Gordon Brown continues to take a battering on the front pages this Sunday.

The Sunday Times reports that MP's campaign to make Straw PM.

POWERFUL cabinet ministers who see themselves as potential successors to Gordon Brown are secretly plotting against him despite public protestations of loyalty.
Even as Brown met yesterday at No 10 with Barack Obama, the visiting US Democratic presidential candidate, the prime minister was an increasingly isolated figure whose days in office are now being measured in weeks.
Senior MPs are running a campaign on behalf of Jack Straw, the justice secretary, to collect names for a possible leadership bid.

The Observer reports that

Labour turns on Brown as MPs fear poll wipeout

Gordon Brown was accused last night of desperately attempting to buy off a deadly cabinet revolt, after it emerged that Labour's chief whip, a key player in any attempt to oust him, is being lined up for a plum job in Europe.
Geoff Hoon has come under heavy pressure, alongside the Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, to lead a delegation asking Brown to quit for the good of his party. But it has emerged that Hoon is hot favourite to succeed Peter Mandelson as European Commissioner next year.

The plot to dump Brown says the Independent

Battle lines were drawn last night for a Labour leadership contest between David Miliband and Jack Straw, as cabinet ministers declared that Gordon Brown's premiership was all but dead.
On the day Barack Obama swept into Downing Street for talks with the Prime Minister, members of the Cabinet were already discussing a future without Mr Brown as leader.

The Telegraph carries its latest poll which shows

the Conservatives enjoying a 24-point lead among voters in key marginal constituencies.The survey, conducted in 30 vital "swing" seats across the country, puts David Cameron's party on 41 per cent of the vote.
Support for Labour has slumped to 17 per cent, putting the party in third place behind the Liberal Democrats, who are on 18 per cent. When a poll of the same marginals was undertaken 12 months ago, Labour was six points ahead of the Tories.

The plotting and intrigue overshadowed yesterday's visit by Barack Obama,the Independent describes

Three special relationships in one day

When Barack Obama arrived at No 10 yesterday, he looked happy, relaxed and pleased to be there. He smiled and waved to photographers on the other side of Downing Street, calling a cheery, "Hello!" Camera flashes caught Gordon Brown waiting for him in the shadows of the hallway.
But when the US presidential candidate came out again two hours later, after a long chat with the beleaguered Prime Minister, he looked shattered. The smile had faded. Now he spoke so softly that only the closest microphones could hear him. As usual, the cut of his sharp, dark suit echoed the Kennedy era, but the charisma had drained away.

He came, he saw, he sprinkled us with stardust says the Observer

He has a devilish, wicked, lopsided little half-smile, does Mr Barack Obama, and the instincts in his face want him to use it. Just as well, really, because it pulls him back into the realm of humanity, and without it we might be in danger of trading hallelujahs and tugging his frayed hem.

The Times reports that

Then the schedule and the bodyguards closed in and off he shot a few hundred yards down the road to the Palace of Westminster, where David Cameron, the Tory leader, was determined to have his share.
The two met outside in New Palace Yard. The senator placed a hand on Cameron’s shoulder, and Cameron gestured up at Big Ben, an image of old and new, power and changing times that probably had Brown gnashing teeth and biting nails all at once.
Cameron rammed home the point that he’s the same sort of new kid on the block by giving Obama a selection of CDs by the Smiths, Radiohead and Gorillaz.
For more than an hour Obama talked with Cameron, overrunning his allotted time as they discussed world affairs, the Middle East (again) and balancing politics with family life. Tory insiders later claimed that the senator had said to Cameron: “I want to congratulate you on all you’ve achieved.”

Away from politics and the Mail on Sunday leads with

Harrods man 'abused girl, 15'

A senior Harrods executive is being investigated by Scotland Yard after a 15-year-old schoolgirl claimed she was sexually assaulted there.
The girl – whose name is known to The Mail on Sunday but who cannot be identified for legal reasons – alleges she was fondled and forcibly ‘French kissed’ by the male executive in the landmark store in Knightsbridge, West London.
No one has been arrested as a result of her claim, but last night the Metropolitan Police confirmed that an allegation of sexual assault on a girl under 16 was being investigated by officers from Operation Sapphire, which tackles sexual crimes.

The Independent claims that

Death-crash spy planes are still leaking fuel

Crews on the RAF's ageing Nimrod spy planes have reported more than 300 fuel leaks in the two years since the disastrous crash which claimed 14 lives in Afghanistan in September 2006.
Bob Ainsworth, Defence minister, revealed that since the explosion near Kandahar, which caused the heaviest loss of life in a single incident since the Falklands war, crews had been under an obligation to report all fuel leaks.

India bomb blasts kill 29 reports the Telegraph

Twenty-nine people have been killed and more than 110 wounded in a series of bomb explosions in the city of Ahmadabad in western India

. says the paper adding

Most of the 16 blasts were in the city's Muslim old quarter, and some were aimed at hospitals in the city which has been the scene of murderous Hindu-Muslim violence in the past.

The Observer reports on a Unity plea to avert crisis in Turkey

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister, made an impassioned plea for national peace and reconciliation yesterday, a few days before a crucial court decision that could see him banned from politics, his party shut down and Turkey plunged into political crisis.
'If there are mistakes and tensions, we need to restore social peace,' Erdogan told the right-wing newspaper Hurriyet in an interview. 'What is important is to live together under this sky in unity.'

Karadzic begins his game of cat and mouse says the Independent

Radovan Karadzic's defence lawyers lodged an appeal this weekend against the former Bosnian Serb leader's extradition to the war crimes court at The Hague, but the manner in which they did so made it clear that the fugitive will do his best to turn the proceedings into a farce.

Amongst the tabloids the News of the World has My Hell over sacking

COUNTDOWN legend Carol Vorderman has sensationally revealed she was FORCED OUT by TV bosses.
Talking exclusively to the News of the World, the Channel 4 star told us: "After 26 years they said Take a 90 per cent PAY CUT or go!' They wanted me out."

and adds that

Carol, 47, said the final straw came just before the deadline last Friday, when a Channel 4 boss callously told her: "The show survived easily without Richard Whiteley and it will survive easily without you."
Talking like that about the show's legendary late host, who had been Carol's soulmate, was a step too far.

According to the Sunday Mirror,

Paul Gascoigne and ex-wife Sheryl planning to remarry

The 42-year-old former England star has moved into Sheryl’s home after leaving rehab for booze and mental problems.
Their relationship got back on track after mum-of-two Sheryl, 43, nursed Paul back to heath during his stay at the Priory in South-West London.
The pair are now kissing and holding hands in front of pals and talking about their “fresh start” together.

The Mail has an exclusive

Canoe couple's sons tell their extraordinary story

Shocked and confused by the scale of their parents' betrayal, they have kept a dignified silence for eight months as they struggled to understand how their once loving mother and father could have made them suffer so much and for so long.
They are unrelenting in their anger and bitterness, particularly towards their mother, and admit they might never come to terms with what has happened.

Many of the papers pick up the story,the Telegraph aying that

The sons of canoe man John Darwin believe he watched from his hideout as they conducted a memorial ceremony to mark his ‘death’.

There is much speculation about the cause of the Quantas plane's near disaster on Friday,the Express asks DID PASSENGER CAUSE NOSEDIVE?

AIR safety experts fear something in a passenger’s luggage may have exploded on the Boeing 747 which plunged 29,000ft to near-disaster.
As crash investigators arrived in the Philippines yesterday, officials will also be checking the theory that a faulty panel tore off under strain from increasing cabin pressure as the plane soared to a higher altitude.

Meanwhile another air incident is widely reported

A holiday jet bound for Britain was forced to make an emergency landing in Germany after two drunken British women threatened to open a passenger door at 30,000 feet and then tried to attack cabin crew with a vodka bottle

The Times reports that Tax credits time bomb threatens to explode

ON February 26 last year, a manila envelope crammed full of documents arrived at a house on the Isle of Wight. Inside was a dossier that amounted to a detailed indictment of the tax credit fiasco that will cost the country as much as £2.8 billion.
The documents - and tapes of telephone conversations that arrived some weeks later - were obtained under data protection laws and detailed the tax credit claim of Simon Blackmore, 38. He was being pursued for £6,057 in tax credits.

scientists hit out at new coal station plans reports the Observer

In a letter to The Observer, some of Britain's leading scientists claim that government plans to build new coal-fired power stations - without technology to cut emissions - will accelerate global warming. And next Sunday's annual Climate Camp will see campaigners take action

Finally back to politics and the Sunday Mirror says

Tory leader David Cameron has been reunited with the bicycle he had stolen this week … thanks to the Sunday Mirror.
Comical pictures showed a fed-up Cameron standing outside Tesco’s where the bike had been pinched.
He’d moaned that he would never see it again – but we found it for him after little more than an hour of looking.
And, always keen to the send the Tories packing, we bought him a new wheel and handed the bike back to a grateful Cameron.

And the Mail reports that

Gordon Brown enjoyed beautiful sunshine on the first day of his holiday yesterday, but looked more like he was heading to Parliament than the park.
As bikini-clad sunbathers looked up from their towels in amusement the smartly-clad Prime Minister and his family made their way around Whitlingham country park in Norfolk.