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Gay marriage vote set to deliver Britains' Prime Minister David Cameron more problems

Agence France-Presse | Monday May 20, 2013

British Prime Minister David Cameron faces further dissent from within the ranks of his Conservative Party as a bill to legalise gay marriage returns to Parliament Monday.

Shed the elitist image, Britain's David Cameron is warned

Reuters | Saturday May 4, 2013

British Prime Minister David Cameron must shed his elitist image and connect with ordinary voters, a senior party member said on Saturday, after the anti-EU UK Independence Party scored major gains in local polls at the expense of the ruling Conserva...

UK credit downgrade provokes call for change

Saturday February 23, 2013

The man in charge of Britain's economy says he won't change direction despite a rating agency's decision to downgrade the nation's credit rating and spurned renewed calls from the opposition for more stimulus for a flat-lining economy.

British companies may soon have to reveal racial make-up

Tuesday January 29, 2013

Major companies in Britain would be asked to publish a racial breakdown of their workforce, as per Tory plans to reassure black and Asian voters including Indians.

South African police kill two more in crackdown on striking miners

Associated Press | Thursday September 20, 2012

South African police have killed two more people in a crackdown on striking miners, labour advocates said on Thursday, with the victims being a ruling party municipal councillor who died of injuries from a rubber bullet and a miner who was run over b...

Kerala minister vows to quit smoking on mother turning 80

Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday June 28, 2012

Kerala Labour Minister Shibu Baby John has decided to give up cigarettes, his "companion" for the past 32 years, as a birthday gift for his mother who turns 80 on Sunday. The 49-year-old second time legislator is the son of legendary trade union lead...

Norway killer says hoped to have massacred more

Reuters | Tuesday April 24, 2012

The Norwegian who massacred 77 people to protest against Muslim immigration to Europe said on Monday he had hoped to kill as many as 150 and kept on killing because police failed to respond urgently to his phone call. Breivik has given a detailed ac...

Australian PM Gillard beats Rudd in leadership ballot

Agence France-Presse | Monday February 27, 2012

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday survived a leadership challenge from Kevin Rudd, crushing her arch-rival in a damaging battle to head the ruling Labour party.

Another Jesus row hits CPI-M

Indo-Asian News Service | Sunday February 5, 2012

The Congress has hit out at the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) after the CPI-M's labour wing put up the controversial picture. It showed US President Barack Obama in the centre of a supposed Last Supper flanked by "disciples" Sonia Gandhi, ...

UK: House of Lords suspends Swaraj Paul

Agence-France-Presse | Thursday October 21, 2010

Britain's House of Lords handed three of its members lengthy suspensions or Thursday for wrongly claiming thousands of pounds in parliamentary expenses. Peers voted unanimously to approve the sanctions against Bangladeshi-born Manzila Pola Uddin, the first Muslim woman to enter the Lords, Indian bus...

UK's Labour Party elects Ed Miliband as its new leader

Associated Press | Saturday September 25, 2010

Britain's Opposition Labour Party has said that Ed Miliband has been elected as its new leader. Forty-year-old former climate change secretary Ed is the younger brother of 45-year-old former British foreign secretary David Miliband.It was a closely fought battle between the brothers to replace ex-pr...

Australian PM Gillard hopes to keep her job, approaches independents

Press Trust of India | Sunday August 22, 2010

With none of the major parties securing simple majority in the cliffhanger Australian general election, Prime Minister Julia Gillard today sought to assure countrymen that she would deliver "stable and effective" government, amid hectic efforts to cobble up a coalition.??? ?Descr...

UK: Miliband in race to lead defeated Labour

Agence France-Presse | Wednesday May 12, 2010

Former foreign secretary David Miliband announced on Wednesday his candidacy to lead Britain's defeated Labour party, after the resignation of Gordon Brown.

The slow rise and abrupt fall of Gordon Brown

Press Trust of India | Wednesday May 12, 2010

It was a slow rise and an abrupt fall for Gordon Brown who resigned as the British Prime Minister on Tuesday night.

UK: Brown quits as PM, Cameron to take over

Press Trust of India | Wednesday May 12, 2010

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigned on Tuesday night after talks between his Labour party and Liberal Democrats for a coalition government failed, clearing the deck for Conservative leader David Cameron to head the new government.