UK & USA Today Editoweb 5 august 2009

FTSE closes down 0.5 percent

Blue chip shares closed down 0.5 percent on Wednesday, after weaker than expected economic data in the U.S. dragged equities lower, with oil producers and miners leading the losers.

Armoured trucks 'for use in autumn'

Heavily-armoured military trucks waiting to be shipped to Afghanistan were never intended to be used by British troops until the autumn, the Ministry of Defence has said.

Radiohead in tribute to WW1 veteran

Alternative rock superstars Radiohead on Wednesday released a musical tribute to Harry Patch, the last soldier to fight in the trenches of Europe in World War I, who died at the age of 111.

Sasha murder probe: father charged

The father of a 17-year-old girl found stabbed to death has been charged with her murder.

Father is charged with Sasha murder

The father of a 17-year-old girl found stabbed to death has been charged with her murder.

Freed journalists home in US after NKorea pardon

Two American journalists jubilantly reunited with family and friends early Wednesday upon returning to the United States with former President Bill Clinton, whose diplomatic trip to North Korea secured their release nearly five months after their arrests.

Pa. man kills 3, himself; Web page describes plans

A man who sprayed bullets into a fitness class filled with women, killing three and then himself, apparently kept a Web page in which he wrote about years of rejection by women and an earlier plan for violence at the gym in which he said he "chickened out."

Report: Man charged with tossing baby made threats

Newly released documents say a 21-year-old Tampa man accused of throwing an infant out of his car window in May had been threatening to hurt the child.

1 killed in shooting outside S. Ind. plant

Authorities say a gunman crashed through the gate at a Pillsbury plant in southern Indiana and fatally shot a man in the parking lot.

Fire at Mich. facility may have started near meter

A fire at a Michigan fuel storage facility that caused several oil barrels to explode and prompted area evacuations may have started near an electric meter, authorities said Wednesday.

Florida Bay's ecology on the brink of collapse

Boat captain Tad Burke looks out over Florida Bay and sees an ecosystem that's dying as politicians, land owners and environmentalists bicker.

Family wants Sierra mystery solved, 42 years later

Somewhere after Amelia Earhart in the annals of aviators who have flown into oblivion is the Webb Family: Ruby and Carroll and their son William, a budding pilot with just 70 hours in the cockpit.

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