Sunday's papers

The ramifications of Copenhagen conyinue in the Sunday's.

the nation that put a man on the Moon can't summon the collective will to protect men and women back here on Earth from the consequences of an economic model and lifestyle choice that has taken on the mantle of a religion.

says the Independent

The Observer puts the blame firmly on China who it reports

walked out of the conference at one point, and sent a lowly protocol officer to negotiate with Barack Obama. In the end, a draft agreement put forward by China – and backed by Brazil, India and African nations – commits the world to the broad ambition of preventing global temperatures from rising above 2C. Crucially, however, it does not force any nation to make specific cuts.

Whilst the Telegraph says

critics warned the "Copenhagen Accord", the result of two weeks of negotiations in the Danish capital, was full of holes and lacked a timetable – and environment agencies branded it toothless and a failure. One African delegation likened the deal to the Holocaust.

The Sunday Times leads with the story that General Electric, is using the London libel courts to gag a senior radiologist after he raised the alarm over the potentially fatal risks of one of its drugs.

It says the paper

is suing Henrik Thomsen, a Danish academic, after he described his experiences of one of the company’s drugs as a medical “nightmare”. He said some kidney patients at his hospital contracted a potentially deadly condition after being administered the drug Omniscan.

The New Year will see the General election campiagn swing into action and according to the Observer

David Cameron is ready to launch a long and fierce general election campaign early in the new year after a new poll today shows the Tories opening up a commanding 17-point lead over Labour.

The Independent meanwhile claims that

Ministers were last night accused of drumming up trade for a multi-million-pound company owned by one of Labour's biggest donors. Caparo, the engineering firm founded by Lord Paul, the Labour peer who has non-domicile tax status, was invited on a UK delegation to Saudi Arabia headed by the trade minister Lord Davies of Abersoch earlier this month.

There is more political scandal in the Mail which reports that police were called to the home of a millionaire Tory donor and close friend of David Cameron after a fracas involving a young woman in the early hours of Friday.

Neighbours of flamboyant David Ross – the co-founder of Carphone Warehouse and the ‘business brains’ behind Mr Cameron’s flagship policy to create independent state schools – say four police cars arrived at the businessman’s Central London house at 5.30am.

It leads though with the story that a devout Christian teacher has lost her job after discussing her faith with a mother and her sick child and offering to pray for them.

Olive Jones, a 54-year-old mother of two, who taught maths to children too ill to attend school, was dismissed following a complaint from the girl’s mother. She was visiting the home of the child when she spoke about her belief in miracles and asked whether she could say a prayer, but when the mother indicated they were not believers she did not go ahead.

According to the Times,Scotland Yard has warned businesses in London to expect a Mumbai-style attack on the capital.

In a briefing in the City of London 12 days ago, a senior detective from SO15, the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, said: “Mumbai is coming to London.”

The Independent highlights the problems of female genital mutilation

Hundreds of British schoolgirls are facing the terrifying prospect of female genital mutilation (FGM) over the Christmas holidays as experts warn the practice continues to flourish across the country. Parents typically take their daughters back to their country of origin for FGM during school holidays, but The Independent on Sunday has been told that "cutters" are being flown to the UK to carry out the mutilation at "parties" involving up to 20 girls to save money.

Meanwhile the Observer highlights another issue as it reports a British medic has revealed,

Tamil women interned after escaping the horrors of the civil war in Sri Lanka were sexually abused by their guards who traded sex for food,

The hellish ordeal of Eurostar passengers is reported in the Telegraph which says the company has promised "a proper and full" inquiry into how thousands of passengers were trapped in the Channel Tunnel overnight as freezing conditions brought travel chaos to the UK.

Eurostar chief executive Richard Brown said he was "very, very sorry" for the technical breakdown which left many travellers suffering "hellish" conditions, including families with young children returning from a pre-Christmas break at Disneyland Paris.

The Mail meanwhile says that

Travellers across Britain were facing more chaos today as forecasters expected further snow to have fallen through the night.
Temperatures were set to plummet as low as seven degrees below zero during the hours of darkness, with the East and North waking up to snow as much as four inches deep.

The Express finds another issue with the weather warning that

Millions of digital viewers are having to retune their televisions, some of them daily, as the Arctic weather causes channels to break up or disappear.

A football exculsive in the News of the World which claims John Terry is selling private access to himself and his club through hush-hush £10,000 cash deals.

The Chelsea skipper uses notorious ticket tout Tony Bruce as a fixer. On Thursday the pair took 200 £50 notes from News of the World investigators for a tour of the Premier League team's five-star training facility.

Staying with football,the first sacking of the season is widely reported as Manchester City's Mark Hughes is shown the door

The Welshman was sacked by a club who felt he could not meet their target of a place in the top four despite being given £200m to spend on players and further huge investment in training facilities and other infrastructure at the club

.says the Observer

Meanwhile the Telegraph reports that the wife of Tiger Woods will miss out on more than $50 million if she pursues a legal split because of his string of affairs, top American divorce lawyers have revealed.