Varied headlines on the front pages this Saturday morning.

The Times leads with

POST STRIKE CHAOS unfortunately the news of the agreement reached came too late for the paper

The Independent asks

An Oscar. The Nobel Peace Prize. Now, can Al Gore win the presidency?

On that bleak evening of 12 December 2000, when Al Gore sat huddled with his advisers pondering what seemed like life's crowning disappointment, the presidency of the United States snatched from him not by the voters but by the Supreme Court – who could have imagined that, less than seven years later, it would come to this?
Yesterday's award of the Nobel Peace Prize caps an astonishing journey of rebranding, redemption and self-rediscovery that transformed a defeated, lacklustre former vice-president into the most famous environmentalist on the planet. It has also, inevitably, rekindled among the faithful the hope that, even at this late hour, Gore will enter the 2008 presidential race, and seek the office that has eluded him.


Al Gore wins Nobel peace prize. And this time, no one can take it away from him reports the Guardian

This is one prize the supreme court won't be able to take away from him. The five votes of a committee in Oslo yesterday awarded Al Gore the world's most exalted award, the Nobel peace prize, finally putting to rest the votes of the five judges who stripped him of Florida in 2000 and kept him from the White House.

It leads though with an exclusive interview

Cameron: 'Look at me and think of Schwarzenegger'

David Cameron signals today that he will try to extend the dramatic political gains the Conservatives have made over the last fortnight by pressing ahead with his centrist, liberal agenda, inspired by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the Tory leader says his success in halting Gordon Brown's general election plans was not down solely to the Tories' promise to cut inheritance tax, but the product of two years of recasting his party as ready for the 21st century

The Telegraph reports that

Gordon Brown 'would have won snap election'

Gordon Brown would have won a general election with a comfortable majority if he had held his nerve and called an autumn poll, according to a new survey of marginal constituencies.The Conservatives would not have gained one single seat from the Labour Party in the crucial target seats they need to capture to form the next government despite the success of their party conference at Blackpool.

It leads though with the story that

LABOUR PLANS A U TURN ON MARRIAGE

Labour today signals a major shift in policy as a cabinet minister calls for married couples to get tax incentives from the Government in recognition of the benefits their children and society gain as a result of the union.In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Andy Burnham, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, says there is a “moral case” for promoting the traditional family through the tax system. “I think marriage is best for kids,” he says. “It’s not wrong that the tax system should recognise commitment and marriage.”

The paper says

His comments will be seen as a sign that Gordon Brown intends to seize another area of policy from David Cameron, following his raids on Tory proposals for cutting inheritance tax, penalising non-domiciled workers and introducing a flight levy.

Osborne considers raising the threshold for top rate of tax says the Independent.

The Conservatives are about to focus on tax cuts for 1.6 million earners in Middle England who have been dragged into higher rates of tax since Labour came to power by the failure of Gordon Brown to keep raising thresholds in line with increasing pay.
Teachers, policemen and some nurses have been dragged into the higher tax bracket of 40 per cent on their earnings, leading to dissatisfaction with the Government across the middle classes, according to the Tories. The Chancellor has been able to take an extra £30bn into Treasury coffers over the past decade, but the figures will intensify the backlash against the pre-Budget report which threatens Mr Brown with a revolt and a Commons battle in the new year over taxation.

The Mail reports that

Brown will give MPs one month to pick apart the EU treaty

Cabinet ministers have persuaded him to allow an exhaustive line-by-line scrutiny of the treaty in the Commons next year.
The decision, confirmed by Downing Street, sets the stage for bruising confrontations over Europe on the floor of the House.
Passage of the Bill to implement the revived EU constitution will now turn into a brutal test of Mr Brown's authority.

Both the Guardian and the Indy report on testing times for the former Pm.

The honeymoon is ending on 'mission impossible' says the Guardian

It was early afternoon and still uncomfortably hot when the convoy rolled up, sirens wailing, outside the town hall. Machine-gun toting Palestinian policemen in blue mottled camouflage gear surrounded a white four-wheel drive as the VIP stepped out, his familiar features creased into a broad grin of welcome for the waiting dignitaries.
"Welcome to Hebron, Mr Blair," declared the mayor, Khaled Osaily, before they disappeared into the sand-coloured building, screened by security men as headscarved schoolgirls giggled their way past Ramadan fairy lights. The Israeli army jeeps that escorted the visitor in had hung back discreetly for the final stretch.

Blair admits he is shocked by discrimination on the West Bank reports the Indy

While his aides munched tuna bagels thoughtfully provided by the Israeli military, a shirt-sleeved Tony Blair peered intently at a map showing the two main cargo crossing-points that will function between the West Bank and Israel once the 450-mile separation barrier between them is complete.
Why, Mr Blair wanted to know from his host, an Israeli general in civvies, couldn't goods also be moved directly across the border from the nearby Palestinian industrial park that he is pressing Israel to approve?
"Why can't they go straight through?" Ah, that would be difficult, the general explained, requiring a whole new expensive security apparatus to check goods going into the park.

The Express continues to lead with Maddy

POLICE IN NEW HUNT says the paper

THE new head of the Madeleine McCann investigation is bringing in a team of CSI-style murder specialists to crack the case.
Paulo Rebelo, Portugal’s second most senior policeman, will include some of the country’s top murder detectives, it emerged last night.
Mr Rebelo – who was appointed on Wednesday and doubled his team in a bid to blow the case wide open – has ordered a root and branch review of the five-month investigation. He has told his officers he wants results fast.

Kate McCann's agony over new smear reports the Mirror

Tormented Kate McCann yesterday begged her accusers to back off, demanding: "Leave me alone to find my Madeleine."
Desperate Kate, 39, who this week was hit with vile claims that husband Gerry was not the four-year-old's real father, said: "Haven't I suffered enough without all these new lies coming out?"
Kate confided in mother-in-law Eileen McCann, 67, who told the Mirror how the outrageous new allegations had taken their toll.

It leads though with the latest from the divorce courts

McCARTNEY GOES TO WAR

Defiant Macca refused to budge during his divorce summit with Heather Mills - because he WANTS a full public hearing.
Sir Paul, 65, believes a court date will allow him to demolish Heather's allegations of domestic violence. Thursday's talks stalled over his insistence on a confidentiality clause.
Battling Sir Paul McCartney is prepared for a public scrap with Heather Mills after refusing to budge during divorce negotiations.

The papers look forward to England's battles on the sporting fields today

The Mail leading with

Le Crunch: Millions set to tune in for England's titanic rugby clash with France

A cross-channel invasion was under way last night as English supporters poured into France for a rugby battle royal.
Travelling by train, boat and plane, a vast army of fans descended on Paris in a fervour of patriotism that invoked the spirit of Agincourt.
Up to 50,000 English fans will be present for the World Cup semi-final confrontation, hoping their team can repeat their 24-7 thumping of France in the same fixture in Sydney four years ago.

As does the Sun with Jonny Wilkinson and Wayne Rooney under the headline

SWING LOW HERE WE GO

The paper has also

projected a 50ft St George’s flag on the Arc de Triomphe – to support our rugby lads.

Jonny Wilkinson's nervous mother will watch reports the Telegraph

It was the greatest moment of her son's rugby career, but Philippa Wilkinson was too nervous to look.Instead of watching with millions of others as Jonny kicked the last minute winning drop-goal in the 2003 Rugby World Cup final, she was shopping in Tesco.
But this year Mrs Wilkinson, 56, has put her fears behind her and plans to watch the semi-final against France.

The Indpendent reports that the

Judge's death remains a mystery but police refuse to reopen case

The mysterious death of a judge killed in a fire in the grounds of his home in Somerset may never be solved after a second inquest failed yesterday to reach a definitive conclusion as to what killed him. Andrew Chubb, 58, died in an explosion and fire in his garden shed in July 2001, an hour after informing his wife of 34 years that he had been having an affair and wanted a divorce.
His mistress, Kerry Sparrow fought a six-year campaign for the new inquest, convinced that her lover's death was neither suicide nor accident. She accused his widow of trapping the judge in a loveless marriage despite her own infidelity.
The five-day hearing at Glastonbury Town Hall heard all about the judge's tangled private life and the inquest was told of contradictory allegations from his wife Jennifer, 60, and from Ms Sparrow, 38.

Revealed: The Royals' favourite nightclubs - awash with cocaine reports the Mail

Welcome to Boujis - the discreet and secretive South Kensington nightclub, which has become virtually a second home to Princes William and Harry and the rather fast set with whom they have surrounded themselves.
It was here that Harry infamously cavorted with TV presenter Natalie Pinkham, and was photographed with his hands over her breasts.

The paper continues

For, as the Mail reveals today, while Boujis has become synonymous with the names of both its fun-loving royal patrons, it is also a magnet for cocaine abuse.
An investigation conducted over a number of weeks has uncovered evidence of the illegal Class A substance being taken in the club.

The Times reports that

Household sprays ‘linked to one in seven cases of asthma’

Using cleaning sprays and air fresheners while doing housework could account for up to one in seven cases of asthma in adults, a study has found.
The modern penchant for using labour-saving cleaning sprays and air fresheners has been found to raise significantly the risk of symptoms.
Just spraying a cleaner once a week can trigger an attack, according to the research. The risk rose the more that the sprays were used.

Foriegn news and the Guardian reports from Burma

After the riots, Burma returns to an unspoken terror

It's 9.30pm and the buses in downtown Rangoon have stopped running. People scuttle home across the city's potholed roads and broken pavements and the few taxis still operating will only make short trips. With only 30 minutes to curfew, no one takes chances with the Burmese military these days.
Carrying shotguns and assault rifles, teenagers in military and police uniforms cluster at street corners until curfew, then retreat to fenced-off government buildings as darkness settles

The Telegraph reports that

Surfers lead tributes to Bali bomb victims

Survivors and relatives of the victims of the Bali bombings paid tribute to the dead on the fifth anniversary of the attacks by sitting on a ring of surfboards and holding hands in the warm ocean.The ritual performed by surfers remembering lost friends was just one of the ways that the 202 victims, including 28 Britons and 88 Australians, were remembered on the Indonesian island blighted by Islamist terrorists five years ago.

Vladimir Putin confronts US with threat to arms pact says the Times

Vladimir Putin threatened to abandon a key nuclear arms treaty yesterday as he raised the stakes in the confrontation between Russia and the United States over a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe.
The Russian President threw down the gauntlet at a meeting with Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, and Robert Gates, the Defence Secretary. They came prepared for criticism of the US proposal but instead Mr Putin gave a blunt warning that he would scrap the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty.

France braced for confirmation that the Sarkozys will divorce reports the Indy

Rumours swirled around France yesterday of an imminent announcement of a divorce between President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Cécilia.
The Elysée Palace refused to comment on a report in a provincial newspaper that Mme Sarkozy had given an interview to announce the end of her marriage.
L'Est Republicain – the only newspaper to be granted an interview by Mme Sarkozy since her husband was elected in May – said on its internet site yesterday morning that the Elysée Palace planned to confirm the rift at its weekly press conference in the afternoon.

Many of the papers report on

Amelie killed by bus stop stalker

The Mirror says

A bouncer who battered to death student Amelie Delagrange as she walked home had already murdered another teenage girl and attacked three young women, a jury was told yesterday.Levi Bellfield, 39, allegedly targeted bus stops and routes late at night searching for lone women victims.
Then he stalked and attacked them once they got off the bus.
Prosecutor Brian Altman said the lighting inside the buses allowed him to get a good look at the passengers and choose suitable prey in advance as he sat in his car.

Queen honours forces at memorial dedication reports the Telegraph

The Queen has paid tribute to thousands of service personnel who have been killed on duty or by acts of terrorism as she dedicated a new national memorial.Friends and family of service personnel gathered at the £7 million stone circle, which bears the carved names of 16,000 members of the forces killed since World War II.

The Mail reporting that

Schoolgirl reads letter to 'Daddy in heaven' at unveiling of National Armed Forces Memorial

Against the magnificent backdrop of a new Armed Forces memorial, made possible by a Daily Mail campaign and the generosity of our readers, the youngster read a letter "to dear daddy in heaven" in front of the Queen, veterans, other bereaved relatives and military top brass.
It was a simple message to a loving father killed in action in Iraq. In it, Georgina brings him up to date with news from home and assures him everything is all right.

Finally the Times reports that

Brass-necked thieves even lift doorknobs

Residents returning to their homes in a quiet street in the West Midlands knew something was wrong but could not quite put their finger on it. Or their hands.
It was only when they went to open their doors that they realised the brass handles had been stolen, along with their house numbers.
The thefts are being carried out by organised gangs across the country who are stealing tens of millions of pounds of metal to feed the boom in the construction industry in China and India.
The thefts have become so widespread that the Association of Chief Police Officers is preparing guidance for chief constables warning them of the problem.