Why are our kids killing each other? asks the front page of the Mirror this morning

Suddenly we find ourselves in living in a country where our children are murdering each other.
Murder for a cheap mobile phone. Murder to show how hard they are, how deserving of respect. Murder for drug money, for wounded pride. Murder for nothing at all.
The economy may be booming but lives - especially young lives - have never been so pitifully cheap.
Suddenly we find ourselves in a land that most of us struggle to recognise.

The paper goes onto say

Rizwan Darber - the 51st youngster this year to die by the knife or gun - was stabbed to death by a gang of teenage muggers because he refused to hand over his mobile. And the more you read of Rizwan's tragic story - the sweet kid studying for his A Levels, his devastated mother and brother, the sheer senselessness of his dying before his life had really begun - the more his brutal murder makes you sick to your stomach.

For the Sun and the Express their front pages reveal the latest Maddy news

NEW DNA LINK TO KATE reports the Sun

BRITISH scientists have reportedly discovered new DNA evidence possibly linking Kate and Gerry McCann to Maddie's disappearance.
Reports suggest the results, from the Forensic Science Service laboratory in Birmingham, support previous forensics which were sent to Portugal by British scientists and resulted in the McCanns being named as official suspects.
Sources in Britain reportedly claim the new evidence shows Portuguese detectives' decision to focus their investigation on Madeleine's parents is justified.

DNA PUTS PARENTS IN FRAME says the Express

The source also rejected claims that the evidence found in their hire car was “inconclusive”. The startling turn in the investigation shocked the McCanns, who had been hoping they would soon be cleared of involvement in their daughter’s disappearance.
Emphasising that the latest tests were valid, the source said: “There is no reason to change the direction of the investigation. Everything that has emerged indicates it is focusing where it should.”

The broadsheets focus on yesterdays political developments

All British troops may leave Iraq next year says the Times

Most British troops could be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of next year under an exit strategy outlined by Gordon Brown yesterday.
As the Prime Minister began trying to restore his battered authority after calling off an autumn election, Mr Brown said British troop numbers would be halved to 2,500 by next spring when a further decision on the next phase would be taken.
Ministry of Defence officials said that all British troops could be out by the end of next year, although Downing Street expressed caution about the prospect.

Troops may be out of Iraq by end of 2008 says Brown says the Independent

It reports on yesterdays Downing street press conference

Gordon Brown has accepted full responsibility for the fiasco over his decision not to call a general election next month but admitted that he should have announced it earlier.
The Prime Minister refused to join a "blame game" taking place in Labour circles over who advised him to go for a snap election before he finally decided against one on Saturday. But he denied scrapping well-advanced plans for a1 November election because the Conservatives had recovered in the opinion polls during their party conference last week.
An uncomfortable Mr Brown faced questions for more than 65 minutes at a Downing Street press conference – the most hostile he has faced since becoming Prime Minister in June. Several journalists expressed doubts about his claim that he was not scared off from calling an election by the turnaround in the polls.

Brown: I'll take the rap on poll says the Sun

BRUISED Gordon Brown took the blame for his early election fiasco yesterday.
The PM admitted he should have acted sooner to kill off hopes of a November 1 poll.
He admitted the disastrous episode had been down to him. He told a No 10 press briefing: “The fact of the matter is I take responsibility, I take the blame, I take the decisions and if anything goes wrong it comes back to me.”

Whilst the same paper continues to press for a Eu referendum

JUST 10 DAYS TO SAVE BRITAIN

GORDON Brown has just ten days to save the nation and bow to demands for a referendum on the EU Treaty.
Pressure intensifies today as a report by a Labour-dominated committee of MPs reveals it is virtually the SAME as the old Constitution.
It smashes Mr Brown’s refusal to grant a referendum on the grounds the new Treaty is different. And it claims the Government will not be able to maintain its “red lines” — the concessions and opt-outs to protect Britain from the Treaty’s worst excesses in areas like policing and welfare.

The Guardian looks forward to todays events

Darling targets private equity tax breaks

Alistair Darling will today unveil substantial increases to the tax bills of private equity bosses as Labour struggles to get back on the front foot after the debacle of Gordon Brown's abandoned autumn election.
To reinforce the government's credentials with its own supporters the chancellor will also use today's pre-budget report and comprehensive spending review to unveil above-inflation spending increases for Mr Brown's declared policy priorities: health and overseas aid

The Mail leads with the news that

Thousands of osteoporosis patients denied a pain-free life for £3 a week

Hundreds of thousands of women could suffer painful and dangerous broken bones under plans to restrict drugs for osteoporosis.
The Health Service "rationing" body wants doctors to prescribe only the cheapest drug, even though it does not work in many cases.
Medical experts say it will set the treatment of the disease back years.
Yet patients in Scotland will still have access to a full range of drugs.

There is much coverage of the Keiron Fallon trial

Champion jockey 'threw races for syndicate' says the Mirror

Legendary jockey Kieren Fallon cheated punters by deliberately losing races for a crooked betting syndicate, a court heard yesterday.
Fallon, 42, is said to have agreed to hold back 17 of his rides so the alleged scam's mastermind Miles Rodgers could clean up by betting huge sums on the horses losing.
But the six-times champion jockey unexpectedly won five of the races - causing a huge fallout with the syndicate, who lost around half a million pounds, the jury heard.

The Telegraph reporting that

Mr Fallon and two other jockeys are accused of throwing 27 races across the country over a two year period. The court heard the plotters aimed to "prevent a fair race being run".
The jury was told how the plot was controlled by professional gambler Miles Rodgers.
The jockeys, or an intermediary, would contact him on race days to tell him which horse to back to lose, the court heard.
Based on their tips, he wagered more than £2.12 million on internet betting exchange Betfair.

As there is as the Diana inquest moves to Paris

The jury stood in a semi-circle at pillar 13 and were silenced by the moment reports the Times

On a warm autumn afternoon, the jurors hearing the inquests of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed visited the spot in a Paris underpass where the couple’s car crashed on a hot August night ten years ago.
The experience drove the jurors to silence, and they stood briefly with heads bowed in front of pillar No 13, the site of the fatal accident.
Accompanied by Lord Justice Scott Baker, the coroner, and the regiment of lawyers involved in the hearing, the five men and six women walked into the Alma tunnel where Henri Paul crashed on his way to deliver the couple to Mr Fayed’s apartment near the Arc de Triomphe.

Jury's descent into tunnel of death reports the Mail

six ordinary women and five ordinary men were able to bring to life the maps, film footage and diagrams they had pored over to reconstruct that final, terminal journey.
And thus, for a few hours yesterday, a small area of Paris was transformed into a coroner's court, some 350 miles from London, as the entire inquest transferred for two days to France.
Save for the computer screens and transcription equipment of the regular courtroom, pretty much everything was here - a coroner, most of the lawyers, jury bailiffs and a shorthand writer.

The Independent has a different lead story

Mario Capecchi: The man who changed our world the paper reports on the winner of the nobel prize for medicine

The genetics research that won Mario Capecchi a share of this year's Nobel Prize for medicine may well help to define the science of the 21st century. But the man himself was marked, in extraordinary ways, by the turbulent history of the century before.
Mr Capecchi's grandfather, a German archaeologist, was accidentally gunned down by his own men during the First World War. His father, an Italian aviator, perished in the Second World War. He himself spent that war destitute in northern Italy after his American mother was arrested and sent to the Dachau concentration camp – a survival tale all the more remarkable for the fact that he was just four years old when his mother was taken away.

Upsurge in Kurdish attacks raises pressure on Turkish prime minister to order Iraq invasion reports the Guardian

Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, came under intense pressure last night to order an invasion of northern Iraq following the deadliest attacks for over a decade on the Turkish military and civilians by separatist Kurdish guerrillas.
Mr Erdogan, who has resisted demands from the Turkish armed forces for the past six months for a green light to cross the border into Iraqi Kurdistan, where the guerrillas are based, called an emergency meeting of national security chiefs to ponder their options in the crisis, a session that some said was tantamount to a war council.
A Turkish incursion is fiercely opposed by Washington since it would immensely complicate the US campaign in Iraq and destabilise the only part of Iraq that functions, the Kurdish-controlled north.

The Indy as does many papers carries the story of

Iranian students clash with police during protest against Ahmadinejad

About 100 students staged a rare protest yesterday against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a "dictator" as he gave a speech marking the beginning of the academic year at Tehran University.
The protest prompted scuffles between the demonstrators and hardline university students loyal to Ahmadinejad, who ignored chants of "Death to dictator" and continued his speech on the merits of science and pitfalls of Western-style democracy, witnesses said.

Officer felt gun blast as he held de Menezes reports the Times

A police surveillance officer described to a court yesterday how he leapt on Jean Charles de Menezes and pinned him down because he feared that he was a suicide bomber.
The officer told the Old Bailey that when he grabbed Mr de Menezes he felt the shockwave of a gunshot by the side of his head as another policeman shot the young Brazilian dead.
The officer, codenamed Ivor, told the Old Bailey that the scene was “extremely noisy, violent and distressing”. Ivor gave evidence at the beginning of the second week of the trial of the Metropolitan Police for endangering public safety in its conduct of the operation that led to the death.

The Independent reporting that

Jean Charles de Menezes was shown picking up a morning paper and walking calmly through Stockwell Tube station in the moments before he was shot dead on the Underground by police, in CCTV footage released last night.
Contrary to reports at the time, Menezes – who had been mistaken by police for a suicide bomber – was not running and did not jump over the ticket barriers, the newly released footage clearly showed.

New law means anti-gay comments could lead to seven years in jail reports the Mail

Stirring up hatred against homosexuals is to become a serious crime punishable with a seven-year jail sentence under a law announced last night.
The legislation - similar to laws already in force outlawing persecution on religious or racial grounds - will make criminals of those who express their views in ways that could lead to the bullying or harassment of gays.
The maximum sentence is longer than the average of around five years handed to rapists.

Two stories from the Sun,the paper has an interview with the brother of the Yorkshire ripper which reveals

THE brother of the Yorkshire Ripper today reveals for the first time how the murders still haunt him 30 years on.
Breaking his long silence, Carl Sutcliffe — younger brother of serial killer Peter — says he continue to hear people whispering behind his back wherever he goes.
And he insists he never wants to see Sutcliffe released after he was caged for murdering 13 women and attacking seven more in a sickening five-year spree.

And an exclusive

MY BELLY BUTTON NEARLY KILLED ME

A TEENAGER told last night how her belly button piercing was turned into a “bullet” that almost killed her in a horrific car crash.
The 1cm long silver bar was sent shooting through Jessica Collins’s body by her seat belt — finishing millimetres from her spine.
Jess, 19, said: “Doctors said it was a million-to-one accident — that it was like a bullet had been fired at point-blank range into my stomach. “I had my belly button pierced when I was 15.
“I would never have imagined one day one of them would nearly kill me.”

Judge 'burned in shed while his wife brought in laundry' reports the Independent

A judge's wife brought in the washing from her garden and closed the house windows as her husband burned to death yards away in a shed after announcing that he wanted a divorce, an inquest has heard.
Andrew Chubb, 58, died some 90 minutes after returning to his farmhouse near Chard, Somerset, in July 2001 and breaking the news to his wife.
After a previous inquest in 2001, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, claimed there was "not a shred of evidence" to suggest murder but that suicide could not be ruled out. The body was cremated before a pathologist could determine whether or not he had died before the fire.

The Guardian has a special report from Italy

From cocaine to plutonium: mafia clan accused of trafficking nuclear waste

Authorities in Italy are investigating a mafia clan accused of trafficking nuclear waste and trying to make plutonium.
The 'Ndrangheta mafia, which gained notoriety in August for its blood feud killings of six men in Germany, is alleged to have made illegal shipments of radioactive waste to Somalia, as well as seeking the "clandestine production" of other nuclear material.
Two of the Calabrian clan's members are being investigated, along with eight former employees of the state energy research agency Enea.

Finally many of the papers carry the story

It's bees, not mice, that send elephants into a panic

The Mail reports

According to cartoon legend, there is nothing quite so likely to send an elephant packing its trunk as the sight of a mouse.
But researchers have discovered that what really panics a pachyderm is something even smaller - a bee.
When dozing herds are played recordings of a buzzing swarm it takes mere seconds for them to wake up and depart the scene.