The Times leads this morning with the news that you can get

McDonald’s A level in running a burger bar

McDonald’s and other big businesses will award their own qualifications equal to GCSEs, A levels and degrees, in subjects such as fast-food restaurant management, the Government will announce today.
Network Rail, Flybe and McDonald’s will become the first companies to be given such powers by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA). Gordon Brown will announce the move today as he seeks to regain the initiative over the issue of the unskilled unemployed from the Conservatives.
“The biggest barrier to full employment now is not the shortage of jobs, but the shortage of skills among the unemployed and inactive,” he will say.

Brown to use private sector in back to work schemes reports the Independent

Gordon Brown will assert his Blairite credentials on welfare today by pledging to open up back-to-work schemes to the private sector and charities.
The Prime Minister is to signal his determination to use businesses and volunteers alongside state agencies as part of a "carrot and stick" approach to tackling unemployment.
To stop benefits becoming a way of life, would-be claimants will be forced to have a skills test, and then either matched with a job suited to their abilities or offered retraining.

5.5m unskilled workers could lose jobs
Learn a skill or face dole warns PM says the Mirror

Millions of unskilled workers could find themselves out of a job in the next 10 years unless they get more training, Gordon Brown warned yesterday.
The Prime Minister said 5.5million jobs would be at risk as bosses looked abroad for cheaper labour.
Only if British workers got training in computers, high-tech industries or skilled trades would they remain employed, Mr Brown told The Politics Show on BBC.


More education on the front of the Telegraph

Children of nine may get sex advice packs claims the paper

Parents could be sent sex advice packs when their children reach the age of nine, under a controversial new drive to cut teenage pregnancies being considered by the Government.The proposal is one of a number of measures outlined on Monday in a report by Chris Bryant, a Labour MP and aide to Harriet Harman, Labour's Deputy Leader.
Another suggestion is to make lessons about sex and relationships compulsory in schools.

The Guardian reports on its front page on the

First 10 high court judges under new diversity rules

The government's attempt to reform the system for choosing judges to create a more diverse judiciary is failing to break the stranglehold of privately-educated white males over the high court bench.
Although the new rules were designed to promote more women and ethnic minority candidates, all the judges appointed since they were introduced have been white male barristers and most were educated at independent schools.

The Telegraph reports that

Migrant arrests seen to strain police resources

Police forces are at "bursting point", it has been claimed, after figures showed that the number of foreigners being arrested has more than doubled in some areas.One chief constable said his force had been "underfunded for years" in its battle to cope with a growing population. Senior officers want Gordon Brown to provide more funding to deal with the influx of migrants.

The Express leads with the same story

MIGRANTS SEND OUR CRIME RATE SOARING

Mike Fuller, Chief Constable of Kent, says his force is being stretched to the limit by the huge numbers flocking into the UK.
He blames these “migration surges” for a 35 per cent rise in violent crime in his county. His worries are voiced in a letter to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith which was leaked at the weekend.

Most of the papers report on Alan Johnson's donatio problems revealed yesterday

Proxy donation drags Health Secretary into Labour funding row says the Times

Mr Johnson vigorously denied any wrongdoing. The donation had been properly investigated and declared, he said. His campaign admitted that it had taken another donation from an impermissible donor and had failed to“ register a third cash gift with the MPs’ register of interests for six months.
Although one minister and Johnson supporter admitted to “some confusions” in the campaign, the Health Secretary’s spokesman denied that it had been sloppy. The impermissible dona-member of the Labour Party, and he is a member of the Labour Party.”

Cash gift through brother-in-law was innocent mistake says Johnson donor reports the Guardian

Ahmed Yar Mohammed, treasurer of Croydon Central Labour party, denied trying to disguise the source of the donation and claimed he had been travelling abroad, so had asked his relative to provide money for the minister's campaign to become deputy party leader.


The Mail leads with the story of the

Jab to beat superbugs

A vaccine to help stamp out the deadly C diff superbug has been developed by British scientists and could be available within three years.
The jab would save thousands of lives a year in the UK alone.
It could be used both to treat severely-ill patients and mass-vaccinate pensioners, who are most at risk of the killer bacterium.
Tests on more than 200 patients suggest that the jab is safe, causing few side-effects other than the occasional red arm or headache.

There is much to report on the latest victory for Barack Obama

Jubilant Obama wins Kennedys' endorsement reports the Independent

Barack Obama took his re-energised campaign for the Democratic nomination across the Deep South yesterday after crushing Hillary Clinton in a racially polarised primary in South Carolina.
Adding to the renewed momentum was an emotional endorsement from the daughter of John F Kennedy, a president whose memory is revered across political lines, who said Mr Obama could inspire Americans in the same way her father once had.

The Guardian reporting that

The great American melodrama of 2008 has already been a saga of improbable twists and shocking turns, each prediction defied. At its centre has been the man who describes his candidacy as "an unlikely journey" - and in South Carolina he sprang one more surprise. Barack Obama won a walloping victory that ensures he heads towards next week's Super Tuesday primary battles in 22 states as a genuine contender and with momentum on his side.

The Sun takes a sideways look revealing

WEST Ham may soon have a fan in the West Wing — White House contender Barack Obama.
US Presidential hopeful Mr Obama, 46, has been following the Hammers ever since a visit to Britain five years ago.
And he keeps in touch with the fortunes of his team through his relatives in England — who are all Hammers fanatics.


The Telegraph reports that

Dozens die as broadcasts stoke Kenya tension

A new wave of bloodshed in Kenya's Rift Valley has killed at least 70 people and triggered a fresh exodus of terrified people fleeing their homes.The fighting again pitted the Luo and Kalenjin tribes backing opposition leader Raila Odinga against President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu supporters.
For the first time on Sunday, the Kikuyus appeared to be orchestrating the violence in what many fear were the first revenge raids for a month of attacks against them by rival tribes

Suharto revered as 'father of nation' and reviled as a 'perfect criminal'says the Times

Indonesia’s former President Suharto, the Cold War military dictator who turned his country into one of the most corrupt, cowed, but stable nations in Asia, died in Jakarta yesterday, provoking a divisive debate about his 32 years of authoritarian rule.
After collapsing three weeks ago and repeatedly fighting back from the edge of death, Suharto, 86, succumbed to multiple organ failure in hospital. The Government declared a week of national mourning and ordered flags to be flown at half mast as arrangements were made for a funeral today at the family mausoleum in the city of Solo.

The Independent turns its attention to Iraq on its front page as Patrick Cockburn

Returns to Fallujah

Fallujah is more difficult to enter than any city in the world. On the road from Baghdad I counted 27 checkpoints, all manned by well-armed soldiers and police. "The siege is total," says Dr Kamal in Fallujah Hospital as he grimly lists his needs, which include everything from drugs and oxygen to electricity and clean water.
The last time I tried to drive to Fallujah, several years ago, I was caught in the ambush of an American fuel convoy and had to crawl out of the car and lie beside the road with the driver while US soldiers and guerrillas exchanged gunfire. The road is now much safer but nobody is allowed to enter Fallujah who does not come from there and can prove it through elaborate identity documents. The city has been sealed off since November 2004 when United States Marines stormed it in an attack that left much of the city in ruins.

The Mail reports that

Rogue trader in £3.6bn fraud threatens to 'name names' as bank admits he may have had a gang

Executives at Societe Generale had originally insisted that 31-year-old Jerome Kerviel acted alone.
They compared him to a "lone arsonist who burnt down a big factory".
But yesterday they conceded that he was unlikely to have carried out his deception without accomplices.
And in interviews with detectives, Kerviel was said to be "naming names" and refusing to be a scapegoat.


Back to politics and the Telegraph reports

Voters pin financial hopes on David Cameron

Millions of voters fear the economic slowdown will leave them worse off and trust David Cameron to protect their household finances more than Gordon Brown.The exclusive YouGov survey, conducted for The Daily Telegraph, discloses the extent of voters' worries about their own finances, showing that millions fear they will struggle to meet increasingly burdensome financial commitments.

UK rate cut vital to avoid slump says the Guardian

The British economy risks following the US into a slowdown unless interest rates are cut sharply in the next few months, one of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee members warns today. In an interview with the Guardian, Professor David Blanchflower said the Bank needed to learn from the US federal reserve and take pre-emptive action to prevent growth from stalling.
Blanchflower, who was the sole dissenter calling for another interest rate cut this month while his colleagues voted to leave rates steady at 5.5%, said: "Worrying about inflation at this time seems like fiddling while Rome burns."

Both the Suna nd the Mirror continue to investigate Ashley Cole's love life,the Mirror reporting

Cheryl Cole yesterday came under mounting pressure from family and friends to dump her wayward husband Ashley Cole.
She has cautiously agreed to stand by the England and Chelsea star after it emerged he spent a boozy night with hairdresser Aimee Walton, 22, who claims they had sex. But one family member told the Mirror: "If all of this turns out to be true, where does that leave Cheryl? Married to a man who cannot be trusted.

If your pregnant we will fix it says the Sun

PANICKING Ashley Cole was reduced to a quivering wreck when blonde Aimee Walton revealed she might be pregnant with his child.
The £90,000-a-week Chelsea and England ace said: “S**t! I’m shaking. I’m sorry.”
Cheating Cole, 27, has told his loyal pop star wife Cheryl that he cannot remember having sex with hairdresser Aimee, 22.
But The Sun’s evidence destroys those claims – and reveals the lengths Cole was prepared to go to in order to hide his sordid secret.

According to the Telegraph

Prince Charles' Olympic-sized snub to China

The Prince made his decision known to campaigners for a free Tibet, who had been calling on him to show solidarity with those who believe the Games risk obscuring China's human rights record.He gave no reason for his decision, and neither did he say whether he had received a formal invitation.
But recently he has been wooed by the Chinese, and particularly their new ambassador in London, who had made it her personal mission to encourage him to go

The Mail reports

Millionaire couple killed as helicopter crashes at five-star golfing hotel

A millionaire couple died when their helicopter crashed in gusty conditions moments after taking off in the grounds of a top hotel.
Paul and Linda Spencer, who ran a chain of craftware stores, died instantly when the privately-owned aircraft came down in woodland.
Mr Spencer, 43, had only just taken delivery of the Gazelle helicopter, and fellow pilots suggested the blustery conditions may have contributed to the crash.
The couple ran artificial flowers and decorations wholesaler Country Baskets and are thought to have been visiting their North Yorkshire holiday home when the aircraft came down on Saturday afternoon.

Student protest halts family's deportation reports the Guardian

A family of seven threatened with deportation has been reprieved after a campaign that began in a Devon classroom, spread around the world, and led to the government being bombarded with thousands of protest letters.
Last night more than 10,000 people had joined a Facebook group devoted to saving the family from being sent back to Nigeria, and the youngsters who launched the campaign from a sixth-form common room vowed to keep up the pressure.

The Times reports that

From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs - legally

After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs.
With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly embraced the file-sharing technology that threatened to destroy it. Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can download to keep, free and with no limit on the number of tracks.

Tribute to a forgotten 'girls' army says the Telegraph

For so long they have been the forgotten army of women who toiled the fields and forests through two world wars.Now the Land Girls and Lumber Jills who fed and warmed Britain when their men went off to fight are finally to be honoured.After a long campaign, the surviving members of the Women's Land Army and Women's Timber Corps, as they were officially known, are to receive a special badge recognising their efforts.

Finally the Mirror reports that

US spy satellite is crashing to earth

An out-of-control US spy satellite the size of a bus is expected to crash to Earth within weeks.

Us technicians say the satellite has lost all power and should plunge out of its orbit and re-enter our atmosphere at the end of February or the beginning of March.
It is not known where on the planet it will hit - or if it will burn up as it enters the atmosphere.
The satellite is feared to contain a significant amount of highly toxic rocket fuel. Experts say it could also contain extremely sensitive security information which America would not want falling into the wrong hands.