Brown urges US to join new 'Marshall Plan' (The Independent)

Gordon Brown is appealing to the world's oil-producing states, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, to use some of their wealth from rising oil prices to contribute to the aid to Africa. He wants the oil revenues to plug an estimated $20bn shortfall between the $80bn so far committed to the world's poorest countries by 2010 and the $100bn UN target.