The death of Pavarotti and the funeral of Rhys Jones are taken off the front of many of the papers as the latest developments in the Maddy story dominate.The Sun,Mirror and Express all lead with the news that Kate McCann was re interviewed by police yesterday.

SUSPECTS says the Mirror

Kate and Gerry McCann fear they will today be named as suspects over the disappearance of four-year-old daughter Madeleine.
They confided in friends as Kate was yesterday formally questioned by Portuguese police without Gerry.


DID YOU SEDATE MADDIE? headlines the Sun

SHATTERED Kate McCann looked close to tears early today after 11 hours of questioning by cops over the disappearance of her daughter Madeleine.
She emerged with her lawyer from a police station in Portimao, Portugal, looking drained shortly before 1am.
She had endured a marathon grilling beginning at 2pm yesterday.
Her lawyer Carlos Pinto de Abreu stressed Kate was heard as a witness in the hunt for missing Maddie, four, and the inquiry is continuing.



MUM NOW WE FEAR WE ARE SUSPECTS says the Express

Madeleine: 'Now they are trying to frame me' says mother quizzed by police is the front page of the Mail.

Friends said she was extremely nervous about being "set up" and fears detectives were attempting to crack the case by pinning the blame for Madeleine's disappearance on her.
A Portuguese newspaper stoked her fears yesterday with hurtful slurs about a "scent of death" allegedly detected on her clothing.

Meanwhile the papers focus on the death of Pavarotti

Crowds pay tribute to Luciano Pavarotti reports the Telegraph
Huge crowds have gathered outside Modena Cathedral to pay tribute to Luciano Pavarotti, as Italy mourned its favourite son.For most Italians, Pavarotti was a perfect embodiment of their ideal man: he loved food, he loved football, he loved women and he sang beautifully.

The world pays tribute to Pavarotti, the tenor with a voice touched by the divine says the Independent

Early yesterday, that voice fell silent and the world mourned the loss of Luciano Pavarotti, who finally succumbed to the pancreatic cancer that had plagued him for the past year. He died in his home town of Modena, Italy, in the early hours of the morning.
Tributes poured in from statesmen, sportsmen and pop stars alike, in homage to the man whose magnificent voice was known on the football terraces and in the pop charts as well as in the world's opera houses.


'If it were all taken away, God and I would be even' reports the Guardian

In his splendid home in the hills overlooking the Adriatic, Luciano Pavarotti is pushed slowly from room to room in a wheelchair to which he must stay riveted from morning to night - the last throne of the king of the tenors.
Despite the gravity of his illness, he does not have the distressed, disconsolate air of someone who has seen death from up close. That unmistakeably sunny warmth of his voice is still there, as is the naughty-boy smile that starts in the eyes before moving to the lips.

The Funeral of Rhys Jones is widely covered

'She gave his coffin one final kiss before the hearse door was shut.. a kiss she held, with eyes squeezed shut, not wanting to let go' reports the Mirror

Once again, Rhys Jones was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He should have been in his new school uniform yesterday dreaming of getting out on Fazakerley High's football pitches and showcasing his lethal left foot.
Instead he lay in a coffin, so dwarfed by the enormity of the cathedral it seemed the size of his unused pencil case, as a shaken city honoured him in words and warmth.


Cortege stops at Everton FC reports the Sun

Hundreds of mourners, many wearing blue team shirts, lined the streets near Goodison Park to watch the hearse arrive.Applause broke out when the cortege stopped, with men and women clapping and crying at the same time.
In the hearse lay Rhys’s blue coffin, bearing the club’s crest.


The last kiss: Mother says farewell to murdered Rhys reports the Mail

The qualities all go with different leads.

The Times reporting on a

Hardline takeover of British mosques

Almost half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to “shed blood” for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found.
Riyadh ul Haq, who supports armed jihad and preaches contempt for Jews, Christians and Hindus, is in line to become the spiritual leader of the Deobandi sect in Britain. The ultra-conservative movement, which gave birth to the Taleban in Afghanistan, now runs more than 600 of Britain’s 1,350 mosques, according to a police report seen by The Times.

The Guardian leads with

New nuclear row as green groups pull out

Britain's leading environmental groups are poised to formally withdraw from a government consultation today that will determine whether ministers will be able to push ahead with plans to build a new generation of nuclear power stations.
The coalition which was asked to provide evidence to inform the debate believes the government has failed to fairly reflect the arguments for presentations that will be given to more than 1,100 members of the public that are due to start tomorrow.

The Telegraph concentrates on

Mortgages to rise as crisis grips the markets

Home owners are facing fresh misery as experts predict mortgage rates will rise as a direct result of the crisis that has gripped the financial markets.Any increase in rates would be a severe blow to Britain's 17 million mortgage borrowers, who have had to cope with five rises over the past year.

The Independent meanwhile chooses to focus on Switzerland which it refers to as

Europe's heart of darkness? where

today it is home to a new extremism that has alarmed the United Nations. Proposals for draconian new laws that target the country's immigrants have been condemned as unjust and racist. A poster campaign, the work of its leading political party, is decried as xenophobic.

The Guardian reports that

Website claims Bin Laden will release message to mark 9/11

Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaida leader, will release a video addressing the American people on the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, an Islamist website reported last night.
The announcement appeared on a website where al-Qaida's media arm, as-Sahab, frequently posts messages. It was illustrated with a still photo from the video, showing bin Laden addressing the camera, his beard apparently dyed black.
The tape is expected to be released in the next 72 hours. A banner for the forthcoming address read: "Soon, God willing, a videotape from the lion sheikh Osama bin Laden, God preserve him."

Meanwhile the Times reports

Britain tells US: We're winning Afghan battles but not the war

Gordon Brown and David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, fear that the US remains “fixated” by Iraq and is failing to address what they regard as the real front line in the war on terrorism.
Disagreement has surfaced already over the US military’s desire to spray opium poppy fields from the air with herbicide, as well as to continue its bombing strikes on Afghan villages, which Britain complains undermines its strategy of “winning hearts and minds”.

The Telegraph as many of the papers reports problems a little closer to home

RAF jets intercept eight Russian bombers

The RAF carried out its biggest operation to protect British airspace since the Cold War when four Tornados were scrambled to intercept eight Russian bombers approaching over the Atlantic.An early warning aircraft and a VC-10 tanker were also launched to support the British fighters responding to apparent sabre-rattling by President Vladimir Putin.
The Russian aircraft, all Tupolev 95s, codenamed "Bears" by Nato, turned back before reaching British airspace.

Israeli jets 'drop ammunition' in sortie over Syria reports the Indy

Syria was considering its response last night after an Israeli warplane violated Syrian air space and was accused of dropping ammunition inside the country. The incident, near the Turkish border on Wednesday, came just after midnight at a time when tensions are running high between the two neighbours. It prompted Syrian air defence units to open fire on the Israeli jets, Syrian officials said.

The university degrees that may add nothing to lifetime’s salary reports the Times

The expansion of university education has reduced the value of some degrees to zero, as more young people join the workforce as graduates, research suggests. Recent male graduates in arts and humanities are earning no more than those who left education after A levels, a study from the Institute of Education has found.
The results will add to pressure from universities to be allowed to set student tuition fees according to how much a degree subject is valued by employers. At present the majority of universities charge £3,000 a year, the maximum permitted by the Government. Research universities have pressed for a minimum of £6,000.

Two stories in the Mail

Blackpool launches crackdown on stag and hen parties
As a thriving seaside town Blackpool was once Britain's favourite holiday destination.
But a rise in the number of stag and hen parties descending on the area has tarnished its image.
Now, in a bid to clean up its reputation, revellers are to be issued with a code of conduct to curb unacceptable behaviour.
Based on similar measures taken in Venice, where a 'decorum squad' helps keep the area trouble-free, it is hoped the move will eventually bring holidaymakers back.
Visitors to the resort will be asked to sign a good behaviour pledge when they book into their hotel in which they promise to respect the town, other visitors and residents.

Drivers risk two years in jail for using their mobile phones

Motorists who use a hand-held mobile phone or fiddle with a satellite-navigation system while driving could be jailed for up to two years.
Prosecutors have said they could be charged with dangerous driving in a dramatically tougher approach to such offences.
Those caught fiddling with an MP3 music player or texting on a mobile at the wheel could also face the charge.

The Guardian reports that

Internet controls or citizen service, rival leaders tackle child protection

New controls may be needed to prevent the internet and video games from exposing children to harmful or inappropriate material, ministers indicated yesterday, as they appointed a TV psychologist to head an official inquiry.
The prime minister, Gordon Brown, also launched a national consultation on the next decade of children's policy, underlining the government's determination to prevent Conservative claims of a "broken society" from taking hold after a spate of shootings and stabbings of young people.

Portillo accuses Cameron of 'losing his nerve' over rebranding Tories says the Independent

The former cabinet minister, a Tory moderniser, who is normally supportive of Mr Cameron, said: "To change, you need to change the people at the heart of the party. He is trying, but it has not been as successful as he hoped."
His remarks scuppered the Tory leader's call for a period of silence from internal critics and highlighted his difficult balancing act as he tries to keep both wings of his party happy. Earlier this week, Michael Ancram, a traditionalist former deputy Tory leader, criticised Mr Cameron for "trashing" Margaret Thatcher's legacy.

And staying with the same paper

Ailing Lib Dems prepare for a snap election

Sir Menzies Campbell has put the Liberal Democrats on alert for a general election next month, amid fears in the party that their support is being squeezed by the battle between Gordon Brown and David Cameron.
They will go into a crucial party conference in eight days' time hoping that a string of new policies on the environment and tax will reverse a steady decline in opinion poll ratings, now at their lowest since Charles Kennedy was ousted as leader 20 months ago.

Meanwhile the Express claims

TORY ADVERTS TARGET PINK VOTE

David Cameron's Conservative Party has taken a further step in attracting new supporters by advertising on a gay website.
PinkNews.co.uk is hosting a series of adverts featuring the Tory leader as part of the party's efforts to attract the "pink vote".

Rudemaster Bus jibes at Ken reports the Sun

A DOUBLE-decker is driven through London’s streets yesterday — carrying an obscene jibe about Mayor Ken Livingstone on its roof.
Office staff roared with laugher on reading “Livingstone is a c***!” in 3ft-high letters.Vandals’ cruel handiwork went unseen at Wood Green bus depot as it was not visible at street level.


Apples, leaves and conkers: autumn is early reports the Telegraph

It is just over a fortnight before the official start of autumn, which traditionally begins on the equinox of September 23, but already many of the signs that typify the season are here. Apples are ripening at their earliest time on record and, according to growers, this season will see one of the biggest crops ever produced.
Cool, damp nights in July and August caused the fruit to ripen and redden earlier than expected, while a warmer than average April has made the crop bigger and juicier than normal.

Finally the Independent reports

Back-breaking work, 17-hour days, minimal pay: a glimpse inside the factories of Victorian Britain

A fascinating new light has been shed on the attitudes of child workers, their parents, employers and the government's inspectors early in Queen Victoria's reign has been shed in a 900-page document posted on the internet yesterday.
It is a set of reports to the Children's Employment Commission on conditions in the textiles industry in 1841. It shows that some old political arguments just never seem to go away.
Just as today's employers and unions are divided over the extent to which the state ought to involve itself in issues such as the length of the working week, so arguments raged behind the scenes between commissioners and employers over the same question.