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In the Saturday edition of the paper, the Mail warns of an "alarming new escalation" after three Russian fighter jets entered Estonia's airspace on Friday. The paper calls the drone incursion a "reckless" and "brazen" attempt to intimidate the Baltic state. Russia has denied violating Estonian airspace, and says the jets were on a scheduled flight "in strict compliance with international airspace regulations".
Comments from education secretary Bridget Phillipson are the lead story for the Guardian, after the MP said that the two-child benefit cap was "spiteful" and "pushed children into hardship". The paper reports that abandoning the "controversial" cap is "on the table", and adds that Phillipson is No. 10's "preferred candidate" to replace Angela Rayner as deputy leader of the Labour party. British runner Amy Hunt is pictured on the front page, snapped in a moment of disbelief after she won silver in the 200-metre sprint at the World Athletics Championships on Friday.
The Times says China has been given a "license to spy" this week, responding to the decision to drop charges against two men accused of passing information to an "enemy" from within parliament. Speaker of the Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle warns that the decision "leaves the door open to foreign actors", but legal representatives for the pair said the charges "should never have been brought".
"Starmer rewards terror, says Badenoch" reads the headline of the Telegraph, quoting an essay penned for the paper by the Kemi Badenoch. In her piece, the leader of the Conservative party condemned the government's decision to recognise a Palestinian state and accused Sir Keir Starmer of giving Hamas a "reward for terrorism", writing that the prime ministers "prevarication" on Gaza "harmed British interests abroad".
Former One Direction member Louis Tomlinson was "duped" into backing a "£4 fraudsters' footie plot", according to the Mirror. The paper reports that the singer "unwittingly aided conmen" as the face of the failed bid to buy the Doncaster Rovers in 2014.
"So how is the one-in, one-out scheme going Keir?" asks the Express, reporting that "up to 1,000" asylum seekers reached the UK by small boat on Friday. The paper says that "just three" migrants have been returned to French soil in the first five days of deportations under the new one in, one out deal.
The Financial Times reports that Sir Keir has given the "green light" to the introduction of digital IDs, and the "unveiling" of the scheme could happen at the Labour party's annual conference this month. According to the paper, the prime minister said that the policy could help reduce "the attractiveness" of the UK to illegal migrants.
Madeleine McCann detectives have secretly flown to Portugal to quiz people who knew Christian Brückner, the Sun reports on Saturday. The paper writes that the bid to "nail Maddie suspect" comes after Brückner was freed from prison earlier this week after serving a sentence for an unrelated offence. The German national has denied any involvement in the McCann case, and has never been charged in relation to her disappearance.
"Give Ricky a statue" declares the Star, backing a petition that calls for a statue of the late boxer to be erected in his home city of Manchester.
