UK & USA Today Editoweb 7 April 2010

Gordon Brown answers Tweets at People's PMQs

Gordon Brown has answered questions from members of the public at a special People's Prime Minister's Questions.

PM rules out basic tax increase

Labour will keep the basic rate of income tax at 20p for the whole of the next Parliament if it wins the General Election on May 6, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has indicated.

Two firefighters die in flats blaze

Two firefighters killed as a tower block blaze raged "completely out of control" have been hailed for their bravery.

Colourful farewell for crash girl

Heartbroken friends of school bus crash victim Natasha Paton have celebrated her life - a day after what would have been her 18th birthday.

Cameron concentrating on NI policy

David Cameron has claimed momentum is growing against Labour's planned National Insurance rise as he put the issue at the heart of his General Election campaigning.

Kyrgyz uprising seizes security HQ

Thousands of protesters furious over corruption and spiraling utility bills seized internal security headquarters, a state TV channel and other levers of power in Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday after government forces fatally shot dozens of demonstrators and wounded hundreds.

Anxious relatives await word on W.Va. mine rescue

Anxious family members clung to what the governor called a "sliver of hope" Wednesday as rescuers drilled into the coal mine where 25 people died in an explosion, hoping to vent enough poisonous gas to safely get inside and look for possible survivors.

2 more glaciers gone from Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park has lost two more of its namesake moving icefields to climate change, which is shrinking the rivers of ice until they grind to a halt, a government researcher said Wednesday.

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