Newspaper headlines: 'Trump in the dock' and 'our new Queen'

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By BBC News
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It was "a day that shook America", according to The Independent, which joins most of the papers in leading with a picture of Donald Trump sitting between his lawyers in a court in New York.

The Financial Times describes the defendant as being "ashen faced". The Guardian's David Smith writes that the most striking thing about the image is that while everyone else is engaged in the moment, the former host of The Apprentice is staring at the camera.

Both Metro and The Sun joke the former president is "Donald Dock", while the Daily Mirror says he's "in the eye of the Stormy".

Sources close to Rishi Sunak have told The Daily Telegraph and The Times that he will rewrite the Equality Act so it refers to "biological sex" rather than "sex" after the change was recommended by the human rights watchdog. The papers say the legal distinction will allow for trans women to be excluded from female-only spaces.

The Daily Express says that would "protect women". The LGBT charity Stonewall believes "the move risks opening yet another chapter in a manufactured culture war".

The Guardian has been talking to people living in a town on the Dorset coast, next to where the Home Office is reportedly considering housing asylum seekers on a barge. The paper says politicians, businesses and residents have told it the plan is inhumane, puts pressure on creaking local services and creates a security risk. It says a string of people have argued that anchoring the boat in an area where 40% of children live in poverty would be "terrible for those assigned to the vessel and bad for residents". The Home Office says growing pressure on the asylum system means the government is looking at a range of options.

Businesses are considering leaving the CBI in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct, according to The Times. The paper says "no one wants to be the first to jump" from the lobby group which represents around 190,000 companies. But there is a feeling that as soon as one business publicly cancels its membership "many others will follow". The Times says some might see "the opportunity to save some money for something most are only a member of because they think they need to be".

"Our new Queen" is The Sun's frontpage headline alongside a picture of Queen Camilla as she is now to be called - rather than Queen Consort.

The Times says it had already been calling her the Queen - making the point that most queens in British history became so by marrying a king. The paper ponders whether other publications, along with Buckingham Palace, had been using the Consort title out of " some lingering garbled hesitancy arising from her status as a divorcee". A quote on the front of The Daily Mail says "the last vestige of Camilla's former status has become an historical footnote".

The Mirror has published extracts from the late Paul O'Grady's memoirs. It describes an Oscars after-party where he is wearing full drag and the American actor, Charlton Heston, flirts with him, which causes the late Robin Williams to note "delightedly" that Heston thought Paul O'Grady was a woman. Another extract describes a party in New York, where Paul O'Grady tells Madonna she "needs a good wash".