UK & USA Today Editoweb 2 May 2009

UK swine flu cases hit 15

Health chiefs are waiting for the results of more than 600 tests for swine flu as the number of confirmed cases hits 15.

Prescott rounds on Brown's critics

Former deputy prime minister John Prescott has rounded on Gordon Brown's Labour Party critics, brusquely telling them to stop complaining and rally behind the leadership.

Head teachers back boycott of Sats

Head teachers have vowed to show the Schools Secretary they have "balls" as they passed a resolution backing a boycott of next year's primary school Sats tests

Murder probe after woman found dead

Police have launched a murder investigation after the body of a 52-year-old woman was found in a house.

Swine flu confirmed in six-year-old

A six-year-old girl was one of two more people confirmed with swine flu as the number of victims in the UK rose to 15.

Swine Flu: Six-Year-Old Brit Girl Has Virus

The child, who is from Oxfordshire, recently visited Mexico, the source of the outbreak.

Notre Dame's Obama invite riles Catholic bishops

This coming week, Bishop Thomas Wenski of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando, Fla., will take the unusual step of celebrating a Mass of Reparation, to make amends for sins against God.

Pontiac, pop culture icon, hits end of the road

It could crash through burning buildings, make a fool of any number of small-town Southern sheriffs, help save the world from giant robots, even take criminals off to jail while engaging in witty repartee with its driver.

Judge rules Texas city's schools integrated

A federal judge has ruled that the Galveston public school system is desegregated, ending a civil rights lawsuit that was initiated in 1959.

Blast ignites fire in hyperbaric chamber, kills

An Italian woman has died and her 4-year-old grandson is in critical condition after a hyberbaric chamber exploded at a South Florida clinic.

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