Summary: Teachers accused the Ministry of Defence on Tuesday of exploiting schools to find new recruits after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan made it harder to sign up volunteers
Summary: Londons Labour Mayor Ken Livingstone put climate at the core of his reelection campaign on Tuesday trying for the first time in Britain to make the environment a key electoral issue
Summary: Prime Minister Gordon Brown will visit the United States in April in a trip in which he is likely to push for reform at world institutions and to discuss the global credit crunch
Summary: AP - A 20-foot-long chunk of construction crane plummeted 30 floors at the site of a high-rise condominium Tuesday, killing two workers and smashing into a home that the contractor used for storage, police said.
Summary: AFP - Fighters loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr clashed with Iraqi and US forces in their Baghdad bastion of Sadr City on Wednesday, killing four civilians, a medic and security officials said.
Summary: AP - John McCain, outlining his foreign policy positions on the heels of an overseas trip, is renewing his call for the United States to work more collegially with democratic nations and live up to its duties as a world leader.
Summary: AP - Russia has failed to shoot down the Bush administration's missile defense ambitions. But the high-priced project — a derivative of the "Star Wars" plan that President Reagan unveiled 25 years ago this week — still faces hostile political forces at ho
