Knife Crime returns to the front pages,the Mail reports that

SIX stabbed to death in just 24 hours as Blade Britain's knife epidemic spirals out of control

The scourge of knife crime gripping Britain has reached new depths with six murders across the country in less than 24 hours.
Four of the killings were in London in an appalling day of bloodshed.
Meanwhile, another teenager is in hospital in serious condition tonight after being stabbed outside a branch of Blockbuster Video in Bolton.

7 more stab deaths in a day says the front of the Express

Stunned police and MPs were last night desperately trying to find a solution to the growing carnage.
The shocking death toll was worst in London, with four men dying in stab attacks – including the 20th teenage murder victim in the capital this year.

The Mirror reports that

Gordon Brown pledges new crackdown on knives

The Mirror's anti-knife crusade took a step forward last night when Gordon Brown pledged a new crackdown.
He admitted he was horrified by this week's bloodshed, with eight blade deaths in 48 hours.
The PM said the Government would unveil a host of measures on Monday to halt the stabbings epidemic

Meanwhile the Guardian reports how The blade went straight into his eyeball'as its

former prison columnist was given rare access to young offenders who have used knives

The Telegraph reports that

The murder rate has risen in England and Wales in the past year, crime figures are expected to show next week

and that

Amid rising concerns over an epidemic of knife and gun crime - there were six fatal stabbings in one day this week - some forces have reported a doubling in killings.

It leads though with the economy reporting that the Credit crisis roars FTSE 100 into a bear market

Millions of families saw a significant fall in the value of their savings, pensions and other investments on Friday after the stock market suffered a torrid day and finished more than 20 per cent down on its peak last year.Fears of an imminent global recession, a serious downturn in sales on the high street and fears of further oil price rises caused the stock market to fall to a three-year low.

Markets plunge in fresh US housing crisis says the Guardian

A deepening housing crisis in the US, escalating oil prices and fears that retailers, holiday companies and banks face a bleak future dragged down stockmarkets on both sides of the Atlantic yesterday to levels not seen since last year.
US worries grew last night when federal officials took over California mortgage lender IndyMac after a run on the bank by depositors, who withdrew over $1.3bn in 11 business days, had left its insurance fund with a $4bn-$8bn deficit.

The Independent reports how

Cost of a shopping basket soars in the 'phoney' supermarket price war

British supermarkets have introduced massive price hikes over the past year, shattering the myth of a so-called price war in which grocers are bending over backwards to help hard-pressed consumers.
Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's have ramped up the price of many products by between 22 and 32 per cent over the past 13 months, hitting customers at a time when the cost of living is soaring, The Independent can reveal.

Meanwhile the Times leads with the news that the Middle classes priced out of private schools

School fees increased by 6 per cent last year — 40 per cent over five years — and, with the cost of food, fuel and mortgages all rising rapidly, parents on middle incomes are increasingly likely to overstretch themselves to educate their children. The retail price index rose 18 per cent in five years.
Only those in 18 occupations, including doctors, lawyers and accountants, can reasonably afford the fees if they are the sole household earner, according to a survey by Halifax Financial Services.

More bad news as the Telegraph says that

Summer holidays to soar by £300

With the spectre of recession looming, major operators are slashing the number of deals available and families will have to "scrimp and save" to find at least an extra £300 for a typical two-week summer break.
If global oil prices continue to rise holidaymakers could also face fuel surcharges of up to 10 per cent on top of these increases, or an extra £250 on an average family holiday.

and the Guardian reports

Water bills to rise £450m to save wildlife

Householders face a bill of nearly half a billion pounds after water companies have been asked to slash the amount of water they take from rivers and aquifers and find alternative supplies.
The price rises follow a review by the Environment Agency, which found widespread damage and threats to wildlife, including precious chalk rivers and wetlands, and other protected habitats for water voles, salmon and other wildlife.

The front page of the Independent heralds the

Return of the ivory trade

The world trade in ivory, banned 19 years ago to save the African elephant from extinction, is about to take off again, with the emergence of China as a major ivory buyer.
Alarmed conservationists are warning of a new wave of elephant killing across both Africa and Asia if China is allowed to become a legal importer, as looks likely at a meeting in Geneva next week.

Many of the papers report that

THOUSANDS of gadget fans finally got their hands on Apple’s new iPhone yesterday as stores sold out in hours.
Some people queued overnight as they went on sale at 8.02am, while others picked up phones they had ordered.
Within hours O2 and Carphone Warehouse had run out of stock.
The 3G device can surf the internet three times faster than the previous model and has a satellite navigation receiver for plotting routes on foot.

says the Sun

Most of the papers report that

Prosecutors seek trial of Meredith Kercher murder suspects

Prosecutors investigating the killing in Italy last year of the British student Meredith Kercher today laid formal charges of murder against her American flatmate, Amanda Knox, Knox's Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Guede, a citizen of the Ivory Coast.
A judge in the central Italian city of Perugia must now decide whether they should be put on trial. Because of the gravity of the charges, under Italian law the judge must now arrange a closed-doors preliminary hearing to review the evidence and decide if there is sufficient evidence for an indictment.

says the Guardian

According to the Independent

British travellers hoping to visit the US will face yet another bureaucratic obstacle next year, under new laws due from the country's Department of Homeland Security.
Currently, British citizens travelling to the US are asked to provide details about themselves on a green form handed out during their flight. If accepted on arrival, this allows them to enter the country without a visa for up to 90 days. But from 12 January next year, visitors will be required to submit the same information online at least three days before they travel

News from abroad and the Times reports that

China and Russia veto Zimbabwe sanctions

Britain’s diplomatic strategy in Zimbabwe collapsed last night in an historic defeat for the West in the UN Security Council that will have repercussions across Africa and beyond.
Russia and China wielded their veto to kill a resolution imposing UN sanctions on President Mugabe and his inner circle in a defining vote in the 15-nation council.

Cash pours in for McCain says the Guardian

The US Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, is attracting millions more dollars in funding than expected, which could allow him to match the much-vaunted Barack Obama donation machine.
He is on course to raise $400m (£201m) for the November election, which he said would put him roughly level with Obama. McCain surprised US political pundits by raising $22m in June, his best showing since he launched his bid for the White House early last year.

The Independent is reporting that

Moscow has refused requests to seek international arbitration over its increasingly tense standoff with Georgia as the government in Tblisi threatened to shoot down any Russian planes that flew over its territory.
Georgia's ambassador to Russia flew back to Tbilisi yesterday, having been recalled after Russia admitted sending fighters to overfly Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia on Wednesday.

To the world of tabloids and the Sun follows up its lead story of yesterday saying that

ROLLING Stone RONNIE WOOD was snared by the Russian teenager he is living with when SHE chatted him up — while working as a cocktail waitress at a seedy escort bar.
Scantily-clad EKATERINA IVANOVA, 18, made a beeline for the 61-year-old rock veteran — married for 23 years — when he was out on a bender.

The Mirror continues its Madonna craze reporting that she

was last night rocked by a series of bombshell claims in her brother's tell-all book.
As well as accusing the singer of being sex-mad, Christopher Ciccone, 47, claims her ex Warren Beatty was once so suspicious that she was cheating on him he looked through her rubbish for evidence.

The Mail looks into the truth behind the allegations surrounding Mayor of London's deputy

According to the paper

Her Majesty's prison Woodhill is not a place for the faint-hearted. But nobody could ever accuse Ray Lewis of being that.
The brash, black Londoner was beginning his first day there as a junior manager when he met a female member of staff at the gate.
'You've got a great a***,' he is said to have told the startled woman. 'I'd love to park my bike there.'

The Times reports on

the world’s first sustainable nightclub

Surya, in King’s Cross, North London, a venue that claims to be “the world’s first sustainable club”, a place where one is never allowed to doubt the ecological significance of one’s actions. Even in the gents, as each man took aim at the waterless urinals, he was informed that he was helping to save 90 gallons of water per day. There were signs everywhere. The cubicles were made from linseed oil, resin and soda. All who entered to perch on “low-flush” toilets were enjoined to help “set new parameters for our existence . . . before the eighth day, the day of global Armageddon”. It was quite a thing to worry about, on top of general anxiety over whether there would be any loo paper.

The Express reports that

Seabirds such as guillemots and kittiwakes are struggling to breed again this year, the RSPB said.The conservation charity said early reports of breeding performance of internationally-important populations of seabirds at its coastal reserves indicated continuing problems.The RSPB said annual breeding failures were probably linked to the impacts of climate change on the birds' food sources, with fewer fish available for them to eat.

And finally staying on the subject,the Independent reports that there is 'Six months to save Lascaux'

Unesco, the world cultural body, has threatened to humiliate France by placing the Lascaux caves – known as the "Sistine Chapel of prehistory" – on its list of endangered sites of universal importance.
The Unesco world heritage committee, meeting this week in Quebec, has given the French government six months to report on the success of its efforts to save the Lascaux cave paintings in Dordogne from an ugly, and potentially destructive, invasion of grey and black fungi.