Newspaper headlines: 'Horror at the playground' as British girl stabbed

By BBC News
Staff
Metro leads on the stabbings in a park in Annecy, in France's south-east, on Thursday. The headline says children were "stabbed in their pushchairs" and also includes an image of what appears to be the knifeman.
The Daily Express focuses on a three-year-old British girl being among the children who were attacked. The paper also has a picture of a woman trying to block a man from running away.
The Daily Mail also carries an image from the stabbings in Annecy. Its other lead story is that NHS bosses have been told that patients have no right to know if they are being treated by transgender doctors.
The Daily Mirror focuses on a woman who tried to stop the knifeman in the Annecy park.
The Sun's front page also leads on the British three-year-old girl being stabbed.
The Times covers the same story, and also looks at mortgage deals being pulled in a rush to raise rates, along with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US President Joe Biden hailing an "Atlantic declaration" to protect the West.
Ukraine has sent Western tanks into battle for the first time in the Zaporizhzhia region, the Daily Telegraph's front page says. The story adds Mr Sunak said during his meeting with Mr Biden on Thursday that the UK was proud to be the biggest contributor behind the US to the military effort against Russia.
Mr Sunak's meeting with Mr Biden is the main topic of the i's front page on Thursday. The paper says the leaders have created a tech alliance as hopes of a Brexit free trade deal are dead. The UK and US also agreed a new civil nuclear partnership to lock out Russia.
The Guardian also focuses on Mr Sunak and Mr Biden announcing their “Atlantic declaration” at a joint press conference at the White House. There is also a striking photograph of New York's smog-filled skyline.
The FT carries a large image of Mr Sunak and Mr Biden grinning during their meeting at the White House. Elsewhere on the front page, London's city regular has broadened its probe into the Odey firm following sexual assault claims.
The Daily Star says the paper has been ordered to prove aliens exist.

Thursday's attack on children in France, in which a three year-old British girl is among the wounded, is on many of the front pages.

The Mirror praises a woman who attempted to stop - as the paper puts it - the "knife maniac".

The Sun says the suspect has been named as a 31-year-old Syrian migrant Abdalmasih. The paper says his application for asylum is thought to have been declined four days before the attack.

According to the Daily Express, he had a refugee status in Sweden.

The man told police he was a Christian, and the authorities said he had no criminal record or history of psychiatric illness.

In other news, The Times describes the Atlantic Declaration - announced by Rishi Sunak and president Biden on Thursday - as an economic alliance to close ranks against China.

The paper says the deal, in effect, proclaims the end of the era of unfettered globalisation.

On its front page, the Guardian describes the Declaration as little more than a series of economic mini-deals, with relatively few details and no attempt to estimate any overall economic benefit.

The agreement also marks a shift away from the recent UK orthodoxy of unfettered free trade in favour of mutual protectionism.

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met US President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday

According to the Financial Times, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is to scale back the windfall tax on oil and gas producers, in order to boost investment in the North Sea. The paper says that under the plan, the levy will apply only if oil and gas prices are above a certain level.

"Ukraine begins counter-offensive, as Western tanks hit the front line" is the Daily Telegraph's main front page headline.

The article quotes unnamed Ukrainian officials saying that the deployment of Leopard Two tanks in the southern Zaporizhzhia region meant the operation was under way.

The same sources also said that the Russians had put up stiff resistance and the Ukrainians had suffered losses.