UK & USA Today Editoweb 26 march 2009

Car industry pleads for help

Struggling carmakers, slammed by recession and tumbling car demand, need urgent assistance from the government's upcoming budget next month, industry body SMMT pleaded on Thursday.

Exhumation clues to headless victim

Police said that they have uncovered more clues about the mystery of an unidentified man whose headless body was exhumed this week 18 years after he was murdered.

Gilts slip despite support from linker sale and data

Gilt futures fell on Thursday, hurt by higher share prices and spillover from Wednesday's failed auction, but losses were limited by a successful linker sale and gloomy retail sales data.

MI5 probed over torture claims

Scotland Yard is investigating claims that MI5 knew former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Binyam Mohamed, was being tortured.

Jail for jealous dad who killed baby son

A father who killed his one-month-old son because he was jealous of the attention he had from his mother has been jailed for life.

17 injured after tornado rips through Mississippi

Severe weather across the South unleashed tornadoes in rural Mississippi, including one that shattered dozens of homes, flattened a church and injured at least 17 people, authorities said Thursday

Mass AG reaches final Big Dig accident settlements

The Massachusetts attorney general announced final settlements with two companies involved in the Big Dig project on Thursday, concluding the state's litigation in a 2006 tunnel ceiling collapse that killed a Boston woman.

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