UK & USA Today Editoweb 16 november 2009

FTSE hits 14-month closing high

The FTSE 100 hit its highest closing level in more than 14 months on Monday as a weaker dollar sparked a rally in metals prices and some upbeat U.S. data lifted market sentiment.

Enid Blyton banned by BBC for decades: memos

Popular children's author Enid Blyton was banned from the BBC for nearly 30 years because officials thought her work "lacked literary value", letters from the broadcaster's archives showed Monday.

'Home alone' mother escapes jail

A mother who abandoned her four young children to go on a 24-hour drink and drug binge has been given a suspended jail sentence.

Police now searching for body of missing NC girl

Authorities searched along a highway Monday for the body of a missing 5-year-old girl but said they still hoped they might find her alive

NASA fuels space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff

NASA fueled space shuttle Atlantis on Monday for an afternoon liftoff to the space station, despite increasingly cloudy skies.

Sexually spread diseases up, better testing cited

Sexually spread diseases continue to rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting yet another record in 2008, government health officials said Monday.

NM's medical pot program has slow, cautious start

Businessman Len Goodman owns a company that makes hand-painted art tiles, but these days his office desk is strewn with the raw materials of a new enterprise: fat, sweetly pungent marijuana buds.

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