UK & USA Today Editoweb 4 October 2009

Tories plan welfare system reforms

David Cameron has set out plans for a "very radical" reform of the welfare system to ease the mounting unemployment crisis and pledged to make the Conservatives "the party of jobs and opportunities".

Cameron battles new Tory rift on EU

Tory leader David Cameron is fighting to prevent a damaging new rift over Europe dominating his party's final conference before the general election.

Boy road death prompts arrest

Five men have been arrested in connection with the death of a ten-year-old boy who was in collision with a van.

Hope fades for man swept out to sea

Hope is fading for a teenager who vanished after being swept into the sea during a night out, coastguards have said.

Name your victims, paedophile urged

The husband of a nursery worker who committed a string of child sex offences has pleaded with her to identify her victims.

UN: Iran nuclear dispute shifting to cooperation

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday there is a "shifting of gears" in Iran's confrontation with the West to more cooperation and transparency and he announced that international inspectors would visit Tehran's newly revealed uranium enrichment site on Oct. 25.

44 tons of rotting meat stink up South Dakota town

Behind the freezer doors at a meat plant mysteriously abandoned by its owner, the 44 tons of bison meat managed to hold its own for months, masked by the brutal chill of two South Dakota winters.

Officials: Abducted newborn safer in state custody

A newborn boy abducted by a woman posing as an immigration agent was again taken from his mother after a brief reunion, this time by state officials who said the baby and his three siblings would be safest with foster parents.

Health insurance bills could be hardship for many

Many middle-class Americans would still struggle to pay for health insurance despite efforts by President Barack Obama and Democrats to make coverage more affordable.

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