Varied headlines in the papers this morning.

Milibandmania on the front of both the Times and the Guardian,David Miliband positions himself for leadership says the former

David Miliband today dares Gordon Brown to sack him by setting out how Labour can still win the next election, in what is being seen as the launch of his leadership bid.
The Foreign Secretary fires the first salvo in a deliberate challenge to Mr Brown in a newspaper article that outlines a blueprint for defeating David Cameron without mentioning the Prime Minister once by name.

Miliband intervenes: Labour needs to change and change now says the Guardian

In what can be read as an implicit criticism of the current leadership's political style, the foreign minister writes in the Guardian: "To get our message across we must be more humble about our shortcomings, but more compelling about our achievements

Medical matters on the front of the Telegraph,Alzheimer’s sufferers given hope by new generation of drugs

Millions of Alzheimer’s sufferers have been given fresh hope after a new generation of drugs were shown to reverse the symptoms of the disease.

reports the paper adding

The treatment can bring the “worst affected parts of the brain back to life” and scientists say it is twice as effective as any medication currently available.
They even suggested the drug works so well it might be given to patients in the future to prevent the onset of the illness.

The Mail also leads with the story,it says

A daily capsule of rember, as the drug is known, stops Alzheimer’s disease progressing by as much as 81 per cent, according to trial results.
Patients with the brain disorder had no significant decline in their mental function over a 19-month period.

The shooting in Antigua continues to dominate the news,the same paper reports that

Fears were growing last night that tragic bridegroom Ben Mullany would not recover from the Caribbean shooting in which his bride was murdered.
He has not regained consciousness since he and Dr Catherine Mullany were shot at their honeymoon hotel in Antigua on Sunday morning.
Doctor Fidel Fernandez, a general surgeon at the island's Holberton Hospital, said: 'Mr Mullany is critically ill - brain dead. He is on a ventilator which supports his organs and without that he would die. There is no chance of survival. It is very, very sad.'

The Sun leads with the same story adding that

THE parents of a honeymooner left fighting for his life after robbers shot him and killed his new bride flew out to Antigua today to be at his bedside.

Tortured for 20 minutes says the Mirror

Curse of the DNA register is the lead in the Independent

A generation of young Britons is being criminalised for life by the relentless expansion of the national DNA database, ministers are warned today.
Alarm and hostility over the massive scale of the collection of DNA has been uncovered by groundbreaking research funded by the Home Office among panels of members of the public

Many of the papers report that WTO talks collapse after India and China clash with America over farm products says the Guardian

As recriminations began, the head of World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, warned that the wrangling among the organisation's leading members had allowed a package worth more than $130bn (£65bn) a year in tariff savings to "slip through their fingers".

The talks broke down after the US failed to resolve a dispute with China and India over a proposed system to defend poor farmers in developing nations from a surge of food exports from richer countries. The issue – regarded as minor when the talks began – came to crystallise growing suspicions between rich and poor, the developed and the developing, about the balance of risks and benefits in the package.

says the Independent

The Times reports on Violence in Belgrade as thousands protest over Radovan Karadzic

Radovan Karadzic remained unrepentant about his alleged war crimes as Serbian ultra-nationalists opposed to his extradition to The Hague attacked police and smashed shop windows during a protest rally in central Belgrade last night

The Telegraph says that

Hundreds of Partizan Football Club hooligans attacked police in what appeared to be an organised assault at the back end of the rally.
The violence began at the same time as president of the nationalist Serbian Radical Party, Tomislav Nikolic, took the stage on Republic Square.
The hooligans used fireworks, flares and rocks from concrete rubbish bins and plant holders to launch a barrage of debris against police, who initially retreated from the fierce and massive hooligan assault.

High Court backs girl barred from wearing bangle reports the Independent

A Sikh schoolgirl who was excluded from her school for refusing to remove a religious bangle has won her High Court battle after a judge decided that the school's actions were unlawful under Britain's race and equality laws.
Sarika Watkins-Singh, 14, was forced to take lessons in isolation for two months before being excluded from at Aberdare Girls' School last November because she refused to take off her kara, a slim steel bracelet that constitutes one of five religious symbols observant Sikhs are expected to wear at all times

Her lawyers had told Mr Justice Silber that the Kara was as important to her as it was to England spin bowler Monty Panesar, who has been pictured wearing the bangle

.says the Sun


Banks, building societies and housebuilders call for urgent action to end mortgage misery says the Guardian

As a Treasury-commissioned report warned that the credit crunch would continue to make it difficult for home buyers to obtain mortgages until 2010, industry experts were frustrated that Alistair Darling was waiting until his pre-budget report in the autumn to announce steps to ease conditions in the mortgage market.

Slash petrol by 25p a litre says the Express

PETROL could be slashed by 25 pence a litre as oil companies rake in colossal windfalls on the back of soaring oil prices.

says the paper adding

research has shown that a fuel tax cut of 14p a litre could be supported by the Treasury’s own windfall from North Sea oil tax revenue – and the Daily Express crusade is continuing

The Mail reports that

BP faced demands for a windfall tax yesterday as it announced 'obscene' half-year profits of £6.75billion on the back of record fuel prices.
With motorists, businesses and hauliers facing increasing pain at the pumps, the company's profits rose to around £37million a day or £430 a second - an increase of 23 per cent on the same period last year.

Meanwhile the same paper reports that

Hijackers steal blank British passports worth £2.5m as driver stops to buy a chocolate bar

Security experts warned the theft of the 3,000 passports and visas, which were destined for British embassies abroad, had handed a 'real coup' to terrorists, illegal immigrants and fraudsters.
The Foreign Office, which was in charge of the delivery, admitted it was the latest in a string of serious security breaches by the Government.

Political intrigue and the Times reports that

Boris Johnson, the Conservative Mayor of London, has been plotting to remove Britain’s most senior policeman because of his links with a businessman who won £3 million of Scotland Yard contracts.
Leaked e-mails obtained by The Times reveal that Mr Johnson’s aides wanted to suspend Sir Ian Blair, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, pending an inquiry into allegations of impropriety.

Religous intrigue in the Telegraph which reports that

The Archbishop of Canterbury has accused the opposing sides in the Anglican Communion's divide over sexuality of "threatening death to each other", in an emotional plea for peace.Dr Rowan Williams warned liberals who have elected a gay bishop and blessed same-sex unions that their actions are felt as a "body blow" by some, and create "literal physical risk" in countries where Christians are persecuted for tolerating homosexuality.

The Guardian reports that

Spread of HIV/Aids slows as awareness and drugs take hold

The HIV/Aids epidemic appears to be slowing, as evidence emerges of more cautious sexual behaviour and improved treatment in some of the worst-hit countries of the world, according to a new UN study.
Signs that work on preventing the spread of HIV is bearing fruit are flagged up today by UNAids' two-yearly report on the state of the epidemic.

NHS castigated for fatal neglect of patients with learning disabilities says the Independent

The deaths of the five men and one woman, highlighted in a report last year, were symptomatic of a wider malaise in the health service which has failed to ensure people with learning disabilities get proper treatment in accordance with the law, the inquiry found. The six cases which triggered the inquiry were described in a report, Death by Indifference, published by Mencap last March. The cases included Martin Ryan, 43, who went without food for 26 days after suffering a stroke and Emma Kemp, 26, who was given a fifty-fifty chance of survival after being diagnosed with cancer but was denied treatment as doctors thought she would be unco-operative.

The Express reports that a

70-YEAR-OLD doctor who groped a woman’s breasts and bombarded another with lewd remarks has been struck off.
Married Dr Amar Basu squeezed the patient’s bosom after telling her: “Let me see if your breasts are fat.”
But she had only booked an appointment with him to discuss her hot flushes.

Many of the papers report on a

red hot date at the Science Museum

The robot, main attraction of the Emotibots exhibition, which runs at the museum until tomorrow, is covered in sensors that respond to movement and touch. Treat him rough and he tenses, his hands clench, he blinks with alarm. He can also register volume: he knows when you are shouting at him, but irony passes him by.

says the Times


Finally the Sun reports that

TWO ladies from the Women’s Institute swapped traditional jam-making – for a tour of the world’s brothels.
Jean Johnson, 62, and Shirley Landells, 73, visited Holland, the US and New Zealand in their search for the perfect brothel.

They started a campaign to legalise brothels after the murder of five prostitutes in Ipswich in 2006 by Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright.
And the pair, from Hampshire W.I., crowned the Purely Blue Brothel in Auckland, New Zealand, as the world’s No1.