Journalist Fionola Meredith takes a look at what is making the headlines in Tuesday's morning papers.
The apparently deadlocked situation at Movilla High School in Newtownards is top story in the Belfast Telegraph and the News Letter, with the focus now moving to the nature of the alleged attack on a teacher which sparked the strike.
The News Letter claims to have seen an incident report filed with the school's management by the teacher in question.
"Just get it sorted" - that's the message in the Irish News. The paper's editorial says that, regardless of the issues at the centre of the dispute, "the fact that 540 pupils have been denied access to education for more than a week is simply unacceptable".
Evidence given to a Northern Ireland court by an SAS soldier is lead story in the Irish News - and the paper believes it's the first time in 20 years that anyone from the top-secret British army regiment has done so.
The soldier, known only as "F", and eight other members of his unit, are giving evidence in the trial of three County Armagh men, charged with possession of a mortar bomb near Lurgan.
And the Irish News says it's also thought to be the first time that it's been publicly acknowledged that the SAS is being used to target dissident republicans.
"Killed for being a Christian" - that's the headline in the Independent, and several other papers, picturing Gayle Williams, who was shot dead on Mondday on a quiet tree-lined street in Kabul, in Afghanistan.
The paper describes how the young woman had worked with children who had lost limbs to landmines and bombs, teaching them the basic skills needed to survive in a harsh and violent land.
"The apparently unsinkable coalition put together by Bertie Ahern is beginning to fall apart"
The Independent's editorial says the attack reflects a widening campaign by the Taliban to target foreign civilians.
Over at the Guardian, a new poll suggests Gordon Brown remains under pressure over the banking bail-out, revealing that he might be winning praise for his handling of the financial crisis - but that isn't translating into votes.
The poll indicates the Conservatives maintaining a double-digit lead, enough for a Commons majority, despite the PM's transformed reputation at Westminster.
Things are also looking a bit sticky for Taoiseach Brian Cowan.
"The apparently unsinkable coalition put together by Bertie Ahern is beginning to fall apart," says the Irish Independent, speculating that other independent TDs may follow the departing figure of Finian McGrath.
As the Irish Times points out, the future of the coalition now depends on the continued loyalty of the Green Party.
A familiar beardy face is popping up more and more in the papers in these financially-fraught days.
Yes, Karl Marx is back, and as the Times asks, does the financial crisis mean that Marx was right all along?
Could we be seeing the whole doomed capitalist project collapsing under its own weight, just as Marx predicted?
Sales of his best-known work, Capital, are soaring, as people rush to find out where the revolution starts. Or maybe it's a bit late for that.
And finally, several papers - including the Independent and the Telegraph - feature a weird picture of a horse with its head stuck in a tree.
The young filly, known as Gracie, from West Virginia in the United States, is shown sitting rather inelegantly on her bottom, her head firmly wedged in the tree's trunk.
After passers-by heard her whinnying, she was freed using a chainsaw. Cue lots of equine jokes, like: "If you will horse around..." or, as the Telegraph asks, "Why the long face...?"
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