BA fined £270m and now faces £300m lawsuit is the lead in the Guardian

British Airways and Virgin Atlantic face a £300m lawsuit brought by millions of air passengers, after their roles in a price-fixing cartel were exposed by the authorities yesterday.
The class action lawsuit will be fought in the UK and US, and could see the airlines being forced to repay hundreds of millions of pounds to customers. The revelation came as BA was hit by record fines totalling almost £270m from the Office of Fair trading and the US department of justice for fixing the price of fuel surcharges for long-haul passenger flights and its cargo business.

The Sun's description is

BA-ttered Airways

The punishments come after BA admitted in May that it had colluded with rival Virgin Atlantic to fix the price of passenger fuel surcharges on long-haul flights.
The passenger routes affected were those between the US and the UK. On cargo routes, they covered the US, Europe, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa.

And more bad news for the airline on the font of the Telegraph which reports

Airlines losing millions of bags a year

More travellers than ever are arriving on holiday without their luggage, with up to 10 air passengers losing their bags on every flight, figures showed last night.British Airways was nominated the worst performing of all Europe's major airlines and is forecast to lose a record 1.3 million bags this year.
One in every 35 passengers on BA flights lost luggage between April and June and a continued baggage crisis at Heathrow is expected to exacerbate the problem throughout the summer peak.

More travel related news in the Independent which reports

High Court confusion over exactly who BAA wants to ban from protesting at Heathrow

BAA suffered further embarrassment in its attempt to block a climate change demonstration at Heathrow, when a High Court judge admitted yesterday to being confused over exactly who the company wanted to ban from travelling to the airport.
Amid scenes of near farce at the Royal Courts of Justice, Justice Caroline Swift, asked Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden, the lawyer representing BAA's subsidiary, Heathrow Airport Limited, to clarify the terms of the injunction he was seeking, stating: "I have to know what I am being asked to do."
Mr Lawson-Cruttenden said the company's ban was only aimed at "protesters" who were acting unlawfully, but was unable to clarify who might come into that category under the terms of the injunction.

The paper leads though with a front page with a child's drawing from Darfur,under the headline

Darfur: The evidence of war crimes

Dramatic new evidence of the attacks on the people of Darfur by Sudanese government troops has emerged in 500 drawings by children who escaped the violence by fleeing across the border to Chad.
In a ground-breaking move, the remarkable collection of images will now be submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has started proceedings against a Sudanese government minister and a militia commander accused of committing war crimes in Darfur.
The testimony of the children, some as young as eight, emerged by chance when a peace campaigner handed the children paper, pencils and crayons to keep them occupied while she interviewed their mothers.





Pain relief drug ruled too costly for the NHS is the lead in the Times

Thousands of arthritis sufferers will be denied treatment with proven benefits by a decision not to pay for a new drug.
Guidance issued by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the watchdog that controls access to drugs on the NHS, will recommend today that the drug does not represent value for money, although it has been shown to improve dramatically the severest symptoms of arthritis in almost half of patients.
The draft ruling comes on the day that Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, will announce that he is tearing up a price-fixing agreement with pharmaceutical companies in an attempt to reduce unneccessary waste of drug funds.

A medical front page for the Express as well which has a picture of a cauliflower and brocalli under the headline

NEW CANCER SUPERFOODS

EATING cauliflower or broccoli at least once a week protects against the most dangerous form of prostate cancer.

The superfoods are better than any other vegetable or fruit at cutting the risk of developing an aggressive tumour, scientists said yesterday.

Prostate cancer kills one man an hour in Britain, and each year nearly 32,000 are diagnosed with the disease.
It is the most common cancer in British men.



For the Mail it is concerned with

Minor offences could land you on DNA database...for life

Drivers stopped for speeding - or even for failing to wear a seatbelt - could soon be placed on the 'Big Brother' DNA database for life.
The most trivial offences, such as dropping litter, would also lead to samples being taken under sweeping new powers which police are demanding.
The samples would stay on the database, alongside those of murderers and rapists, even if the people involved were later cleared of any wrongdoing

Police want DNA from speeding drivers and litterbugs on database says the Times

Police are seeking powers to take DNA samples from suspects on the streets and for non-imprisonable offences such as speeding and dropping litter.
The demand for a huge expansion of powers to take DNA comes as a government watchdog announced the first public inquiry into the national DNA database.
There is growing concern among MPs and civil liberties groups about the number of children under 10 and young black men on the database — the biggest in the world. But a number of police forces in England and Wales are backing proposals that would add millions more samples to it.

The Mirror leads with yesterday's evidence in the Securitas trial

£53m gone in 81 minutes

Cctv cameras scattered throughout the depot captured the drama moment by moment as the gunmen burst into the building and threaten staff with machine guns and a sawn-off shotgun.
As the terrified workers cower on the floor, one armed robber stands over them - staring menacingly at their prone bodies.
Meanwhile, his mates - disguised with masks and balaclavas - are methodically loading bundle after bundle of used notes into a Renault lorry that has been backed up to a loading bay.

Caught on video: UK's biggest cash robbery says the Guardian

The images show the depot manager, Colin Dixon, arriving at the depot's entrance with one of the robbers, who is dressed in police uniform. Mr Dixon has given evidence that earlier that night he had been kidnapped by men dressed as police officers and forced to help them gain entry to the depot as his wife and young child had also been taken hostage.



Channel 4 scraps all phone-in competitions reports the Telegraph

The broadcaster faces paying refunds totalling up to £2.2 million to viewers who were deceived when they entered a competition on the channel's flagship Richard & Judy show.
The decision to ban all 30 money-spinning phone-in competitions will cost the station about £3 million in profits in the current financial year and could lead to a cash crisis.
In the last financial year, the competitions generated £10 million - half of Channel 4's annual profits.
The channel imposed the ban after an internal inquiry into the Richard & Judy show disclosed that the problems dated as far back as September 2004.

The Mirror claims an exclusive

Brown: A secret election battle plan

An astonishing masterplan to sweep Gordon Brown to a fourth Labour election victory is revealed by the Mirror today.
The secret 10-point blueprint from leading party strategist Philip Gould sets out in detail how the "muscular" Premier should meet the national yearning for change.
In the strongest sign yet of an autumn or spring election, it says: "We have to have a strategy of audacious advance. The best way of achieving this is to hold an early election after a short period of intense and compelling activity."
The dossier also discloses that Mr Brown's dramatic flurry of initiatives since he took power is part of a carefully crafted strategy.

However the Sun takes the opposite view

Brown KOs snap pole in autumn

GORDON Brown has ruled out an October election — despite being advised to have an early poll two years ago, The Sun can reveal.
Early election fever was stoked yesterday after a leaked memo written in 2005 showed Tony Blair’s polling guru Philip Gould urging the PM’s successor to go for a snap autumn poll.
But insiders insisted last night that Mr Brown never saw the document — and has already rejected calls for an autumn general election.


Meanwhile accordng to the Telegraph

Grassroots Tories fear election defeat

For the first time since Mr Cameron took over as Tory leader, a majority of Conservative activists believe that he will not be the next Prime Minister, according to the survey.
The poll, on Conservativehome.com, is the most extensive test of grassroots opinion among Conservative Party members. It shows that 52 per cent think it is unlikely that Mr Cameron will be Prime Minister after the election. In January, 72 per cent of party members predicted he would win.

CAMERON MEETS TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN reports the Express

David Cameron is meeting British troops fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
The Tory leader - who is making his second visit to the country - will see for himself the conditions facing the UK force at their main base at Camp Bastion in Helmand province.
Arriving on Wednesday in Kabul at the start of a two-day fact-finding mission, he said that there needed to be a "hard-headed assessment" of the situation in the country.

All the papers report on the coma victim who has woken up after 6 years,the Mail reporting that

Man in coma for six years wakes after doctors 'jump-start' his brain

The 38-year-old American, who suffered brain damage in a mugging, can now talk, chew and swallow.
The treatment, in which electrodes were implanted in the brain, offers hope to the families of thousands of Britons with major head injuries.
Doctors describe the change in the man's condition as remarkable. His family say he now has a quality of life they never thought possible.

Thousands of party-loving British tourists end their holidays in jail reports the Indy

More than 1,500 were arrested last year in Spain, while nearly 1,400 were picked up by police in the United States. Almost 1,000 Britons required hospital treatment in Greece and more than 40 reported being raped in Greece and Spain.
In addition to the usual tally of lost passports - more than 6,000 went missing in Spain alone - UK officials were called out to thousands of Britons who get into serious trouble overseas. Almost half of holidaymakers reported drinking "much more" alcohol abroad than when they are at home. Some of the worst problems are in popular party destinations such as Ibiza, Ayia Napa in Cyprus and Faliraki on the Greek island of Rhodes, where large numbers of young revellers are picked up by police, get into brawls or need treatment for alcohol poisoning.

The Guardian reports from Pakistan where

Disaster looms in land built for peace and harmony

Decorum was abandoned as accusations ricocheted between the wood-panelled walls of Pakistan's national assembly on Monday night. "Murderers! Murderers of innocent people!" screamed an MP from a religious party, his yellow turban shaking as he wagged a finger towards the government benches.
Five female parliamentarians, their faces concealed behind black and white burkas, slapped the benches with open palms. Another mullah stood up and started shouting. The speaker strained to maintain order.
Others were less captivated by the debate on last month's siege of the Red Mosque, in which more than 100 people died. One man snoozed at his desk. Across the vast hall others started whispered conversations. And high above them Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a dapper man with a pinched, clean-shaven face, looked on impassively from his giant portrait on the wall.

Obama willing to invade Pakistan in al-Qaeda hunt says the Times

Barack Obama, a leading Democrat candidate in the US presidential race, provoked anger yesterday by threatening to send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists — even without permission from that country’s Government.
Standing in front of a Stars and Stripes flag, Mr Obama said: “There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again . . . If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”

Massive lead for Clinton as Obama trails in US polls reports the Indpendent
Hillary Clinton has further extended her lead in the race for the 2008 Democratic nomination, amid fresh evidence that voters see her as more experienced and more competent - especially in the foreign policy field - than her closest rival, Barack Obama.
A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll yesterday underlined what political pros here have long been saying. The first primary may still be more than five months away, but despite the excitement generated by the youthful Mr Obama among the party's liberal activist base, the nomination as matters stand is Ms Clinton's to lose.
The poll - the first since Ms Clinton's commanding performance in last week's CNN/YouTube debate - shows her ahead of Mr Obama by 43 per cent to 22 per cent, with John Edwards a distant third with 13 per cent. The rest of the field is in single figures.

Russia claims North Pole with Arctic flag stunt says the Telegraph

In an unprecedented and potentially perilous mission, veteran Arctic explorer Artur Chilingarov will descend 14,000 feet in a deep sea submersible and drop a Russian tricolor cast in titanium onto the seabed.
With Russia’s northern rivals, all eager to extend their own Arctic ambitions, looking on uneasily, two Russian ships reached the North Pole after ploughing their way through deep ice for over a week.
In a nation that, in Soviet times, pioneered Arctic exploration, Mr Chilingarov’s expedition has fired the Russian public’s imagination.
But Mr Chilingarov also caused international concern after declaring that the Arctic and the North Pole were Russian.

Finally

237 REASONS WHY WE HAVE SEX reports the Mirror

You want to ask for a pay rise and what pops into your head? Sex.
Perhaps you're feeling a bit vengeful, in which case you'll be considering nookie just to give someone a nasty disease.
Or maybe you just want to get closer to God - the only answer is a bit of the other to make you feel much more spiritual.
These are just three of the 237 reasons why people have sex - according to scientists.

The Independent takes up the story

Sex just happens, doesn't it? We do the deed, just because. That is why sexologists over the decades have focused on the physical specifics - how we set about our coupling - and the problems that arise when the machinery of the body or the brain somehow does not co-operate with the mission.
Thanks to the hard work of two researchers at the University of Texas, however, we now know that the "because" is rather more complicated than we thought. There are myriad reasons why we have sex with one another, according to their paper, published in the August issue of Archives of Sexual Behaviour.