The papers cannot decide on the main news today.

The Times leads with the Shambolic Ruth Kelly exit

Labour’s troubles deepened yesterday when the chaotic announcement that Ruth Kelly plans to quit the Cabinet left both Gordon Brown and the leadership plotters reeling.
The news, confirmed at 3am in a hotel bar, took the gloss off Mr Brown’s keynote speech, after which ministers had rallied to shore up his fragile position. But it also dealt a blow to the rebels determined to oust him

A story that is covered in most of the papers

The departure of the Transport Secretary - announced by Number 10 aides at 3am in a hotel bar - has caused widespread disquiet within the Cabinet. Plans for a reshuffle next week are also in disarray as senior ministers demand assurances over their positions

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The Guardian says the exit reignites Labour's civil war

While the prime minister flew to the UN in New York, senior party critics accused Downing Street of deliberately leaking news of Kelly's resignation, to undermine a potential rebel.
"We have given Gordon a lot of space this week to make his speech claiming to be the big man to fix the economy," one cabinet level source said. "But they are so small-minded and paranoid that they ruin their own day by briefing this stuff."

Whilst the Mail says 'This is a declaration of war': describing how

Angry Cabinet ministers accused Gordon Brown's inner circle of forcing Ruth Kelly to quit yesterday in what amounted to a 'declaration of war'.
Bitter recriminations following the Transport Secretary's shock departure meant the Prime Minister flew for talks in the U.S. leaving Labour back on the brink of a full-scale leadership crisis.
A tearful Miss Kelly admitted she had been 'shocked' that news leaked of her intention to resign at the next reshuffle, prompting her to announce her departure.

It leads with the great nuclear sell-out

Britain's only nuclear power company is being bought by the French in a £12.5billion deal likely to trigger a huge rise in electricity bills. By buying British Energy, EDF - which is 80 per cent owned by the French government - will take control of the UK's eight nuclear power plants and build at least four super-size reactors

The Times says that

French families pay less for their electricity than almost anyone else in Europe. Nearly all of it is nuclear powered.
Now the state-owned giant that produces most of that energy has seized control of the British nuclear industry, sparking fears of still higher prices on this side of the Channel.

The Guardian leads with End of the Anglican crown - 300 year bar to be lifted

Downing Street has drawn up plans to end the 300-year-old exclusion of Catholics from the throne. The requirement that the succession automatically pass to a male would also be reformed, making it possible for a first born daughter of Prince William to become his heir.
The proposals also include limiting the powers of the privy council, in particular its role as arbiter in disputes between Scotland or Wales and the UK government.

There is a royal story on the front of the Independent,it says that

The Queen and the Government are locked in a secret dispute over royal demands for increased public funding to meet the growing expense of the monarchy

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Palace aides have told ministers they need extra money to offset the cost of maintaining the Royal Estate of palaces and pay for increased fuel, food and staffing costs. But the Government is refusing to increase the £15m it pays for the upkeep of the Queen's occupied palaces and is fending off demands for a large rise in the £7.9m Civil List which pays for the monarch's public functions. Ministers argue that, in the present economic climate, Whitehall budgets are already overstretched. Royal aides counter that Parliament has a constitutional duty to ensure the Queen is financially secure.

Both the Telegraph and the Express lead with health stories,the former reporting that

Pregnant women are set to be offered flu jabs from next year to protect the health of hundreds of thousands of babies

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The Express meanwhile reports that

THOUSANDS of British women were given fresh hope in their fight against breast cancer last night.
Those at high risk of the disease were told HRT can cut their chance of developing it by 42 per cent.
Until now hormone replacement therapy was thought to increase the risk – but a new study claims it can benefit those with a gene mutation linked to the illness

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Catholic governors refuse to allow girls to have cervical cancer jabs at school reports the Times

The move, by St Monica’s High School in Prestwich, was condemned as irresponsible by the Department for Health, which began its programme to immunise girls against the sexually-transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) this month.
In a letter to parents, the school says that the vaccine has been proved neither safe nor effective, that girls who took part in a pilot programme last year suffered side-effects and that the vaccine could “interfere with the body’s natural defences”. It concluded: “We do not believe that school is the right place for the three injections to be administered.”

The Sun has been following the fortunes of two football players,

JOEY Barton pushes a wheelbarrow full of lawn clippings and garden debris as he pays his dues for a brutal attack on a team-mate.The thuggish Newcastle United midfielder is helping other convicted criminals clear up a dilapidated community centre.
But while others on the project arrive by bus or in modest motors Barton, who earns £63,000 a week, comes and goes in a £50,000 Range Rover driven by a minder.

Whilst it also reports that

FOOTIE star Carlton Cole was banged up in a cell after being arrested at 4.30am on suspicion of drink driving.
The West Ham striker was stopped in his £50,000 Audi Q7 for allegedly driving erratically on London’s Victoria Embankment, close to Westminster Bridge

The Independent asks OJ Simpson: Is this the final chapter?

On the steps of a courthouse, in the warm glow of a Las Vegas sunset, OJ Simpson is meeting his public: a few dozen well-wishers waiting patiently behind a row of crash barriers to watch him exit the Regional Justice Centre, after another long day in court 11D

The Guardian reports from the De Menezes enquiry saying that

Jean Charles de Menezes told his family they should pray not to be in the "wrong place at the wrong time" hours before he was shot dead by police who mistook him for a suicide bomber.
The inquest into the death of the 27-year-old Brazilian, who was killed in July 2005, heard that De Menezes and his cousins had been scared by that summer's terrorist attacks on London.

To the financial turmoil and the Telegraph reports that

Archbishops of Canterbury and York blame capitalism excesses for financial crisis

The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, condemned the financial traders who made millions by driving down the share price of leading banks as "bank robbers and asset strippers".
In a powerful speech to City bankers on the effects of the credit crisis on Wednesday, he denounced the "Alice in Wonderland" world of global finance where short-sellers profited by laying bets that shares in HBOS would fall in price.

'We face an economic Pearl Harbour' reports the Mail

One of the world's richest and most respected investors yesterday warned that the turmoil on Wall Street is 'an economic Pearl Harbour'.
Warren Buffett urged an angry and divided U.S. Congress to quickly approve an 'absolutely necessary' $700billion rescue package to combat the crisis.
The American billionaire spoke out as it emerged the FBI has started a criminal fraud inquiry into four firms whose collapse led to U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's bailout plan.

The Guardian reports that

North Korea has triggered a new crisis over its nuclear ambitions by expelling UN inspectors and pledging to resume plutonium reprocessing - a precursor to producing atomic weapons.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog, confirmed yesterday that it had, at Pyongyang's request, removed seals and surveillance equipment from the Yongbyon plant, delivering a blow to the 2007 deal scrapping its atomic weapons programmes.

According to the Independent

The international community is "losing its grip" on the Middle East peace process and failing to improve the appalling living conditions for Palestinians, a group of leading NGOs charges today.
The international Quartet – consisting of the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia – is accused of creating a "vacuum of leadership" as the aid agencies complain that "visible progress" in the Middle East has "failed to materialise".

The Times reports that

The British commander in Afghanistan said yesterday that he could use an extra 4,000 troops to fight the Taleban in Helmand province.
Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, head of the Helmand Task Force, told Sky News that there were more than enough tasks in the province for another brigade of between 3,000 and 4,000 troops. There are currently 8,000 British troops in southern Afghanistan.

The front page of the Mirror is concerned about Paul McCartney's visit to Israel

The vast security for Sir Paul McCartney’s Tel Aviv concert tonight even dwarfs the protection given to President Bush when he visited Israel.

A 5,000-strong security team will ensure Macca, 66, is watched around the clock in the wake of death threats from Islamic fanatics.
One security source said: “No one is taking anything for granted.
“The level of security is unlike anything we’ve seen. Everything is being done to ensure that this passes peacefully and without incident.”
A massive security army guarding Macca includes 20 agents from Israel’s elite Mossad intelligence organisation as well as officers from Britain’s MI6.

Some bad news in the Telegraph

Vint Cerf, the man who help invented the system and one of the world's leading computer scientists, said that the web does not have enough unique codes that allow computers to communicate with each other.
He said that when the internet protocol (IP) addresses do run out, the connectivity of the internet will be damaged and some computers will not be able to go online

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Staying with technology and the Mail reports that

Ryanair is to allow passengers to use their mobile phones in flight – at a cost of around £2 a minute.
The budget airline's boss was quick to dismiss fears that the move might disturb other travellers.
'If you want a quiet flight, use another airline,' said Michael O'Leary. 'Ryanair is noisy, full and we are always trying to sell you something.'

Finally the Sun reports that

a council has lifted its Monty Python ban after 28 years.
There was a huge controversy when the silly burghers of Torbay in Devon slapped an X-rating on the Life Of Brian movie. They accused the Python team of blasphemy and mocking the story of Christ.
But a local film festival asked for permission to show the 1979 classic on Sunday and officials in Torbay — the setting for John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers — lifted the restriction.