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The national flag of United KIngdom.... The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting begins in Port-of-Spain on November 27 and continues for three days.

The Bank of England governor wants banks to separate their retail and investment arms.

Britain's economy contracted in the third quarter of this year, quashing hopes the downturn was ending and instead marking the longest recession on record.

Sir Reg Empey told his party conference that Ulster Unionists should be included in negotiations if they are to support the devolution of policing and justice powers.

Britain may still be "better placed" to pull itself out of recession but it is no thanks to Alastair Darling or his Government Who was it who said, in March last year, that Britain was "better placed than other economies to withstand the slowdown in the global economy"? The same man who now has to explain why the British economy is still in ...

LAWS in the United Kingdom are rarely retrospective from the date of enactment, but MPs find themselves being presented with payment demands aimed at clawing back money which they legitimately claimed in good faith under rules in operation at the time.

LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday welcomed the decision of the Pakistan government to launch a campaign against the Taliban in South Waziristan.

THE British government is holding a fire sale of public assets, including the undersea Channel rail link, to raise 16 billion pounds as Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned yesterday that the country is "only halfway there" in overcoming the recession.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by Lord Phillips, the Supreme Court's president, attends the official opening of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in London yesterday.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip arrive to open the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, in Parliament Square, central London, Friday, Oct.

Gordon Brown hasannounced that the number of British troops in Afghanistan would rise by 500 to 9,500 in a move designed to end a damaging dispute between ministers and defence chiefs and reassure sceptics that the military presence there is worthwhile.

BRITISH TROOPS: PM Gordon Brown has pledged a further 500 British soldiersto be deployed in Afghanistan, if several conditions are met.

Britain is ready to raise troop numbers in Afghanistan by 500 to 9,500, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday, providing certain conditions are met.

The Spanish Senate, acting to confirm a decision already taken under pressure from powerful governments accused of grave crimes, will limit Spain's laws of universal jurisdiction.

Revealed: Courts Let Dangerous Foreign Criminals Stay In Britain Dangerous foreign criminals are beating the Home Office to remain in the UK at the end of their prison sentences, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.

Dangerous foreign criminals are beating the Home Office to remain in the UK at the end of their prison sentences, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.

A row between the government, the Scottish National party and broadcasters over an American-style leaders' election debate intensified today when the SNP threatened legal action to ensure that its leader, Alex Salmond, was included in plans for televised hustings.

IT IS a much-overused phrase, but today could be a defining moment in British politics; the day when the country hears David Cameron personally outline his case for becoming prime minister; the day the electorate hear that case and begin to form a judgment.

Date : Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:58:55 +0500 DOCUMENT SHOWS REJECTED MOSADDEQ'S OUTREACH TO UNITED STATES AND AMERICA'S COLLUSION WITH BRITAIN By Wayne Madsen Online Journal Oct 2, 2009, 00:18 -- With the United States and United Kingdom stating they are committed to diplomacy with Iran over its nuclear power program, but also refusing to rule out ...

The forced Yes vote in Ireland makes it respectable to ask whether the benefits outweigh the sacrifices of staying in the EU William Rees-Mogg The Irish volte-face on the Lisbon treaty is a significant though melancholy event.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown intervened Monday to confront a deadlock threatening Northern Ireland's Catholic-Protestant government, the central pillar of peacemaking here.

David Cameron has said Alex Salmond should be barred from a series of televised general election debates between the main party leaders despite Scottish National Party threats of legal action.

HAS the British Labour Party learned to love Peter Mandelson ? Tony Blair once famously said that when that happened, his project would be complete.

With the United States and United Kingdom stating they are committed to diplomacy with Iran over its nuclear power program, but also refusing to rule out military action even as Israel pushed for such action, WMR has obtained a formerly Top Secret Supplement to a CIA Current Intelligence Digest that shows past US-UK collusion to overthrow Iran's ...

Downing Street was involved in a heated row with the BBC last night over the corporation's 'astonishing' questioning of the Gordon Brown's health.