China slams US criticism of Internet controls BEIJING - Beijing issued a stinging response Friday to Hillary Rodham Clinton's criticism that it is jamming the free flow of words and ideas on the Internet, accusing the United States of damaging relations between the two countries by imposing its "information imperialism" on China. Britain raises international terror threat level LONDON (Reuters) - Britain raised its international terrorism threat level to 'severe' -- its second highest level of terror alert -- from 'substantial' on Friday, Home Secretary (interior minister) Alan Johnson said. Thousands rally against Obama WASHINGTON (AFP) - Ten of thousands of protestors from across the United States descended on the nation's capital Saturday, decrying President Barack Obama, "big government" and big spending.