UK & USA Today Editoweb 20 february 2009

Slump in UK car production

Renewed calls for Government help for the beleaguered motor industry have been made after new figures showed car production slumped again last month.

Home repossessions hit 12-year high

The human cost of the recession has been made clearer after figures showed a 54% jump in the number of people who lost their homes last year.

Guantanamo inmate will fly to UK

A British resident held at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years is expected to be flown back to the UK early next week.

Boy gets life for PlayStation death

A 16-year-old boy who murdered another boy of the same age in a row about a PlayStation has been locked up for life.

Repossessions Jump By More Than A Half

Latest figures show 40,000 homes were repossessed in 2008 - up 54% on the previous year, but 5,000 fewer than predicted.

AP Interview: Reid pushing for climate change bill

Saying it's time to "take a whack" at climate change, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he plans to push for Senate action on global warming by the end of summer.

Small-town sheriff helps Mo. inmate win freedom

When Sheriff Rick Walter was a reserve deputy, he discovered slain college student Angela Mischelle Lawless in her idling car along a rural southeastern Missouri highway and was sure at least two people had attacked her.

SC Rep: Opposition to stimulus is slap in face

The highest-ranking black congressman said Thursday that opposition to the federal stimulus package by southern GOP governors is "a slap in the face of African-Americans."

Details of Arizona boy's case may never be known

The charges against a 9-year-old Arizona boy accused in a double homicide that shocked the nation have been resolved. But the mystery surrounding the case remains.

Medics describe horror of Conn. chimp attack

Her hands looked like they were wrecked by a machine. Eyes wounded, hair yanked out. Face and scalp injuries so extensive, all the blood obscured whatever parts were left.

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