The Independent, in a front-page commentary, estimated that the cut would cost Mr. Murdoch about $30 million in revenues.

A front-page commentary in The Daily Mirror put the case bluntly: "He is not the first royal to be unfaithful.

In a front-page commentary, the daily Davar asked today, though, why the police did not investigate.

"The symbol was already chipped," the newpaper said in a front-page commentary.

A front-page commentary in El Watan, one of the most widely read newspapers, implied that little else could have been expected.

Many newspapers published front-page commentaries today seeking to come to terms with the legacy of the Holocaust.

In a front-page commentary, the financial newspaper Handelsblatt declared, "No, democracy is not in danger."

"In that self-professed 'democratic' country, citizens don't want to exercisetheir sovereign rights," People's Daily said today in a front-page commentary.