UK & USA Today Editoweb 21 May 2009

Expenses claims another Labour scalp

A Labour MP has announced he will stand down at the next election over expenses allegations.

Suspended Muslim police chief charged

A British Muslim police chief who is already suspended from office has been charged over a scuffle during an arrest in a restaurant, a police watchdog body said Thursday.

Miliband reaches out to Muslim world

David Miliband has called for a new coalition between the West and the Islamic world.

Duck island Tory to stand down

A veteran Tory MP who claimed £1,645 for a floating "duck island" for his pond has confirmed he is to stand down.

Brown defends ministers on expenses

Gordon Brown has been forced to defend two more of his Cabinet ministers as the expenses scandal showed little sign of abating.

Obama says US prisons tough enough for detainees

President Barack Obama forcefully defended his plans to close the Guantanamo detention camp Thursday and said some of the terror suspects held there would be brought to top-security prisons in the United States despite fierce opposition in Congress.

Police: Mom of buried NM boy says she killed him

Police said Thursday that the mother of a 3-year-old boy found buried at a playground told investigators she suffocated him, had second thoughts and brought him back to life, then changed her mind and suffocated him again.

Mich. man gets life, no parole for Wis. killings

A Michigan man who killed three teenagers in a shooting rampage on the Wisconsin border last summer has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Teen Somali piracy suspect pleads not guilty in NY

A Somali teenager accused of leading a pirate attack on an American cargo ship off the coast of Africa pleaded not guilty Thursday to piracy charges.

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