All the papers have different headlines this Saturday morning.

Themes from abroad dominate three of the qaulities,the Independent leads with

Our reign of terror, by the Israeli army

In shocking testimonies that reveal abductions, beatings and torture, Israeli soldiers confess the horror they have visited on Hebron

and continues

The dark-haired 22-year-old in black T-shirt, blue jeans and red Crocs is understandably hesitant as he sits at a picnic table in the incongruous setting of a beauty spot somewhere in Israel. We know his name and if we used it he would face a criminal investigation and a probable prison sentence.

The Guardian focuses on

Top Bush aides pushed for Guantánamo torture In an exclusive the paper reveals

America's most senior general was "hoodwinked" by top Bush administration officials determined to push through aggressive interrogation techniques of terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay, leading to the US military abandoning its age-old ban on the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners, the Guardian reveals today.

The Times meanwhile reports

Guantanamo Britons to sue MI5 over ‘illegal interrogation’

The three men from Tipton launched a lawsuit against the American authorities two years ago, alleging they were mistreated during their time in captivity. The US Court of Appeal dismissed their action earlier this year but they are appealing to the Supreme Court.

For the Times it is Zimbabwe which takes the lead

Eight days of fear in Mugabe's machine

He may be aged, isolated and facing economic ruin, but Robert Mugabe still clings to power thanks to a feared state security apparatus that continues to function across Zimbabwe.
As the 84-year-old leader marked nearly three decades in power yesterday with a defiant speech against Britain, the Africa correspondent of The Times recalled, just 48 hours after his release from jail, his experiences of Mr Mugabe’s ruthless regime

The Independent reports that

Mugabe uses Independence Day to warn 'British thieves' to leave his country alone

Zimbabwe commemorated 28 years of independence and continuous rule by President Robert Mugabe yesterday, but it was another anniversary that preoccupied most of the country's people.

adding

in his first major public appearance since the election, Mr Mugabe had only one scapegoat for all these troubles: Britain. "Down with the British," he told 15,000 cheering supporters at Gwanzura stadium in Highfield, a teeming opposition stronghold south of Harare's central business district. "Down with thieves who want to steal our country."

The Telegraph reports that Mugabe is

'mobilising command centres for national terror campaign'

These centres are responsible for keeping President Robert Mugabe in power through intimidation, violence and ballot-rigging. A senior army officer and a police chief described the president's re-election plan to The Daily Telegraph in Harare.

Brown calls for new dawn of collaboration for US and EU reports the Guardian

Europe and the US will face "terrifying risks" if they fail to join forces to fight global terrorism by combating poverty and disease, Gordon Brown warned yesterday in a speech on foreign policy in Boston.
The prime minister voiced the hope that a "new dawn of collaborative action" would be ushered in next year with the election of a new US president.
On the final leg of his three-day trip to the US, during which he met George Bush and the three presidential candidates, Brown said that American leadership would always be indispensable.

Meanwhile the Times reports that

A defiant Gordon Brown will fly back to Britain today determined to face down a gathering storm of protest over his abolition of the 10p tax rate.
The Prime Minister is privately furious at what he regards as misrepresentation of the effects of the tax change and the activities of a handful of malcontent backbenchers

Austerity Britian is the lead in the Telegraph

Families are having to cut back on groceries, eating out and holidays as the credit crisis starts to have a profound effect on household spending, research by The Daily Telegraph has shown.With the cost of living going up by £1,800 a year for the average home, the first evidence has emerged of how families are changing their spending habits to cope with the economic squeeze.

Mortgage meltdown as lending falls 17 per cent and experts warn worse is still to come reports the Mail

The Council of Mortgage Lenders said mortgages could become dangerously expensive unless the Bank of England takes action.
Figures published yesterday by the council show how mortgage lending has plunged over the last 12 months.

The Guardian reports that

£50bn move to unlock mortgage market

The Bank of England is preparing to unveil a plan to inject £50bn of funds into the financial system next week in an attempt to breathe life into the moribund mortgage market, it was reported last night.
The scheme, which the Bank of England has been working on for more than six weeks, follows pleas by mortgage lenders to help unfreeze money markets paralysed by the credit crunch.

'Hyenas' who kicked man to death jailed reports the Telegraph

Three young burglars have been given life sentences for kicking and stamping a father-of-three to death after he disturbed them as they broke into his house.
Mark Elliott, 21, Curtis Delima, 19, and Gerry Cusden, 16, attacked Mark Witherall outside his home in Whitstable, Kent, on Jan 27 last year.The attack was so savage that Judge Timothy Pontius, who presided over the nine-week trail at Maidstone crown court, likened the youths to "a pack of hyenas".

The Mail reports on the

Muslim convert, 19, held under Terror Act as police explode 'bomb factory'

a teenage terror suspect was being held last night after a massive controlled explosion was carried out at his home.
The explosion took place at 2am yesterday morning using a bomb disposal robot outside the property in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.
A second was due to be carried out late last night, which meant residents who had been evacuated earlier faced a second night away from home.

The paper leads with the story of a

Mother's heartbreak: How 30 blunders by hospital killed my newborn baby

Lisa Callaway's son Alwyn weighed 7lb 8oz, with perfectly formed limbs and a shock of dark hair.
But the baby she and husband William had longed for lived only two days, killed by the professionals entrusted with his care.
Mr Callaway, 39, a university registrar, and his wife, a television producer, now know that their child would have lived if 30 warnings, clearly shown on a heart monitor, had been understood by staff at Watford General Hospital.

Sicknote Britain says the Express

TAXPAYERS are allegedly footing an annual bill of £300million in unnecessary sickness benefits because of Government targets.
Doctors are said to be under pressure to sign off every year more than 70,000 people who are perfectly fit to work.
The explosive allegation that the country is being swept by a sicknote culture lies at the heart of an employment tribunal case.The concern piles up even more woes for Gordon Brown, who has pledged to cut the cost of incapacity benefit.

The Telegraph reports that

Grammar schools face new threat of closure

Labour MPs are preparing to call for academic selection to be scrapped in a move which will reignite the debate over the future of grammar schools.Up to 50 MPs are believed to be backing an amendment to Government legislation which would pave the way for existing grammars to be axed. They want the 11-plus entrance examination to be abolished and claim it condemns poor children to an inferior education.

Showbiz on the front of the Sun as the paper reveals

TELLY’S Anne Robinson goes out — with a shocking trout pout.
The Weakest Link presenter normally hurls a gobful of abuse at contestants who give her lip.
But she was seen with an oddly swollen cakehole near her central London home. Last night Anne denied having more surgery.

The Independent reports that

It seemed that nothing could get worse for the jailed rock star Pete Doherty: first he lost his supermodel girlfriend Kate Moss, then he was locked up in Wormwood Scrubs for breaching bail conditions, and soon it was alleged he was taking heroin behind bars.
Now it appears that even his fellow inmates have it in for the singer, following revelations that he had been placed in an isolation cell for his own protection.

Finally the papers are full of the story of the great stink and according to the Mail

Germany to blame for terrible smell engulfing England blown in by freak weather

It wafted in on the morning wind, setting off a spate of panic calls to the emergency services.
And every one asked the same question: What's that terrible smell?
Police, fire and water services were at a loss to explain the manure-scented cloud which afflicted great swathes of the South.
But with the wind in the East, it soon became clear that our Continental neighbours were to blame - and almost certainly the Germans.