Paper Monitor
10:00 UK time, Tuesday, 10 August 2010
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Diamonds, a supermodel, alleged gun-running and Nelson Mandela - Paper Monitor thought Naomi Campbell's reluctant day in court had already given the Charles Taylor war crimes trial everything.
But now we can factor in explosive testimony from Ms Campbell's "surrogate mother", a Facebook party, Mia Farrow and mild flirting.
It's exciting stuff, and the papers devote more attention than is customary to proceedings at The Hague.
The Daily Mail focuses on evidence from the model's former agent Carole White, which contradicted that of her erstwhile charge.
While Ms Campbell had insisted she had barely remembered Mr Taylor before receiving an unsolicited gift of diamonds, Ms White said the gems were promised to the star by him at a dinner hosted by Mandela, where the model and then-Liberian president were "mildly flirting".
But what really excites the paper is photos on Facebook of a "blood diamond night", attended by Ms White and colleagues as they watched Ms Campbell giving evidence. The photos, according to the Mail, showed partygoers in "high spirits".
The conflicting testimonies offer a dramatic twist in the trial of Mr Taylor, who denies the charges against him.
But it's glitter that naturally grabs the attention of the papers. And the claim by Mia Farrow - fondly remembered by Paper Monitor as Cecilia in The Purple Rose of Cairo - that Ms Campbell boasted of receiving a diamond over breakfast forms the basis of the Daily Telegraph lead.
Below, the Matt cartoon shows a suburban couple returning home to a note headed "Sorry". The husband reads it to his wife: "While we were out a brutal warlord tried to deliver some blood diamonds."
But that isn't Paper Monitor's favourite image of the day. That accolade goes to the Sun, which mocks up how lanky England striker Peter Crouch might look sleeping on the sofa following unconfirmed allegations that he cheated on his fiancee.
It shows a pair of feet forlornly poking over the arms of a too-short sofa. Is this a position to which Mr Crouch will have to get used? That depends on whether his fiancee, in common with other wronged Wags, calculates that diamonds really are a girl's best friend.
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