Mixed headlines in the papers this morning,the Guardian leads with the climate deal at the G8

A deal on climate change - but then the backlash says the paper

A new global deal on climate change heralded by G8 leaders as a significant step forward yesterday ran into trouble within hours as developing nations including China and India rejected it because they believe the commitments are not strong enough.
After years of US intransigence, President George Bush finally signed up to a G8 statement vowing to "consider and adopt" a target of at least a 50% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, an agreement described by the prime minister, Gordon Brown, as "major progress".

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while the five-page communique is the first time Bush has committed his country to a long-term target, the deal agreed at the G8 summit in northern Japan was quickly dismissed by the big five emerging economies, which want the world's biggest polluters to go much further in cutting emissions.

The Independent says that G8 accused of 'failing the world' on carbon cuts

Environmental groups said the agreement at the G8 summit in Japan did not go far enough, and the search for a deal moves to the talks about a "son of Kyoto" global agreement in Copenhagen next year.

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However, the G8 leaders failed to agree on an interim target to cut emissions by 2020 or the start date from which the 50 per cent cut would be measured.

An impending recession is attracting many of the headlines,the same paper leads with the words Down,Down,Down

Consumer confidence has slumped to a record low following chaos in the financial markets, months of misery in the property sector and spiralling household bills.Gordon Brown was forced to defend his stewardship of the economy while attending the G8 summit in Japan yesterday, while the FTSE 100 index at one stage dropped 2.7 per cent to herald a technical "bear" market.

Thousands of jobs go as the gloom deepens says the Times

Consumer confidence has fallen to its lowest ebb in years. A poll by Nationwide Building Society shows that more than half of households believe that the economy will be in a worse state in six months’ time.
The grim news increased pressure on the board of the Bank of England to help borrowers by cutting interest rates tomorrow. It is expected to defer any cut for several months.
The Council of Mortgage Lenders said that new lending in May was down 44 per cent on the previous year. The property group Savills reported a 45 per cent drop in sales in London

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Britain already in recession says the Telegraph

The economy started shrinking last month and will continue to contract until Spring 2009, according to Lehman Brothers, one of the world's major investment banks.The warning comes amid growing fears that the UK is facing its first major slump since the early 1990s, and follows a series of warnings from businesses and consumers.
However, while most experts are predicting only a slowdown in growth later this year, Michael Hume of Lehman Bros said that a recession - defined as two or more quarters of successive economic contraction - was already underway

Banks ride to the rescue as Bradford & Bingley hits share-price meltdown reports the Mail

Under pressure from the financial services regulator, they agreed to buy a large chunk of shares in the beleaguered bank.
The bail-out followed a £400million rights issue by the former building society which was sunk when its shares plunged further during a day of bloodletting on the stock market. Up to £36billion was wiped off the value of Britain's biggest listed companies amid fears of recession.

The Telegraph leads with

Equitable Life victims could claim billions

A damning report into the near-collapse of Equitable Life will highlight failings by government regulators and pave the way for billions of pounds in compensation to be paid out of the public purse.The parliamentary ombudsman, Ann Abraham, will announce in a report due to be published next week that watchdog bodies were guilty of maladministration ahead of the demise of the world's oldest insurance company

As the 42 day detention law makes its way through the Lords,the Guardian reports that

Gordon Brown's plan to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days suffered a big setback yesterday when the former head of MI5 condemned it as unworkable and all but accused Downing Street of playing politics with Britain's national security.
In a sign that the government would face a bruising battle with the House of Lords, peers offered warm support as Lady Manningham-Buller tore into the proposal. The proposal is expected to be thrown out when peers vote on it in the autumn. Her remarks came in a lengthy Lords debate in which Lord Falconer, former lord chancellor, criticised the plan as "extremely odd" and Lord Goldsmith, former attorney general, warned it would undermine fundamental British freedoms.

Meanwhile many of the papers report that burglars will no longer be jailed,the Express leads with the story

BRITAIN’S soft justice system hit a new low yesterday with plans to scrap prison sentences for burglars.
Hundreds of thousands of crooks could escape jail every year under the proposals by advisers to the Lord Chief Justice.
Those sentenced to short, sharp shock jail terms of less than 12 months for “less serious offences” – including burglary – should be handed community penalties instead, they said.

and it also makes page 1 of the Telegraph which says

Launching a consultation, the panel - which advises on general sentencing principles - said it wanted to kickstart a debate over whether courts are sending the right people to jail.
The panel raised the prospect that a community sentence may be more appropriate "than a short custodial sentence given the circumstances of the offender

The Times reports that

Gordon Brown's shock tactics force a UN showdown on Robert Mugabe

The United States will force a vote this week to place UN sanctions on Zimbabwe's leaders after Russia's new President joined other G8 leaders yesterday in threatening “further steps” against Robert Mugabe's Government.
The decision to force a showdown in the 15-nation UN Security Council followed two impassioned debates at the rich nations' G8 summit at Lake Toya, Japan.

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British officials said that Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, used shock tactics to win support for a tough G8 statement refusing to recognise Mr Mugabe's rule. He was said to have pulled fellow leaders aside to show them a horrific photograph of a driver for Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change who was brutally murdered last month. He told them that every day the world failed to act, similar tragedies would follow

The Telegraph reports that Barack Obama is to be granted JFK moment

Senator Barack Obama will get a presidential welcome in Berlin this month when he makes a speech at the Brandenburg Gate during a whistle-stop tour to London, Paris and Berlin in three weeks time, with July 24th announced as the date for his visit to Germany.
The trip will address concerns that Mr Obama is something of a foreign-policy lightweight, and will include a major speech spelling out his vision of a new relationship between Washington and Europe.

The Sun's front page tells of a Boozed up Brunette banged up for bunk up on beach in Dubai

RANDY Michelle Palmer breached a strict ban on unmarried sex during a boozy beach romp in Dubai.
The single British businesswoman was last night facing up to six years’ jail after she was caught canoodling in public with a holiday hunk.
Authorities – under growing pressure to curb the excesses of westerners who flock to the Muslim emirate – say she will also be deported from the country where she has lived and worked for three years.

More serious matters in the Guardian which tells of a Commuter mistakenly held at gunpoint by police

An innocent commuter who was detained by police at gunpoint in a shocking case of mistaken identity has described how he "stepped off the train and into a really bad dream".
Nzube Udezue, a 21-year-old recent graduate from Oxford University, was ordered to the ground, handcuffed and arrested by a team of armed police officers at Bournemouth station on Saturday, in front of dozens of fellow travellers.

The Mail describes how

Man with burns gives himself up over French student murders but is told at police station: 'Wait in the queue'

The prime suspect in the murder of two French students was told to wait in a police station reception after walking in and confessing.
The man, who had burns to his hands and face, sat with members of the public for five minutes until he was arrested on suspicion of murder.
He walked into Lewisham police station in South London, a mile from the murder scene, shortly before 2am on Monday

The Mirror says

BBC executives get £700,000 in pay rises despite year of fakes and cons

Greedy BBC bosses rewarded themselves with more than £700,000 in pay rises and bonuses - despite a year plagued by fakes and phone cons.
As 2,500 staff face the axe, nine executive directors accepted staggering deals.
Vision director Jana Bennett - criticised over Queengate - got a £103,000 rise and £23,000 bonus giving her a £536,000 salary.

Flood warnings for Britain as month's rain set to fall in 24 hours reports the Telegraph

More than a month's rain is expected to fall in 24 hours in parts of the UK on Wednesday, bringing flood warnings as summer takes a notably soggy turn.Up to 75mm of rain is forecast in south Wales, Devon and Cornwall, compared to the average monthly rainfall for the country in July of 70mm

The Sun has an exclusive

THIS is Osama Bin Laden’s school-age son, who yesterday continued his father’s mission of hate — with a POEM begging for Britain to be destroyed.
Baby-faced Hamza Bin Laden — just 16 but already dubbed the Crown Prince of Terror — also ranted in his evil ode that the US and our other allies must be wiped out

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The Independent reports that Alcohol returns to Baghdad

Alcohol is openly for sale once more in Baghdad. All over the Iraqi capital, drink stores, which closed their doors in early 2006 when sectarian strife was raging, have slowly begun to reopen. Two years ago, al-Qa'ida militants were burning down liquor stores and shooting their owners. Now around Saadoun Street, in the centre of the city, at least 50 stores are advertising that they have alcohol for sale

Kenya aristocrat claims cover-up at murder trial reports the Guardian

The scion of Kenya's most famous white settler family yesterday denied murdering a poacher and said that he covered up for his rally driver friend who had also fired his weapon at the crime scene.
Thomas Cholmondeley, heir to the 5th Baron Delamere, was speaking at the start of his defence case at Nairobi high court. He has been held in Kamiti maximum security prison since May 2006, when he was arrested for the murder of Robert Njoya on his family's 58,000-acre Soysambu estate in the Rift Valley.

Amy Winehouse makes the front of the Mirror which says she is

accused of unprovoked attack on man in pub

Salesman Wayne, 29, said: "She was in front of me at the bar and suddenly turned and walloped me three times across the face. It really stung.
"I couldn't believe it. I hadn't said a word to her or touched her. I was just drinking a pint with my friends.
"There was no obvious reason for her flying off the handle. But she clearly thought I'd done something.

The Times reports that Thousands of historical sites at risk of decay

Future generations may not see one in 12 of the nation’s archaeological landmarks, including prehistoric burial mounds, stone circles and medieval settlements, according to research by English Heritage.
Badgers, scrub and tree growth and natural erosion, as well as the plough, developers and vandals, are playing a part in wiping out history. The situation is so serious that England has lost one archaeological monument a day since the Second World War.

Finally the Telegraph reports that

Three disabled teenagers who were allegedly "shooed" out of a beauty salon by staff who said they were "scaring off other customers" have accepted £4,500 in an out of court settlement. Amy Fox, 19, Aruna Gill, 17, and Jemimah Kumba, 14, had gone into the salon to get their nails painted, accompanied by two carers, when they claim one employee ushered them away.
A female salon worker allegedly refused to serve Aruna and Jemima, who both use wheelchairs, and Amy, who has learning difficulties, at Visage Hair and Beauty salon in Southall, Middlesex.