Pictures of the state visit of the French president dominate the front pages but the papers themselves choose a variety of lead stories.

Both the Times and the Telegraph lead with a clampdown on computer games

Computer games to get cigarette-style health warnings says the Times

Video games will be forced to carry cigarette-style health warnings under proposals to protect children from unsuitable digital material.
The report, commissioned by the Prime Minister in response to a growing moral panic about video games, will conclude that they can harm the development of children’s beliefs and value systems and desensitise them to violence. It will also recommend that retailers who sell video games to anyone under the age rating on the box should face a hefty fine or up to five years in prison, The Times has learnt

The Telegraph says

Computers should also be kept in communal areas of the home such as the living room rather than youngsters' bedrooms so that parents can monitor what they are viewing, says Dr Tanya Byron, a television psychologist.Her proposals for a strict and legally-binding classification system for video games, similar to that used for films, form the centrepiece of a 224-page report to help parents prevent their children buying and watching unsuitable material in the home.

Child Baiting is the headline on the front of the Mirror

A man cheers as he orders two boys to beat the hell out of each other... but how could anyone get their kicks like this?Detectives last night vowed to nail the YouTube sicko who whipped two children into a violent frenzy to film these vile scenes.
In one of the most horrifying parts of the footage, the boy in the blue T-shirt bawls and curls up in fright as the other pummels him to the floor and brutally stamps on his head.

The Mail reports that

Toddler cough medicine 'banned': 100 remedies taken off the shelves amid safety fears

Cough and cold remedies for children under two are to be pulled from the shelves immediately amid safety fears.
At least 100 products will be put under the counter as parents are warned about the danger of giving toddlers potentially fatal overdoses.
The dramatic move means popular medicines will effectively be banned for any youngster under the age of two and parents of all children up to six will have to ask for them.

Meanwhile the Express leads with

SCANDAL OF TOXIC FUMES IN ALL JETS

THOUSANDS of plane passengers and cabin crew staff are being put at risk from toxic fumes pumped into aircraft, it was claimed today.
The contaminated air can cause breathing problems, nausea and fatigue while long-term exposure may even lead to brain damage, a new report says.

To the French visit and the Sun leads with

The Gaul scorers

FRANCE scored twice last night as its football team beat England 1-0 and President Nicolas Sarkozy cuddled up with wife Carla in a Windsor Castle bed.The soccer match was a huge let-down for David Beckham as he made his 100th appearance in a Three Lions shirt.
But Mr Sarkozy and sexy former supermodel Carla had a far more enjoyable time as they side-stepped royal protocol

President pays tribute to Britain and calls for 'brotherhood' says the Guardian

Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday declared the birth of an Anglo-French axis as a force for progress in Europe and the world, on issues ranging from climate change and nuclear power to UN reform and the war in Afghanistan.Addressing both houses of parliament, President Sarkozy delivered perhaps the warmest homage to Britain delivered by any postwar French leader. Differences over the European Union and past rivalries, he said, could be overcome

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The Times reports

On behalf of the people of France, France will never forget,” he said. “France will never forget that when it was virtually wiped out, down on its knees, it was Britain who stood by us. France will never forget the heroic resistance of the British people without which all would have been lost.” While he said that Britain was seen in many countries as a “political and human ideal”, it was with France that it had the “tightest, closest ties”.

Sarkozy's salute to 'the British, our saviours' says the Mail

The Independent leads with the fighting in Iraq

A new civil war is threatening to explode in Iraq as American-backed Iraqi government forces fight Shia militiamen for control of Basra and parts of Baghdad.
Heavy fighting engulfed Iraq's two largest cities and spread to other towns yesterday as the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, gave fighters of the Mehdi Army, led by the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, 72 hours to surrender their weapons

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Moqtada al-Sadr orders Iraq PM out of Basra says the Telegraph

The Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has demanded that the country's prime minister leave Basra where he is overseeing a military operation to purge the southern city of its radical Shi'ite militiamen.

Meanwhile the Times reports

President Bush gave warning yesterday that Iraq’s “fragile situation” required the US to maintain a strong military presence there, even as he defended the withdrawal of British troops from Basra, the scene of heavy fighting in recent days.
In an interview with The Times, he backed the Iraqi Government’s decision to “respond forcefully” to the spiralling violence by “criminal elements” and Shia extremists in Basra. “It was a very positive moment in the development of a sovereign nation that is willing to take on elements that believe they are beyond the law,” the President said.

'Inhumane and oppressive': the final verdict on Britain's asylum policy says the Independent

The most comprehensive examination of the UK's asylum system ever conducted has found it "marred by inhumanity" and "not yet fit for purpose".
The report, published by the Independent Asylum Commission, is a damning indictment of the Home Office's failure to deal fairly with those applying for sanctuary in this country.
The commission found that Britain's treatment of asylum-seekers "falls seriously below the standards to be expected of a humane and civilised society". Its interim report will be delivered to the Home Office today by a delegation of asylum-seekers.

The Telegraph reports that

Schools must take in badly behaved pupils

They will be expected to admit a problem pupil for every child they expel as part of a "one out, one in" rule applying to almost every school in England.The move was designed to stop a minority of top-performing schools excluding the most unruly pupils to boost their position on examination league tables.
Ministers also proposed a new generation of "studio schools" in which barred pupils could learn a trade such as carpentry and plumbing. There would also be more help for parents struggling to control their children.

MoD should ditch key arms projects, say MPs reports the Guardian

Pressures on the defence budget are so great that ministers should consider sacrificing one of its most prestigious projects - the £4bn replacement of two aircraft carriers - rather than simply delaying or cutting back planned new weapons systems, a powerful scrutiny committee will say today.
In a report critical of how the government procures new weapons, the cross-party Commons defence committee will challenge it to explain "what roles the two future carriers will perform ... and what capabilities these ships will give us that could not be provided in other ways".

'Blair Force One' plan is grounded by Brown reports the Independent

Gordon Brown grounded for good his predecessor's plans to lease a wide-bodied jet to fly the prime minister, senior ministers and members of the Royal Family on international missions. The Department for Transport (DfT) said the proposal to acquire a full-sized airliner to convey Mr Brown and his entourage was too expensive and should be ditched. It also said the Royal Flight, provided by the RAF 32 Squadron, would be scrapped

Most of the papers report

New witness Sarah Davidson: John Hogan hurled his two kids off balcony,the Mirror says

A woman wept yesterday as she told an inquest how she saw John Hogan push his two kids from a balcony before jumping off himself.
Evidence given by Sarah Davidson, 38, and two other witnesses directly contradicts the claims made by the dad-of two at his trial in Greece which saw him cleared of murder

The Mail reports that

'Unacceptable' errors meant City watchdog was 'asleep on the job' allowing collapse of Northern Rock

The financial watchdog yesterday admitted a catalogue of mistakes in the run-up to the collapse of Northern Rock last year.
The Financial Services Authority's own internal review listed basic errors by both junior and senior staff.
As a result, the FSA failed to stop Northern Rock becoming Britain's most devastating casualty of the credit crunch.

According to the Telegraph

Catholics could join the royal succession

Gordon Brown is to consider abolishing the Act that prevents Roman Catholics marrying into the Royal Family or becoming king or queen, in a move that could lead to the disestablishment of the Church of England.The Government signalled that it would look at abolishing the 307-year-old Act of Settlement because it is "antiquated" and discriminates against a section of society

Many of the papers report on the sex change man who is pregnant

A BLOKE with a beard sent shockwaves round the world yesterday when he announced: “I’m PREGNANT.”
Thomas Beatie, 34, released this astonishing photo showing his swollen belly — and said it felt “incredible” to be a pregnant man.He revealed he is due to give birth on July 3.

says the Sun

The Guardian reports that

Marriages fall to 110-year low as more couples shun wedlock

Provisional figures released yesterday for 2006 showed there were 236,980 marriages, a further 4% decline, the Office for National Statistics said. The Conservatives blamed the decline on the government's social and fiscal policies. The shadow home secretary, David Davis, said: "This is a sad indictment of policies which have penalised families and fuelled family breakdown. Stable families are the best formula for bringing up children and preventing delinquency, antisocial behaviour and crime, so a failed family policy is itself a major cause of crime."

Finally the exploits of Chris Evans get much attention,the Sun reporting

MOTORMOUTH DJ CHRIS EVANS has told how he took magic mushrooms — and thought he was riding on a giant CRAB.
The boozy Radio 2 presenter bragged on his BBC blog about using the Class A drug — and yesterday police said they could investigate.
Party-loving Evans, 41, experienced the bizarre “trip” during a gig at London’s Albert Hall.
Recalling how he shot live footage on his phone, he said: “It was a Meat Loaf concert, two days before which I’d had rather more magic mushrooms than maybe I should have.