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"Nigeria nightmare" is the Daily Star's headline, which says Joshua was "miraculously pulled alive from a horror car crash". [BBC]
The Daily Mirror also leads with Joshua's crash, reporting he is in a stable condition in hospital. The paper also features the King's New Year Honours list on its front page, writing that actor Idris Elba will receive a knighthood. "Arise, Sir Idris", it proclaims. [BBC]
England's Lionesses "have dominated" the New Years Honours, the i Paper reports. "Pride of England" is the paper's headline, listing some of the soccer stars to receive knighthoods, including the Lioness manager Sarina Wiegman, captain Leah Williamson, and teammates Alex Greenwood, Keira Walsh, Georgia Stanway and Ella Toone. [BBC]
Downing Street is facing a "furious backlash" over democracy activist Alaa Abd El Fattah being "welcomed" back to the UK, the Daily Mail writes. The paper says the welcome occurred "despite fury over [the] Egyptian dissident's anti-Semitic and anti-British tweets". The recently released Egyptian-British national arrived in the UK on 26 December before some of his old social media posts and messages resurfaced in which he called for Zionists to be killed. Mr Abd El Fattah has apologised, saying he understood "how shocking and hurtful" the posts were. [BBC]
The Daily Express also leads with the backlash against No 10 over Mr Abd El Fattah's case, writing Sir Keir Starmer "refuses to deport Egyptian 'extremist'". The government has announced a review into "serious information failures" relating to the activist's case. [BBC]
The Daily Telegraph leads by alleging Mr Abd El Fattah's engaged with a post on Facebook claiming he is the "victim of a 'Zionist campaign'". The paper says the account appeared to like a post that was re-sharing a separate post featuring those claims. [BBC]
Energy secretary Ed Miliband plans to set out a proposal of "£13bn over the next four years to reduce carbon emissions from Britain's 30 million homes", according to the Times. Labour ministers hope "grants to install solar panels, heat pumps and battery storage" will help lead to "zero bill" homes "paying little or no money for power", the paper says. [BBC]
"US stocks eclipsed by rest of world' reads the headline on the Financial Times, reporting on "a rare year of underperformance for Wall Street". The paper identifies multiple reasons for investor "unease" in the US, including "worries about high valuations, a Chinese artificial intelligence breakthrough and Donald Trump's radical economic policies". [BBC]
"Polls reveals rise in ethno-nationalist approach to identity" reads the Guardian's top story, reporting the number of people who associate "Britishness" with birthplace has nearly doubled in two years. "About one in three people (36%) thought a person must be born in Britain to be truly British", according to the paper, citing a recent survey conducted by the Institute for Public Policy Research. [BBC]
The Independent leads with its own survey findings that "more than half of British voters want [a] new military alliance without America to counter threat from [Vladimir] Putin". It says 55% of those polled want the UK to enter a new "Europe defence alliance", while only 11% opposed it. [BBC]
The political row surrounding the British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El Fattah over his social media messages is the focus of many of the front pages.
Both the Daily Mail and the Daily Express say there has been a furious reaction from the Conservatives and Reform UK to Downing Street saying Mr Abd El Fattah is still welcome in Britain, although the government has described his posts as "abhorrent".
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The Guardian leads with a YouGov survey, carried out for a centre-left think-tank, which suggests one in three people think that "Britishness" is dependent on being born in the UK.
The report by the Institute for Public Policy Research warns of an increase of ethno-nationalism in Britain, according to the paper.
The front pages of the Daily Mirror and the Sun focus on the boxer Anthony Joshua after he was injured in a car crash in Nigeria, which killed two members of his team.
The Mirror says he had to be pulled from the wreckage, calling it a "miracle escape". The Sun describes it as a "horror crash".
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The Financial Times says the world's largest accounting body has decided to scrap remote exams because of a rise in students cheating when sitting tests online.
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants says remote exams, which it introduced during the pandemic, have become too hard to police, partly because of cheating using AI.
There is plenty of reaction to the New Year Honours list in the papers, with the actor Idris Elba's knighthood making most of the headlines.
"Arise Sir Idris", says the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mirror and the Sun.
Meanwhile, the front page of the i declares that England's Lionesses have "dominated" the honours after their Euros win in the summer. The headline is "pride of England".
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