
You will be destroyed says the front of the Independent as it reports
Three young British Muslims who were turned into bombers while doing charity work in Pakistan are facing life behind bars after being convicted of plotting mass murder.
Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain were accused of conspiring to bring down at least seven transatlantic airliners in mid-air, using bombs hidden in soft drinks bottles.
The Telegraph says that
Up to five potential suicide bombers may still be at large in Britain, the security services has admitted after the convictions of three British Muslims accused of plotting the world's biggest terrorist atrocity.and adds
The police and MI5 believed the extremists wanted to cause an "unprecedented" loss of life with simultaneous suicide attacks on several transatlantic airliners bound for America. The arrest of the gang in 2006 led to permanent restrictions on liquids being carried in hand luggage.
But a jury was unable to agree on whether Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain had decided on specific targets, and instead they were convicted of conspiracy to murder "persons unknown".
The Times says that
Police and prosecutors were locked in crisis meetings last night after what they believed to be the strongest terrorism case ever presented to a court was rejected by a jury.
At the end of a £10 million investigation and trial lasting more than two years, jurors were unable to decide whether or not a group of British Muslims were part of a plot to blow transatlantic airliners out of the sky.
The Mail describes it as Britain's 9/11 but claims
The U.S. government have been accused of scuppering the liquid bomb plot terror trial.
Washington pressed Pakistan into making arrests connected to the case before all the legal evidence had been gathered, counter-terror officials have claimed.
The story of a flood rescue dominates the tabloids,the Sun leads with the Luckiest girl alive
LITTLE Leona Baxter told her parents how she tried to save herself in a flooded storm drain — by doing star floats she learned during swimming lessons.
But she was unable to perform them because there was too little room in the cramped underground tunnel.
Leona, three, had a miracle escape after she was sucked into the 3ft-wide drain while wading in a puddle during a family walk.
The Mirror also leads with the story
incredibly the toddler survived the ordeal and escaped with minor abrasions on her forehead and face. And last night parents Mark and Beverly told of their relief after fearing she had almost certainly drowned.
The Mail reports how
A mother drowned her daughter in the bath because she was embarrassed by the girl's disability and could not cope, a court has heard.
Joanne Hill, 32, had tried to persuade husband Simon to have their four-year-old daughter Naomi, who suffered from cerebral palsy, adopted. But when the devoted father refused, Hill hatched a plan to murder the child instead, it is alleged.
After holding Naomi's head under the water, Hill is said to have calmly dressed her daughter - who wore callipers and was partially deaf - in denim dungarees before placing her in a car seat in the family car.
Anger among TUC delegates on eve of Brown and Darling speeches reports the Guardian
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling will today try to mollify an angry and disillusioned TUC, which wants Labour to act to help millions of low-paid workers facing massive rises in fuel and food prices.
The chancellor is due to address the annual congress this afternoon and will face a barrage of hostile questions on the government's policy to hold down public sector pay, and its failure to introduce a windfall tax on energy companies or extra taxes on the super-rich.
Another day, another Brown relaunch says the Independent
The cabinet, meeting in Birmingham, has rallied behind Gordon Brown in a public show of support. But some ministers warned privately that they would "review" his position if he failed to transform Labour's prospects.
As the Cabinet held its first meeting since the summer, Jack Straw, its elder statesman, insisted Mr Brown was "secure" but ministers stopped short of declaring he would lead Labour into the next general election.
Meanwhile the Times reports that
Gordon Brown is expected to invite two controversial world leaders, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, to an international oil summit in London.
The invitation could bring the Libyan leader to Britain on his first official visit after years of isolation. An invitation could also bring Mr Chavez, the champion of socialist revolution in South America, to London and an unlikely photo-opportunity with Mr Brown.
The Telegraph reports that
Bush announces plan to move US troops from Iraq to Afghanistan
The US will withdraw about 8,000 of its 146,000 soldiers in Iraq by February - and send 4,500 more to join the 33,000 in Afghanistan.
Mr Bush is expected to say in a speech to the US National Defence University that the improved security situation in Iraq will permit a "quiet surge" of troops in Afghanistan in the coming months.
Staying with Afghanistan the Guardian says that
Nato has issued new military rules of engagement in Afghanistan in an attempt to limit civilian deaths, after the air strike last month which reportedly killed 90 people, including 60 children, it emerged yesterday.
The orders were issued by General David McKiernan, the Nato commander in Afghanistan, who also asked the US central command to reopen an inquiry into the air strike in the western district of Shindand, as video footage surfaced showing the bodies of child victims.
To the US elections,
The campaign team behind Barack Obama has been regrouping after 10 days of media fascination with Republican vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin, dispatching Hillary Clinton into Florida and advertising a lunch summit this week between their candidate and Bill Clinton.says the Independent
The Guardian reports
John McCain yesterday extended his campaign tour in battleground states with Sarah Palin, calculating that their double act and the Republican party's claim that they represent a partnership for political reform, is gaining ground in the US heartland.
The extended run for the Republican presidential nominee and his choice for vice-president came as opinion polls suggested yesterday that the party emerged from its convention in a stronger position than the Democrats and their nominee, Barack Obama
Back to the Uk and the Times reports that
A dangerous psychiatric patient who escaped from hospital and raped a teenage girl had been taken to see violent horror films by staff, a court was told yesterday.
Darren Harkin, 20, who was originally detained for the murder of his six-month-old stepbrother, had also built up a large collection of horror movies and pornography on DVD while in the low-security Hayes hospital unit in Bristol.
The Sun reports that
THE stepdad of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews accessed 133 sickening images of kids as young as four on the family computer, a court heard yesterday.
Craig Meehan, 22, is alleged to have searched the internet using the words “daughter” and “teen”, and watched videos with titles like “My virgin daughter is 13”.
Now they want to ban your lawn says the Express
AN army of town hall snoopers could soon be telling people what they can and cannot grow in their gardens.
Fast-growing plants and even lawns could be banned, under Labour’s latest environmental blitz.
People would be forced to get planning permission to make changes in their gardens in order to help the Government hit its targets for reducing waste.
the Mail reports that
A dog believed to be the oldest in the world has died - aged around 203 in dog years.
Bella, the Labrador cross, was bought by David Richardson from the RSPCA 26 years ago when she was three years old.
Since then Bella has enjoyed a life of comfort at the Derbyshire home of 76-year-old Mr Richardson and his partner Daisy Cooper, 81.
Finally the end of Andy Murray's dream of a grand slam and the Guardian reports
Andy Murray had always claimed that he could not understand why everybody thought Roger Federer had not been playing well. "He's playing great. I just think the level of tennis by his opponents has got better." Murray, who had beaten Federer early in the year in Dubai, had dearly hoped to prove that point in the final of the US Open last night, and to become the first British man since Fred Perry in 1936 to win a grand slam tournament. But the Swiss simply gave him little or no chance, regaining the poise and confidence that saw him win 12 majors between 2003 and the end of last year to win 6-2, 7-5, 6-2.
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