UK & USA Today Editoweb 13 March 2010

Teen charged with harassment of bullied man

A man has been charged with harassment of 64-year-old David Askew, who died outside his home in Hattersley, Greater Manchester.

March in Scotland for dead Russian asylum seekers

Protesters marched through Glasgow on Saturday in memory of three Russian asylum seekers who apparently jumped to their deaths from a tower block after being refused permission to remain.

Leaders' wives help out in election campaign

The wives of Britain's political leaders, who once shunned publicity, are being thrust into the spotlight as their husbands' parties try new ways to win over voters before what could be a cliff-hanger election.

Raising crimial age 'ruled out'

The Government has ruled out a call from the Children's Commissioner to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 years after she argued the killers of James Bulger were too young to have been prosecuted for murder.

Latest Sky News UK Weather Forecast

It's going to be a chilly night ahead, but it will probably remain frost-free with variable amounts of cloud.

Burglars raid home of war heroine

Friends of a French Resistance heroine have slammed "despicable" burglars who raided her home days after her death.

Senate, Obama spar over health plan's pet projects

President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.

Obama's education law overhaul to focus on college

The Obama administration unveiled its plan Saturday to radically change his predecessor's No Child Left Behind law in hopes of replacing an accountability system that in the last decade has tagged more than a third of schools as failing and created a hodgepodge of sometimes weak academic standards among states.

US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting

A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme.

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