US and Britain split on cuts: Davos

Britain and the United States laid out starkly different recovery strategies at Davos on Friday, with one calling for deep spending cuts and the other warning against drastic action.

Leaders of the business and political elite gathered at the World Economic Forum were treated to back-to-back appearances by Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

But, as delegates debated how best to protect and nurture the world's tentative economic recovery, the top envoys from these two very similar debt-ridden Western economies brought very different messages.