British premier, US president plan economy talks

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown offered support for US President George W. Bush's economic rescue package Thursday, a day before the two leaders plan to meet in Washington to discuss the global turmoil. Brown said he would meet Bush at the White House on Friday, as Bush tries to persuade US Congress to sign off on his proposed US$700 billion bailout of US financial markets. "We are doing everything in our power to ensure that there is stability - and that is stability for people's jobs, for people's mortgages, for people's standards of living," Brown said Thursday in New York, where he held talks on Wall Street after addressing the UN General Assembly.