Both the Times and the Guardian lead with China and Tibet,the Times reporting

Police fear Olympic torch protests after China shootings in Tibet

Fears that tomorrow’s Olympic flame relay through London could be disrupted by violence intensified after it emerged that eight Tibetan protesters had been shot dead by Chinese police.
Campaigners vowed to redouble their protests after hearing of the deaths yesterday during one of the bloodiest clashes since pro-independence protests began last month.

The Guardian says

As many as eight Tibetans may have been killed when paramilitary police opened fire during protests in Sichuan province, according to Tibetan support groups. They say the protesters were gunned down in the Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture when police used automatic weapons on the crowds on Thursday evening.
China's state media acknowledged a confrontation had taken place in the mountainous region neighbouring Tibet, but reported that police fired only warning shots to protect officials.

The Independent leads with Zimbabwe

Mugabe launches chilling fightback says its front page

Robert Mugabe began his last-ditch fight to stay in power in Zimbabwe, sending his self-styled "war veterans" to march ominously through the capital, Harare, yesterday, silently taunting the country with the threat of a return to the violence and intimidation that has characterised previous election campaigns.

Mugabe's veterans march as run-off confirmed reports the Telegraph

Hopes that he would seek a dignified exit dissipated as about 400 veterans of the war against white rule, whom the regime routinely employs to assault or torture opponents, marched in silence through the capital.
Jabulani Sibanda, the veterans' leader, denounced Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition's presidential candidate, for claiming to have won and said this amounted to "provocation".

The papers report on the continuing terrorist trial

'Heathrow, Canary Wharf and nuclear plants in bomb plot' reports the Times

Attacks on nuclear power stations, oil and gas terminals, Canary Wharf and Heathrow’s control tower were being considered by leaders of the plot to blow up seven transatlantic airliners in mid-flight, a court was told yesterday.
Documents found on computer memory sticks at the home of an alleged terrorist ringleader contained a list of targets across Britain – including the gas pipeline between Britain and Belgium.
The man, Assad Sarwar, was said to be in contact with terrorist leaders overseas and visited Pakistan a month before his arrest as preparations for the airline attacks were being finalised.

The Mail reports that

Members of a British Muslim terrorist cell discussed taking their wives and children on suicide missions to blow up transatlantic jets, a jury heard yesterday.
The ringleader, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, was bugged by police talking about whether to bring his baby son but said his wife "would not agree to it".
Umar Islam, however, said his wife might join the plot if it were a "significant operation".

The Sun leads with the news of more arrests over the Shannon case

SHANNON Matthews’ mum was “staggered” yesterday after ANOTHER sensational twist in the saga over her daughter’s disappearance.
Traumatised Karen, 32, was left reeling again as the mother and sister of Shannon’s stepdad were arrested over suspected involvement in the girl’s kidnap.
Amanda Hyett, 25 – whose house is next door to Shannon’s family – was held with 49-year-old Alice Meehan. Her son Craig lived with Karen until HIS arrest earlier this week.

The Mail leads with the news that

Family life is in 'meltdown':

Family breakdown is a "cancer" behind almost every evil affecting the country, a senior judge will declare today.
Mr Justice Coleridge blames youth crime, child abuse, drug addiction and binge-drinking on the "meltdown" of relations between parents and children.
He warns that the collapse of the family unit is a threat to the nation as bad as terrorism, crime, drugs or global warming

The Telegraph exposes lenders cashing in on the credit crisis

Mortgage costs rose further yesterday as a building society became the first major lender to charge borrowers to take out a standard variable rate home loan.Skipton said customers will now have to pay £800 for its 6.7 per cent deal.Lenders only tend to levy extra fees on customers taking out attractive fixed-rate and tracker deals but experts said the trend started by Skipton was likely to spread. There were accusations that lenders were "profiteering" from the credit crisis.

A dishwasher, Sky TV, groceries ... how MPs spend taxpayers' cash says the Guardian

The elite of the British political system, prime ministers and party leaders, were obliged yesterday to endure the uncomfortable spectacle of MPs' private expense claims against the taxpayer finally being revealed in detail - despite a three year rearguard action by parliament.
No illegality or scandal was exposed when the Speaker, Michael Martin, bowed to the information commissioner's ruling that it would be wrong to withhold them.

adding that

But voters are unlikely to be impressed by the revelation that Gordon Brown seems to have charged for a Sky sports subscription as well as his BBC TV licence or that John Prescott claimed £4,000 of groceries in 2003-04, £76.92 a week, a fraction below the then £77.45 level of the basic state pension

The Express leads with the story under the headline

YOU HAVE TO PAY BROWN'S TV LICENCE

The details of the Prime Minister’s expenses were exposed when the shocking scale of how senior MPs stuff their pockets with your money was published for the first time

The Independent suggests that

Teachers strike 'will close more than 10,000 schools'

More than 10,000 schools will close when Britain's biggest teachers' union, the NUT, stages a one-day strike later this month, according to a national survey published yesterday.
And headteachers' leaders have warned that they will not act as "strike-breakers" and keep children in school. Mick Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: "We're not going to be asking our members to take this class or that if the teacher is off."

The Times meanwhile reports

Bankers hired to advise on plan to raise funds in hospitals sale

Ministers have begun a review of London NHS property in a move that could lead to the sale of some or all of the capital’s biggest hospitals to raise billions of pounds for new projects.
The Times has learnt that the London strategic health authority, which includes the 31 primary healthcare trusts in the city, has hired investment bankers to advise it on the options. The NHS has one of the largest property estates in Europe, valued at more than £23 billion

The Duke of Edinburgh is featured in a number of the papers,the Telegraph reporting that he

spent a second night in hospital last night, being treated for a chest infection.
The Duke, who has enjoyed robust health throughout his life, had to be ordered to go into hospital by the Queen's personal physician.

The Mirror says

royal sources insisted he was determined to shrug off the scare.
One said: "He's sitting up in bed and is in good spirits. He's been working on correspondence, writing letters and such

The paper leads with

'Britain's worst drink-driver'

Britain's worst drink-driver was caught with at least SIX times the legal limit.
Shocked police asked Peter Banks, 44, for another sample.
He then sent the breath-test reading off the top of the scale after heading to a chip shop.
Garage staff called cops after they saw the alcoholic staggering.

Bush pledges more troops to Afghanistan, despite focus on Iraq says the Guardian

The pledge, delivered at a Nato summit in Bucharest, would add a "significant" number of troops in Afghanistan in 2009, the Pentagon chief, Robert Gates, told reporters.
Gates said he expected the next president - Democrat or Republican - to honour the commitment. "I think that no matter who is elected they will want to be successful in Afghanistan," Gates said. "I think this was a pretty safe thing for him to say."

The Times reports

Bill and Hillary Clinton bounce back from White House debts with £55m income

Bill and Hillary Clinton have earned $109 million (£54.9 million) since leaving the White House seven years ago, according to their income tax returns, which the former First Lady’s presidential campaign released last night.
Mrs Clinton had been under pressure from Barack Obama, her rival for the Democratic nomination, to release her tax returns. She made public seven years of tax filings since 2000, including additional information on last year

The Telegraph reports that

Men in court after biggest UK heroin bust

Police said Harminder Chana, 30, of Upton Lane, Upton Park, east London; Patrick Kuster, 35, a Dutch national of no fixed address and Atif Khan, 31, of York Close, Beckton, east London, would appear in custody at Kingston Magistrates Court.
On Thursday, police seized 350 kilograms of heroin with a street value of £15-£20 million from two cars, a Seat Leon and a BMW estate, in the car park of a motorway service station near Junction 8 of the M20, near Maidstone, Kent.

Girl, 3, fighting for her life after falling 100ft from a Primark escalator reports the Mirror

The youngster plunged 100ft from the shop's second floor to the lower ground floor through the gap between the up and down stairways.
One report said she trapped her hand and was dragged over the moving handrail. She is critically ill in hospital with broken bones and serious internal injuries.
The incident happened at chain's giant store in Liverpool

Meanwhile the Mail tells that

Boyfriend charged over death of woman killed by train after 'getting Ugg Boot stuck' in tracks

Kelly Mack - a 29-year-old mother of two young children - died when she was hit by a 50mph train as she tried to get across the tracks with her boyfriend Darren Palmer.
The 38-year-old appeared at Colchester Magistrates court yesterday charged with her manslaughter at Hythe Railway Station , Essex, on March 27 last month.
During the twenty minute hearing Palmer - wearing cream trousers, a dark blue jumper and pale green shirt - appeared unemotional as he was flanked by security guards in the dock.

The Guardian reports that

Two Lithuanian men were being questioned last night by detectives investigating the death of a woman whose head was found by two sisters playing on a beach.
Police identified the dead woman as Jolanta Bledaite, 35, from Lithuania, who moved to Brechin, in Angus, east Scotland, to work as a casual labourer.
Her father, Sarunas Bleda, 60, paid tribute to his daughter yesterday. He said she had grown up at the end of communism and had always wanted a better life - "foreign holidays, fashionable things, pretty things".

Following up yesterday's lead story the Sun reports

DISGRACED supermodel Naomi Campbell claimed yesterday she had been arrested at Heathrow because she was BLACK.
Naomi, 37, showed no remorse only hours after she allegedly spat into a cop’s face and hurled abuse in a furious row over her luggage.
The PC had to undergo a precautionary hepatitis and HIV test.

Cornwall to Cumbria with not a penny to pay (if you're over 60) reports the Guardian

As we rattled and swayed through a place called No Man's Heath on the 41A Chester Village Link bus, we began to question whether it was all really worth it.
The idea was simple: the Guardian would accompany a pensioner on a trip from Cornwall to Cumbria, from the westerly tip of England to the far north, to celebrate the coming of free travel for people aged 60 and over on local buses across the country.

Finally the Independent says

Want to see your 100th birthday? Be like the French and drink red wine

In the battle of the centenarians, it is an unequal contest. France and Britain have near identical populations, yet today 20,000 French citizens are aged 100-plus against 11,000 people in Britain.
The increase in the very old is happening across the Western world but the number in France has soared, according to the National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies in Paris, which published the figures