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There is a "call to stop sharing data with China" leading the Times, after the "entirety of UK Biobank" was "offered for sale online". The breach involved the private medical data of half a million people, it says. In other front page news, former adviser to the prime minister Morgan McSweeney responds to claims about his involvement in the Lord Mandelson vetting scandal saying "swearing at civil servants simply isn't me".
US President Donald Trump's "new orders" to the US Navy in the Persian Gulf to "shoot and kill" lead the i Paper. "Iran peace talks stall," it adds, noting a "tense standoff as fears grow of return to conflict".
A "tech arms race" tops the Financial Times, as it says the US has accused China of "industrial-scale theft from AI labs". A photo of masked soldiers scaling the side of a ship takes up much of the front page - it was broadcast on Iranian state television and "claims to show the country's soldiers taking part in the seizure of container ships in the Strait of Hormuz".
The Foreign Office has shut a unit tracking potential law breaches by Israel in Gaza because of cuts, reports the Guardian. It also carries the Biobank data breach story, saying it was found for sale on "three separate listings last week". Elsewhere, a civil servant tasked with compiling documents for Lord Mandelson's appointment to be UK ambassador in the US said she had not been given files relating to his security vetting. And a photo of a group of women mourning and carrying red posters of the journalist Amal Khalil, who was killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon, is splashed.
The Metro says Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood swore at a heckler and called him a "white liberal". Now the heckler replies in the paper's headline, saying "I'm not even white!"
"Migrant rapist was on the run for murder," reads the headline on the front page of the Sun. Lawyers for Karin Al-Danasurt denied earlier that he had been convicted of murder in Egypt before coming to the UK.
DJ Sara Cox has been given her "dream job" on BBC Radio 2. She is set to "replace Mills on Britain's biggest brekkie show" after the presenter Scott Mills was dropped after the corporation received new information relating to a police investigation over alleged historic sexual offences.
The Daily Telegraph reports on "Hermer's 'excessive' fee for Iraq witch hunt", saying that Lord Hermer, the attorney general, was challenged by government lawyers over a "£450-an-hour rate" he was reportedly seeking to pursue claims of murder and assault against British troops in Iraq in 2004. The troops were later fully exonerated by a public inquiry. A spokesman for Lord Hermer said: "It is extremely common for a party to challenge every aspect of settlement costs, including legal fees. It is incorrect to suggest that this is in any way irregular."
"Infected by a monster" is the Daily Mirror's headline after "HIV predator jailed for life". Adam Hall's youngest victim, who the Mirror says was 15 when they met, "relives horror".
Dame Esther Rantzen, president of ChildLine, calls for "readers to make their voices heard on assisted dying". "There is one last chance," reads the headline.
The Independent touts its own reporting with "top official reveals how Indy triggered Mandelson panic". It says Cat Little, the most senior civil servant at the Cabinet Office, told the Commons foreign affairs committee the government had "scrambled" for details of the peer's vetting after the Independent reported he had failed the checks.
In the Daily Mail's top story, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage announces he will "wage 'war' on benefits culture". Also on the front page, the "BBC kills off Football Focus after 52 years as ratings tank". Alex Kay-Jelski, director of BBC Sport. said: "This decision was made before last week's wider BBC savings announcement, reflecting the continued shift in how audiences engage with football and our commitment to evolving how we deliver content to reach fans wherever they are."
The Times says ministers are facing calls to ban the sharing of British citizens' personal information with China, after a huge breach involving the private medical data of half a million people. Volunteers who had given their DNA and healthcare records to UK Biobank were told that their details had been put up for sale on a Chinese website. The paper quotes an unnamed Whitehall source who says the charity has been "very, very lax" about who it allowed to access data.
The Attorney General, Lord Hermer, has been accused of seeking excessive fees to take part in a "witch hunt" investigating false allegations of war crimes by British soldiers, according to the Daily Telegraph. The paper says Lord Hermer sought to charge £450 an hour to his clients, who were later found to have been Iraqi insurgents. A spokesperson for Lord Hermer said any suggestion he had knowingly acted on false claims was "categorically untrue".
