UK & USA Today Editoweb 14 august 2009

U2 vow to wow Wembley crowds

Thousands of U2 fans are getting ready for a big weekend with the Irish superstars.

Guard in Iraq murder case has stress disorder: family

A British security guard accused over the killings of two of his colleagues in Iraq was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and should not have been in Baghdad, his family said Friday.

Trials Begin For UK Swine Flu Vaccine

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has begun testing the vaccine on 128 adults in Germany and hopes to get the jab to Britain by October.

One-million-pound reward offered in heist

A record reward of up to one million pounds was offered Friday to find the robbers who pulled off what is thought to be Britain's biggest jewellery heist, police said.

White supremacist is banned from UK

An American white supremacist has been stopped from entering the country to attend a controversial BNP festival this weekend.

Gem Heist: £1m Reward To Catch Robbers

A £1m reward is being offered in a bid to catch armed robbers who carried out Britain's biggest jewellery raid.

Obama denounces emphasis on health care protests

Trying to lower the temperature of the health care fight, President Barack Obama on Friday denounced news media emphasis on angry protesters at town-hall meetings.

Texas 'fight club' defendant sentenced to 3 years

A man convicted of helping run what police called a "fight club" that set developmentally disabled residents of a state-run center against each other was sentenced to three years in prison Friday.

Ala. gov signs bill for new tax to rescue county

A new tax has been signed into law to rescue Alabama's most populous county from a financial crisis that led to more than one-fourth of the county's government workers being laid off.

DJ makes waves as NY Senate 'creative director'

Christopher Sealey has spent days in his young life as a marketing guru for liberal causes and many of his nights as a DJ or clubbing in Manhattan in ensembles that would cost an average New Yorker a month's pay.

Author alleges she was Madoff's 20-year mistress

Bernard Madoff's decades-long fraud might not have been his only secret. A new book says he had a two-decade affair with one of his investors.

Settlement reached in Rhode Island tent city

Residents of a tent city in East Providence agreed on Friday to leave their spot under an I-195 bridge in three and a half weeks, but they said they are not happy about it and might still try to fight it.

SC Gov. Sanford goes to Fla. for reserve duty

Gov. Mark Sanford headed to Florida on Friday for a refresher course with the Air Force Reserves while a South Carolina ethics panel considered whether to investigate his state plane use and his flights on commercial airlines.


Special Olympians, family celebrate Eunice Shriver

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the presidential sister who founded the Special Olympics, was celebrated Friday at a funeral Mass as a fearless warrior for the voiceless who changed the world for millions and an unconventional woman who smoked Cuban cigars and played tackle football.

18 years later: 1st Gulf War casualty laid to rest

Navy pilot Scott Speicher, the long-missing first casualty of the first Gulf War, was finally laid to rest Friday in his adopted hometown as thousands of people lined the streets to watch a funeral procession pass his school, church and former military base.

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