Front page focus on assassination

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The assassination of politician Pierre Gemayel - or the latest act of blood in Lebanon as the Guardian puts it - is on many of the front pages.

It is the lead for the Times and the Independent says the words "civil war" are on everyone's lips.

With suspicion falling on Damascus, the Times believes Tony Blair's policy of engagement with Syria is under threat.

The Guardian says the killing further complicates attempts to find a regional solution to the Iraq war.

Nanny trouble

The government's decision to appoint child psychologists - "super-nannies" - to help parents runs into trouble.

The Daily Telegraph says it is absurd to think that the training can replace the lack of effective male role models and the collapse of adult authority.

The Daily Express says it is highly questionable whether such programmes can get parents to mend their ways.

The Daily Mail acknowledges that there is a crisis of poor parenthood but calls it "another pathetic PR stunt".

Nuclear concern

The Guardian says one of David Cameron's key policy advisers has urged the Tories to abandon "Churchillian" ideas about the welfare state.

Instead, the Conservatives are urged to look to the paper's own commentator Polly Toynbee for inspiration.

Also in politics, the Times says Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has concerns about replacing Trident.

Fellow Cabinet ministers Hilary Benn and Peter Hain also have reservations over the nuclear deterrent, it adds.

Movie quiz

President Nazarbayev's visit to London got extra coverage following the film Borat, about a spoof Kazakh journalist.

Inevitably, the Times reports, the first question at a news conference at Downing Street was about the movie.

The Daily Telegraph says there has been a 300% rise in internet searches for hotels in Kazakhstan since its release.

The Kazakhstan president saw the funny side of the film and, as the Sun reports, he told journalists that there was no such thing as bad publicity.