Bush Iraq speech widely covered

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Prominent coverage is given to US President George Bush's warning that an early Iraq exit could have the same consequences as the exit from Vietnam.

The warning was a desperate move, writes the Times'Bronwen Maddox, who goes on to say comparing Vietnam and Iraq is an oddity.

The Guardian says Mr Bush's speech was aimed at sceptics ahead of next month's report on progress in Iraq.

The Independent thinks the Iraq coalition has begun to fracture.

Shooting

Details of the killing of an 11-year-old boy with a gunshot to the neck in Liverpool came too late for the early editions.

But both the Sun and the Daily Telegraph put the story on the front page in their late ones.

The Sun reports that the boy's attacker was a teenager wearing a hood.

The Telegraph carries a page one picture of police and paramedics outside the pub car park where the boy was shot.

'Passionate pensioners'

A number of papers report on a US study of the sex lives of the over-60s.

The research found that while the elderly are more likely to suffer a loss of libido, romance was not passing them by.

The Daily Mail runs their story under the headline, "Why age is no barrier for the passionate pensioners".

According to the Times, of the 3,000 people surveyed the majority of those under 74 claimed to be leading active sex lives.

Exodus

Many papers focus on wide-ranging figures published by the Office for National Statistics.

The Telegraph says "startling" figures show one-in-four babies born in the UK has a foreign mother or father.

The Daily Express focuses on figures revealing record numbers of Britons are moving abroad.

The exodus, says the Independent, is being driven by the globalisation of the world economy - and not least by better weather.