On Tuesday afternoon hundreds of students demonstrated about the slipping standards in teaching and cut backs at Manchester University. The protest, which took over roads, holding up traffic in the Oxford Road area around the campus as angry and frustrated students marched with drumbeats,

Oil prices rose Tuesday afternoon after a momentary dip following the Federal Reserve's announcement that it would cut a key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point rather than the full point that many investors had been hoping for.