Varied headlines in the broadsheets this morning,whereas the tabloids continue to concentrae on Madeleine McCann.

gay relationships 'comparable to marriage' is the lead in the Times which reports that

Rowan Williams believes that gay sexual relationships can “reflect the love of God” in a way that is comparable to marriage, The Times has learnt.
Gay partnerships pose the same ethical questions as those between men and women, and the key issue for Christians is that they are faithful and lifelong, he believes.
Dr Williams is known to be personally liberal on the issue but the strength of his views, revealed in private correspondence shown to The Times, will astonish his critics.

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The news threatens to reopenbitter divisions over ordaining gay priests, which pushed the Anglican Communion towards a split.

Parents warned over measles epidemic reports the Independent

A stark warning about the dangers of measles is to be sent to the parents of three million unvaccinated children in an unprecedented move to increase uptake of the MMR vaccination, the Government will announce today.
Department of Health scientists say Britain faces a greater threat of a measles epidemic, which would result in up to 100,000 children and young people being infected, than at any time for decades.

The Telegraph meanwhile leads with the news that

Cancer patients are to be denied drugs which could keep them alive after the NHS rationing watchdog ruled that they are too expensive.The four prohibited medicines include Sutent, which can prolong life in kidney cancer patients by up to two years. The draft guidance also rejects Avastin, Nexavar and Torisel.

Global warming features on the front of the Guardian,it says that

The UK should take active steps to prepare for dangerous climate change of perhaps 4C according to one of the government's chief scientific advisers.
In policy areas such as flood protection, agriculture and coastal erosion Professor Bob Watson said the country should plan for the effects of a 4C global average rise on pre-industrial levels. The EU is committed to limiting emissions globally so that temperatures do not rise more than 2C.

The same paper reports from Beijing where

Two British protesters detained by Chinese authorities after unfurling Free Tibet banners and Tibetan flags from a lamp post outside Beijing's Bird's Nest Olympic stadium were reported to have been released last night and are expected to be deported before the games begin.
Lucy Fairbrother, 23, and Iain Thom, 24, were detained on Tuesday along with two US activists near the stadium where Friday's opening ceremony will take place. All four are members of the international Students for a Free Tibet group

The Telegraph meanwhile stays on the Olympic theme

Britain sends twice as many public workers as athletes

Whilst Team GB comprises 313 athletes, more than 600 publicly-funded workers will be attending the Games, including government ministers, press officers, local councillors and policemen
Many of them have important roles in organising the London 2012 Olympics, but critics have suggested that for some the trips may be little more than "a jolly".

Many of the papers report on the

Notorious Johnson family members jailed for UK's biggest heist

A gang of gypsies who carried out a string of breakins at stately homes, including Britain’s biggest domestic burglary, were jailed yesterday for up to 11 years each.
Five members of the notorious Johnson family, who once bragged that they would gladly steal from “sirs and ladies”, stole antiques worth tens of millions of pounds. Their biggest burglary, at a mansion owned by the property developer Harry Hyams, brought them a haul estimated by art experts to be worth £80 million.

£30m trail of the mansion raiders:reports the Mail

The astonishing 20-year reign of one of Britain's most prolific criminal families is over.
Five members of the Johnsons gang were jailed for a total of almost 50 years after stealing art and antiques worth more than £30million from stately homes.

It meanwhile reports on The female commuter shoved onto rail line after she told two thugs to stop smoking

All she did was what any good citizen might do - ask two young men on a railway platform to stop smoking.
But commuter Linda Buchanan almost paid with her life when the thugs shoved her onto the tracks.
As fellow passengers stared in horror Mrs Buchanan, a management consultant, landed just inches from a 750-volt live rail, snapping her left wrist and leaving her perilously close to being run over by a train.

The rest of the tabloids all have Maddy on ther front pages,the Sun reports that

MADELEINE McCann was stolen to order by a Belgian paedophile ring, Scotland Yard fears.
An email claims the gang “ordered” a young girl just three days before Maddie vanished.
A pervert saw her in Portugal, took her photo and sent it to the ring, who then approved her kidnap, an informant claimed.

She could be alive says the Express

A SHOPKEEPER who insists she saw Madeleine McCann days after her abduction said yesterday the little girl “could still be alive”.
Anna Stam says she is haunted by the face “of the angelic child with the big sad eyes” who came into her shop near Amsterdam’s red light district.
Ms Stam said: “I am convinced I spoke to Madeleine. She said her name was Maddie and her face had no emotion in it. The man and woman she was with acted like tourists and referred to her as La Petite.

The Mirror claims meanwhile that

Kate and Gerry McCann slept in separate bedrooms the night before daughter Maddy was snatched from their apartment in Portugal after having a furious row, it emerged today.
The revelation was made during Kate McCann's witness statement the day before she was made a formal suspect in the investigation, and is part of evidence in the police files released earlier this week.

To politics and the Independent says Stamp duty fiasco threatens summer 'property slump'

House sales could collapse over the summer because of confusion over the future of stamp duty, the Chancellor has been told by estate agents and surveyors.
They fear the beleaguered property market could stall for up to three months as potential buyers delay their planned purchases. Alistair Darling has confirmed he is looking at a "range of options" over stamp duty as part of a comprehensive economic revival package. Possible measures include a stamp duty holiday and allowing buyers to defer their payments.

The Mail pleads on its front page,Don't dither

Alistair Darling was accused yesterday of 'paralysing' the housing market by dithering over whether to suspend stamp duty.
The Tories told the Chancellor he was playing 'damaging short-term games' with the economy through his failure to end uncertainty over the future of the property levy

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Miliband and Milburn's leadership plot backfires reports the Telegraph

One party insider said that the "wheels had come off" the Foreign Secretary's leadership bid following the Daily Telegraph's revelation that he is actively preparing for a contest in the event of Gordon Brown's departure.
The strength of the backlash will revive memories of Michael Portillo's 1995 aborted leadership coup, when the then-Defence Secretary was exposed as having installed phone banks in a premature move to campaign for the premiership if John Major was forced out of office.

The Guardian reports that 15-year boom has left Britain with multiple aftershocks

The International Monetary Fund predicted last night that the credit crunch would inflict two tough years on the British economy and warned that rising inflation left the Bank of England with little scope to cut interest rates in response.
In one of its regular health checks on Britain, the IMF said after 15 years of steady growth the economy was at risk from a series of interlocking shocks that would leave growth at 1.4% this year and 1.1% in 2009. In May, it forecast expansion of 1.75% in both years

Bin Laden driver weeps after terror verdict reports the Times

Osama bin Laden's former driver was found guilty of supporting terrorism by a military jury in Guantanamo Bay yesterday in the first US war crimes trial since the Second World War.
The jury of six US military officers found Salim Hamdan not guilty of the more serious charge of conspiring with al-Qaeda to attack civilians, which meant that the Bush Administration was unable to prove that he had helped to plot and carry out terrorist attacks

The Telegraph reports that

Russia threatened to deploy bombers and short-range missiles on the Polish border if Warsaw agrees to host elements of a US missile defence shield on its territory.The warning marks a further escalation in the diplomatic crisis between Russia and the United States. Russian military hardware has not been stationed on the border of what is now the European Union since the Cold War.

According to the Guardian

Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai are expected to hold direct talks on a power-sharing deal today, but crucial disagreements remain over how much authority the president will continue to wield.
The negotiations are based on a proposal by South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, for Mugabe to remain as a titular president, with a guarantee that he will not be prosecuted for past crimes, while political power shifts to Tsvangirai as an executive prime minister because he won the last election acceptable as credible - the first round of voting for president in March.

The Independent reports on the bizarre goings on in the US hustings

Paris for President – and she's gunning for McCain

Hold the presses: feather-brained celebrity may not be so feather-brained after all. The socialite Paris Hilton has now mocked John McCain with a retaliatory "campaign ad" – and it could just be funnier than its inspiration, the Republican presidential candidate's spot likening his rival Barack Obama to herself and her fellow denizen of the gossip columns Britney Spears.

The Guardian reports that

Secret EU security draft risks uproar

Europe should consider sharing vast amounts of intelligence and information on its citizens with the US to establish a "Euro-Atlantic area of cooperation" to combat terrorism, according to a high-level confidential report on future security.
The 27 members of the EU should also pool intelligence on terrorism, develop joint video-surveillance and unmanned drone aircraft, start networks of anti-terrorism centres, and boost the role and powers of an intelligence-coordinating body in Brussels, said senior officials

Back to the Uk and the Telegraph reports that

Duke of Edinburgh seeks privacy law for the Royal Family

Buckingham Palace believes the motor racing chief's High Court victory against the News of the World can be used to prevent the media reporting details of royals' private lives.The Duke has seized on an "untrue" report in the Evening Standard newspaper that he had "prostate cancer" to launch a test case against the British media via the Press Complaints Commission (PCC).

Staying with Royal matters and the Independent reports that

The fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square is being kept free for a statue of the Queen riding a horse which will be commissioned after she dies, say senior officials.
The plan sheds new light on why the plinth has never had a full-time occupant and has been used recently to showcase the work of modern artists. It also explains why the Mayor of London, who has been informed of the plan, recently performed a mysterious U-turn on proposals for a permanent statue to be placed on the monument, blaming "complex planning issues".

The Mail reports that

A reclusive pensioner who died in his bed lay undiscovered for two years.
The semi-mummified body of 70-year-old Brian Dean was found by police after neighbours finally became concerned about his welfare.
But it was only when they checked the mail lying on his doormat that they realised he had been dead for two years before anyone noticed.

TO Celeb gossip now and many of the papers report that

DARK Knight star Morgan Freeman is divorcing his wife of 24 years, it has been announced

the Sun reports that

The news comes days after the Oscar-winning dad of three and female pal Demaris Meyer, 48, were involved in a horror car smash.
Freeman’s lawyer Bill Luckett last night confirmed the star, 71, and his second wife, costumier Myrna Colley-Lee, are “involved in a divorce action

Wet summer triggers plague of snails says the Telegraph

Two summers of humid weather, with warm spells interspersed with cooler periods of rain has led to a sharp rise in the snail population because it creates perfect breeding conditions.It has left gardeners exasperated as they watch their plant eaten and gardens wrecked

Finally the Guardian reports that

'Digger' Dowling, hero of the Great Escape, makes his final exit at (almost) 93

Eric "Digger" Dowling, the English airman who helped excavate the tunnel but was left behind when the Great Escapers crawled out of Stalag Luft III and into history, has died peacefully a day short of his 93rd birthday.
The escape from the German camp on March 24 1944, through tunnels dug with tools and equipment scavenged from scrap materials, has become one of the most famous in the annals of the second world war, and inspired an equally famous film, The Great Escape - which Dowling very much disliked.