The Ultimate Betrayal says the front of the Mirror this morning,

A cheating husband who ordered the knife killing of his police wife faced life jail last night for his "final betrayal".
Debt-ridden Fadi Nasri had special constable Nisha Patel, 29, murdered so he could collect £367,000 life insurance and live in luxury with his hooker mistress Laura Mockiene.

The Telegraph says

Murdered for her life assurance

Fadi Nasri, who wore his wedding ring throughout the trial at the Old Bailey, faces life in jail after being convicted of murdering special constable Nisha Patel-Nasri months after he had started an affair with a Lithuanian prostitute.
The court heard that Nasri gave his house keys to the killer – hired for £15,000 – and left his wife alone at their home in Wembley, north-west London. She was stabbed to death as she attempted to flee the knifeman

Varied headlines across the rest of the papers this morning,the Sun reports the case of IVF twins dumped because they are girls

A BRITISH couple abandoned their newborn IVF girl twins at a hospital – because they wanted boys.
The mum aged 59 and dad, 72, conceived in India with fertility treatment and returned to England for the birth.
They told horrified medics they did not want the “wrong sex” babies immediately after the Caesarean section in Wolverhampton.

Both the Telegraph and the Mail lead with the report that

The collapse of Christianity has wrecked British society, a leading Church of England bishop declared yesterday.
It has destroyed family life and left the country defenceless against the rise of radical Islam in a moral and spiritual vacuum.
In a lacerating attack on liberal values, the Right Reverend Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, said the country was mired in a doctrine of 'endless self-indulgence' that had brought an explosion in public violence and binge-drinking.

The Telegraph adds

The bishop warns that the modern politicians' catchphrases of respect and tolerance will not be strong enough to prevent this collapse of traditional virtues, and said radical Islam is now moving in to fill the void created by the decline of Christianity.

Banks cuts fees for overdrafts is the lead in the Times

A move by one of Britain’s biggest banks to cut the cost of overdrafts is expected to spark a fierce battle for current account customers.
Barclays will launch two new fee-charging accounts today and seek to attract new customers by replacing its various charges for unauthorised overdrafts with a flat fee of £8 for every transaction.
Mark Parsons, the bank’s managing director of current accounts, said he expected that rivals would also make radical changes. “Customers will like this and you’d think that competitors might do something similar,” he said.

Hospital surgery death rates to be made public says the Guardian

The government is preparing to publish for the first time the death rates of patients undergoing major surgery at NHS hospitals in England, the Guardian has learned.
The move will expose alarming variations in the mortality rates of NHS trusts carrying out commonplace procedures, including hip and knee replacements and surgery of the oesophagus and abdominal aorta, the main blood vessel.
It will be the first time anywhere in the world that a government has systematically exposed the work of rival hospital teams, giving patients an opportunity to choose to be treated where their lives are least at risk.

A small bite for a monkey... a giant leap for mankind is the lead in the Independent which reports

Two monkeys have been trained to eat morsels of food using a robotic arm controlled by thoughts that are relayed through a set of electrodes connecting the animal's brain to a computer, scientists have announced.
The astonishing feat is being seen as a major breakthrough in the development of robotic prosthetic limbs and other automated devices that can be manipulated by paralysed patients using mind control alone.

Fuel doesn't take the main story but still features,the same paper reports

Nuclear power expansion needed to cut reliance on oil, says Brown

Gordon Brown has signalled a "more ambitious" expansion of Britain's atomic energy programme beyond replacing the nation's ageing nuclear power stations as he warned the world faced a long-term problem of high oil prices.
Mr Brown said it was clear that the country needed to do more than simply replace the current network of nuclear power stations that provide 20 per cent of its electricity.

The Mail reports

Britain faces the danger of repeated blackouts as clapped-out and crumbling power stations suffer a series of failures, it was claimed yesterday. More than 500,000 homes lost electricity for several hours after two major sites shut down suddenly on Tuesday.
Lights were dimmed in millions of homes as seven generating units at other power stations broke down too.
Problems continued yesterday when the Hunterston nuclear power reactor in Scotland failed. That meant ten of British Energy's 16 nuclear generation units were out of service either for maintenance or through faults

The Telegraph reports

The Prime Minister said the cost of oil was likely to remain high "in the long term".
His warning came as Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, indicated that – following a campaign by The Telegraph – a 2p increase in fuel duty was unlikely to be introduced in October.
But after a meeting with oil industry chiefs in Scotland, the Prime Minister offered little further comfort to motorists, who are facing mounting costs under plans to introduce new higher rates of car tax.

The Express continues to campaign urging its readers to join its fuel tax crusade

TODAY The Daily Express gives you the opportunity to join our crusade to slash Gordon Brown’s crippling tax raid on motorists.
Anger is building as families see the cost of driving spiral ever upwards.
Despite being set to rake in an extra £6billion in taxes from North Sea energy reserves because of soaring worldwide oil prices, Mr Brown is refusing to ease the pain.

Many of the papers report that

Labour cash crisis could bankrupt party leaders

Senior officials in the Labour party, including Gordon Brown, could become personally liable for millions of pounds in debt unless new donors can be found within weeks, the Guardian has learned.
The party has five weeks to find £7.45m to pay off loans to banks and wealthy donors recruited by Lord Levy, Tony Blair's former chief fundraiser, or become insolvent. A further £6.2m will have to be repaid by Christmas - making £13.65m in all. The sum amounts to two-thirds of the party's annual income from donations.

The Times reports that BNP seeks to make a martyr of activist killed by Muslim elder

On the steps of Stafford Crown Court, Michael Coleman, a BNP councillor and organiser of the party’s Stoke-on-Trent branch, said: “We advise anybody who gets angry: get involved with the BNP.” He was speaking at the end of the trial into the killing of Keith Brown, 52, a former boxer and friend of the BNP leader Nick Griffin, who collapsed and died after being knifed in the back by his next-door neighbour Habib Khan. Mr Griffin attended his funeral.

The McCann's return to the headlines,the same paper reporting

The parents of Madeleine McCann are being investigated for possibly neglecting their daughter on the night she disappeared from their Portuguese holiday apartment, it has been revealed.
The first published court ruling on the Madeleine case confirms that the police inquiry covers homicide, abandonment, concealment of a corpse and abduction.
The reference to “abandonment” suggests that Portuguese detectives are investigating if there is evidence that Kate and Gerry McCann were negligent in leaving their daughter alone on the night she was reported missing. The charge carries a maximum 10-year jail sentence.

A different story in the Mirror

Gerry and Kate McCann's fury after 14 texts slur

Gerry McCann reacted angrily yesterday to claims he received a string of mystery texts the day before his daughter vanished.
Police applied to Portugal's supreme court to seize his phone records after learning of the alleged messages.
They claim Gerry was sent 10 texts from an unknown number 24 hours before Madeleine disappeared.

four in court over Amar Aslam park killing reports the Telegraph

One man, believed to be aged 20, and three boys have been charged with murder and robbery in connection with the killing, West Yorkshire Police said.
They are appearing at Dewsbury Magistrates Court.
Amar, 17, died of head injuries after an attack in Crow Nest Park in Dewsbury on Sunday

The Express reports that

Bloody images of horrific real-life knife wounds feature in a new Government advertising campaign.
One of the Home Office's shocking "viral" internet adverts shows a man with a Swiss army knife and a screwdriver sticking out of his chest.
Others show exposed intestines which have emerged from a knife wound, a leg which has become gangrenous after a knife attack and deep wounds to the bone.

Most of the papers report

'Ogre of Ardennes' sentenced to life in prison after sexual reign of terror

Michel Fourniret, the so-called "ogre of the Ardennes", was ordered to spend the rest of his life in prison yesterday after being convicted of a reign of terror on both sides of the French-Belgian border.
At the end of a harrowing, and sometimes grotesque, two-month trial, his wife, Monique Olivier, was convicted of being his accomplice and ordered to spend a minimum of 28 years in jail.
Fourniret, 66, was found guilty of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and murdering seven girls and young women, aged from 12 to 24, between 1987 and 2001

says the Independent

Arctic declaration denounced as territorial 'carve up' says the Guardian

Arctic nations were yesterday accused of paving the way for a polar "carve up" when they signed a deal aimed at resolving territorial disputes.
The agreement was signed in Greenland by ministers from Russia, the US, Norway, Denmark and Canada, and sought to cool down an increasingly heated scramble for the Arctic, driven by the prospect of oil and gas reserves made newly accessible by the melting of the polar icecap.

The Times reports that

A former aide accuses Bush White House of deceit over Iraq invasion

President Bush veered “terribly off course” and pursued an aggressive “propaganda campaign” which obscured the truth in selling the Iraq war to the American public, according to his former White House press secretary.
In a new book, Scott McClennan said the likely verdict of history would be that “the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder”, adding: “War should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.”

Olmert urged to stand down over corruption claims reports the Independent

The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's most powerful coalition partner has called on him to step aside in the face of widespread anger at allegations that he had repeatedly received envelopes stuffed with cash from a US businessman.
In the wake of testimony by the businessman Morris Talansky that he had personally handed over $150,000 (£76,000) for Mr Olmert during a period of some 15 years, the Defence Minister and Labour Party leader Ehud Barak urged the Prime Minister to leave office – either permanently or for as long as the police investigation against him continues.

Leaning Tower of Pisa 'saved' for 300 years reports the Telegraph adding

It is no longer moving, according to the engineers in charge of the rescue operation. All of our best hopes have been confirmed. We can now say that the tower will not move again for at least three centuries," said Michele Jamiolkowski, a Turin-based engineer who led the project to stabilise the tower

A typical Mail story as the paper reports

University bans graduating students from throwing their mortar boards in the air in case someone gets hurt

Bosses at Anglia Ruskin University say a student could be seriously injured by the corner of one of the square caps.

A small step for man - a big jump for TV commercials: C4 launches live adverts reports the Guardian

The programmes that surround them might habitually rely on cliffhangers to maintain attention, but advert breaks are not normally known for their sense of jeopardy. That could all change tonight when Channel 4 and Honda stage the first ever live advert on British television, featuring a team of skydivers leaping out of a plane over Madrid.
During the first ad break of the reality show Come Dine With Me at 8.10pm, the 19 skydivers will have three minutes and 20 seconds to spell out the word Honda, inspired by the car manufacturer's new advertising strapline: "Difficult is worth doing".

Fat lady sings for Beryl Cook as many of the papers report the death of the painter

Britain has lost one of its best-loved artists, the painter Beryl Cook, who has died at her home in Plymouth at the age of 81. She had been suffering from cancer for some time but, typically reticent, had kept it all but a secret.
There will be many to mourn her. Who is not familiar with Cook’s distinctive fat ladies? You could hardly miss them. They are about as discreet as a drunken hen party along Plymouth Hoe. They cavort about her pictures with rambunctious abandon; they hitch up tight party frocks and flash frilly knickers; they wobble their bosoms and bawl Knees up Mother Brown.

says the Times


Finally the Sun reports that a UFO explodes over Vietnam

A UFO exploded in mid air – showering a small Vietnamese island with metal-like debris.
The unidentified flying object is NOT believed to be a plane as none have been reported missing in the area.
Investigators are working on the theory the explosion happened five miles above the ground.
A search of Phu Quoc island off southern Vietnam uncovered shards of grey “metal” up to four feet long