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UK & USA Today Editoweb 3 January 2009

Tighter security at UK airports - Town centre building explosion - UK says it, U.S. agree to fund Yemen police unit.



Tighter security at UK airports

Gordon Brown has signalled a major tightening of security at UK airports, with passengers facing the prospect of full-body scans.

Town centre building explosion

A number of people have been injured after an explosion in a town centre, police said.

UK says it, U.S. agree to fund Yemen police unit

The United States and Britain have agreed to fund a counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen as part of stepped-up efforts to fight terrorism, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office said on Sunday.

Family urges inquest for Briton executed in China

The family of a Briton executed in China wrote Sunday to the government in London demanding an inquest into his death, their lawyers said.

Fifth Iraq Hostage 'To Be Handed Over'

A fifth British hostage captured in Iraq - who is feared dead - may be handed over in the coming days, according to the Iraqi government.

US, UK close Yemen embassies over al-Qaida threats

Western embassies in Yemen locked up Sunday after fresh threats from al-Qaida, and the White House expressed alarm at the terror group's expanded reach in the poor Arab nation where an offshoot apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner.

State budget pictures bleak as lawmakers head back

If you thought state budgets were in bad shape last year, just wait: 2010 promises to be brutal for lawmakers — many facing re-election — as they scramble to find enough money to keep their states running without raising taxes.

Rustlers ride wideopen range of Great Basin

Cruising down a two-lane blacktop where the Catlow Rim drops down into a broad valley of sagebrush and bunchgrass, ranch manager Stacy Davies pulls his pickup over to let pass a herd of young bulls being trailed along the road by a couple of his buckaroos, as ranch hands are called here.

Calif. pastor takes in $2.4M after donations plea

Evangelical pastor Rick Warren's plea for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch brought in $2.4 million, Warren announced to cheers during a sermon at the church on Saturday.

Friends of missing Utah mom launch Web media blitz

Friends and family of Susan Powell are launching a social media blitz in the search for the missing Utah mother of two.

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