Newspaper headlines: Defiant Robert Mugabe 'clings to power'

President Mugabe's refusal to resign makes the lead for many papers, both in the UK and abroad.

South Africa's Mail and Guardian has the headline: "Mugabe defies resignation and lives another day".

The Zimbabwe Mail says his televised address left the nation "deflated".

Here, the Daily Telegraph says he stunned the world by vowing to remain in charge.

"Zimbabwe in despair as Mugabe clings on," is the headline in the Times.

The paper says it wasn't clear whether the speech had been written by his Zanu-PF party and he had chosen to ignore the part that referred to his resignation.

According to the Guardian, sources close to the military say Mr Mugabe wants to remain in power until elections next summer.

Chancellor Philip Hammond's claim on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday that "there are no unemployed people" in the UK is widely reported.

Mr Hammond later explained what he meant, but it was too late to avoid unfavourable headlines.

The Guardian says his single task this week was to give substance to the Tory claim to be the party of the "just managing".

Instead, he accidentally wrote the 1.4 million people who are looking for work "out of the economic picture".

The Spectator says there's been growing concern among Conservatives as Budget day looms that Mr Hammond could be about to do something stupid - but that few had expected him to step into disaster before Wednesday.

"Forty-eight hours to sharpen your act, chancellor", is the Mail's warning.

Meanwhile, the leader writers put in their last-minute bids for what they would like to see in the Budget.

The Sun says there have been far too many rumours about diesel duty going up for its liking.

The paper is concerned about the impact on ordinary families, and urges Mr Hammond: "Don't do it, chancellor."

For the Mirror, the chancellor must lift the 1% cap on pay rises for public service workers.

They are the backbone of our country and deserve the proper increases denied for far too long, it says.

The i wants to see changes to stamp duty to help the housing market.

The Mail rejects any offer to pay a significantly larger divorce bill in the Brexit negotiations than what it calls the generous sum already pledged by Prime Minister Theresa May.

It's not as if the EU has made a single concession to justify an improved offer, it declares.

The paper resents the EU's insistence on the UK coming up with more money before trade talks can start and asks: "Why should we surrender to blackmail?"

But the Times accepts that Britain will have to pay more money - and says it would come with the expectation that the EU, in return, would place a meaningful trade deal on the table.

Finally, the papers mark the 70th wedding anniversary of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh by publishing a new official portrait of the couple.

It shows them standing and smiling at each other - and the Sun notes that it's a similar pose to the one they struck in their engagement photo.

For the Telegraph, theirs is one of the nation's greatest love stories.

It points out that only 1,300 or so other couples will this year celebrate their platinum anniversary - making it a rare achievement.