Journalist Mike Philpott takes a look at what is making the headlines in Wednesday's morning papers.
There's really only one story for the papers in Belfast. The return of the Executive at Stormont is welcomed by the News Letter as good news for all of us.
But the paper says it's hard to see what Sinn Fein has achieved with what it calls a blockade lasting 152 days.
It points out that there's no firm date for the devolution of policing and justice and the party won't get its hands on the ministry.
The Irish News looks at the expected appointment of Northern Ireland's first Attorney General since the 1970s.
It quotes John Larkin QC, whose name has been linked to the job, as saying that he's known for his stubbornness and independence, and it points out that he has worked on behalf of both Sinn Fein and the DUP.
The Belfast Telegraph has some advice for the politicians - just get on with it. In a front page comment, it says the vast majority of people want action now on the pressing issues of the day.
The paper wants the Executive to throw its weight behind businesses in the current difficult climate and to protect the vulnerable in society. It says too much time has already been needlessly wasted.
The Daily Mirror has an interesting story - it reports that bookmakers took a hammering after people bet that the Executive would meet this week.
The Irish Times reports under its main headline that the government in Dublin is in discussion with a number of private investors about injecting new capital into the Irish banks.
It notes that the share price of the Anglo-Irish Bank followed the Bank of Ireland in dropping below one euro.
The Irish Independent is a bit more dramatic in its language. It talks of a multi-billion euro rescue plan and says the finance minister, Brian Lenihan, was involved in late night crisis talks with the financial regulator and the governor of the Central Bank.
It comments that Ireland's economy is lying on a trolley, waiting for attention. It calls on the government to act decisively and act immediately.
There's a remarkable story on some of the cross-channel front pages. Three of them - the Telegraph, the Independent and the Mail - have front page pictures of Claudia Castillo, who has become the first person to undergo a whole organ transplant grown from her own stem cells.
The Telegraph calls it "the transplant revolution" and describes how she received a new windpipe created with a process known as tissue engineering.
What that means, according to the Independent, is that her own cells were added to a donor organ to produce a customised replacement.
Because of that, she has also become the first transplant patient not to need drugs to prevent rejection. The Mail describes it as the first step towards people being able to grow their own organs.
Finally, the computer age has apparently given pupils a whole new range of excuses for failing to do their homework.
It used to be "the dog ate it". Now, according to the Times, it's more likely to be "I deleted it by accident".
But there are some more inventive examples, such as, "my dad's computer was hacked by the Russians and they stole my homework".
And the poor old pooch gets the blame again with the excuse: "The computer exploded when the dog went to the toilet on it."
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