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The huge ball of light created by a Russian shell exploding at Ukraine's largest nuclear power station is pictured on several front pages.

In their headlines, and on the words of the US envoy to the UN who declared that a nuclear catastrophe was narrowly avoided.

Boris Johnson's condemnation of the strike as "reckless". The calls President Vladimir Putin a "nuclear nut job."

In its editorial, only luck that "prevented a catastrophe 10 times worse than Chernobyl" and that it was a "terrifying rain check" for anyone still thinking President Putin was working to a meticulous plan.

shows the Russian president's "utter disregard for the consequences of his warmongering".

in Marhanets - a city close to the plant. He has spoken to the local mayor, Gennady Borovik, who has arranged for free anti-radiation iodine pills to be handed out to people in the area as a precaution.

Mr Borovik explains that contingency plans were put in place after Chernobyl.

A photo showing the anguished face of a woman next to a house in flames destroyed by a Russian missile appears on - with the headline: "Welcome to hell, Russians".

The words are taken from a banner in President Zelensky's home city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine. People living there are preparing for Russian troops by digging trenches, tank traps and barricades.

Boris Johnson says that the outlook for Ukraine is "very, very bleak". The prime minister said that the UK would keep trying to supply the country with defensive weapons but time was very tight.

a wanted poster for Mr Putin.

The paper says calls are growing for him to be put on trial - with ex-PM Gordon Brown demanding a tribunal deal with his actions, a Russian businessman offering a million dollar reward for his arrest, and British police helping the war crimes investigations.

on the UK extending the time Ukrainian refugees can stay here to three years with the headline - "kindness amid the carnage".

The paper suggests making the terms of the emergency programme "much more generous" came "unexpectedly".

The papers all offer their tributes to the Australian cricketer, Shane Warne. and the King of Spin; "the greatest"; and "once in a century player".

player's own understated words for its front page headline: "I smoked, I drank, I bowled a bit".

Piers Morgan, who he had been in contact with Warne only a day earlier, called him a genius who never really grew up because he never really wanted to.

His death takes precedence on the Australian news websites.

His manager and Warne had been watching Australia play Pakistan on the TV when his friend discovered him unconscious.

fans had placed not only flowers at the foot of his statue at Melbourne Cricket Ground but a cricket ball with the words "thank you", a can of Australian beer, a packet of cigarettes and a meat pie.

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