The papers carry pictures from Pakistan as demonstrators protest against the knight hood given to Salman Rushdie at the weekend





Muslim fury grows over Rushdie knighthood is the lead story in the Mail





Outrage over Salman Rushdie's knighthood threatened to ignite across the Muslim world yesterday.
Security around the writer was reviewed by Scotland Yard as an Iranian group placed an £80,000 bounty on his head. and continues





In London, Lord Ahmed, Britain's first Muslim peer, said he had been appalled by the award to a man he accused of having 'blood on his hands'.
In Pakistan, where effigies of the Queen and 59-year-old Rushdie were burned, a minister appeared to justify suicide bombings as a response to the knighthood.





The Independent says





Memories of the long years Salman Rushdie spent under threat of assassination came flooding back yesterday in the chilling comments of a Pakistani cabinet minister.
Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq, Pakistan's Religious Affairs minister, told his country's National Assembly that awarding a knighthood to Sir Salman was so insulting to Muslim sensibilities that it would justify his murder by a suicide bomber.
The threat is not to be taken lightly. The furore over Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses, resulted in one murder and two attempted murders, and compelled the writer to live under round-the-clock protection for a decade.





Muslim world inflamed by Rushdie knighthood reports the Times





Gerald Butt, editor of the authoritative Middle East Economic Survey, told The Times: “It will be interpreted as an action calculated to goad Muslims at a time when the atmosphere is already very tense and Britain’s standing in the region is very low because of its involvement in Iraq and its lack of action in tackling the Palestine issue





Another personality is on the front of the Sun which makes clear its feelings in the headline





Bernard Manning racist in peace





BERNARD Manning’s fans were mourning him last night — but critics were glad to see the back of his controversial brand of humour.
The 18-stone Manchester City supporter was the scourge of the politically-correct brigade with his often racist gags.
But he was also prepared to have a quip at his own expense — and even his own demise.
When once asked where he wanted his ashes scattered, he replied: “Ashes? When they burn me there’ll be six tons of lard left. They should pile me up by the posts at Maine Road. It might be a help to the goalkeeper.”





HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE OBNOXIOUS, RACIST, SEXIST COMIC LOVED BY MILLIONS? says the Mirror





Just last month he filmed his own "living" wake for Channel 4, surrounded by fellow comics and declared: "I'm going to be with you for a long time yet."
Manning shot to fame on the 70s TV show The Comedians and became one of the most popular comics in the UK.
He went on to perform all over the world, including Mumbai and Las Vegas.
Even then critics labelled his act offensive, sexist, racist and in the 80s, TV work started to dry up. But he continued to sell out clubs, including his own Embassy Club in his home town of Manchester.





The Times leads with the news that





Burglars and drug offenders ‘to be freed’





Two thousand criminals are to be released early from jail to ease the prison overcrowding crisis, under plans being prepared by the Justice Secretary.
Lord Falconer of Thoroton, QC, has been forced to draw up proposals to open the gates as the eight-month overcrowding crisis deepens. Under the plan, up to 2,000 prisoners serving less than four years would leave jail early. Those considered for release are likely to be burglars, fraudsters and drug dealers. Offenders convicted of violent or sex crimes would not qualify.





All the papers carry the news that





Undercover police smash paedophile ring posting live abuse online reports the Guardian





Thirty-one children and babies who were repeatedly abused live for an internet chatroom have been rescued from homes in the UK and abroad following the biggest international investigation so far into an online paedophile ring.
Officers from Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre worked for 10 months with detectives from 35 other countries to identify and rescue the children, who were being abused and filmed live for the thousands of members of the chatroom. More than 15 of the children and babies were found in Britain and handed over to the care of social services.
The international inquiry, in which specialist detectives with experience in counter-terrorism posed as paedophiles online, led yesterday to the jailing of Timothy David Martyn Cox, the British "godfather" of the paedophile ring.








Global child abuse ring broken up says the Telegraph





Timothy Cox, 28, ran a chatroom called "Kids the Light of Our Lives" with more than 700 members worldwide, 200 of whom were based in Britain.Cox led a double life, working in the family brewery by day and - unbeknown to his parents, sister and 26-year-old girlfriend, with whom he lived near Stowmarket in Suffolk - obsessively "hosting" the site during his time off.
He was given an indeterminate prison sentence yesterday after being convicted of possessing more than 75,000 images of abuse, some involving knives. Cox will stay in prison until psychiatric experts decide it is safe to release him.





According to the Sun





Web paedo is 'Son of Satan'





Perverts regularly broadcast horrific images of children — including BABIES — being tortured and raped.
Most of the victims identified were British. On his computers were more than 76,000 vile images, including more than 1,000 harrowing films.Cox was inspired by American chatroom paedophile Royal Raymond Weller, who called himself G.O.D. When Weller was arrested last year, Cox resurrected his chatroom, calling himself “Son of God”.





It seems that te last week of Blair's premiership may be frought for both the Pm and his successor.The Telegraph leads with





EU reform chaos as Blair and Brown disagree





Only two days before a crucial summit that will decide whether the EU takes greater control over British policy on justice, policing and foreign affairs, open disagreement over tactics broke out at the very top of government.
Last night the Tories said the rights of the British people to be governed by their own Parliament were being put at risk by "confusion" and "bad feeling" caused by the long drawn out handover of power from Mr Blair to Mr Brown.





The Guardian meanwhile covers its front page with the allegation that





Sack the chancellor. Cherie Blair's repeated advice to her husband





Cherie Blair repeatedly urged her husband to sack Gordon Brown as she became incensed by his behaviour towards the prime minister, a family friend of the Blairs has disclosed.
Barry Cox, who has known the couple for 30 years, said that while the relationship between Mr Blair and his chancellor had been strained since the mid-1990s, the prime minister finally began to believe the worst of his successor during his final year in office. adding that

In a documentary due to be broadcast later this week, former cabinet ministers, including Charles Clarke, Alan Milburn, Estelle Morris and Clare Short, speak more frankly than ever on the way the relationship between the prime minister and his chancellor affected the running of smooth government.

Meanwhile the Independent tells

Cameron draws the battle lines with Brown

David Cameron moved to reassure his traditional supporters as he outlined the dividing lines between his party and Labour under Gordon Brown.
Pledging to make "social responsibility" the cornerstone of the party's policy review, Mr Cameron attempted to draw a line under the Tories' troubles over selective education, calling for "grammar streams" in every school. He also said he was putting David Davis, the shadow Home Secretary, in charge of a task force to promote social mobility.
In a speech in Tooting, south London, to highlight the party's policy blitz, Mr Cameron insisted he was turning the Conservatives into "the true force for progressive politics in Britain". He said he was "not copying New Labour but learning from its mistakes".

But according to the Mirror

TORY LEADER'S RELAUNCH IS FLOP

After a series of U-turns and gaffes the Tory leader made a relaunch speech dumping claims he was the "heir to Blair".
And in a bid to pacify his angry backbenchers he promised not to abandon Conservative principles in his push for power.
The relaunch comes after a backbench revolt over his refusal to build new grammar schools and a cave-in on axeing free admission to museums.

The Independent reports on the latest from Palestine where

Aid boycott lifted to reward Abbas for new government

The US and EU last night lifted their 15-month economic and political boycott of the Palestinian government following President Mahmoud Abbas's expulsion of the militant Hamas movement from the cabinet.
As a group of Palestinians trying to leave Gaza were caught in a gun battle, leaving at least one dead, a top UN official urged the international community not to isolate the Hamas-controlled territory. Karen Koning AbuZayd, head of the UN's refugee agency (Unrwa), warned against reducing aid to the 1.5 million residents of Gaza while it is stepped up for the West Bank.

The Guardian reports that

Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, said she had offered full US support to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the newly appointed government, whose prime minister, Salam Fayyad, is an economist favoured by the west, in a phone call earlier in the day. "I told [Fayyad] the US would resume full assistance to the Palestinian government," she said.
Ms Rice said the US believed there was one Palestinian people with one leadership and that was headed by Mr Abbas. But she pledged not to turn her back on Gaza. "We are not going to leave 1.5 million Palestinians at the mercy of a terrorist organisation... We are not going to abandon the Palestinians who are living in Gaza.

Meanwhile the same paper reports from another problem area

US failure to pay 'threatens Darfur peacekeeping'

A breakthrough agreement to deploy a United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur risks being undermined by a shortfall of up to $1bn (£504m) in US contributions to the costs of global peacekeeping, campaigners said yesterday.
A UN delegation announced on Sunday that Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, had agreed at talks in Khartoum to allow the deployment of a 20,000-strong UN and African Union hybrid force by next year.
The deal ended months of wrangling and followed a direct threat by President George Bush to impose additional sanctions on the Sudanese government.

The Telegraph reports from Ireland where

Pact fear following triple suicide

Three teenagers from the same secondary school have killed themselves within the past month amid rumours that they arranged a suicide pact.
Pupils at Craigavon Senior High School, Co Armagh, told psychologists that 12 boys were involved in the pact, which had been influenced by suicide websites and chatrooms.
Youngsters were offered counselling at the 800-pupil school yesterday as the most recent victim, Lee Walker, 15, was laid to rest after killing himself on Friday night.

Staying with the same paper it reveals

Path to throw open entire coastline

Plans to give open access to the entire English coastline have been unveiled.
Everyone will have the right to walk a new 2,500-mile pathway round the coast under the proposed scheme.It will create the first ever 'right to roam' at the edge of thousands of privately-owned beaches, golf courses and farms.But the plan has run into fierce opposition from landowners and farmers whose properties border the sea. They are concerned about their land being invaded by walkers and a subsequent drop in its value.

The Independent says on its front page that

The Earth today stands in imminent peril

Six scientists from some of the leading scientific institutions in the United States have issued what amounts to an unambiguous warning to the world: civilisation itself is threatened by global warming.
They also implicitly criticise the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for underestimating the scale of sea-level rises this century as a result of melting glaciers and polar ice sheets.
Instead of sea levels rising by about 40 centimetres, as the IPCC predicts in one of its computer forecasts, the true rise might be as great as several metres by 2100. That is why, they say, planet Earth today is in "imminent peril".

Both the Mirror and the Express lead with the winner of the reality Tv talent show

THE POTTER OF TINY FEET says the former

BRITAIN'S Got Talent winner Paul Potts yesterday revealed an even bigger dream - having a baby.
He and wife Julie-Ann, 27, could not afford to raise kids while he spent years as a struggling singer and salesman.
But Paul, 36, tipped to make millions, said: "Now we can think about a family. That would complete things."
When childhood bullies made his life a nightmare, Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts turned to opera for comfort.

The Express has a picture of the couple with the headlines

BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT STAR PLANS THE PERFECT STYLE

But the same paper continues with its Diana theme today claiming that

Diana's driver wasnt drunk

Whilst prominently carrying the news that

DIANA MEMORY A 'COTTAGE INDUSTRY'

The memory of Diana Princess of Wales is being exploited for money to such an extent it has become a "cottage industry", Prince William has said.
The admission came in a candid and in-depth interview the young royal and his brother have given to an American television network broadcast on Tuesday.

Finally according to the Mail

The world will end in 2060, according to Newton

His famously analytical mind worked out the laws of gravity and unravelled the motion of the planets.
And when it came to predicting the end of the world, Sir Isaac Newton was just as precise.
He believed the Apocalypse would come in 2060 – exactly 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire, according to a recently published letter. Luckily for modern scientists in awe of his achievements, Newton based this figure on religion rather than reasoning.
In a letter from 1704 which has gone on show in Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, Newton uses the Bible’s Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the Apocalypse.