Barack Obama is on the front page of many of the papers this morning

He has a dream says the Sun

BARACK Obama yesterday vowed to change America after taking a giant leap towards becoming the first black President in the history of the United States.
The 46-year-old senator looked to the future as he declared himself the victor in the race for the Democrat nomination after battling former first lady Hillary Clinton.
And he told jubilant supporters in St Paul, Minnesota: "America, this is our moment.

This honour is humbling says the Telegraph

Senator Obama paid tribute to civil rights campaigners who paved the way for his success and reflected on the impact of his historic achievement. "It's very humbling," he said. "You think about all the people who had to knock down barriers for me to walk through this door."
Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state and the most senior African-American official in the US government, hailed his win as proof that America is an "extraordinary country".

The Times meanwhile leads with

Sombre Barack Obama aims opening salvo at Iran

Barack Obama strode on to the international stage for the first time as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee-elect and vowed to use “all elements of American power” to eliminate Iran’s nuclear threat.
He told America’s powerful pro-Israel lobby: “I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Everything.”

The Guardian speculates about his opponent

Obama resists pressure from Clinton for vice president role

Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, is gearing up for a tough face-to-face confrontation with his defeated rival Hillary Clinton over her demand to become the vice-presidential candidate.
The Obama camp, though anxious to pull the party together after a bitterly fought contest with Clinton, is hostile to the idea of having her on a joint ticket. They fear that having her and Bill Clinton in the heart of the campaign and in the White House would be disruptive.

A different story form the States on the front of the Independent which reports that

A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.
The terms of the impending deal, details of which have been leaked to The Independent, are likely to have an explosive political effect in Iraq. Iraqi officials fear that the accord, under which US troops would occupy permanent bases, conduct military operations, arrest Iraqis and enjoy immunity from Iraqi law, will destabilise Iraq's position in the Middle East and lay the basis for unending conflict in their country.

The economy back the lead in the Telegraph which reports

Britain faces deepest slump since 1990s

The economy faces one of the sharpest slowdowns in the world, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found.
In an unusually explicit rebuke, the report blamed the Government – and by implication Gordon Brown – for borrowing and spending too much in recent years.
This “excessively loose fiscal policy” left little, if any, room to cut taxes and save the economy from a deep decline, it stated.

The Mail adds

Britain is more vulnerable to the credit crisis than any other leading nation except the U.S., a grim report warned yesterday.
Tumbling house prices and a heavy reliance on financial services have left us as badly exposed as the U.S. where a recession is looming, it said.

The Express warns of Petrol strike chaos

BRITAIN’S motorists are facing further misery, with a strike by fuel tanker drivers set to shut more than 1,000 petrol forecourts.
The 500 drivers, who mostly supply fuel to Shell garages, have voted to stop working within days over a 13 per cent pay claim.
The action could halt fuel supplies to one in 10 garages across the UK, leading to potentially devastating shortages in some areas.

Knife-carrying youths face automatic prosecution says the Times

Anyone over the age of 16 who is caught with a knife will face automatic prosecution and risk a jail sentence of up to four years.
The change, rushed through after a spate of stabbings, could affect hundreds of youths who until now have escaped with a caution or a warning. It reflects growing frustration among police forces across the UK at the number of offenders who admit possessing a knife in public but who are not prosecuted in the courts.

New NHS polyclinics will damage patient care, reports the Guardian

NHS patients will get a poorer standard of care if the government persists with plans to merge GP practices into polyclinics, a leading health thinktank warns today.
The King's Fund says in a report that polyclinics - supersurgeries offering a wide range of medical services - may be more expensive, less efficient and less accessible than the traditional family doctor service.

The Mail leads with the council phone spies

Town hall snoopers used controversial anti-terror powers to delve into the phone and email records of thousands of people last year.
They wanted to check for evidence of dog smuggling and storing petrol without permission - and even to trace a suspected bogus faith healer.
In one case they were inquiring into unburied animal carcasses.
Some councils are allowing middle-ranking staff to authorise covert operations under the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which is intended for use 'in the interests of national security'

Man, 21, charged with Arsema Dawit's murder reports the Telegraph

Thomas Nugusse, 21, of St Francis Way, Ilford, Essex, will appear at Greenwich Magistrates Court on Thursday, Scotland Yard said.
Arsema Dawit, 15, was stabbed up to 10 times in a frenzied attack in the lift of the block of flats where she lived with her family, near Waterloo railway station, in central London

The Independent reports from Zimbabwe where

opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was detained by police yesterday amid signs of an expanding role for the military as the Mugabe regime intensifies its political intimidation ahead of the presidential run-off vote later this month.
Officials from the Movement for Democratic Change said their leader and a number of officials were stopped at a roadblock north of the second city, Bulawayo, yesterday morning and prevented from leaving. After a two-hour standoff, Mr Tsvangirai and his entourage were taken to a nearby police station and detained for several hours.

Mugabe accused of manipulating aid says the Guardian

Pressure on rural voters has also risen with an international dispute over who is responsible for millions of Zimbabweans going hungry, a day after Mugabe blamed what he called British-led sanctions at the UN food summit in Rome. Human Rights Watch said much of the blame in fact lies with the regime in Harare, which has politicised food distribution by ordering a major aid group, Care International, to suspend operations after accusing it and other humanitarian groups of secretly working for Tsvangirai.
The US described the move as evidence of Mugabe's "callous indifference" to his people.
Care, which has denied any political role, feeds about 110,000 people in Zimbabwe. Other groups have also been ordered to stop distributing food to the 4 million people in need because of the regime's failed land policies, weather and a collapsing economy.

The Sun carries an interview with the head of the army who

called for soldiers to get a wage rise – saying even traffic wardens earn more.
General Sir Richard Dannatt said pay for his men and women was the most important Army issue that needed to be tackled.
The Chief of the General Staff insisted more cash must be ploughed into the Armed Forces for the UK to win the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – where troops risk their lives every day.
And he demanded that more should be spent on soldiers’ welfare and accommodation, some of which he described as “appalling”.

Tory MEP paid £400,000 expenses to his own firm reports the Times

The Conservative MEP charged by David Cameron with ensuring the probity of expenses claims admitted last night to breaking the rules by channelling thousands of pounds of allowances into a family company.
Giles Chichester paid more than £400,000 for office services to a company of which he was a director.
His admission caused alarm at Westminster by raising the spectre of sleaze for the Conservative Party just at it had reached a commanding lead in opinion polls over Labour.

The Telegraph reports the words of the Archbishop of York who

blamed the Labour Government for creating a selfish and greedy society which has led to a decline in morals and community responsibility. Dr John Sentamu claimed the obligation to do the right thing is being replaced by the urge to buy the right thing, driven by a "rapacious consumerist appetite".
He said Labour had come to power in 1997 promising rights and responsibilities but that this had led to individuals being granted limitless rights without any obligations.

Many of the papers carry the story that

Police find £16m, jewellery and Renaissance art in raid on safety deposit boxes

Reaching a dramatic culmination on Monday, more than 300 officers were involved in simultaneous swoops at seven addresses in some of London's most illustrious neighbourhoods. And, as they emerged from the raids clutching thousands of innocuous-looking safety deposit boxes, the detectives leading Operation Rize couldn't help but wonder what was inside.

says the Independent as with

Murray describes fight to cope with trauma of Dunblane school killings

Tennis champion Andy Murray has described for the first time his struggle to cope with the emotional fallout of surviving the 1996 Dunblane massacre.
Murray, the UK's highest-ranking tennis player, was eight years old when the former scout leader Thomas Hamilton burst into Dunblane primary school and opened fire with a collection of handguns. Sixteen children and a teacher were killed before Hamilton shot himself.
Murray and his elder brother, Jamie, then 10, were on their way to the school gymnasium and survived by hiding under a desk in the headmaster's office.

reports the Guardian

The Mirror continues to lead with the latest developments with Paul Gasciogne reporting that

Paul Gascoigne's ex-wife Sheryl was at his side yesterday - helping him begin the long battle to overcome his booze-fuelled mental health problems.
Sheryl, 43, rushed from her home to be with Gazza after he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act for his own safety. And yesterday the gaunt star walked arm-in-arm in the gardens of the Priory with the woman he drunkenly battered during their short and troubled marriage.

A less sporting moment is also in the papers,the Sun reports on Rooney's 16 hour bender

WAYNE ROONEY kicked off his stag do with a 16-hour bender in bars and a nightclub.
And when fellow drinkers asked the bridegroom-to-be if he was having a good time, he replied: “I am. I’m ****ing caked.”

Finally the Telegraph reports that

Eighties fashion 'violates laws of nature'

Lopsided haircuts made popular by 1980s pop stars not only risk making those sporting them look silly but also go against the evolutionary process itself, according to a professor of mathematics.Prof Marcus du Sautoy, of Oxford University, says that as well as being in questionable taste some of the more bizarre haircuts of the 1980s actually run counter to the path of evolution.