The Guardian this morning leads with the news that

True scale of C02 emissions from shipping revealed

The true scale of climate change emissions from shipping is almost three times higher than previously believed, according to a leaked UN study seen by the Guardian.
It calculates that annual emissions from the world's merchant fleet have already reached 1.12bn tonnes of CO², or nearly 4.5% of all global emissions of the main greenhouse gas.
The report suggests that shipping emissions - which are not taken into account by European targets for cutting global warming - will become one of the largest single sources of manmade CO² after cars, housing, agriculture and industry. By comparison, the aviation industry, which has been under heavy pressure to clean up, is responsible for about 650m tonnes of CO² emissions a year, just over half that from shipping.

The Independent reports meanwhile that

Insect explosion 'a threat to food crops'

Food crops could be ravaged this century by an explosion in the numbers of insect pests caused by rising global temperatures, according to scientists who have carried out an exhaustive survey of plant damage when the earth last experienced major climate change.
Researchers found that the numbers of leaf-eating insects are likely to surge as a result of rising levels of CO2, at a time when crop production will have to be boosted to feed an extra three billion people living at the end of 21st century.

As Britain basks in sunshine, why heatwaves and malaria 'could kill thousands within five years' says the Mail

Every child in school numbered for life says the Times

All 14-year-old children in England will have their personal details and exam results placed on an electronic database for life under a plan to be announced tomorrow.
Colleges and prospective employers will be able to access students’ records online to check on their qualifications. Under the terms of the scheme all children will keep their individual number throughout their adult lives, The Times has learnt. The database will include details of exclusions and expulsions.

Privacy concerns over student database says the Guardian

The National Union of Students warned last night that the record could lead to a full-blown ID card while lecturer unions expressed concerns about records of students' behavioural issues which could count against them later in life.

The Telegraph continues to lead with the sharia row

Anxiety of Queen over sharia law controversy says the paper

The Queen is distressed by the row over Islamic law which she fears threatens to undermine the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury and damage the Church of England.as Supreme Governor of the Church of England she has been dismayed by the controversy that the remarks have generated at such a difficult period in the history of the Established Church, which faces possible schism over the issue of homosexual clergy.

Crime is the concern of the Mail on its front page

Victims of binge Britain: Teenager and Samaritan killed in drunken attacks

The deadly culture of binge-drinking and teenage violence has claimed the life of yet another innocent victim.
Joe Dinsdale, 17, was stabbed to death on an estate plagued by drunken youths.
The popular teenager was attacked just 24 hours after law graduate David Burns was punched to the ground and left fighting for his life when he confronted teenagers causing trouble.
On the same day, Good Samaritan Nick Baty, 48, died after a month in a coma.
He had been attacked as he tried to help an injured youth he saw lying in a car park

The Independent exposes

The long, cruel road to the slaughterhouse

Millions of animals are suffering unnecessarily at the hands of meat traders by enduring cruel, drawn-out journeys across the world to be slaughtered on arrival.
The alarming evidence of their suffering has been revealed after a secret investigation by 10 major animal charities, including the RSCPA, Compassion in World Farming and the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). In shocking footage, animals including horses, pigs, sheep and chickens are seen being transported thousands of miles across the world, when they could as easily be carried as meat


Most of the papers report that

Darling retreats on non-dom tax plans, the Telegraph says

Following opposition from business leaders, City banks and Government advisers, the Chancellor has dropped many of his planned financial disclosure rules.
These had led many of the 116,000 "non-doms" who would have been affected to threaten to leave the UK, which economists warned could have cost the Treasury up to £2 billion.

Brown gets the X Factor says the Guardian

The defining theme of Gordon Brown's domestic policy for the year ahead owes at least some of its inspiration not to the works of John Stuart Mill or Adam Smith, regularly quoted by the prime minister, but to an altogether less likely intellectual influence: the TV talent shows of Saturday night.
Insiders have known for a while that the PM is a fan of hit programmes The
X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing, settling down on the sofa with wife Sarah and his two sons for a weekly fix. What had not been fully appreciated until now were the policy implications of the prime ministerial habit.

Greater powers for official ‘snoopers’ reports the Times

More than a dozen Bills going through Parliament extend the powers of state inspectors to enter people’s homes, the Government has admitted.
Despite a pledge by Gordon Brown last October that he would limit powers and introduce a liberty test, he has extended the right to enter property in planning, crime, environmental, education and health legislation.

Miliband 'concerned' by Guantanamo trial reports the Independent

David Miliband has admitted that Britain has "some concerns" about the move by the United States military to bring charges against six men suspected of orchestrating the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
The Foreign Secretary echoed the concerns of human rights groups who are worried that the six, who could face the death penalty, will not get a fair trial from the military tribunal and claim they were tortured at Guantanamo Bay.


The McCartney's once again dominate the red tops

We can work it out says the Mirror's front page

Heather Mills remained determined not to be gagged last night as she edged towards a divorce deal with Sir Paul McCartney.
The 40-year-old former model is set on having the freedom to put her side of the story if she comes under attack once the couple's marriage split is finalised.


The Sun reports that

WARRING Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills were edging closer to a divorce deal last night as smiles replaced scowls.
Both emerged grinning from Day Two of their dramatic High Court battle. And a source close to the case said: "They have effectively played the pipes of peace and broken the deadlock."
Pals reckoned they were confident an agreement would be reached before the end of the week. One said: "Both sides want a deal as soon as possible."

The sports pages are dominated by the news that

UK selectors cave in to Dwain Chambers

The tough talk about a new stance in the war against the drug cheats came to nothing yesterday when UK Athletics bowed to the threat of legal action and picked Dwain Chambers for next month's World Indoor Championships in Valencia reports the Telegraph

So, drug cheats DO win as athletics bosses are too scared to drop Chambers says the Mail

Dwain Chambers sparked outrage in British athletics on Tuesday after he was selected to run at next month's World Indoor Championships.
Double Olympic champions Dame Kelly Holmes and Lord Coe both spoke out against the self-confessed drugs cheat, while Chambers' young sprint rival Craig Pickering insisted the former European 100metre champion would not be welcome in the British team for Valencia. 'I don't think it puts us in a good light as a country allowing a cheat, who has admitted he is a cheat, to represent us,' said Dame Kelly

Australia's stolen generation reports the Independent

It has been a long time coming, but at last Australia has said the word its Aboriginal population wanted to hear. It was uttered three times, early this morning, when the new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, addressed the Australian Parliament. That word was "sorry".

According to the Mirror

Queen had MI5 sweep Buckingham Palace for bugs

Security personnel checked for devices to reassure the royals no one was listening in on them.
Details of the palace sweeps emerged from Diana's brother-in-law, Lord Fellowes. He was the Queen's private secretary at the time of the princess's death.
He said: "The room in which business was conducted by the Queen and her private secretary was swept.


The Guardian reports that

Putin issues nuclear threat to Ukraine over plan to host US shield

President Vladimir Putin threatened to point Russia's nuclear weapons at Ukraine yesterday if Kiev agreed to host the controversial US missile defence shield.
Moscow would regrettably be forced to redirect its missiles at its post-Soviet neighbour, he said, if Ukraine went ahead with its plan to join Nato and allowed US infrastructure on its territory.
Speaking after talks in Moscow with Ukraine's president, Viktor Yushshenko, Putin said the real target of the Bush administration's shield in central Europe was Russia - not a rogue missile fired by Iran or North Korea.

One in five children growing up on benefits says the Telegraph

In areas of Manchester, Liverpool, London and Glasgow almost half of children are growing up in entirely benefit-funded homes.Government research reveals that such children are far more likely to become benefit-dependent adults, sparking fears that a generation of unemployable youngsters is being created. adding that

The new figures, deposited in the Commons library as MPs left for the half-term holiday, will embarrass Gordon Brown because Labour has made eliminating child poverty a key manifesto pledge

House prices set to fall by 7% in next two years reports the Times

The threat of a sustained downturn in the housing market grew yesterday after a leading investment bank forecast that property prices would fall for the next two years.
Goldman Sachs said it expected house prices to fall by 5 per cent this year and a further 2 per cent in 2009. The bank had originally predicted a decline of 3 per cent in 2008 and no further change the year after, but became more pessimistic after economic warning signs.

More gloom in the Express which reports on how

FUEL COST HAS SOARED BY 20% IN A YEAR

FUEL prices have been rising at their fastest rate for a decade, it was revealed yesterday.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show petrol and diesel costs leaping by almost a fifth in the past year.
The increase is the biggest since the current method of keeping records began in 1997.
To add to motorists’ misery, other costs of keeping a vehicle on the road have also risen steeply.

The lead in the paper has a familiar ring

OVER 860 MIGRANTS FLOOD IN EVERY DAY

The figure will add to fears that the country’s public services are being placed under an impossible strain as 316,000 people flock here each year – the majority from outside the EU.
But that total only includes legal immigrants. It takes no account of the number coming here illegally. The influx means that an additional 2.3 million immigrants have officially moved to Britain since Labour took power – more than the entire population of West Yorkshire. During the same period, 715,000 Britons have left.

Many of the papers report on the

Boyfriend takes jilted ex to court after she bombards him with 10,000 texts,the Mail reporting that

When Timothy Mortimore broke up with his girlfriend, he expected to have nothing more to do with her.
Lee Amor had other ideas.
She used her mobile phone to contact him more than 10,000 times in 65 days – the equivalent of once every eight minutes.

Finally the Sun reports

STUNNED passers-by thought they had spotted Sir Paul McCartney yesterday – outside the divorce court begging for Help!
The former Beatle certainly knows Money Can’t Buy Me Love, but it sure can help in a divorce battle.In fact the man clutching a collecting tin hoping to get by with a little help from his friends was lookalike Aaron Aardvark, 54.
The Sun took him to London’s Royal Courts of Justice to gauge public sympathy.