Newspaper headlines: ‘Putin breaks silence’ and ‘bomb blew up jet’

Both the Daily Star and the Sun report on a charity shop painting so spooky that it keeps being returned by its buyers. The portrait of a child with what the Sun describes as a stern face and a piercing stare has been taken back twice by customers said by the owner of the shop, in St Leonards on Sea, to have been “shaken and distressed”. But there is renewed interest after the work went viral, prompting a flood of inquiries from horror fans.