The Times leads with the McCain bounce this morning,the paper reports that

John McCain headed into the last 60 days of the US presidential campaign neck and neck with Barack Obama after a “Sarah Palin bounce” appeared to have all but cancelled out the Democrat’s lead in the polls.
With the Republican Party finishing its convention in St Paul believing that victory on November 4 is truly within its grasp, the Rasmussen tracking poll yesterday had Mr Obama on 46 per cent and Mr McCain on 45 per cent.

The Independent also leads with Palin but claims that

behind her beaming smile and wholesome family values is a woman aligned with the big oil and coal firms that are racing to exploit Alaska's vast energy reserves. In the short term, that has bought her popularity at home.

The Guardian asks who won the convention battle

So, they're over. Party conventions may look fun on television, and sometimes they are, but it's nice to get home. Which party won the battle of the conventions? The scoring system is simple.
Conventions last four nights (by design at least, but more on this below). Each party gets one point for a successful night, half a point for a reasonably successful night, and a zero for a dud. So let's have a look

It leads with the environment though,Brown's £1bn power windfall

Rising energy prices are on course to net the government a windfall of over £1bn thanks to a little-known scheme designed to promote the development of renewable energy.
The disclosure of the substantial sums made through the scheme comes as Gordon Brown has been piling pressure on power companies to plough some of the profits they have made through increased prices into helping cash-strapped consumers

The weather takes centre stage at home,Gales and floods hit Britain reports the Independent

Torrential rain and gales caused havoc in South Wales and south-west England as the first major storm of the autumn swept in off the Atlantic, causing the death of a 17-year-old girl, flooding homes and leaving the emergency services rescuing stranded drivers from their cars.
The girl was a passenger in a 4x4 driving through a remote forest near the Llyn Briane reservoir, Powys, which hit floodwater, overturned and plunged into a swollen river yesterday afternoon. She and two others were airlifted to hospital with hypothermia but the girl later died.

Storms abroad in the Telegraph which reports that

Tropical storm Hanna is closing in on North and South Carolina with receding flood

waters in Haiti revealing the corpses of nearly 500 victims of the deadly weather system.Hanna, the eighth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, closed in on the US east coast on the verge of hurricane strength after leaving “catastrophic” conditions in Haiti, which it battered with strong winds and torrential rain for several days.

It leads with the news that Children aged eight enlisted as council snoopers

The youngsters are among almost 5,000 residents who in some cases are being offered £500 rewards if they provide evidence of minor infractions.
One in six councils contacted by the Telegraph said they had signed up teams of "environment volunteers" who are being encouraged to photograph or video neighbours guilty of dog fouling, littering or "bin crimes".

The Times reports that Maternity units' missing £330m funding

Funding promised by the Government to improve poor standards of care for mothers and newborn babies is failing to reach maternity units, The Times has learnt.
A survey of NHS trusts has showed that nine out of ten cannot identify their share of the £330 million pledged by ministers.

Football on the front page of the Sun which reveals that

BOOZE-SWILLING Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley broke off from his monster champagne binge to tell one shocked reveller: “We’ve had a tiff with Keegan — but it will all be sorted out.”
The billionaire soccer tycoon slurred his promise as he ran up a £125,000 bar bill with his chums — spraying expensive bubbly in all directions during a three-hour orgy of debauchery.

Keep fit to avoid cancer reports the front of the Express

REGULAR exercise will keep cancer at bay, according to a groundbreaking new study.
Moderate amounts of walking, playing sport, going to the gym or even housework can stave off the killer disease, researchers have found.
In a study lasting 10 years, scientists discovered that people who keep active are protected against a number of common cancers, including colon, liver, pancreatic and stomach cancers.

The economic slowdown is on the front of the Telegraph,it reports that

London shares have suffered their worst week in six years following a slew of dismal economic news which apparently leaves Britain in the mouth of a recession.The FTSE 100 index of leading equities is now pricing in a UK recession, experts said, after the index dropped 121.40 points to 5240.70. The 2.3pc fall brings to total drop over the past week to 7pc - the biggest weekly fall since the midst of the dot-com bust.

The Guardian says that Property market will bounce back in 2010, report predicts

But don't jump for joy yet. Coming a day after Halifax revealed a record drop in house prices, the report provides little comfort for recent homebuyers now sliding into negative equity. It predicts that prices will slump a further 15% in 2009, with this week's stamp duty cuts failing to halt the decline.

The Independent carries the latest opinion poll which suggests that

Tony Blair is the only senior Labour figure who would transform Labour's prospects at the next general election, according to a ComRes poll for The Independent.
The former prime minister would cut the Conservative Party's projected majority of 182 to just 20 seats – enough to raise Labour's hopes it could prevent David Cameron becoming Prime Minister. The Tories' current poll lead would be almost halved from 19 to 10 points.

The Times has an interview with Harriet Harman who

has given her bleakest assessment of the Government’s plight, admitting that there is dissatisfaction with Labour as the party prepares for a week-long onslaught from an emboldened union movement.the party’s deputy leader offered little comfort for Gordon Brown, backing the Chancellor’s gloomy assessment of the international economy last week and claiming that hard times were turning people against Labour.

The Sun reports that

MOTHER-of-seven Karen Matthews was yesterday charged with kidnapping and imprisoning nine-year-old daughter Shannon.
Matthews, 32, had arrived at court for a routine pre-trial hearing on counts of perverting the course of justice and child neglect.
But police and prosecutors dramatically hit her with the new charges after a series of secret meetings

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News from abroad and the Guardian reports that

Gadafy gets his reward with historic Rice visit

Condoleezza Rice last night became the most senior US official to visit Libya in more than half a century when she arrived for a meeting with its leader, Muammar Gadafy.
The visit, which Rice described as historic, was a reward for Gadafy's strategic decision over the past seven years to distance himself from extremism and give up weapons of mass destruction, providing a positive example to Iran.

Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of the assassinated former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, will most likely emerge as president today as parliamentarians began to cast their votes to elect Pakistan's head of state

reports the Telegraph

Finally the Independent reports from America on a cupcake war

They are America's biggest food craze since gourmet coffee. Now frosted cupcakes have cemented their standing as a staple of the national diet – by tapping into the business community's insatiable appetite for legal disputes.
Sprinkles, the cupcake chain based in Beverly Hills, whose celebrity patrons include such opinion-formers as Oprah Winfrey and Tom Cruise, has launched a series of trademark battles against rivals attempting to break into its lucrative market. In what local news outlets are calling the "cupcake wars", Sprinkles has sent half a dozen cease-and-desist letters to competitors, and filed three lawsuits. It accuses rivals of copying the design of its sugary products and infringing its trademarked name.