Baghdad bombs Iraq's "darkest day"

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A graphic image of one of the Baghdad bombings dominates the Independent's front page, but few papers lead on the latest attack.

The image shows burned-out vehicles and stunned onlookers - it all amounts, says the paper, to Iraq's darkest day.

"Despair" is the word used by the Financial Times.

The Daily Telegraph sees the bombings as a devastating blow to President Bush's gamble of strengthening the American military presence in the city.

'Warped mind'

For a third morning the Sun, the Timesand the Daily Mail feature on their front pages the massacre at Virginia Tech University in the US.

The Sun reports police were warned more than a year ago that killer Cho Seung-Hui was deeply disturbed.

The Mail writes of what it calls "his warped mind", while the Times talks of "the silent, chilling world of a loner obsessed by death".

The Independent attempts to explain Americans' apparent gun obsession.

Ovarian cancer

The risks of women taking hormonereplacement therapy (HRT) are spelled out in the Times.

The Daily Express and Daily Mirror also feature the Million Women study that claims HRT has killed 1,000 British women since 1991.

It suggests the therapy increased their risk of ovarian cancer.

The results, says the Mirror, are causing huge concern and although the number of women on HRT is falling, it says clear advice is urgently needed.

'Big brother'

A suggestion by science ministerMalcolm Wicks that old people with dementia should be tagged for their own safety has outraged the Daily Mirror.

The idea, it says, has all the horror of a Big Brother nightmare.

Mr Wicks thinks families worry about elderly relatives suffering from the condition but the Mirror says he should retract his proposals.

Rather than treat people like criminals they need better care such as enough home helps, says the paper.