The Sunday papers are filled with Britain's best day at the Olympics.

BRITANNIA ruled the sporting waves last night after a record-breaking haul of nine Olympic medals in 10 hours.
It was our equal best day at the Games in the past 100 years.
Swimmer Rebecca Adlington clinched her second gold, then our coxless fours and also cyclists Bradley Wiggins and Chris Hoy all triumphed.
The huge smile that spread across Rebecca Adlington’s face yesterday simply said: “I’m on top of the world.”

says the Express

The Mail reports that

Britain’s impressive haul began with swimmer Rebecca Adlington’s second gold medal of the Games for her stunning victory in the women’s 800m freestyle.
The 19-year-old, who also won gold in the 400m freestyle on Monday, smashed swimming’s longest-standing world record.
The men’s rowing coxless four surged to gold for the third successive Games, with Britain also claiming bronze in the men’s and women’s double sculls.

The Observer leads with Health chief attacks drug giants over huge profits

The drugs industry is overpricing vital new medicines to boost its profits, the chair of the health watchdog Nice warns today in an explosive intervention into the debate over NHS rationing.
Professor Sir Michael Rawlins spoke out after critics last week accused the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) of 'barbarism' for refusing to approve expensive new kidney drugs for NHS use, on the grounds that they were not cost-effective.

The Caucasus are not far away from the headlines,the Times leads with the story that

Russia is considering arming its Baltic fleet with nuclear warheads for the first time since the cold war, senior military sources warned last night.
The move, in response to American plans for a missile defence shield in Europe, would heighten tensions raised by the advance of Russian forces to within 20 miles of Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, yesterday.

The Telegraph reports that

Russian forces have refused to hand over control of the strategic town of Gori to Georgian police amid signs that Moscow was attempting to drag out its promised troop withdrawal for as long as possible.

Crisis in the Caucasus says the Independent

Russian troops advanced further into Georgia, moving to within 25 miles of the capital at one point yesterday, even as the Kremlin announced that it had signed, and would abide by, a ceasefire stipulating that it withdraws its troops from the territory it has occupied.
At the end of a tumultuous nine days, there was deep uncertainty about what unfolds next in the war in which Russian warplanes had bombed a European ally of the US and revived the spectre of the most tense days of the Cold War.

There is much other news from abroad,the Observer reports how

Pakistan looks to life without the general

Jason Burke was the first reporter to interview General Musharraf when he seized control in 1999 from one of the men who today threaten to impeach him. Now he reports on the critical changes transforming the nuclear-armed state as the pro-US strongman's power ebbs away. And these changes may not be welcome to the West

The Independent reports from Zimbabwe where

Zimbabwe's political rivals resumed power-sharing talks yesterday on the sidelines of a regional free-trade summit in Johannesburg with pressure mounting to find a way to end the country's political crisis. And President Robert Mugabe, who is still refusing to make the concessions necessary to achieving an agreement with the opposition, faced protesters from South African unions – a sign that his intransigence is losing him former friends.

The Times reports on the race for the white house

Barack Obama cited his youthful experimentation with drugs and John McCain noted his failed first marriage as their greatest moral failings at a forum on faith today.
The presidential election rivals shook hands and hugged briefly at the half-way point of the two hour discussion which both men used to appeal to religious voters who will be a key voting bloc in the November election.
In front of a crowd of 2,000 at the huge Saddlback Church in Orange country, California, the men were quizzed on their beliefs for an hour each by pastor Rick Warren, a prominent evangelical. Although billed as a forum on faith, the discussion also turned on key election issues such as the Iraq war and national security.

Back in the Uk and the Telegraph reports that

A 16-year-old was knifed in the back at a party in Manchester, while a 17-year-old was fatally wounded during a street fight in south London yesterday.
The death of the older boy, who was Sri Lankan, brings the toll of teenagers to have died violently in the capital this year to 23.
The latest deaths come with the Government and police under pressure to quell fears over a rising tide of knife crime.

According to the Times, a Minister wants supertax on Britain’s top earners

Ivan Lewis, writing in The Sunday Times, calls on the government to introduce a new economic package to bail out the hard-pressed middle classes – possibly paid for by new taxes on the rich.
The health minister warns that urgent steps must be taken to protect the living standards of the “mainstream majority” of comfortably off voters who swept Labour to power in 1997.

The Observer looks towards the next by election

Still reeling from a thrashing by the SNP in Glasgow East, Gordon Brown now faces the threat of a Nationalist victory at a byelection in his own backyard

The Mail reveals how

MPs were last night accused of mounting a shameless cover-up operation to prevent voters from discovering the full truth about their lavish expenses.
This autumn, Commons authorities will for the first time release details of up to two million receipts submitted by MPs, covering claims for home improvements, furnishings and office costs.
But The Mail on Sunday can reveal that MPs have insisted on having the information censored – and in such a way that could save them from potential embarrassment

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The Telegraph reports that

MI5 has teamed up with a leading gay lobby group in an attempt to recruit more homosexuals and help encourage spies to be more open about their sexuality.The intelligence service, which deals with counter-terrorism within the UK, has hired Stonewall to try and attract a broader range of candidate.
This year the organisation will appear in Stonewall's graduate recruitment guide, which lists gay-friendly employers.

The Independent reports that Britain 'ignores child sex tourism'

Children are being put at risk by the Government's failure to deal with British paedophiles overseas, according to a new report being published today.
Sex offenders are able to travel the world abusing children virtually unchecked, according to the report, which accuses Britain of turning a blind eye to the activities of child molesters abroad. While British authorities await the return on Tuesday of convicted paedophile Gary Glitter after his release from prison in Vietnam, the report from Ecpat (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes) accuses the Government of ignoring scores of similar offenders who are abusing children in countries that are often unable to police their activities.

The latest from the summer weather as the Times reports that

Fire crews in Northern Ireland helped dozens of people from their homes after torrential rain caused rivers to burst their banks, bridges to wash away and saw dozens of roads closed.
An RNLI lifeboat went door to door rescuing people from their homes in Bryansford, Co Down, as waters rose.
Part of the M1 and M2 motorways remain shut and a train in the Irish Republic derailed in the freak conditions.

Amongst the gossip for the day the Mirror reveals

X FACTOR heart-throb Simon Cowell is helping to relaunch the TV career of beautiful game-show hostess Emma Noble.
The £100million pop mogul has become friendly with ex-glamour girl Emma, 35, who was once voted one of the world’s sexiest women.
Their friendship started when Simon, who splits his time between London and Los Angeles, had a number of meetings with Emma to talk about TV projects to boost her career – but there is no romance between them

The Mail reports that The bride wore ... a napkin on her head - the bizarre wedding of Peaches Geldof

As wedding rehearsal dinners go, it was far from conventional. But then nothing about the marriage of Peaches Honeyblossom Geldof and American rock musician Maxwell Drummey was ever likely to conform to anything so dull as ‘the norm.’
These exclusive pictures were taken in Los Angeles on August 1, just four days before Peaches and Max rushed up the aisle of the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas.
The bride-to-be wears a napkin on her head and a locket from her ex-boyfriend round her neck. The future groom wears the dazed look of a young man caught up in the weather system of a romance that is not so much whirlwind as cyclonic.

Finally staying with weddings the Independent reports 'No one understood why I took my wife's surname'

When 29-year-old scriptwriter Kris Myddelton (né Dyer) married Jo last October, there was no question of who was wearing the trousers: it was him (she was in the traditional floor-sweeping white satin). But it was he who took her surname. "It may not be very butch," admits the groom, "but it is rather pleasantly twee."
If you're picturing a downtrodden, emasculated new-age hippie, you'd be wrong. Myddelton is keen to point out that the main reason behind their decision was simple: "My surname was rubbish and hers wasn't." In addition, Jo is an only child, so they decided that carrying on the family name seemed a "nice thing to do".