Main: Telegraph - The IRA’s Army Council, which directed the terrorist group’s violent campaign, has been declared redundant and is no longer operational or functional. Guardian - Russia will withdraw its troops from the “buffer zone”...

Main: Independent - CONFIRMED: Detectives said today they believe millionaire businessman Christopher Foster killed his wife and teenage daughter before committing suicide. Times - Properties costing less than £175,000 will be exempt from...

Main: Sky - Hurricane Gustav has made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 2 storm. Telegraph - The £1.2million home where a businessman is believed to have shot dead his wife and daughter is to be demolished after a third body was found....

Main: BBC - Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans has put the US city under curfew from sunset to dawn as Hurricane Gustav approaches. Sky - One of the bodies found in the burnt-out ruins of a house in Shropshire is the wife of millionaire...

Main: Guardian - Britain is facing “arguably the worst” economic downturn in 60 years which will be “more profound and long-lasting” than people had expected, says Chancellor Alistair Darling. BBC - Update: Two bodies found at...

Main: Sky - Radovan Karadzic has been given a plea of "not guilty" for committing war crimes after refusing to plea himself. Independent - McCain 'picks Palin as vice president'. Times - Barack Obama: 'the change we need is coming'. ITN -...

Main: Guardian - European Union leaders will discuss sanctions against Russia ahead of an emergency summit meeting, the French foreign minister said today, as western leaders increased diplomatic pressure on Moscow. BBC - Three men questioned...

Main: Times - Foreign Secretary David Miliband today warned President Medvedev not to provoke a new Cold War with the West but said that it would be counter-productive to try to isolate Russia for its actions and continued military presence in...

Main: Independent - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced today that Moscow had decided to recognise two rebel regions of Georgia as independent states, setting it on a collision course with the West. Sky - Five soldiers whose duties...

Main: Times - Britain's Olympic heroes arrive home. Independent - Russia has raised the stakes in the political fallout over its war with Georgia, as both houses of the Russian parliament voted unanimously to recognise the independence of...