Many of the papers lead with the start of the trial of the men accused of blowing airliners out of the sky

'Terror plot' to blow up transatlantic flights out of London says the Times

A British terrorist cell planned to detonate suicide bombs on seven transatlantic flights over North America, causing catastrophic loss of life, a court was told yesterday.
The flights chosen by the alleged terrorists – based in Walthamstow, East London – were scheduled to leave Heathrow Terminal 3 one afternoon carrying almost 2,000 passengers and crew.

In what would have been the worst terrorist atrocity since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US, the eight defendants planned to kill hundreds and possibly thousands of passengers "all in the name of Islam", it is alleged.

says the Telegraph

Plot to blow seven airliners out of the sky says the Mail

Once the first had exploded the authorities would have had to watch, powerless, as the six others were downed.
Plastic soft-drink bottles were to be the murder weapon - filled with explosive and connected to a detonator.
The alleged plot led to a ban on liquid containers bigger than 100ml which is still in force at UK airports.

The Mirror and the Sun lead with another airport story

Air rage Niomi spits in cops face says the Mirror

Hurling foul-mouthed abuse and spitting at police, Naomi Campbell completely lost it last night after staff failed to load one of her bags on a plane.
Sitting in the jet on the tarmac at Heathrow, the fiery prima donna - described by witnesses as looking "crazed and psychotic" - screamed at staff in front of appalled passengers: "This is a joke, right?

The Sun reports

CRAZED Naomi Campbell flew into a rage over ONE lost bag — after 20,000 pieces of luggage went missing at Heathrow’s trouble-hit Terminal 5. She was arrested on the spot for assaulting an officer, then restrained after a struggle and hauled kicking and screaming off the plane in handcuffs.
Naomi was released on bail this morning. At 1am her press agent, Celena Aponte gave a statement outside the police station, saying: “She arrived in plenty of time at Heathrow Terminal 5 with two bags, checked them in, and told they were take the flight.

The Guardian leads with

Brown fights revolts on tax and alcohol duty

Gordon Brown was facing the first serious test of his political authority yesterday when a senior minister attacked his plans to raise alcohol duty in the budget and he was forced to respond to a tax revolt by backbench MPs.
To defuse escalating concern over the centrepiece of his final budget as chancellor, Brown's whips promised to look again at claims that 5 million poorer households were being hurt by the abolition of the 10p income tax band

Beer tax bust up is how the Sun describes it

GORDON Brown’s government was rocked yesterday when his pubs minister called for the Budget beer tax rise to be AXED.
Licensing minister Gerry Sutcliffe said Chancellor Alistair Darling’s 4p-a-pint increase was WRONG.
He sided with the pub trade and urged Mr Darling to scrap the rise.

More problems for Gordon Brown as the Telegraph reports that

Gordon Brown will today admit that the taxpayer has paid his grocery bills in the past, and David Cameron will reveal he has claimed tens of thousands in mortgage bills for his constituency home.
The information will be disclosed by the House of Commons Speaker, who has finally agreed to release some detailed information about MPs' expenses

More trouble for Labour politicians as most of the papers report

Livingstone's five children with three women the Independent reporting

The disclosure was an attempt to pre-empt a Sunday newspaper which had been investigating his personal life. As well as two children with his partner, Emma Beal, Mr Livingstone has three other children from two previous relationships. He has two daughters with one previous partner and a son with a third woman. Their identities have not been revealed. He was said last night to be an "involved father" who was in regular touch with all his children.

The Mirror reports

He said: "I don't think anybody in this city will be shocked by what two consenting adults do, as long as you don't include children, animals and vegetables. No one has ever found anything in my private life that was illegal or immoral

Zimbabwe: the backlash begins as paramilitaries launch raids reports the Times

The ebbing regime of Robert Mugabe began its fightback in earnest last night, launching raids against opposition offices and foreign journalists in what many feared was the start of a campaign of intimidation.
Paramilitary police raided opposition offices at a hotel in central Harare, ransacking rooms as riot police moved in to arrest foreign journalists at a guest house in the capital.

Meanwhile the Guardian reports

Mugabe: I will quit, as long I do not face prosecution

Robert Mugabe's aides have told Zimbabwe's opposition leaders that he is prepared to give up power in return for guarantees, including immunity from prosecution for past crimes.
But the aides have warned that if the Movement for Democratic Change does not agree then Mugabe is threatening to declare emergency rule and force another presidential election in 90 days, according to senior opposition sources.

The Independent leads with a scandal in sport

Footballer 'fixed match to pay off gambling debt of £50,000'

A footballer with a serious gambling problem has admitted accepting a £50,000 bribe to help throw a game in Britain, The Independent can reveal.
According to a source familiar with the circumstances, the player – who has a Premiership club on his CV – racked up a £50,000 debt with a bookmaker. The bookmaker said he would write off the debt if the player got himself sent off and also persuaded three team-mates to get booked in a specific game.

According to the Express

Millions of people face higher fuel bills because European energy companies are raiding Britain for cheap gas and then selling it back at inflated prices.
The increased European demand has driven wholesale prices for this summer 45 per cent higher than they were a year ago.

The Telegraph reveals

Half of lenders to ration mortgages

The Bank of England has warned that almost half of all lenders are preparing to ration mortgage deals over the next three months as the credit crisis worsens.The Bank of England has warned that almost half of all lenders are preparing to ration mortgage deals over the next three months as the credit crisis worsens.

Mortgage deal squeeze raises chances of cut in interest rate says the Times

According to the quarterly Credit Conditions survey by the Bank, lenders plan to reduce their loans to consumers and companies over the next three months, increase their charges and demand more concessions, such as higher deposits. They also expect more borrowers to default.

News from abroad and the Guardian reports

Missile defence deal may avert crisis in US-Russia relations

Russia has outlined a potential deal with the US to avert a crisis over Washington's planned missile defence system in Europe, ahead of a bilateral summit on Sunday.
A senior Russian official said the deal, involving a string of safeguards to ensure the system could not be used against his country, would be a temporary measure to stop east-west tensions escalating.

Martin Luther King anniversary stokes black fears of Barack Obama assassination reports the Telegraph

Four decades after Martin Luther King was murdered, black Americans are torn between the hope that Barack Obama will reach the White House and the fear that he too could fall to an assassin’s bullet.

Farc rules out release of 'gravely ill' Betancourt as French mission arrives reports the Independent

A French mercy mission landed in Colombia yesterday in a high-stakes effort to get medical help to Ingrid Betancourt, the former presidential candidate held by anti-government Farc guerrillas for the past six years and who is now believed to be gravely ill.

Cypriots cross street that kept them apart says the Times

A carnival atmosphere prevailed as Greek and Turkish Cypriots, some bearing flowers, gathered on either side of the street. After a brief ceremony the mayors of the city’s two communities, looking like a proud couple celebrating the birth of their first child, enjoyed a coffee and a cake together on the Greek Cypriot side.

And many of the papers carry the story of the pregnant man's interview on Oprah last night,the Sun reporting

PREGNANT fella Thomas Beatie last night insisted: “This doesn’t make me less of a man.”
Bearded transsexual Thomas, whose daughter is due in three months, shocked the world when he revealed his bump.
But the one-time beauty queen named Tracy has vowed: “I’ll be the father and my wife Nancy will be the mother. The only thing different about me is that I can’t breast feed.

The Mail reports

New ordeal for Shannon's mother as three of her children are taken into care

The mother of Shannon Matthews was said to be distraught last night after it emerged that three of her other children are being looked after by social services.
Karen Matthews, 32, who has seven children by five different fathers, was believed to be staying in a "safe house" after the disclosure.
"She's absolutely devastated," a friend said yesterday.

The Guardian reports that

Protesters promise a fight to halt eco-towns

Four proposed new towns of 15,000 homes or more are on a shortlist of 15 sites for the eco-town programme published by the government yesterday.
The list will be cut to 10 successful bids in the next six months, each of which will have to be zero-carbon as a whole and an "exemplar" in at least one area of environmental sustainability.
The programme, which aims to have towns of between 5,000 and 20,000 homes under development by 2020, is expected to provoke strong local opposition.

Finally the Telegraph reports

Stupid and unimaginative... the curse of the Brummie accent

People with Birmingham accents are seen as among the least intelligent and imaginative in the country, according to a study published today.However, psychologists found that the Yorkshire accent has overtaken the Queen's English, also known as received pronunciation, as the dialect most commonly associated with wisdom and intellect.