The Sun and the Mail are angry about the latest developments in MP's expenses,the former calling it The Great Claim robbery

SHAMELESS MPs yesterday launched a High Court bid to keep their expenses secret — and the fight will cost taxpayers a fortune.
The last-ditch legal stand follows a three-year battle to force the release of claims made by 14 leading MPs, including Gordon Brown and David Cameron.
The Commons has already blown more than £50,000 of taxpayers’ cash trying to fend off freedom of information campaigners. The High Court action will cost at least £100,000

Shameless says the Mail

Commons Speaker Michael Martin will spend another £100,000 or more on a High Court attempt to block publication of their second homes allowance.
To the astonishment of many at Westminster, he announced he would challenge an order by a Freedom of Information tribunal that 14 prominent current or former MPs should provide a detailed breakdown of their expenses.

Claim excuse says the Mirror

Campaigner Heather Brooke, who has fought for details of MP perks, hit out at the "shocking waste of taxpayers' money" on further legal bills.
Ms Brooke said: "They've had 28 days to do this, so why the last-minute theatrical farce? The people keeping things secret are subsidised by the taxpayer."

The government or rather Gordon Brown is under fire over the Embryo bill as well,the same paper asks

Is that what you call a free vote? Brown's embryo compromise attacked by rebels and scientists alike

the partial climbdown, designed to head off possible Cabinet resignations and mounting attacks from religious leaders, was condemned for not going far enough by Labour rebels.
Scientists, by contrast, accused the Prime Minister of caving in to pressure from the Catholic Church.

The Times reporting that

Faced with increasing attacks from Catholic bishops, threats of resignation from several ministers and taunts from David Cameron, he announced that ministers and backbenchers could vote against the three most controversial measures.

The Independent puts the issue on its front page

A clump of cells? Or a living being with a soul?strong>

Is a bunch of cells just that: a bunch of cells, as scientists would have it, or is it, as the Catholic Church insists, a human being with a soul?
It is the dispute that lies at the heart of the controversy over the Embryo Bill and it is as fundamental a difference of opinion as it is possible to imagine.

There is much coverage of the impending visit of Nicholas Sarkozy,the Times leads with

Sarkozy threatens boycott of Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony

Mr Sarkozy’s hint of a boycott, delivered on the eve of his state visit to Britain today, threatened to open a rift with Gordon Brown. It contradicts the position of British ministers, who have repeatedly rejected calls for a boycott of the opening ceremony

Brown, Windsor and soccer for Sarkozy visit says the Guardian

Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy are in danger of being overshadowed at tomorrow's Anglo-French summit by a global leader who oversees a transnational empire built on British money and French talent: Arsène Wenger.
The Arsenal manager's symbolic role as the living embodiment of the entente cordiale will be cemented when he formally welcomes the two leaders at the gates of the Emirates stadium to mark the start of the summit. Such is football's cultural dominance at this summit that Arsenal is not just being held up as a glowing example of cross-Channel cooperation; it will also emerge from the event as a model for global development. After Wenger bestows his blessing on the Brown-Sarkozy union with a 10-minute pre-summit chat, the three men will walk onto the pitch, where children from Arsenal's Double Club will demonstrate how they learn French and football

The Tabloids concentrate on another aspect,the Sun reporting

FRANCE’S sexy new First Lady was “spitting blood” with anger yesterday – after this photo of her STARKERS was released just hours before her state visit to Britain.
Former supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was furious that the racy print was showcased by auctioneers Christie’s ahead of a forthcoming sale.
The picture, taken 15 years ago, shows Italian-born Carla totally naked, with only her crossed hands covering her modesty.

The Telegraph leads with the news that

Pregnant women 'must not drink any alcohol'

The Government's health watchdog has altered its previous guidance that small amounts of alcohol are safe during pregnancy in response to growing fears about Britain's drinking culture.The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) previously said mothers-to-be could drink 1.5 units of alcohol a day, equivalent to a small glass of wine, after the first three months when the risk of miscarriage is highest.
But now, even though no new evidence has been published on the dangers of alcohol to babies, Nice is telling pregnant women to abstain altogether, especially during the first three months

Alcohol is also on the front of the Express which reports that

Police to B-Test yobs on the street

DRUNKEN teenagers face being breathalysed on street corners in the most radical police clampdown yet on Britain’s binge-drinking yob culture.
If they fail the breath test they will be marched home by officers and their parents will be quizzed.
The move follows concerns by police forces, youth workers and MPs that teenagers are routinely getting drunk on cheap alcohol and harassing or attacking people, while their parents do not appear to care where they are or what they are doing.

There is much coverage of the fighting in Basra

Iraqis fight Mahdi army as British troops remain at base reports the Guardian

Iraqi security forces battled with Shia militia in Basra yesterday in an intense conflict widely seen as a critical test of the Baghdad government's ability to control its own country.
The battle for Iraq's second city could have huge repercussions for the continuing US occupation and the legacy left by five years of British military involvement in the south.

The Independent describes

Clouds of dark smoke rose over Basra 340 miles south of Baghdad as Iraqi soldiers tried to take control of the main roads while black-clad militiamen fought back from the alleyways. "There are clashes in the streets," said Jamil, a resident of the city. "Bullets are coming from everywhere and we can hear the sound of rocket explosions."

Global warming as many of the papers report

Vast iceberg breaks off Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctic,the Times reports that

Satellite images have revealed that about 160 square miles of the Wilkins Shelf have been lost since the end of February, suggesting that climate change could be causing it to disintegrate much more quickly than scientists had predicted. “The ice shelf is hanging by a thread,” said David Vaughan, of the British Antarctic Survey(BAS). “We’ll know in the next few days or weeks what its fate will be.”

The Guardian reports on its front page that

Nuclear is UK's new North Sea oil - minister

A government minister will call today for a huge expansion of Britain's nuclear power in what he predicts could be a £20bn economic bonanza that will create 100,000 new jobs and benefit the economy as much as North Sea oil.
In an ambitious speech that will alarm the anti-nuclear lobby, John Hutton, the business secretary, will argue that the UK's nuclear programme should go beyond replacing the existing stock of 23 reactors, which provide 20% of the country's energy. Instead nuclear should contribute "a significantly higher proportion" of the nation's energy needs in the years ahead, and Britain should aim to become a world leader in the development of nuclear power technology

The Independent reports that

Brown launches Labour's local election campaign on safe ground

Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman walked across a playing field, flanked by a policeman on one side and a policewoman with a bicycle on the other. "It looks like he is under arrest," quipped one onlooker.....He was there to launch Labour's campaign for what the party admits will be "a difficult set" of local authority elections in England and Wales on 1 May – Mr Brown's first as party leader. But yesterday he was on safe territory: Stevenage is one of only two Labour-run councils in the South-east outside London and the party has such a big majority it is unlikely to lose power

The Telegraph reveals

Gordon Brown to tell US to re-engage in world

In a landmark speech next month which will be given on his second official visit to the United States as Prime Minister, Mr Brown will also appeal to the American people saying the US has always provided inspirational leadership at crucial times in world history and this is a point in history when it is needed again

The Guardian tells us that

Indian firm buys Jaguar and Land Rover

Thousands of workers at Jaguar and Land Rover plants are expected to be told today that the marques have been sold to the Indian conglomerate Tata.
It is understood that a deal between Tata and Ford over the sale of two of the best known names in British car making was concluded last night after months of painstaking negotiations.
Ford refused to confirm a deal had been signed last night, saying any significant development had to be communicated to employees first. However, formal confirmation that the two sides have reached agreement is expected via simultaneous announcements in India, Britain and the US at around noon GMT today.

Many of the papers report on the latest problems for Hillary Clinton

Clinton goes on the offensive to spare blushes over sniper says the Times

Hillary Clinton yesterday waded for the first time into the bitter controversy about Barack Obama's pastor, even as she tried to cover her own embarrassment at being caught exaggerating the risks of her trip to Bosnia in 1996

The Guardian explaining

Hillary Clinton has had to admit that she exaggerated her claim of coming under sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia in the 1990s, after video footage showed the then first lady walking calmly from her plane.
The Clinton campaign played down the episode as a "misstatement" and a "minor blip". But it was seized on by supporters of her rival for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama, as further evidence of Clinton inflating her foreign policy experience during her time in the White House.

The Mirror leads with the news that

Kerry Katona rushed to hospital with suspected pre-eclampsia

Troubled mum-to-be Kerry Katona was rushed to hospital yesterday amid fears she has a fatal illness.
Doctors think Kerry, 27, may have developed pre-eclampsia - which kills 10 mothers and 1,000 babies in Britain each year.
Its cause is unknown but it leads to soaring blood pressure, agonising swollen limbs and kidney and liver failure.

Did 'suicide' police chief have FIVE affairs within force alone?strong> asks the Mail

Claims that the chief constable found dead two weeks ago had affairs with at least five members of his staff are to be examined by the inquiry into the death.If confirmed, it would mean Michael Todd may have had intimate relationships with up to a dozen women in the past five years

The Express reports

An inquest into the death of a six-year-old boy hurled 50ft off a Greek hotel balcony by his father is due to begin.
Liam Hogan, from Bristol, died of severe head injuries after plunging four floors from the Petra Mare Hotel, in Crete, with his father, John, and sister, Mia, then two.
John Hogan, 33, has been receiving treatment at a psychiatric hospital near Athens since a court cleared him of murder, ruling he was suffering an "earthquake" of psychosis when he took Liam's life.

The Sun reports that

TEACHERS were blasted as unpatriotic last night after demanding the Army is banned from schools.
The NUT union voted to end promotional visits by Our Boys, claiming they brainwashed kids with “misleading propaganda”.
Last night shadow defence secretary Dr Liam Fox described it as “a kick in the teeth” for frontline soldiers. He raged: “They should concentrate on improving standards of education instead.”

Finally the Independent explains

Why we’re all losing our cool

a study published this week by the Mental Health Foundation, called Boiling Point, warns that one in three of us has a friend or relative who can't control their temper, and that one in four of us is battling with an anger prob-lem. Anger is seen as the root cause of much criminal behaviour, and also of mental and physical health problems and family breakdown