Barack Obama and Max Mosley dominate the front pages this morning.

The Independent says,Obama comes to Europe

Barack Obama last night brought his message of hope to Europe, pledging to heal the wounds inflicted by the Bush era through renewed transatlantic cooperation. In a keynote address to tens of thousands of Germans and other Europeans gathered at the foot of Berlin's soaring Victory Column, the Democrat spoke as a "citizen" not a presidential candidate.

Obama the Orator says the Telegraph

In his long-awaited trans-Atlantic policy speech in Germany, the latest leg of a week-long world tour, the charismatic Democratic presidential candidate presented himself not as a White House hopeful, he said, but as a "citizen of the world", and Berlin as a city that has become a global icon.

The Guardian says Obama gets rock star welcome describing how

The young and the pierced, some with guitars slung over their shoulders, others barefoot, jammed up against each other to cheer on a man who in less than a year has surely become the world's most popular serving politician even if, as yet, he has been elected to no office grander than the junior senate seat for Illinois.

The other main headline comes from the Times,Mosley opens new front in the battle for privacy

Max Mosley’s lawyers are preparing to bring libel actions that could reap him hundreds of thousands of pounds in damages after winning a privacy claim against the News of the World.

According to the Telegraph,Mosley orgy ruling will allow 'adultery without fear of exposure'

In a powerful judgement, Mr Justice Eady, declared that however morally distasteful the public might find such activities, the press had no right to publish them as they did not constitute a 'significant' crime.
In his ruling the judge acknowledged the growing influence in British national life of the European Court of Human Rights, which gives people's privacy precedence over the right of the media to investigate them.
Lawyers claimed that the judgement effectively introduced a privay law into Britain, even though Parliament has never passed one.

The Mail asks What price morality?

Max Mosley opened the back door to new privacy laws yesterday with a High Court judgment that championed his right to hold a spanking and bondage orgy with five prostitutes.
A judge awarded him £60,000 after deciding a newspaper intruded on the personal privacy of the son of Fascist leader Oswald Mosley when it secretly filmed the sadomasochistic session and claimed the party had a Nazi theme

The Sun headlines Freedom gets a spanking beginning its report with

F1 chief Max Mosley’s S&M antics with five prostitutes were “reckless and almost self-destructive”, a judge said yesterday.
And Mr Justice Eady asked at London’s High Court: “To what extent is he the author of his own misfortune?”

The Guardian reports that Britain plans to spend £3bn on new nuclear warheads

Ministers have repeatedly denied there are any plans to replace the warheads as part of the upgrade of the Trident nuclear system, insisting no decision will be taken until the next parliament, probably sometime after 2010.
However, previously unpublished papers released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal one of the MoD's senior officials told a private gathering of arms manufacturers that the decision had already been taken.

How a fraudster stole my identity on Facebook reports the Independent

The first I knew about it was a phone call. My girlfriend admonished me for succumbing to the temptations of Facebook, a website whose poisoned fruits I had previously said I found unappealing. I stood accused of two crimes: a lack of willpower and a failure to confess.

Pay everytime you're bin is emptied says the front of the Express

The days of free rubbish collections are over, the Government warned last night.
Environment Minister Joan Ruddock made clear that Labour will press ahead with pay-as-you-throw charges which are likely to cost families an extra £50 a year.
Despite widespread public opposition to the move, she claimed bin taxes could have “a very significant impact on levels of waste and recycling”.

The Telegraph reports that

Children should only use mobile phones in emergencies and adults should try and keep them away from their heads, a leading cancer expert has said.

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Ronald Herberman, the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute director, issued the warning as he urged mobile users to protect themselves from cancer risks.
Dr Herberman made the pronouncement in an internal memo to thousands of staff saying it was based on early unpublished data on the possible risk of brain cancer.

Mother accused of killing her new-born baby faints in the dock says the Mail

The British mother accused of killing her new-born baby during a holiday in Crete collapsed in court yesterday after being told she would be remanded in custody.
Leah Andrew, 20, was taken from the courtroom in the capital of Heraklion back to hospital where she has been treated for blood loss since she was arrested on Monday night.
Her lawyer Zoe Lama said: 'The judge ordered that she be held pending completion of the trial. She then fainted and was taken to hospital for treatment. We will decide on our further course of action once she is discharged

The Mirror reports that Rhys Jones shooting: Teen denies murder

A 17-year-old denied the murder of Liverpool schoolboy Rhys Jones today when he appeared in court.
Rhys, 11, was shot dead in a pub car park on August 22 last year as he walked home from football training.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to murder at Liverpool Crown Court.
A further six others, all charged with offences relating to the death of Rhys, were also entering their pleas.

The Guardian reports that

The assets of the fake canoe death couple, John and Anne Darwin, have been frozen in a first step towards retrieving the £250,000 they conned out of insurance companies, it emerged yesterday.
Cleveland police said there was a worldwide freeze on the Darwins' assets and the lengthy process of recovering the money had begun through the Proceeds of Crime Act. Police believe that when they were arrested last December their assets were worth about £500,000.

Many of the papers report that a Judge pulls out a knife in court

A JUDGE trying a knife-crime case stunned the court by pulling out a blade.
Campaign groups blasted Judge Roger Connor after he brandished a knife in front of a teenage defendant charged with wounding.
The 16-year-old’s lawyer asked Judge Connor if he was committing an offence – and was told it was acceptable because the blade was less than 3ins long

says the Sun


Fears of recession grow as Britons stop spending reports the Times

High street sales suffered a record slump last month, stoking fears that a vicious downturn in consumer spending will tip Britain into recession.
The quantity of goods sold in shops across the country plummeted by 3.9 per cent during June, the biggest monthly drop since 1986, official retail figures showed.
The data, the first official confirmation that a severe downturn in consumer spending is taking hold, sparked further worries of a headlong retreat from the high street, undercutting the spending that has fuelled the economy for more than a decade.

The Mail says meanwhile that millions of people may be just 11 days from financial ruin

More than a third of adults could survive financially for only 11 days if they were to lose their job or be too ill to work, according to a survey.
The finding gives a worrying insight into the lives of millions who are living on a financial tightrope.
Researchers looked at how much people spend every month and how much they have in savings.

Riches in the Arctic: the new oil race says the Independent

The future of the Arctic will be less white wilderness, more black gold, a new report on oil reserves in the High North has signalled this week. The first-comprehensive assessment of oil and gas resources north of the Arctic Circle, carried out by American geologists, reveals that underneath the ice, the region may contain as much as a fifth of the world's undiscovered yet recoverable oil and natural gas reserves.

The Telegraph reports that

Fayed strikes it rich with stake in backyard oilfield

The Harrods owner Mohamed Fayed has tapped a new source of wealth after winning a stake in a tiny oilfield under his Surrey estate despite not knowing it was there for several years.

Many of the papers report that

A painter and decorator who received a £30 fine for smoking in his own van has warned that British civil liberties are "going up in smoke".
Gordon Williams, 58, of Llanafan, near Aberystwyth, west Wales, was on the way to buy tea bags for his wife when he was slapped with a fixed penalty fine.
A passenger in his van, who had also just lit up, received a £30 on-the-spot fixed penalty notice under the new anti-smoking laws as well.

Finally the saga of David Cameron's bike and the Mirror reports the Curse on Cameron:

400-year-old witch's spell on Tory chief's seaside holiday cottage.. and his bike gets nicked
The wheels were already coming off for David Cameron yesterday - after he had his bike nicked.
The jinxed Tory leader was "stunned" when it vanished from outside his local Tesco in West London.

The Mail reports

He takes pride in pedalling the streets of London on his eco-friendly mountain bike, avoiding the constant threat of rumbling traffic on the busy streets.
But the wheels fell off David Cameron's green transport when he emerged from a shop to find his beloved bicycle had been stolen.
The Conservative leader, who along with Mayor Boris Johnson takes pride in the fact he snubs chauffeur-driven gas guzzlers, had stopped to buy a salad from a shop in Portobello Road