Georgia is replaced on some of the front pages by the A level results.Both the Independent and the Guardian lead with the forthcoming results this morning.

The grade A Problem says the Independent

At least one in 10 teenagers will get three straight A-grade passes today, as more pupils than ever before receive top grades in their A-levels. More than one in four scripts are expected to be awarded an A grade with less than three per cent of scripts set to be marked as a fail

Universities braced for new A-level record says the Guardian

Universities received the results of applicants on Sunday and one of the most senior admissions officers in England disclosed that more pupils were meeting their offers than in previous years.
As more than 300,000 pupils find out their results today the number of top grades awarded is predicted to rise for the 17th year running

The Times leads with the Caucasus

Bush squares up to Putin over Georgia

President Bush dispatched US military hardware to the heart of the Caucasus yesterday and warned Russia that it could be frozen out of international bodies as punishment for its aggression in Georgia.
In his toughest criticism of Russia since becoming President, Mr Bush accused it of breaching the provisional ceasefire agreed with Georgia only 24 hours earlier.

The Independent meanwhile says

The conflict in Georgia appeared to be evolving into a vicious new phase yesterday, with killings, burning and looting by irregular militias coming in behind Russian military columns thrusting from the breakaway province of South Ossetia deep into the country.

Rice warns Russia of isolation over Georgia violations says the Telegraph

As she was despatched for Tblisi by George W Bush, in a strong show of US support for Georgia, Ms Rice said Russian troops' violations of the truce since the agreement was reached have "only served to deepen the isolation into which Russia is moving", as Moscow confirmed its troops remain in the state

The paper leads with a warning that recession is on the way

The economy is now on the verge of recession, the Bank of England has warned for the first time. In his gravest assessment yet, Governor Mervyn King said the economy will start to shrink by the end of the year, the first decline since the early 1990s.

and added

He warned that households face an “extremely difficult” year ahead as Britain is hit by rising energy and oil prices and the worst financial crisis '“since the Second World War”.

The Times says that

Tensions between the Treasury and the Bank of England mounted yesterday as Mervyn King, the Bank’s Governor, abruptly dismissed measures being considered by Alistair Darling to end the mortgage drought.
Mr King signalled his strong opposition to a move being examined by the Chancellor to expand the Bank’s emergency financing programme for lenders, the Special Liquidity Scheme.

Like winning the lottery says the front page of the Mail

The man cleared of murdering Rachel Nickell spoke last night of his delight at being awarded a record £706,000 damages for the police blunders which ruined his life.
Colin Stagg, 45, described the payout as 'like winning the lottery'.
His only immediate spending plans were to buy his council flat and put in a new kitchen and bathroom.
Mr Stagg spent 13 months in custody and had his reputation torn to pieces before a judge threw out the case. But he still endured more than a decade of speculation that he was, in fact, the killer.

The Sun also leads with the story under the headline staggering

FURY erupted last night as wrongly-accused murder suspect Colin Stagg was awarded £706,000.
Stagg, 45, won compensation over the 1992 killing of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common.
It dwarfs payouts to victims of violence and terrorist crimes. John and June Taylor – whose daughter Carrie, 24, died in the 7/7 London Tube blasts – got just £11,000. John said: “This makes the system a joke.”

MP's death leaves Brown facing new SNP challenge reports the Guardian

Gordon Brown faces a difficult byelection in his neighbouring Fife constituency after the death of Labour MP John MacDougall from cancer.
Downing Street is likely to wait until after Labour's conference next month before facing the Scottish National party in Glenrothes. MacDougall, 60, held the seat with a majority of 10,664 at the 2005 general election. But the SNP in effect won the seat in last year's Scottish parliamentary elections with a majority of 1,166 - although the Holyrood constituency, Central Fife, has a slightly different boundary.

The Times says that

Police officers are to begin a work-to-rule after the breakdown of talks with the Home Office over pay.
Rank-and-file officers will be urged to abide strictly by their terms and conditions of employment in a step intended to cost the service millions of pounds in overtime payments.
The decision reflects the bitterness of police leaders about their treatment by the Government over this year’s pay deal, which awarded them a 2.5 per cent increase in stages, in effect reducing the award to 1.9 per cent

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Many of the papers report on the British aid worker killed by Taliban

Dr Jacqueline Kirk, 40, was among three aid workers from the International Rescue Committee killed in the attack.
The aid workers were attacked as they travelled through Logar province to Kabul despite their vehicle being clearly marked with the IRC logo, said a spokesman for the New York-based charity.
Though raised in the UK, Dr Kirk, formerly of the University of Ulster, had moved to Quebec in Canada and had dual citizenship.

says the Telegraph

The Guardian says that

Robert Mugabe will shortly install a new government in Zimbabwe following the collapse of political negotiations with his principal rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, according to the state-run press.
But the leader of a breakaway opposition faction, Arthur Mutambara, denied claims by Mugabe's officials that he will join the administration, which Zimbabwe's president is portraying as a government of national unity in an attempt to win international backing.

According to the Independent

British libel laws are stifling free speech around the world as wealthy businessmen and celebrities increasingly turn to UK courts to silence their critics abroad, the United Nations has warned.
In a report published yesterday, the UN's Committee on Human Rights criticises the phenomenon of "libel tourism", where foreign businessmen and millionaires use the High Court in London to sue foreign publishers under claimant-friendly defamation laws

Jersey police chief's fury says the Times

A furious memorandum from the senior detective in the Jersey child murder and abuse investigation claims that it has been hampered by prosecutors, destroying victims’ faith in the justice system.
Lenny Harper, who found the remains of five children in a former boys’ home, says that it is getting harder to persuade witnesses to come forward because of fears that alleged perpetrators will not be put on trial.
Mr Harper claims that the island’s Attorney-General and his office are held in “total contempt” by victims of child abuse after repeatedly failing to bring offenders to justice.

The Express leads with the news that

Crime gangs have cracked the chip and pin system, leaving millions of British bank accounts at risk of being plundered.
Banks and customers are powerless to pre-vent the thieves helping themselves to their cash, experts warned.
Thousands of accounts have already been hit by the crooks, who are stealing codes from card readers at shop checkouts.

The Tabloids follow up the marriage of Peaches Geldof,the Sun says

PEACHES GELDOF and her new husband face a dramatic showdown with her dad SIR BOB GELDOF next week, The Sun can reveal.
He will demand an explanation from his 19-year-old daughter of her shock marriage to boyfriend of four weeks MAX DRUMMEY.

The Mirror reports that

A weary Iraq veteran was thrown off a train taking him home after a jobsworth conductor refused to let him have the cheap fare squaddies are entitled to.
The conductor insisted Zach Hoyland pay an extra £50 because he did not have his ID card to prove he was a soldier - even though he was in full desert uniform.
And when angry Zach tried to make the jobsworth see sense, he snapped: "I don't know what you are complaining about. It's not as if you've taken a bullet or anything."

Many of the papers have pictures of Gold medal record holder Michael Phelps on their front pages

Michael Phelps may or may not be the greatest Olympian of all time, but surely no athlete in the history of the Games has rendered the historical so routine. In the space of less than an hour this morning Phelps ensured that he will be forever mentioned when the identity of the ultimate Olympian is discussed, winning his fourth and fifth gold medals of these Games in world record times to take his career total to 11.

says the Guardian

Meanwhile the Telegraph reports on a bad day in the pool for Britain as

Performance director Michael Scott has shouldered the blame after controversial selections cost Great Britain a possible medal in the pool when the women's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay team failed to qualify for the final

The Mail reports how 250,000 TV screens go blank after upgrade leaves Freeview boxes 'obsolete'

Tens of thousands of households have lost their Freeview reception because of a signal upgrade which made their set-top digital boxes obsolete.
The Freeview network was upgraded to increase the channels available to 48 and prepare for the future of digital television, which is expected to include more interactive services.
Hundreds of thousands of older boxes could not cope with the extra information being transmitted and broke down.

The Sun reports on the Women cop who worked as a tart

A WOMAN cop has been suspended after colleagues discovered she was working as a hooker.
The WPC, 28, offers her services as a £100-an-hour escort on a website.
She was one of eight women and six men arrested by officers investigating prostitution and police corruption across Greater Manchester, Northumberland, Cleveland, Co Durham and the Scottish Borders.

The Summer washout gets a fair amount of coverage,

A girl of five drowned in a swollen river and a man was crushed to death by a tree as high winds and heavy rain battered Britain.
The youngster was out walking with her family yesterday lunchtime when she was swept away in a 'massive downpour' by the waters of the River Neet, near Bude on the North Cornwall coast.
Search and rescue teams answering a 999 call pulled the girl from the river nearly two hours later and airlifted her to hospital in Plymouth, but she could not be revived.

says the Mail

The Guardian reports on How we watch now: tune in, log on, call up

The traditional picture of the British family spending its evenings slumped in front of the TV has changed dramatically, according to a new report from the watchdog Ofcom, published today. The box is still on, but the people on the sofa are talking on the phone, texting furiously or surfing the internet - increasingly using a laptop with a mobile broadband connection - while they keep one eye on the screen.

Finally the Independent reports on Situation vacant: Girl, 3, wanted for role of living goddess. Must offer blessings

Nepal's astrologers are reviewing horoscopes to find the replacement for the current goddess, who is 11.
"If we don't change her now, we'll have to wait until next year which could be late," said Deepak Bahadur Pandey, a senior official at the state-run Trust Corporation that oversees cultural affairs in the politically turbulent Himalayan nation.