Papers hail US President Obama

Every aspect of the historic day, from US President Barack Obama's inaugural speech, to his wife's outfit, is dissected and analysed by the papers.

The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger takes over the front page to hail America's first black president.

He took his oath "in front of quite possibly the largest mass of humanity every to have gathered in one place for a single political moment", he writes.

The Daily Telegraph's front page has a similar headline: "Remaking America."

Hope and history

The Daily Express features a list of inauguration statistics, such as the fact the event cost £120m to stage.

It also says two million people packed into Washington National Mall to see the ceremony, and two billion people watched it on TV around the world.

Another word that seems to crop up as frequently as "historic" is "hope".

"Obama lights a candle of hope", says the Daily Mail, while the Daily Mirror describes President Obama as "the man who unites with hope".

'Biblically-sized'

There was a sense of disappointment in the Times about US President Barack Obama's inaugural speech.

Under the headline "the speech that failed to fly", its US editor Gerald Baker points to a lack of "truly memorable pieces of phraseology".

Like President Obama himself, the papers keep harking back to the stark reality of the problems facing the US.

But the Financial Times says the sombre undertones of his speech did not quell the "biblically-sized" crowd's roars.

Stripping off

With the newly crowned US President Barack Obama dominating the papers, there is not much room for other stories.

The Sun says that, according to the home secretary, the UK is on high alert for a Mumbai-style terror attack on a top hotel.

Meanwhile, the Independent reports on a strippergram who has been arrested 22 times for impersonating a policeman.

The student at Aberdeen University has yet to prosecuted and the paper says there is mounting anger over the waste of public money.