Kate McCann 'coping with guilt'

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The face of Kate McCann, mother of missing four-year-old Madeleine, stares from the front of the Daily Mirror.

The paper describes her appearance as "tormented", although its headline says she is "coping with the guilt".

But the focus of other papers is on the recent surge of speculation about the search for her daughter.

The Times says friends of the parents fear they are "being set up" by the Portuguese police. The Independent sums up recent coverage as "lurid claims".

Health warnings

Research suggesting the incidence of certain cancers has risen is seen by some as a judgment on the way we live.

The Daily Telegraph says that doctors have issued "a stark warning to holidaymakers" about the dangers of too much sunbathing.

And the Daily Mail would add "smoking, overeating and drinking" to that list.

The Sun and the Mail both ask whether the foot-and-mouth virus may have been carried unwittingly out of the Pirbright laboratory by a staff member.

A few days ago the papers were full of fears that a great white shark might be - in the words of the Guardian - "haunting the waters off Cornwall".

But a nightclub bouncer has told the paper he took the pictures and, although they did show a great white, they were taken off Cape Town, not Newquay.

Robot moves

The Financial Times argues that the Bank of England "should certainly raise rates to six per cent".

But the Daily Express thinks interest rates are a "blunt weapon".

A dancing robot has been developed by researchers in Tokyo.

"Despite its Terminator appearance," says the Guardian, "the robot is remarkably lifelike."

The Telegraph reports that an Israeli mathematician has come up with a set of calculations which suggest that time travel might be possible.

He thinks a machine could be made to allow time travel. But the paper asks if that were so, why are time travellers of the future not here now?