According to the Times

Brown gets a bigger bounce in America

President Bush yesterday reached out to embrace Gordon Brown as a new ally in the fight against terrorism and the war in Iraq, saying the Prime Minister “understands the call”.
Mr Brown talked solemnly about “duties to discharge and responsibilities to keep” in Iraq, but also hinted that Britain could hand over military control of Basra in the autumn when Parliament returns.
The two leaders were speaking at a press conference in Camp David, during Mr Brown’s first visit to America as Prime Minister.

Meanwhile says the paper

A new Populus poll for The Times today shows that he has further strengthened his political position at home over an embattled David Cameron. Labour support has risen two points to 39 per cent — its highest level for 18 months — while the Conservatives fell to 33 per cent, their lowest since Mr Cameron became leader.

Brown and Bush: Freedom fighters says the Mirror

Gordon Brown yesterday reinforced Britain's special relationship with America by highlighting the joint crusade for world freedom and justice.
The Prime Minister put paid to rumours he and President George Bush would not get along in their first face-to-face talks and stressed the two countries had a shared vision.
In a dramatic Camp David summit, he also gave Mr Bush two months' notice that he would pull British troops off the streets of Iraq.

Bush & Brown's beef summit is how the Sun describes it

GEORGE Bush gave Gordon Brown a British welcome at their first formal talks — by hosting a roast beef summit.
The US President showed how he valued the Special Relationship with the UK by laying on a traditional dinner for the PM.
He followed it up with a full English breakfast yesterday morning.
But last night Mr Bush got down to business, praising Mr Brown’s handling of the terror crisis last month by saying he had already proved his “worth” as Britain’s leader.

Gordon Brown prepared the ground yesterday for the withdrawal of British troops from the frontline in Iraq.says the Telegraph continuing

The Prime Minister tried to redefine the relationship between Number 10 and the White House when he made clear that he would retain control of the timetable for British withdrawal regardless of America's involvement.
Mr Brown said he would make a Commons statement on the situation in October after the summer break.

It leads though with the news that

2bn mortgage exit fees may be refunded

Banks are already starting to pay back the money ahead of a report by the City watchdog into the charges. It is expected to be highly critical of their practices.
They are entitled to levy the charge, but some banks have been increasing the fees after mortgage contracts have been signed, which the watchdog says is unfair.
Some customers have been hit by fees of up to £300 for switching or paying off their home loans.

The Guardian makes

Partners to get marriage-style financial rights,its lead story

Unmarried couples who split up will be given the right to make divorce-style claims for financial support from their partners, under final recommendations unveiled today.
The Law Commission has concluded that couples with children, or those who have been living together for a minimum period - they suggest between two and five years - should be able to seek most of the same financial remedies as people going through a divorce.
Partners would be able to claim lump sums, the right to live in the family home and possibly a share of their partner's pension, under the new rights recommended by the independent body which advises the government on law reform.

Whilst also looking at Iraq

Children hardest hit by humanitarian crisis in Iraq

The number of Iraqi children who are born underweight or suffer from malnutrition has increased sharply since the US-led invasion, according to a report by Oxfam and a network of about 80 aid agencies.
The report describes a nationwide catastrophe, with around 8 million Iraqis - almost a third of the population - in need of emergency aid. Many families have dropped out of the food rationing system because they have been displaced by fighting and sectarian conflict. Others suffer from the collapse in basic services caused by the exodus of doctors and hospital staff.

Fear of hospital chaos as 30,000 doctors start new jobs...on the same day is the Mail's lead story

Hospital services face chaos tomorrow as an unprecedented 30,000 junior doctors change jobs at once.
Operations will be cancelled or delayed, while casualty and intensive-care departments could be severely undermanned.
Many patients who have been waiting months for routine surgery - such as a hip replacement or hernia repairs - will face the misery of having to rejoin waiting lists all over again.

The paper also concentrates on the family home,today says the paper

Property market in peril with houses 'overvalued by 20 per cent'

House prices are 20 per cent overvalued and the economy and property market are among the most vulnerable in the Western world to interest rate rises, it was claimed.
The warning came from experts in debt and risk at the respected Fitch credit rating company who have placed an alert against the British economy.
They believe a combination of unsustainable house prices, record personal debt and rising interest rates has created a potentially explosive cocktail.

The Independent dedicates its front page to

The master: Ingmar Bergman 1918 - 2007

Film Director Paul Schroeder writes

I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman.
His death, at the age of 89, may not have been a surprise. He was an old man. But what he has left is a legacy greater than any other director. He made film-making a serious and introspective enterprise. No one had been able to pull that off until he showed up. I really wasn't that interested in being a film-maker, except in the way that Bergman redefined what you could be as a film-maker.

The Guardian says that

Such was Bergman's stark, uncompromising vision that he found himself a byword for existential gloom, a creator of films that offered a pitiless vision of a Godless universe. Yet while there is no disputing the serious nature of Bergman's concerns, the doom-monger stereotype conveniently ignores the lush romance of films such as Summer With Monika, or the joyous comedy that runs through his classic Smiles of a Summer Night. It is perhaps more accurate to say that his films ran the gamut of the Swedish experience, from the harsh, dark nights of the soul through to the gentle warmth of a midsummer day.

The Express' lead story is

MADELEINE: SPECIALLY TRAINED POLICE FLY IN

A team of British experts in crimes against children have flown to Portugal to help in the hunt for missing Madeleine McCann.
The Cracker-style psychologists have been drafted in by senior Portuguese detectives as the inquiry into the four-year-old’s abduction yesterday reached a “critical” stage.
The team includes senior police officers and criminologists specially trained in tackling child sex abuse and abduction cases.


Guantanamo cell is better than freedom, says inmate fighting against release reports the Times

An inmate of Guantanamo Bay who spends 22 hours each day in an isolation cell is fighting for the right to stay in the notorious internment camp.
Ahmed Belbacha fears that he will be tortured or killed if the United States goes ahead with plans to return him to his native Algeria.
The Times has learnt that Mr Belbacha, who lived in Britain for three years, has filed an emergency motion at the US Court of Appeals in Washington DC asking for his transfer out of Guantanamo to be halted. He was cleared for release from Camp Delta in February and his lawyers believe that his return to Algerian custody is imminent.

Imram Khan: President Musharraf must resign reports the Telegraph

It is all over for him. He is sunk," Mr Khan told The Daily Telegraph. "He has lost touch with Pakistan. It is a crisis of his own making and the accumulative effect of his miscalculations."
Years of internal discord over the country's support for the US-led war on terror came to a head earlier this month with a commando assault on Islamabad's radical Red Mosque. Since then a series of suicide bombs by Muslim extremists has claimed the lives of more than 200 people.
Mr Khan said: "The longer Musharraf stays after this, the longer the backlash of extremism will last. The majority of Pakistanis, secular minded or not, view Musharraf as an American puppet."

Pete: Come back to me Kate is the exclusive on the front of the Mirror

Kate Moss's ex-lover Pete Doherty today uses the Daily Mirror to send her an extraordinary message of love and begs: "Take me back."
The junkie rocker - dumped by Kate, 33, earlier this month - believes this is the only way he can get through to the supermodel who is an avid Mirror reader.
In an explosive interview, Doherty, 28, said: "I can't get hold of her any other way. I need Kate to know that I still love her. She has broken my heart."

The Sun meanwhile continues its obsession with Great White Sharks

IT'S GOT A MATE screams the headline

THE shark filmed by tourists off Britain’s coastline is a female Great White — with a BOYFRIEND lurking nearby, a top expert said last night.
Leading Aussie shark watcher Dave “Sharkman” Baxter confirmed footage shot off St Ives, Cornwall, DOES show the razor-toothed predator featured in screen blockbuster Jaws.
He said after viewing video featured in yesterday’s Sun: “That’s definitely a Great White — probably an adult female about 12ft long. Her mate will be close by.”

The Guardian though isnt convinced

Expert ridicules shark scare

Swimmers, surfers and fishermen can rest easy in the knowledge that the Jaws of the Cornish coast, captured on video and posted on the Sun's website, is a harmless basking shark and not the great white the paper claimed, according to a marine biologist.
David Sims, who leads the only scientific study of large sharks in the UK, at the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth, said: "The Sun seems to run this story every summer. Just because parliament has gone into recess does not make this a great white shark."

Food manufacturers target children on internet after regulator's TV advertising clampdown reports the Guardian

Some of the world's leading food manufacturers have begun marketing to children on social networking websites and internet chat programs.
Brands such as McDonald's, Starburst, Haribo and Skittles are using the internet to target children now that new rules from the media regulator Ofcom have made it difficult to advertise during children's television.
At the beginning of July, the sweet brand Skittles paid a six-figure sum to set up a profile on the social networking site Bebo which has already been viewed more than 50,000 times and attracted more than 3,500 "friends". In an interview with the Guardian, a Bebo spokesman described these "friends" as "brand ambassadors". Bebo users have to declare they are at least 13, but it is known that much younger children do use the site.

And staying with food but on a lighter note,the Telegraph reveals


Jelly beans sour England Test against India

An already sour contest between two giants of the Test arena at Trent Bridge in Nottingham was ignited after the tiny nugget of confectionery appeared at the short leg fielding position - infuriating India's tail-end batsman Zaheer Khan and sparking an extraordinary bat-waving bust-up.
Just why the bean was deployed, and who was responsible, were still the subject of claim and counter-claim last night. But it seems the riddle of the jelly bean is set to dominate the final day's play today.

Finally the Sun reports on the

Headmistress is a Harry Rotter

A PRIMARY school head ruined the new Harry Potter book for pupils — by reading out the final page on the last day of term.
Youngsters looking forward to reading the best-seller over the summer holidays were left reeling as Carolyn Banfield gave the game away.
Nine-year-old pupil Louie Swift said: “I don’t know why she read it.