A mixture of themes this morning,the Times leads with Gordon Brown's comments in America

the world must stop Robert Mugabe stealing election

Gordon Brown declared yesterday that the world must stop Robert Mugabe from stealing the Zimbabwean election and raised the prospect of a run-off contest supervised by United Nations monitors.
Challenging the Zimbabwean leader and abandoning nearly a decade of British “soft” diplomacy, the Prime Minister told a UN summit: “No one thinks having seen the results in polling stations that President Mugabe has won this election. A stolen election would not be a democratic election at all.”

Different Gordon Brown comments on the front of the Telegaph

Banks must admit the truth

In a meeting with leading Wall Street bankers, the Prime Minister called on lenders to be more open about the bad debts that have created turmoil in the mortgage markets in the past six months

The Guardian meanwhile says

Government may take on bank mortgages to ease lending gridlock

A ground-breaking plan aimed at easing the gridlock in the mortgage markets is being finalised by the Bank of England and Treasury after months of pleading by the major lenders.
Under the scheme, which is still subject to negotiation, the banks would be able to use home loans as collateral to raise cash in the money markets which can in turn be used to lend to house buyers.

The Telegraph's second lead is

Alistair Darling: Labour needs to 'sharpen' up its act

The Chancellor said it was vital that the Government had a "clear message" about what it stood for. The remarks from Gordon Brown's most senior Cabinet colleague amounted to a tacit admission that the Government was struggling to communicate with the electorate

According to the Independent

Labour MPs' rebellion against abolition of 10p tax rate grows

Seventy-four Labour backbenchers have signed Commons motions opposing the move because it will hit the low-paid and pensioners. Other Labour MPs say they will vote against the Government unless it brings in compensation to soften the blow.

The paper leads with the headline Fields of Gold

The price of farmland is rising at its fastest rate for more than 30 years as wealthy city dwellers and overseas buyers seek a slice of idyllic rural England and jittery investors rush to move their money out of stocks and shares because of the global credit crunch.
In contrast to falling residential and commercial property values, the average price of farmland rose by more than 10 per cent in the first quarter of 2008, according to a study of agricultural property sales which will be published this month

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Half the country can't get an NHS dentist - and haven't had any treatment for two years reports the Mail

The full, desperate state of dental care across the country can be revealed today.
Half the population has received no dental care on the NHS in the last two years.
And thousands of suffering patients are turning up at hospital emergency departments for treatment because they cannot find an NHS dentist.

The Guardian claims on its front page that

The rival to A-level is in disarray

The head of one of the UK's leading exam boards warns today that up to 40,000 students could be left with "worthless" qualifications unless flaws in the government's flagship diploma course are urgently corrected.
Setting out wide-ranging concerns in an interview with the Guardian, Jerry Jarvis, managing director of Edexcel, said the new diploma system "risks failure" when it is introduced into schools this September.

Have you no shame? asks the front page of the Sun

THE shameful squalor faced by British soldiers before they are sent to fight in Afghanistan is exposed by The Sun today.
Our pictures show a broken pipe spewing out sewage, mouldy accommodation huts and broken windows taped up with plastic at RAF Brize Norton – where airborne troops stay before flying to the war zone.
The appalled gunner who gave us the photos said: “Imagine this as the last place in England you see before you die for your country.”

The Mirror meanwhile has a Shannon exclusive

Revealed: Dirty room Shannon Matthews lived in undectected for 24 days

The sparsely furnished room is in a top floor flat rented by her stepdad's uncle Mick Donovan. He is accused of the nine-year-old's kidnap.
For 24 nail-biting days, this dingy bedroom with its threadbare carpets and dirty walls was the most hunted hideaway in Britain.
Day in, day out increasingly worried police drew a blank as they looked for nine-year-old Shannon Matthews in the biggest search since the Yorkshire Ripper.

All the papers report that

A 17-year-old youth will appear today at Liverpool magistrates court charged with the murder of Rhys Jones, the schoolboy who was shot as he walked home from football practice.
The youth will appear along with five others who are charged with assisting an offender: Melvyn Coy, 24, Gary Kayes, 25, and three youths aged 15, 16 and 17. The 16-year-old was also charged with possession of a firearm.

The Mail reports that

Police knew his identity within hours of the shooting after receiving a number of anonymous calls from the public naming the alleged killer.
Then 16, he was one of the first people to be arrested on suspicion of Rhys's murder. His identity has been common knowledge in the local community for months and has even been broadcast on the internet site YouTube.

The inquest into the death of Mark Speight is also widely covered,the Sun reporting

HEARTBROKEN kids’ TV star Mark Speight hanged himself after a final visit to the lovenest he shared with his tragic fiancee, it was revealed yesterday.
The former SMart presenter – found dead on Sunday at London’s Paddington Station – left a suicide note at the flat, an inquest heard

The Express is not happy about yesterday's news on immigrant crime,its front page reporting that

IMMIGRANTS BRING MORE CRIME

IMMIGRATION from Eastern Europe has led to a huge surge in crime, police chiefs will tell the Home Secretary today.
The hundreds of thousands of migrants who have flocked to Britain in recent years have had a significant impact on communities and have placed fresh demands on policing, a review has found.

The Times reports that

City's top hedge fund managers made $2bn from US sub-prime meltdown

A handful of the City’s leading hedge fund managers shared an extraordinary payout of more than $2 billion last year as star dealers profited from the meltdown in America’s sub-prime mortgage markets.
Top of the UK list of mega-earners for the year were Noam Gottesman and Pierre LaGrange, the two co-founders of GLG Partners, the $24 billion London-based hedge fund.

More news from abroad and the Guardian reports

20 die in Gaza clashes after fire fight at fuel crossing

At least 17 Palestinians, including a Reuters television journalist, and three Israeli soldiers were killed in heavy fighting across Gaza yesterday, the violence starting close to the Nahal Oz fuel crossing, the sole supply line for fuel into the Strip.
The Israeli military moved into Gaza after armed men were seen close to the terminal. There was heavy fighting which led to the deaths of three Israeli soldiers and at least four Hamas militants. Israeli troops, using tanks and aircraft, then struck in several areas of the Gaza Strip

Pope addresses sex abuse and secularisation reports the Telegraph

The Pope last night criticised American church leaders for their handling of sex abuse scandals but said that an increasingly secular society needed to shoulder some of the blame.

The Times stays in America and looks at the latest televised debate

Barack Obama was given stark warning last night of the perils that await him if he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee during a debate against Hillary Clinton in which he was forced to defend his patriotism and links to a violent 1970s US militant.
Helped by the moderators during a prime time debate six days before their next primary contest in Pennsylvania, Mrs Clinton again raised questions about Mr Obama's ability to withstand the Republican attack machine in a general election, central to her argument that she is more electable than her rival.

The Independent meanwhile reports from Gibraltor where

Gibraltar is to cull 25 of the monkeys that form arguably the Rock's biggest tourist attraction, because they are becoming a public nuisance and carry a health risk for tourists.
The decision, described by Gibraltar's tourism minister, Ernest Britto, as a "last resort", has prompted opposition from the International Primate Protection League, which is considering urging tourists to boycott the British colony

The Telegraph as does many of the papers reports on

Teenager cautioned for wiping snot on David Cameron's back

Kingsley Cardi, 15, was given a caution by police for "wiping snot" on the back of Mr Cameron's jacket today.The GCSE student, an aspiring singer, approached the politician as he was walking through the Priory Meadow Shopping Centre in Hastings, East Sussex.
He sneezed into his hand, wiped it on Mr Cameron's back and then mumbled "oh sorry" as the Tory leader turned round to see what had happened.

Finally the Times reports on the death of Miss Joan Hunter Dunn

She is one of the heroines of modern English poetry. Anyone who has ever heard of John Betjeman has also heard of Joan Hunter Dunn, paragon of all that was desirable about English suburban girls in those distant days of wartime, warm beer and innate sexual reserve.
She really existed, and her death at 92 in a London nursing home last Friday closes the last chapter in an intriguing story of unrequited love.