The leaked letter from the Home Secretary to the Prime Minister makes the front of many of the papers this morning.
Credit crunch could lead to crime wave says the Telegraph

A blunt assessment of the pressures that a recession will bring on law and order is detailed in a document which is to be sent to Number 10 from Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary.
It outlines the potential rises in crime, including violent crime, that could occur because of the credit crisis. Overall crime is expected to rise as a result of the more difficult economic times, which could also fuel terrorism, it warns

The Mail says

It predicts sharp rises in burglary and violence - but less funding to put police on the streets to meet the tide of lawlessness.The 12-page document also warns that support for the far Right will increase as unemployment bites, meaning minority groups such as Muslims will be more likely to suffer racism, pushing them towards radicalisation and even terrorism.

The Guardian says that

An autumn offensive by Gordon Brown to revive his premiership with a package of economic measures risks being overshadowed by the leak of a Home Office document which spells out how the downturn will lead to an increase in crime and greater support for extremist political parties.

Meanwhile the Times says that

Alistair Darling’s job on the line

Tensions between the Treasury and Downing Street were threatening to undermine Gordon Brown’s relaunch, which will begin tomorrow with a package of help for first-time buyers.
Ministers privately criticised Mr Darling for his interview, in which he said that the public were “p***** off” with Labour and even suggested that other ministers were keen on his job.

There are many pictures of a deserted New Orleans,the Independent reports that

New Orleans awakes this morning as a city under lockdown, braced for the worst that Hurricane Gustav can throw at it. Hundreds of thousands of people have already jammed on to the freeways, their cars packed bumper to bumper, to flee the danger zone. Others have decided to tough it out with armed soldiers patrolling the battened-down neighbourhoods and a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Staying or going, they all share the same fear: that this will be Hurricane Katrina all over again, only worse.

The Guardian reminding us that

Gustav's arrival comes days after the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005 leaving more than 1,000 people dead and causing $30bn (£16.5bn) in damage, a disaster from which the city has not yet recovered.

Staying in America and the Times reports that

Palin hit by internet rumours over fifth child

Teams of Democratic operatives and investigative journalists descended on Alaska yesterday to delve into the private and public life of Sarah Palin, the new and little-known Republican vice-presidential nominee, as fresh questions arose over whether she had been vetted properly by the John McCain campaign. The paper adding that

If Mrs Palin, a conservative mother of five, ever doubted that landing on a national presidential ticket would open her to the harshest of spotlights and smear tactics, she also awoke yesterday to utterly unfounded internet rumours that her fifth child, born in April with Down’s Syndrome, was actually her 17-year-old daughter’s.

McCain defends running mate says the Guardian

The Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, yesterday defended his choice of running mate, Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, in the face of widespread scorn that she lacks experience, especially in foreign policy.
Asked about her lack of experience on Fox News Sunday, McCain said: "She's been commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard ... she's had judgment on these issues. She's had 12 years of elected office experience, including travelling to Kuwait

There is much speculation from the discoveries in the Shropshire mansion

Police are searching for missing teenager Kirstie Foster after the bodies of her mother and a man believed to be her father were found in their fire-ravaged mansion says the Telegraph

Further tests are being carried out to confirm the identity of the man and to establish a cause of death. He is believed to be millionaire businessman Christopher Foster, 50.
Mr Foster's daughter Kirstie, 15, has not been seen since the family attended a barbecue at a friend's house on Monday and returned to their home, Osbaston House in Shropshire, that evening.

The Mirror asks Where is Kirstie

The Mail speculates that

Detectives suspect Mr Foster shot his wife and daughter - and their pet dogs and horses - before setting fire to the £1.2million mansion and then killing himself.
Mr Foster had debts of almost £2million and is understood to have been angry about being forbidden to sell his house without permission from the authorities handling the liquidation of his company

The Independent reports on another bloddy weekend

Two more teenagers die in epidemic of knife attacks

A 14-year-old boy died in hospital yesterday after being stabbed during a fight in east London the previous evening. He was the 25th teenager to be murdered in the capital this year, and the 20th victim of a knife attack

Divided EU prepares to review stand on Russia at emergency summit says the Guardian

Calls grew louder yesterday for Russia to face greater international isolation because of its invasion and partition of Georgia as European leaders prepared for an emergency summit on the Caucasus crisis and to review the basis of the EU's relations with Russia.
France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, the EU's current president, who negotiated a ceasefire agreement between Moscow and Tbilisi, has convened the first EU emergency summit since February 2003 in the run-up to the Iraq war in order to concentrate the minds of leaders on their policies towards Moscow.

Putin threatens Europe over energy supply reports the Telegraph

The Russian prime minister travelled to Siberia to demand that work on a new pipeline to supply oil to Asia is speeded up.
In an echo of the photographs released last year that showed the bare-chested leader in a series of macho hunting poses, Mr Putin posed with a rifle for the cameras as scientists tranquilised a tiger at the Ussuri reserve.
The announcement on the eve of an emergency European Union summit in Brussels on Russia's occupation of Georgia put EU states on notice that Moscow is developing an alternative client base in the Far East.

The Sun leads with the story that

A PLOT to sell intimate stolen photographs of Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton has been smashed — thanks to The Sun.
The snaps showed the pair relaxing on a Caribbean hol. We were offered them for £50,000, but alerted cops. One man was arrested and bailed.
The snaps — some of the most personal and intimate pictures ever taken of the couple — were offered to The Sun on a stolen camera flashcard

Many of the papers feature the actress Helen Mirren,

Dame Helen Mirren has angered anti-rape campaigners by suggesting that women who are date-raped should not expect to take those who have violated them to court.
In an interview with the former tabloid editor Piers Morgan, the Oscar-winning actress revealed how she often used cocaine throughout her twenties and had herself been date-raped in her late teens and twenties whe
n she moved to London.

says the Independent

The Telegraph says that

The 63-year-old, who won an Oscar last year for her portrayal of the Queen, revealed that she took the Class A drug until the early 1980s.
She only quit after reading that Klaus Barbie, who was known as the Butcher of Lyon for his role in the deaths of 4,000 people during World War Two, made a living from cocaine dealing.

The Express leads with yet another cancer cure

Millions of cancer sufferers were given fresh hope last night after a breakthrough discovery that could block almost all forms of the disease.
Scientists have unravelled the crucial enzyme that helps to spread cancer cells around the body.
The research paves the way towards understanding how to turn cancer growth on and off and could see the development of “one-size-fits-all” drugs.

The Times reports that
Stores promoting junk food despite warnings on obesity

Supermarkets have almost doubled the number of “junk food” items they promote, despite warnings of an obesity crisis, an official watchdog has found.
The National Consumer Council accuses supermarkets of using “buy one, get one free” or “three for the price of two” offers on savoury snacks, sweets, chocolate, biscuits, cakes and fizzy drinks to entice shoppers during the credit crunch – and names Morrisons and Waitrose as the worst offenders.

The Sun reports that

THE man cleared of gunning down TV host Jill Dando leaves a shop — after asking for books about the murder case.
It was the second time in six days that Barry George had visited the store seeking information on the killing

The Telegraph says that

China is planning to build the world's fastest bullet train, to link Beijing with the financial capital Shanghai.In a sign the country's ambitions to go faster, higher and bigger have not been dimmed by the end of the Olympics, the Ministry of Railways says it is raising the speed it intends

Finally the Mail reports that

Biggest-ever experiment to unlock secrets of Big Bang could cause end of the world, say scientists in court bid to halt it

It has cost £4.4billion and is designed to unlock the secrets of the Big Bang.

say the paper

But rather than providing vital information about the beginning of life, the world's biggest experiment could cause the end of the world, say scientists.
They fear that the Large Hadron Collider - due to be switched on in nine days' time - will create a black hole that could swallow the planet.
By smashing sub-atomic particles together at close to the speed of light, the LHC aims to recreate the conditions that existed a fraction of a second after the birth of the universe or Big Bang, shedding light on the building blocks of life.
But critics claim that the 'time machine', which has been built 300ft beneath the French-Swiss border near Geneva, could instead spawn a shower of mini-black holes.