UK & USA Today Editoweb 20 October 2009

London lawyer guilty of Japanese bank fraud

A London lawyer was found guilty Tuesday of conning a Japanese bank where she was a senior manager out of millions of pounds (dollars), to help a friend's ailing airline.

Mandelson 'undermining' post talks

Lord Mandelson has been accused of "undermining" last-ditch talks aimed at averting a postal workers strike by "misrepresenting" facts of the dispute.

BNP leader takes on military chiefs

British National Party leader Nick Griffin has compared UK generals to Nazi war criminals after they accused his party of hijacking military symbols.

Footage of a police officer being run over

Mobile phone footage of a police officer being run over in Partington has been released.

Karzai accepts runoff in Afghan election

A grim President Hamid Karzai bowed to intense U.S. pressure and agreed Tuesday to a runoff election Nov. 7, acknowledging he fell short of a majority after U.N.-backed auditors stripped him of nearly a third of his votes.

College tuition rising sharply this fall

Average tuition prices rose sharply again this fall as colleges passed much of the burden of their own financial problems on to recession-battered students and parents.

Victims, families outraged by NC inmates' release

Crime victims and their families are bracing for the release next week of 20 North Carolina felons who had been sentenced to life in prison.

Anti-Islamic Dutch lawmaker speaking at US college

A European lawmaker whose anti-Islamic views once led British officials to ban him from visiting that country will address Temple University students on Tuesday, despite protests from campus organizations.

U of Ill. chancellor quits amid admissions scandal

University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman resigned Tuesday following months of pressure after reports that the school admitted politically connected applicants over more qualified ones at its Urbana-Champaign campus.

News from Yahoo News