UK & USA Today Editoweb 27 March 2010

Leaders square up as election looms

The party leaders have stepped up their head-to-head election war as campaigning enters what is almost certainly its final six weeks.

Latest Sky News UK Weather Forecast

Rain is on the way. Mild but cloudy and eventually very wet weather is moving up from the south spreading to all of Ireland, Wales and England.

Campaign Gets Personal As Parties Clash

The parties are battling it out over the economy as both sides argue they are the only people who can be trusted to ensure Britain's recovery from recession and the campaign becomes increasingly personal.

Deficit cuts would be limited in 2010 - Cameron

Conservative leader David Cameron said on Sunday there would be a limit to what the party could do this year to tackle the country's deficit if it wins the upcoming election.

BA strike war of words intensifies

The war of words over the British Airways strike intensified, with the airline claiming more cabin crew had returned to work, while political leaders clashed over disputes which have broken out in the run-up to the election.

Film Fans Honour Avatar At Empire Awards

Avatar may have missed out on this year's top Oscars, but James Cameron's record-breaking film has dominated the 2010 Empire Awards.

Obama presses Karzai to fight Afghan corruption

President Barack Obama told Afghan leaders on Sunday to do more to rein in rampant corruption and improve their government as he made an unannounced visit to the capital for a firsthand look at the 8-year-old war he inherited and dramatically escalated.

Palin to tea party rally: Don't sit down, shut up

Sarah Palin told thousands of tea party activists assembled in the dusty Nevada desert Saturday that Sen. Harry Reid will have to explain his votes when he comes back to his hometown to campaign.

Workers right tilted crane that hit NYC high-rise

Mechanics and engineers on Sunday lowered a crane that had been poised precariously after it tilted and hit a 25-story building near Wall Street the day before, showering debris to the ground, rerouting traffic and causing evacuations.

Cancer question complicates 9/11 compensation deal

Of all the illnesses people fear might be caused by toxic dust from the World Trade Center, nothing scares people like cancer.

Ky. Mennonites labor through grief to bury family

As members of a close-knit Mennonite community prepared to bury their own, they sliced through wooden planks with electric saws Saturday and wrestled with the loss of a family of nine killed in a central Kentucky crash.


NJ county's Sunday buying ban may be checking out

During a powerful storm that flooded basements, uprooted trees and left tens of thousands of families without power through a late winter weekend, residents of one New Jersey county had to wait till Monday morning to buy sump pumps, generators and other cleanup tools at local stores. sump pumps, generators and other cleanup tools at local stores.

Tribute to SoCal teen recalls her love of animals

More than 1,000 people paid tribute Saturday to a 14-year-old girl whose remains were found more than a year after she disappeared walking to school. Her father urged anyone who cried for her to demand a crackdown on child predators.

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