It is one of those days when the print versions cannot keep up with the breaking news as Barack Obama is declared winner of the Presidential race

Obama wins his place in history says the Independent

Barack Obama, the young Senator from Illinois, achieved a historic win in the American presidential election last night, with victories for the Democrat over his Republican rival John McCain in key battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.
The losses blocked any remaining path to victory for Mr McCain while opening the doors to the Oval Office for Mr Obama, who for 20 months has campaigned on a message of hope in a bid to become the first African-American elected to the highest office in the land

The Guardian says

Barack Obama emerged onto the stage at Chicago's Grant Park as President-Elect to greet a crowd that had waited for several hours to see him — and for decades to witness such a moment. There had been tears all evening, as one key state after another fell — first Pennsylvania, then Ohio — turning the hope of victory into a certainty. But for many it was the sight of the man himself that finally made reality sink in. There he was: an African-American man who from today will be addressed as Mr President.

Projected wins in the traditional battlegrounds of Ohio and Florida - as well as Pennsylvania, on which John McCain's pencil-thin path to the White House had depended - were easily enough to give Mr Obama the Electoral College votes he needs.
A clutch of other once-Republican states, including Colorado, New Mexico, Iowa, Nevada and Virginia, also fell to the Democrat. North Carolina, Missouri, Indiana and even Montana are still deemed too close to call.

reports the Times

Obama promises new dawn of American leadership says the Telegraph repeating his words

It's been a long time coming. But tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America."
"We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope."

Change has come to America says the Sun

BARACK Obama was sensationally crowned as America's first black President this morning.
In his first speech as President Elect he told a mass rally in Chicago: "Change has come to America".

The rookie Senator smashed Republican rival John McCain as he made history with a landslide victory.

A new world dawns says the Express

Other news from the papers and the Times leads with

National road toll devices to be tested by drivers next year

Hundreds of drivers are being recruited to take part in government-funded road-pricing trials that could result in charges of up to £1.30 a mile on the most congested roads.
The test runs will start early next year in four locations and will involve fitting a satellite-tracking device to the vehicles of volunteers. An on-board unit will automatically deduct payments from a shadow account set up in the driver’s name.

The Guardian reports that

Patients are to be allowed to pay privately for treatment with expensive drugs without losing their entitlement to NHS care, the health secretary, Alan Johnson, announced yesterday.
But he denied that the government was presiding over a dilution of the founding principles of the NHS, which promises healthcare for all, free at the point of delivery. Any patient who wants to pay for drugs the NHS does not provide must get their course of treatment privately.

Jowell under attack for £10,000 trip to Brazil reports the Mail

Tessa Jowell rescheduled a £10,000 trip to Brazil so she could bag free tickets to watch Lewis Hamilton' s record-breaking Formula One triumph.
The Olympics Minister brought forward an official taxpayer-funded visit after securing tickets for the Grand Prix at the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo, where the 23-year-old Briton became the youngest world champion.

According to the Independent

Afghan veterans more likely to suffer from mental illness

British forces who served in Afghanistan are nine times more likely to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder than comrades who have not been sent to war, a report from the Ministry of Defence shows. Iraq veterans are six and half times more likely to be affected by the condition than others who were not there.

The Telegraph meanwhile reports that there are

Calls for minister to resign over SAS blunder

SAS commanders pleaded with defence officials not to be sent to Afghanistan in poorly protected Snatch Land Rovers following the deaths of four of their soldiers in a roadside bomb attack, it has been disclosed .

DNA hunt could identify killer who struck in 1946 reports the Times

The investigation into the death of Muriel Drinkwater, 12, a Swansea grammar school pupil, is believed to be the world’s oldest cold case review.
Colin Dark, of the Forensic Science Service (FSS), said that if Muriel’s killer was still alive he was likely to be in his eighties.

PUPILS 'TOO HEAVY' FOR SCHOOL CHAIRS reports the Express

Former Cabinet “heavyweight” Charles Clarke, nicknamed “two pizzas” for his appetite, has called for classrooms to be issued with sturdier chairs and higher tables to curb a rise in the numbers suffering from bad backs.

The Mail reports that

Abbey hikes cost of tracker mortgages two days before Bank of England is expected to cut interest rates

Britain's second biggest mortgage lender raised its rate by half a point yesterday, just 48 hours before an expected 1 per cent cut in the Bank of England rate.
The cynical move by the Abbey - killing off the benefit of the imminent cut - came after Business Secretary Lord Mandelson admitted he is powerless to force banks to bring down the cost of borrowing despite a £37billion nationalisation bail-out.
It is part of a wider drive by lenders to increase their profit margins on home loans without passing on the benefits to hard-pressed customers. The developments, seen as a slap in the face to the Government and the public, triggered condemnation of both the Government and the banks.

The Independent says that Rebels threaten Kinshasa if bid for talks fails

The Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda said yesterday he would extend his eastern guerrilla war to the capital, Kinshasa, 1,500km (950 miles) away unless the government agreed to political negotiations with him.
"If they refuse to negotiate, it will mean they will be ready to only fight and we will fight them because we have to fight for our freedom," General Nkunda said at his hilltop headquarters in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern North Kivu province. He said his next offensive would not stop at the North Kivu capital, Goma, but would aim west for Kinshasa.

Meanwhile the Guardian says that

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, is to travel to Congo in the coming days to press for an end to the "catastrophic" conflict in the east of the country as the Tutsi rebel leader, Laurent Nkunda, threatened to attack Goma and then march across the country after the government rejected direct peace negotiations.

Many of the papers report that

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, suffered a serious blow today when Iran's parliament sacked his interior minister after he was caught out with a badly faked law degree from Oxford University.
Ali Kordan, a powerful figure on Iran's complex political scene, was told by the Iranian parliament, the Majlis, that he must face impeachment after he also admitted trying to bribe MPs not to proceed against him.

Finally the Telegraph reports that

Tattooed pigs banned from modern art exhibition

The pigs with the trademark LV symbol were to form part of an exhibition at the Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, together with eight other tattooed pigs.
Created by Wim Delvoye, a 43-year-old Belgian conceptual artist, they were part of an exhibit called "Art Farm".

Mr Delvoye had tattooed the designs on the animals when they were piglets and tracked the "canvases" as they grew.
However, gallery owners felt they were in poor taste after a string of complaints