UK & USA Today Editoweb 9 july 2009

G8 accord on climate change target

Leaders of the world's biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, including Britain, have agreed to seek measures to limit global warming to 2C.

Bank holds off recession cash boost

Bank of England rate-setters are in "wait and see" mode as they held off from delivering more aid to the recession-blighted UK economy.

Further job cuts planned for Corus

The steel industry has been dealt a fresh blow with news that Corus plans to axe hundreds more jobs at one of its biggest plants.

Phone-hacking claims to be probed

Prosecutors are to look again at claims of alleged phone hacking by the News of the World.  

Knife crime convictions rise by 60%

The number of criminals convicted for carrying a knife has increased by more than half in ten years, it has been revealed.

Thousands protest in Iran, defying crackdown vow

Thousands of protesters streamed down avenues of the capital Thursday, chanting "death to the dictator" and defying security forces who fired tear gas and charged with batons, witnesses said. The first opposition foray into the streets in 11 days aimed to revive mass demonstrations that were crushed in Iran's postelection turmoil.

About 300 graves tampered with near Chicago

Authorities say about 300 graves at a historic black cemetery near Chicago may have been tampered with as part of a scheme in which grave sites could be resold.

Mysterious tremors detected on San Andreas Fault

Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857.

Sentencing delayed in Texas 'fight club' case

A judge's illness has forced the postponement of the sentencing of a man who pleaded guilty to abusing residents at a Texas facility for the developmentally disabled.

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