Row over terror laws rumbles on

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The row rumbles over the government's plans to hold terror suspects for 42 days without charge.

The measures are backed by the Sun which says former Tory Home Office Minister Anne Widdecombe told the paper she will vote with the government.

However, according to the Times, the government has failed to make its case.

The Daily Mail agrees and supports shadow home secretary David Davis's view that we cannot defend our freedoms by sacrificing them.

First black president?

Several editors went as close as they could to calling it for Barak Obama in the Democratic primaries as the papers were put to bed last night.

After an epic battle, says the Independent, Barak Obama has a real chance of becoming the first African American president in American history.

There is an analysis in the Guardian of how Hillary Clinton turned an air of inevitability into a losing run.

It says she was out of step and brought down by fibs, overspending... and Bill.

'Mad dog'

There is strong condemnation in many quarters of the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, who yesterday accused Britain of starving his people.

In the Daily Mail Lord Tebbit writes: "We need no lectures from this mad dog on two legs.

"He has taken one of Africa's most promising nations and turned it into the starving, bankrupt and brutalised basket case it is today."

The Daily Telegraph talks of Mr Mugabe's "grotesque grandstanding".

Fritzl's love letters

The front page of the Daily Mirror focuses on the on-going health and personal problems of Paul Gascoigne.

The paper explains that he has been sectioned after friends "begged doctors to lock him up for his own good".

The paper also claims Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who kept his daughter in a cellar, has had international fan mail.

Prison authorities have apparently said that along with 5,000 items of hate mail, there have been letters from 200 women offering love and support.