OTHER NEWS

THE BRITISH government Tuesday cut its main interest rate by 1 percentage point to 6 percent, the lowest rate in more than 15 years, a move that drove shares higher and the pound tumbling . . . EIGHT NAVY BOATS and volunteers Tuesday searched the seas off Sri Lanka's northeastern port of Trincomalee, where an overcrowded passenger boat capsized and killed about 60 people, authorities said . . . DANISH SCULPTOR Robert Jacobsen, who won international fame for his large gaunt iron sculptures, died Monday near Vejle, Denmark, at age 80, the Danish news agency Ritzau said . . . A SIGHTSEEING HELICOPTER giving tourists a look at lava flowing from Kilauea Volcano crashed off Hawaii Island, killing at least three passengers. A fourth person was reported missing.