Obscene says the front page of the Independent

He's turned up again like a bad penny. President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is back in Rome, staying in five-star accommodation for the duration of a United Nations food summit while his people starve as a result of his disastrous farm policies.
The unexpected arrival of President Mugabe and his shopaholic wife, Grace, prompted a flood of international protests yesterday after he joined more than 60 world leaders flying in for the three-day conference. Although the Zimbabwean leader and his wife are targeted by an European Union travel ban, the sanctions do not apply to UN meetings conducted on UN premises.

It's like inviting Pol Pot to a human rights conference says the front of the Guardian

Mark Malloch Brown, the Foreign Office minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, told the Guardian. "Zimbabwe is one of the few countries whose food crisis is not due to climate change or global prices, but due to the disastrous policies pursued by Mugabe."
Australia's foreign minister, Stephen Smith, said Mugabe's attendance was obscene. "This is a person who has presided over the starvation of his people."

Dictator dines out whilst his people starve says the Times

Meanwhile food prices get a lot of coverage,the same paper reporting

EU food chief: Lift BSE ban to cut grain prices

The EU ban on the use of animal remains to feed pigs and chickens should be lifted so that grain can be diverted to millions of starving people, one of Europe’s top food safety advisers has told The Times.
Patrick Wall, chairman of the European Food Safety Authority, questioned whether it was “morally or ethically correct” to feed grain to animals in the midst of a global food crisis.
He said that there was no scientific reason to maintain the ban

Stabbed to death in her school uniform headlines the Express

A 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death yesterday as Britain’s knife crime epidemic reached a horrifying new low.
The teenager, a member of a local church group, was still wearing her school uniform when she was found with multiple wounds in a lift near London’s Waterloo station.
She had been stabbed at least 10 times in her neck, back and front before being left slumped on the elevator floor following what police described as a “frenzied attack”. Detectives were last night investigating a theory that the attacker may have been infatuated with the girl, who he met at the church group, and killed her in a fit of rage after following her home from school.

The Mail leads with the same story adding

Neighbours said the victim was from Somalia and part of a quiet, churchgoing family who had lived in the flat in Matheson Lang House for about a year.
Sharon Moore, 47, an administrative assistant and mother of of two described her as a 'well-behaved and polite' girl who lived with a younger sister and older brother on the fourth floor .

The Independent meanwhile reports

Mother who devoted her life to fighting knife and gun crime is murdered

Police have arrested the grandson of a mother who led a high-profile campaign against knife and gun violence on suspicion of stabbing her to death.
Pat Regan, 53, became a powerful voice in the lobby against gun crime after her 26-year-old son, Danny, a drug dealer, was shot dead inside his fortified Merseyside home six years ago. She attended a summit on violence at Downing Street last year held by Tony Blair and the then home secretary John Reid

Terror law should allow 42 days' detention, says former police chief is the main story in the Telegraph

Peter Clarke, the former Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, says the row over extending the detention time limit has been distorted by politicians.
In the strongest defence yet of the Government's plans, Mr Clarke warns that the current 28-day limit will "undoubtedly" soon become insufficient to gather enough evidence to charge a suspect in increasingly complex terrorist investigations.

Brown says 42-day detention vote is not a confidence issue says the Guardian

Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, outlined a series of concessions last night that appeared to be winning back wavering Labour MPs in advance of next week's crucial vote on detaining suspected terrorists for up to 42 days.
Smith, praised by MPs from across the party for an assured performance, is expected to publish detailed amendments today limiting the circumstances in which the 42-day detention power would be exercised, and strengthening the degree of parliamentary oversight.

The Independent meanwhile carries the lastest opinion polls which says

The Conservative Party enjoys a 14-point lead over Labour, enough to give David Cameron an overall majority of 102, according to the latest poll by ComRes for The Independent.
It puts the Tories on 44 per cent, their highest rating since the company began polling for this newspaper in October 2006.
Labour is on 30 per cent and the Liberal Democrats on 16 per cent.

Gloom deepens as lending slumps says the Times

Mortgage lending slumped to a new low last month, raising fears that the slowdown in the housing market could be sharper than expected.
The number of home loans, seen as a key barometer of future conditions in the housing market, fell to a record low of just 58,000 in April, down from 64,000 in March and 113,000 in April last year. This is the lowest figure since records began in 1993

The Mail reports on a Black Monday for battered banks as Bradford & Bingley's buy-to-let disaster sparks shares slump

High street banks suffered a Black Monday yesterday as they saw £4billion wiped off their value amid fears of soaring mortgage arrears, plunging profits - and worse to come.
The problems were sparked by a disastrous trading statement from Bradford & Bingley, the UK's biggest buy-to-let mortgage lender.

The Guardian leads with a New plan to tackle violent extremism

A nationwide "deradicalisation" programme is being developed to tackle people who have been drawn into Islamist violent extremism in Britain, the government will reveal today.
The Home Office said the strategy was needed to help bring back those who had "already crossed the line" in terms of ideology and outlook, but not yet committed any clear criminal offence.
The local schemes involved so far aim to reverse the process of radicalisation possibly through mentoring those involved:

Please save him says the front page of the Sun

TORMENTED Paul Gascoigne is comforted by a policewoman yesterday after collapsing again — hours after experts ruled he was NOT mentally ill.
He was allowed to walk away from hospital despite pleas from his ex-wife that the former soccer star needed continued care.
Last night Sheryl was left asking why authorities had let him down again.
She said: “We spent hours spelling out to the doctors just what his problems are, yet he has been discharged. I am really worried.”

Chlorinated water risk to babies reports the Telegraph

Babies born in areas where drinking water is heavily disinfected with chlorine are at double the risk of heart problems, cleft palate or major brain defects, according to a new study. Expectant mothers can expose themselves to the higher risk by drinking the water, swimming in chlorinated water, taking a bath or shower, or even by standing close to a boiling kettle, say researchers.
The finding, based on an analysis of nearly 400,000 infants, is the first that links by-products of water chlorination - chemicals known as trihalomethanes, or THMs - to three specific birth defects.

Vaccine doubles brain cancer survival time reports the Guardian

A vaccine that more than doubles the survival time of patients with the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer has been developed by scientists.
Early results from clinical trials suggest patients who received the vaccine lived for nearly three years after being diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme.
Patients given traditional anti-cancer treatment, including a combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, typically survived for a little more than a year following diagnosis.

Only the superdelegates can save Clinton now says the Independent

A determined – possibly deluded – Hillary Clinton gave no hint yesterday of preparing to concede the race for the Democratic nomination, vigorously pursuing votes across South Dakota in the closing hours of this protracted primary season even as her foe, Barack Obama, stood within striking distance of the prize

The Telegraph adds

Clinton sources said that although she was unlikely to concede the Democratic nomination to Senator Barack Obama or to endorse him, she recognised her dreams of returning to the White House were over until at least 2012. A concession speech in New York later in the week is a possibility.

According to the Times

Network Rail faces losing its monopoly over Britain’s rail infrastructure if it fails to meet tough new targets to improve punctuality and reduce costs, according to the rail regulator.
Bill Emery, chief executive of the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR), told The Times that at least one rival infrastructure company was needed to gauge Network Rail’s performance

The Telegraph reports that

The August bank holiday should become the UK's "national day" as part of a drive to promote a common British identity, the immigration minister is to say.Liam Byrne will argue that a national day should become the focal point of a campaign for "stronger shared standards" and a cultural code to which immigrants should be expected to adhere.

Finally many of the papers report the death of Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley, the pioneering electric guitarist who was playing rock'n'roll when white America was still calling it jungle music and without whom there might never have been Elvis Presley, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, has died at the age of 79.
Famous for his square, homemade guitar, which he plucked with oversize fingers to a relentless syncopated beat, crudely summed up as "bomp ba-bomp bomp bomp bomp", Diddley was one of the giants of popular music

.says the Independent