainst bribery and corruption.

Scare as 83,000 pregnancy test kits recalled is the lead in the Telegraph

The alarm was raised after a woman discovered she was pregnant despite a urine test that showed a negative result.
There were fears that women may be unknowingly harming their unborn baby by continuing to drink and smoke while they were pregnant or by exposing them to procedures such as X-rays.
The Department of Health said there was a "small chance" that some GP surgeries could also have received supplies of the test.

The Times meanwhile reports as its lead that

Airline drives up price of holidays

Foreign summer holidays are about to get much more expensive after British Airways raised its fuel surcharge for the second time in six weeks despite opposition from passenger groups.
Other airlines are expected to follow with their own price rises, even though the price of oil fell more than 3 per cent yesterday.
BA’s surcharge is increasing to £43 one way for flights over nine hours, up from £38. The surcharge for long-haul flights under nine hours rises from £33 to £38 while short-haul flights remain at £8.
The increases mean that a BA flight to New York next month, for example, will typically cost £276 return but taxes, booking charges and fuel surcharges take the total to £428. The extras are equivalent to 55 per cent of the cost of some flights.

Much on the latest developments in the Middle East

Israel offers the Golan Heights to Syria says the Telegraph

In a secret communique, Ehud Olmert demanded that in exchange for the return of the strategic highlands, Syria dissolve its alliances with Iran, Hezbollah and Palestinian militant factions who maintain headquarters in Damascus.
Syria, under the regime of Bashar al Assad, is a key supporter of the Lebanese Shia Hizbollah militia, who battled Israel to a standstill last summer. Many of the anti-tank rockets that wreaked havoc on Israeli ground forces originated in Syria, a crucial conduit for the Iranian Katyushas and other rockets that rained down on Israeli cities throughout the 34-day war.

According to the Guardian

There was no confirmation of the claim and Syrian diplomats were reported as saying their government had received no such overture.
Meir Sheetrit, an Israeli cabinet minister, said that any future agreement with Syria would involve Israel handing over sovereignty of the Golan back to Damascus, but retaining the territory under a lease of at least 25 years. In return, Israel wants Syria to end its support for Iran, Hizbullah and armed Palestinian groups. A number of Palestinian groups have leaders in Damascus, including Khaled Meshal, head of the Hamas political bureau.

It claims meanwhile that

General 'sacrificed' to clear decks on Iraq

The Bush administration yesterday attempted to wipe the slate clean on the Iraq war and chart a new way forward with the surprise announcement that it was replacing General Peter Pace as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
The defence chief, Robert Gates, said he had reluctantly decided on the reshuffle - despite his initial support for Gen Pace - to avoid a "divisive ordeal" at the Senate which would have had to approve an extension of the general's term.
"The focus of this confirmation process would have been on the past rather than on the future," Mr Gates told the press conference. "There was a very real prospect that the process would be quite contentious."

The Mail leads with claims that

Britain helped the CIA fly terror suspects to secret torture centres

Britain helped the CIA fly terror suspects to secret torture centres, it has emerged.
Dramatic details of the agency’s post-9/11 "extraordinary rendition" programme were revealed in a damning dossier from the Council of Europe human rights organisation.
On the day Tony Blair lectured Vladimir Putin about human rights, democracy and the Litvinenko murder, his own government was accused of colluding in breathtaking lawbreaking. The report said the CIA ran secret prisons in Poland and Romania for two years. Britain provided logistical support by letting the agency’s aircraft use UK civilian and military airports dozens of times.

The Indy meanwhile reports that

Iraqi civilians bring abuse claims to the High Court

Dozens of Iraqi civilians who claim to have been victims of abuse committed by British soldiers are set to bring a test case in London for punitive damages against the government. The legal action, which will begin later this month in the High Court in London, follows two courts martial in which soldiers were convicted of mistreating prisoners after the invasion.
In the first tranche of personal injury claims the victims were detained by the Queen's Lancashire Regiment after they raided a hotel in Basra in September 2003.

It was a day of celebs in court

Both the Mirror and the Sun lead with the latest developments in California

PARIS BACK TO JAIL

PARIS Hilton was led screaming and crying from court yesterday - as a judge ordered her back to jail to serve the rest of her 45-day sentence.
The sobbing heiress yelled: "It's not right" as she was led away.
She then looked desperately over at her horrified mum Kathy sitting in the public gallery and screamed: "Mom!"
Her mother threw her arms around her husband Rick and sobbed.
Paris, freed from prison after just three days on unspecified medical grounds, had earlier been marched from her home in handcuffs after Judge Michael T Sauer ordered her to appear.

The Sun reports

PETRIFIED PARIS HILTON mouthed “I love you” to her parents last night — before being carted off to face a hostile reception in prison.
The blonde heiress sobbed constantly during a one-hour hearing as a court overturned her early release from jail.
Onlookers in the Los Angeles court said her whole body was shaking and having spasms.

America tunes in to see Paris sent back to jail, kicking and screaming says the Times

Paris Hilton achieved the impossible yesterday by becoming, for the first time in her 26 years, an object of public pity. Well, almost.
The celebrity heiress was dragged from a courtroom screaming and crying after a judge ordered her to go back to jail. She was whisked off to the medical centre at Los Angeles’s Twin Towers jail less than 36 hours after the local sheriff’s department had told her that she could serve out her sentence at her luxury home in the Hollywood hills.

Community service for singer says the Telegraph

Singer George Michael said he "fully accepted responsibility" after being sentenced to 100 hours community service yesterday for driving while unfit.He was sentenced at Brent Magistrates' Court to 100 hours community service over the next 12 months, disqualified from driving for two years and ordered to pay £2,325 in costs.
Outside court after the hearing, Michael said: "I've been sentenced on the basis of unfit driving through tiredness and prescription medications which I fully accept responsibility for."

Diana returns to the headlines again with the release of a new book,not suprisingly on the front of the Express which claims

PHILIP HATES ME

PRINCESS Diana was haunted by fears she would be murdered, and told friends of her concerns about Prince Philip’s animosity to her.
“He really hates me and would like to see me disappear,” she said.The Princess, who died in a Paris car crash in 1997, repeatedly made clear her belief that she would be the victim of an Establishment conspiracy.Her fashion designer friend Roberto Devorik explained that the Princess had spoken about how she would be killed in a fake accident.

But also the Sun

Romp with Charles before wedding

LONG before their fairytale wedding, Diana and Charles secretly slept together on the Royal Train while it was stopped in a siding.
Later the lovers colluded with Palace courtiers to deny the story and preserve the virginal image of the soon-to-be Princess.
This is one of the “revelations” in a new book by former friend of the Princess, Tina Brown.
It portrays much-missed Diana as a neurotic attention-seeker who didn’t fall in love with Charles — but fell in love with the idea of becoming a princess.

TEACHER'S POTTER RANT reports the Mirror

A TEACHER refused to let a seven-year-old girl read a Harry Potter book to her because she was afraid of the boy wizard's spells, a tribunal heard yesterday.
Born-again Christian Sariya Allan, 47, feared she would be cursed if she heard the pupil read from JK Rowling's bestselling book.
She told the tribunal: "I explained that I had a problem with Harry Potter as JK Rowling had proclaimed that she is herself a witch and that the spells mentioned in the books are actually real spells."

Meanwhile the Mail picks up on the story of

Couple pretend to have 16 children to claim £125,000 in benefits

A couple claimed more than £125,000 in benefit payments after inventing 16 children, a court heard.
Heavy gambler David Wilshaw, 57, and his alcoholic partner Nancy Stevenson, 58, launched their four- year assault on the system in 2003 before they were finally trapped by their greed.
At first, the couple legally applied for tax credits for two of Stevenson's real children.
After realising that no one had asked to see birth certificates or any other identification, they made up the names of 16 more children and pocketed £400 each week which they spent on gambling and alcohol.

THE SLAVES OF 2007
31 starved workers rescued from brutal factory regime reports the Mirror

THIRTY one workers have been rescued from a life of slavery at a brickworks after being forced to work for a year without wages.
The slaves were beaten, fed only bread and water and forced to work 20 hours a day. Eight were so traumatised they were only able to remember their names.
One labourer was killed with a hammer for not working hard enough.
Wang Binbin, son of a Communist party official, ran the factory in the poor inland province of Shanxi, China.
He guarded the slaves with dogs and hired thugs before police swooped.

The Express tells us that

ASDA CROWNED 'CHEAPEST SUPERMARKET'

Asda has been crowned Britain's cheapest supermarket for the 10th year running.
The Leeds-based retailer had the lowest average price for a basket of shopping, according to trade magazine the Grocer.It provided the cheapest groceries for 32 of the 50 weeks covered by the 2006/07 survey. This beat arch-rival Tesco which enjoyed 10 weeks as the cheapest retailer.

Finally The Telegraph features

The making of Gordon Brown

As Gordon Brown prepares to move next door to 10 Downing Street, pride of place in his new study will be given to a hardback collection of some of his late father's sermons in the Church of Scotland. The book was compiled by the Chancellor and his brothers, John and Andrew, to mark John Ebenezer Brown's 80th birthday in 1994, four years before he died.