From today's UK papers

GUARDIAN

Chancellor Gordon Brown and development minister Clare Short will announce plans on Monday for a multibillion-pound international fund to provide cheap vaccines against childhood diseases to developing countries.

Next year's census is expected to show that minority ethnic communities total more than 5 million people, or 10 per cent of Britain's population, Home Secretary Jack Straw said yesterday.

INDEPENDENT

The publication in the International Journal of Epidemiology of a hitherto unknown research project funded by Adolf Hitler, which was among the first to suggest a link between smoking and lung cancer, reopens the question of whether good science can come from an evil regime.

MISCELLANY

Some universities may defy the government and charge their students top-up fees to raise funds, the leader of Britain's higher education sector said yesterday. (Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times)

Scientists believe they have found proof that giant comet impacts have already wiped out two dominant species on earth. Scientists at Rochester University say an impact 250 million years ago, caused massive extinction before the rise of the dinosaurs. (Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Times)