Many of the papers have the latest pictures from China on their front pages as journalists reach the worst hit areas

In the rubble of school,bodies everywhere too many to count says the Guardian

The masks kept the dust from the firefighters' faces but did nothing to conceal the reek of death. On a mound at the heart of the town's middle school, they were frantically digging out corpses.
Sometimes they scooped at the debris with bare hands; sometimes, they summoned a winch to lift out large chunks of masonry. Army soldiers bore the bodies away. The arms of a young girl, face down on a stretcher, splayed awkwardly.

Srambling to escape from a dead town reports the Telegraph

Moving in the opposite direction to the army in Wenchuan county, the epicentre of Monday's earthquake, scores of refugees stumbled along broken roads and over the hills to the safety of the valleys below.
As The Daily Telegraph came up river with an army troop bringing bottled water, the impact of the earthquake was immediately visible.

The front page of the Independent describes a vision of hell.

Reaching Beichuan is a long march into hell. When you finally emerge scrabbling through the dirt into the town, what lies before you is a breathtaking vision of horror. Official estimates say China's worst natural disaster in 30 years has claimed 50,000 lives so far, but looking at the devastation here, it is hard not to imagine the final toll will be much, much higher

Scenes of a different nature on the front of the Mirror under the headline Dispicable,the paper describes

A pack of drunken football fans hunts down and batters a cop. Once again our national game is left lying in the gutter

The Sun reports that

BAYING thugs who attacked riot police after the UEFA Cup final acted like “a pack of wolves” – and could wreck England’s bid to stage the 2018 World Cup.
The mob were condemned yesterday as the full horror of Wednesday night’s mayhem in Manchester was revealed in CCTV footage released by cops

with its man at the scene saying

these Rangers fans were no Bravehearts.
They were booze-fuelled cowards bolstered by cheap beer and their sheer number.
Amid the chaos, innocent supporters - the vast majority – cowered in shop doorways and side streets.

The Guardian meanwhile reports

Moscow's plan to avert Manchester-style chaos

Russia's minister of sport has promised an unprecedented police presence, a ban on public drinking and the absence of outdoor TV screens to keep order when more than 42,000 Chelsea and Manchester United supporters descend on Moscow for the Champions League final.
There will be 6,000 military and police officers on the streets of the Russian capital next Wednesday, when the bulk of fans are expected to arrive, supplemented by a unit of 15 officers from the Metropolitan and Greater Manchester forces who will point out known British hooligans to their Russian counterparts.

The Times reports that

Offences by girls are up by 25% as crimes by boys fall slightly

The number of crimes carried out by girls has risen sharply as the emergence of a “ladette” culture linked to underage drinking is blamed for a surge in violence.
Offences of criminal damage, public disorder, robbery and minor assaults carried out by females under 18 have all increased, figures released yesterday reveal.
Over the same period the number of crimes committed by boys fell slightly, although boys and young men are still responsible for the overwhelming bulk of youth offending.

The Guardian leads with the news that

Brown signals retreat on 42 day detention

Gordon Brown has sanctioned a last-ditch move to secure a deal over the proposed increase in the period of detention without charge to 42 days after deciding he would rather compromise with Labour's rebels than risk a further loss of authority by being defeated on the issue.
Despite repeated claims that he is willing to lose and be right, the prime minister has despatched his chief whip, Geoff Hoon, to broker an agreement that would prevent a damaging split inside his party.

Gordon Brown: I'm the right man for the times says the Telegraph

Gordon Brown has for the first time defended his leadership by insisting he was the right person to lead the country through difficult times.The Prime Minister added that he would not consider his position before the next General Election.
He admitted that people in his Cabinet would make good leaders but dismissed speculation about challenges to his position as "rumours and gossip

The Independent says

Gordon Brown was accused yesterday of being "in denial" after claiming the £2.7bn package to compensate losers from the abolition of the 10p tax rate was designed to help Britain survive the global economic storm.
In media interviews and at a press conference, Mr Brown continued his attempted fightback, insisting he would not be pushed out of office before the next election and dismissing the idea that Labour MPs were plotting against him.

The Mail leads with the cashpoint card sharks

Barclaycard was branded "grossly irresponsible" yesterday for urging customers to take out cash on their credit cards.
Britain's biggest credit card company is sending letters to thousands tempting them with "instant cash".
It suggests they use the money to pay for "a cup of coffee or your daily paper". To prompt them further, the company says their cash withdrawal limits have been raised.

Whilst the Telegraph leads with

Mortgage rates at 8-year high

The average rate for a two-year loan, the most popular mortgage, have reached 6.64 per cent. This is the highest rate since 2000 and compares to an average rate of 4.34 per cent two years ago.
This means people who took a typical home loan of £150,000 on this rate two years ago would be faced with the shock of seeing their average repayment climbing by £206 a month to £1,025 when they take out a new deal.

The Times leads with

20 mph limit for urban streets to cut road deaths

The speed limit on thousands of residential roads will be reduced to 20mph under government moves designed to cut road deaths by a third over the next decade.
Variable limits will be introduced on main roads near schools, with digital signs ordering drivers to cut their speed to 20mph or less when pupils are arriving or departing.

The Mail reports on the tragedy of the

Father killed by train as he leapt back onboard to retrieve present for his son

A devoted father died under a train after he tried to jump back on board to retrieve some presents for his family he had left on the seat.
David Davies got off the train without picking up flowers for his wife and a toy car he had bought his three-year-old son.
He ran back to try to stop the train by banging on the windows but the driver did not see him.
In a moment of madness, he then tried to jump from the platform on to a ledge between two carriages.
But the train was pulling away and he slipped, fell beneath it and was killed instantly.

The Guardian reports

Bush appeasement slur angers Democrats

President George Bush used a visit to Israel yesterday to denounce Democratic party offers to negotiate with America's enemies in the Middle East as comparable to appeasement of Hitler. Although Bush did not name any Democratic politician, the party's presidential contender Barack Obama has offered to open negotiations with the Iranian leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.

Bush hails Israelis as ‘chosen people’ but ignores Palestinians on ‘catastrophe’ day says the Independent

President George Bush lavished anniversary praise on Israel yesterday, as Palestinians commemorated the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" when 700,000 were forced from or fled their homes 60 years ago.
In a special address to the Israeli Knesset, Mr Bush declared that the US was proud to be the "closest ally and best friend in the world" of a nation that was a "homeland for the chosen people" and had "worked tirelessly for peace and... fought valiantly for freedom."

Euro 2008: al-Qa'eda threatens terrorist attack reports the Telegraph

The championships, which begin on June 7 and are hosted by Switzerland and Austria, are in a "terrorist danger zone" and police are monitoring closely a number of internet chat forums linked to the terror group.
Juerg Buehler, a security expert with the Swiss federal police, said: "The Euro 2008 tournament is a potential target cited by the Islamist terrorist network."

The Sun on the theme of terrorism leads with an exclusive

GUN cops at Heathrow discovered a notorious hijacker at the wheel of a car they pulled over – and were amazed to learn he had a JOB there.
Nazamuddin Mohammidy, 34 – hired to clean British Airways offices – is one of nine Afghans who threatened to blow up an airliner during a four-day siege at Stansted in 2000.

The Independent reports

Italian tolerance goes up in smoke as Gypsy camp is burnt to ground

In cruel and unusual concert, Italy's new government, its police and paramilitary carabinieri, and even its gangsters, have turned their joint might against the nation's enemy number one: the Gypsies.
Yesterday Pope Benedict XVI and a small number of left-wingers raised lonely voices in central Naples against the national hardening of hearts towards Europe's perennial outsiders. To little avail: the Pope's appeal for a spirit of welcome and acceptance was met with a hail of angry rejection in blogged comments on news websites.

Back to the Uk and the Times reports that

Refuse collectors, home helps and social workers are threatening “sustained strikes” this summer as unions prepare for a wave of industrial action over below-inflation pay deals.
Unison, Britain’s biggest public sector union, is to ballot nearly 900,000 members in local government for strikes lasting several days as unions sense that the 10p tax U-turn has left Gordon Brown vulnerable.

According to the Guardian

ID cards may put poorer people at risk of fraud

An official report has warned that the government's plans for ID cards may put poorer people at greater risk of fraud, and that ministers are failing to coordinate implementation of the 10-year programme.
In a blow to Downing Street, which insists that biometric technology will make ID cards safe, the report says people with a "rich biographical record" will have better protection when the cards are introduced by the target date of 2017.

The Mail reports

Flexible working for 4.5m more parents will be a 'nightmare', claim business leaders

Gordon Brown believes that chaining staff to their desks for the traditional 9pm to 5pm working day is helping to breed unruly children.
However business leaders said the shake-up, which should become law by next April, could prove a "nightmare" for small firms.

According to the Telegraph

Primary school children could soon be undergoing stomach-stapling surgery as Britain's obesity epidemic worsens, a senior medical director has warned.Steve Ryan, of Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, said "significant numbers" of children aged two and three were being classed as obese. Conditions normally seen in middle age, such as Type 2 diabetes and sleep apnoea, were increasingly common among teenagers, he warned

'Disgraceful' Cherie Blair must quit as judge reports the Mirror

senior figures in the law demanded yesterday.
They said she should no longer try cases because she had betrayed secrets and lacked "decency".

Finally many of the papers report that

Judges rule it is legal to ogle man boobs (but not women's breasts)

yesterday male breasts, or moobs as they are sometimes known, were right out in the open in one of the highest courts in the land.
Three senior judges grappled with the question of whether male breasts could be regarded as having any sexual allure

says the Mail adding

The leading legal minds got to grips with the issue after a man who secretly filmed another man's top half at a public swimming pool was convicted of voyeurism.
Care worker Kevin Bassett, 44, was found guilty last year after using a video camera hidden in a plastic bag to take shots of a swimmer.
Yesterday, his conviction was quashed at the Court of Appeal after Lord Justice Hughes, Mr Justice Treacy and Sir Paul Cresswell ruled that a man's bare torso did not count as 'private parts'.