Varied headlines in the papers this Tuesday morning.

The Indepedent leads with an exclusive

SAS spearheads new surge against Taliban

Britain's special forces are to play a key role in a newly-planned "surge" against Taliban forces in Afghanistan, The Independent has learnt.
SAS and SBS troops are to be used to dramatically expand the Army's "decapitation" strategy working alongside US Marines against the Taliban leadership.
The operation will coincide with an increase in troop numbers in the country. American forces are expected to expand by a third while the numbers of British troops will also rise as more forces are pulled out of Iraq.

As does the Telegraph on a totally different subject which reports that

Motorists should pay more to park in town centres to force them to walk more and reduce traffic congestion, according to a Government minister.Local Government minister John Healey said that local councils should charge more for basic services such as off-street parking, despite people in many parts of the country experiencing inflation-busting council tax rises.

There is much coverage of the resignation of President Musharraf

Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, bowed to massive domestic and international pressure to quit yesterday in a move that could further destabilise the volatile country if the coalition government fails to hold together now that their common enemy is removed.
A grim-faced Musharraf delivered an impassioned defence of his record on live television that lasted for over an hour. He kept the news of his resignation until the final moment, ending his almost nine years in power with "God bless Pakistan".

reports the Guardian

The Times adds

His departure deprives the West of its most important partner in the campaign against Taleban and al-Qaeda militants. Western intelligence officials said his resignation would lead to uncertainty at a crucial juncture. “Pakistan is al-Qaeda’s new frontline. They have been strategically defeated in Iraq, and Pakistan is now where the action is

The Independent reports from Inside the city overrun by Russian army

Gori, the largest city in Georgia held by the Russians, was blocked off from the international media by Russian soldiers in armoured cars who said they had no idea when they would be pulling out. The Independent, which reached the city yesterday by using back roads, found a population angry towards both the Russians and the Georgian government.
Long queues have formed outside the sole distribution centre for food aid in the city, with residents complaining that they are not being given nearly enough.

Accoding to the Telegraph

Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, said Georgian actions would not go 'unpunished' as the United States accused Moscow of deploying short-range missiles to positions within range of the Georgian capital Tbilisi.

The Olympics continues to dominate,the Times reports on its front page that

Britain’s Olympic heroes will return to a political wrangle over a £100 million shortfall in sports funding that is threatening their preparations for the London Games in 2012.
Team GB faces budget cuts even though it has hit its target of 12 gold medals six days early, courtesy of the indoor track cyclists yesterday.
Sports in which Britain is deemed to have underperformed – such as athletics, judo, fencing and shooting – face the deepest cuts. But even sports such as swimming, which produced double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington, will not be immune.

The Mirror salutes the March of the Titans.

Team GB have got their biggest medal haul since 1920 and are riding high at third in the medal table,
Cycling, swimming, rowing and sailing have produced golden showings from the Brits, with Becki Adlington, Bradley Wiggins and Chris Hoy joining an elite band who have won two gold medals at the same Games.
And with 12 golds already in the bag and the likelihood of more to come on Tuesday in the velodrome and in the sailing, with Wiggins and Hoy bidding for a hat trick of medals, things could get even better. We're even beating our traditional sporting nemeses Australia and Germany at the moment.

The Mail looks at a less glorious side of the country for its main story

Air rage attacks by binge Britons soar as assaults on cabin crews double

Record numbers of drunk and aggressive British holidaymakers are putting air passengers' lives at risk.
Incidents of air rage involving Britons have trebled over the past five years, official figures show.
This year alone there has been an increase of a third in cases which could have threatened the safety of passengers and crew.

as does the Express which reports on

Why Britain is so unfair

The Guardian leads with its latest opinion poll which finds that

Voters would overwhelmingly prefer David Cameron as prime minister, even if Labour replaced Gordon Brown with David Miliband, a new Guardian/ICM poll shows today.
The prime minister returns to No 10 today after his summer break to find Labour stuck a long way behind the Tories. The only silver lining for Brown is that Miliband, his foreign secretary and possible leadership rival, would not do any better as a credible challenger to the Conservatives.

Many of the papers look at the Global reach of paedophile mastermind Philip Thompson

a global investigation into internet child abuse has led to 50 arrests in Britain with dozens more expected, police said yesterday.
More than a third of the 360 suspects identified so far in an inquiry into an online paedophile forum live in Britain. Investigators believe that they will locate thousands more subscribers around the world. The most recent arrest warrant in the inquiry, codenamed Operation Elm, was executed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Winnipeg last week.
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) said that 15 British children had been safeguarded from abuse. It said that the men detained in Britain included a firefighter, a university lecturer and a police community support officer.

The Mail reporting that

Fifteen British children have been saved from a life of sexual abuse after undercover police smashed a worldwide internet paedophile ring.
At its centre was 27-year-old Philip Thompson, dubbed 'the librarian' after police recovered a million photographs and films of children that were stored electronically at his home.

As they do with the story of Britain's yongest terrorist,the Sun reporting that

Hamaad Munshi was only 15 and studying for his GCSEs when first recruited into Osama Bin Laden’s army of fanatics via the internet.British-born Munshi now faces up to ten years in jail after being convicted of making a record of information likely to be useful in terrorism.
It related to notes on the preparation of the lethal chemical weapon napalm.
Munshi – now 18 – belonged to a three-man gang which had assembled a dossier on all the most senior members of the Royal Family.

The Guardian reports that Two men charged with Antigua murders

Two men accused of killing the British honeymoon couple Ben and Catherine Mullany on the Caribbean island of Antigua last month were remanded in custody yesterday.
The pair, 20-year-old Kaniel Martin and 17-year-old Avie Howell, were remanded in custody for a week by magistrates in St John's, the Caribbean island's capital, charged jointly with murder, robbery and receiving stolen goods.
Prosecutors say the handling charge relates to the newlywed couple's mobile phones and a digital camera, which were allegedly found in the men's possession.

One man dead, 70 injured in bus crash near Alton Towers reports the Independent

A man was killed and more than 60 people injured when a double-decker coach returning from a trip to Alton Towers in Staffordshire crashed over a bridge last night.
The coach, believed to have been carrying 70 European farm workers from near Peterborough, was coming down a steep hill in the village of Alton at about 6pm and failed to take a corner, plunging 20 feet down an embankment and turning over.

The Sun leads with the news that Jade Goody has cancer,the paper reports that

The mum of two, 27, received the bombshell news as she was appearing in the Indian version of the reality TV show. Jade told housemates “I have cancer” after the devastating news was broken to her in the diary room of the show’s Indian version.
The star was in hysterics as she made the announcement.
She was immediately withdrawn from the programme and was last night being flown home for treatment.

Meanwhile the Telegraph reports that

Pop singer Sandi Thom has been "artificially aged" by 30 years as a warning to young people about the dangers of using a sunbed.The computer-generated images were created by Cancer Research UK and are intended to shock sunbed users into changing their ways.
One shows how the fresh-faced 27-year-old will look at 57 as a result of natural age progression.
The second imagines Thom at the same age after decades of over-exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays - resulting in 70 per cent more wrinkles. According to the charity, some sunbeds emit rays 10 to 15 times stronger than those of the midday sun.

The Times reports that BBC ready to dock Crufts coverage after ‘Nazi-style’ breeding

The BBC, which has had exclusive broadcasting rights to the event for more than 40 years, said yesterday it was reviewing its coverage in the light of a programme that it had commissioned on canine health.
The documentary, to be shown on BBC One at 9pm tonight, claims that the breeding process used to produce pedigree dogs has resulted in a high incidence of inherited genetic disease. It raises what the programme makers believe are serious concerns about the ethics of dog shows and their emphasis on breeding purity

August set to be 'wettest in 100 years' says the Telegraph

Parts of the country have already had more than twice the monthly average rainfall with nearly two weeks of the month left.
The wettest August was recorded in 1912 when 192.9mm fell.
The recent rain has been so heavy it caused a wall to collapse on a bungalow in Cornwall, burying one man and trapping two others.
The Environment Agency said it had issued 16 flood warnings so far in August 2008, compared to five in the whole of last August and six in August 2006.

Finally the Sun reports

SWIMMERS were told to beware yesterday after NINE more deadly Portuguese Man o’War were found on UK beaches.
The jellyfish-like creatures’ agonising sting can be fatal – and is particularly dangerous to kids.
The floaters – made up of colonies of creatures – were reported near Chichester, West Sussex.
A council spokesman said: “We don’t want residents or visitors to panic, just to be vigilant.”