LONDON (Reuters) - Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher is recovering after breaking her arm in a fall and will remain in hospital until at least Monday, a spokesman said on Saturday. Thatcher, 83, fell at her London home and was admitted ...Read More
Partially obscured behind a group of fellow CND activists, an unremarkable looking woman in a crumpled anorak stands on the steps of 10 Downing Street.
It is April 1982, and Cathy Ashton – CND's influential national treasurer and a suspected Communist ...Read More
* Will start in January 2010, replacing Grade * John Cresswell to become interim CEO * Shares up 5 percent LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Britain's biggest free-to-aircommercial broadcaster ITV (ITV.L) has turned to Archie Norman,a turnaround specialist and former Conservative politician,ending its ...Read More
TORONTO - When Canada's transport minister decided to name his cat Thatcher, he likely never thought it would cause quite the stir it did during a gala dinner earlier this week. During a tribute to Canada's military in Toronto, some ...Read More
JOHANNESBURG – British coup-plotter Simon Mann returned home from prison Wednesday after saying he wants the son of Britain's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and others to face justice for a conspiracy to oust Equatorial Guinea's government. Mann left the steamy ...Read More
The 57-year-old former SAS officer, who was pardoned after being convicted of plotting to overthrow the Government in a "dogs of war" coup, left at around 7am destined for Luton airport with his sister Sarah and brother Edward. Once settled back ...Read More
JOHANNESBURG - Before leaving Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday, freed coup-plotter Simon Mann said the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and others should face justice for allegedly plotting to overthrow the oil-rich country's government. Mann and the four South ...Read More
JOHANNESBURG -- Equatorial Guinea freed a British coup-plotter and four South African mercenaries Tuesday after a presidential pardon for their foreign-bankrolled conspiracy to overthrow the government and take over the country's oil riches.
In a spectacular trial last year, Simon Mann ...Read More
Biljana Plavsic served her sentence in a Swedish prison
Former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic has been freed from prison after serving six years for war crimes.
The UN war crimes court granted her early release for good behaviour from the ...Read More
Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Czech President Vaclav Klaus, theonly European Union leader who hasn’t signed the Lisbon Treaty,may be forging an exit-strategy from his standoff with Brussels,allowing a resumption of the bloc’s biggest overhaul in decades. Klaus, who fears a loss ...Read More
SIR – For the first time since David Cameron became leader, I have been able to understand who he is. His conference speech last week showed him to be a small-government conservative, who believes in trusting individuals and families more ...Read More
The British have traditionally been suspicious of referendums. Although we have had half a dozen in the past 40 years, they are widely considered inimical to our idea of parliamentary democracy, whereby policies are debated during election campaigns and decisions ...Read More
Mr Cameron will try to make a deal on elements of the Lisbon Treaty even though it is almost inevitable that he will not be able to have a full referendum on the treaty if comes to power next spring.
The ...Read More
Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Not many politicians get a dressrehearsal for government. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is oneof them. In retrospect, the first four years of Merkel’s time inoffice might well prove to be a trial run. Now with a successfulcampaign ...Read More
Sarah Palin’s first visit to East Asia began with a monologue that invoked the spirit of Margaret Thatcher, sounded like a pitch for the 2012 presidency and was described by several members of the audience as “long, humourless and George ...Read More
OSLO -- Siv Jensen has an unusual ambition for a nation famous for its cradle-to-grave welfare system: she wants to go down in history as Norway's Margaret Thatcher. And polls leading up to Monday's national election in this oil-rich Nordic state ...Read More
When she first came to power, Angela Merkel was heralded as Germany's Thatcher: a trail-blazing female leader who would shake up the country's traditional, male-dominated politics. Yet in their approach to government, they are as different as day and night. At ...Read More
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon -- The son of a top aide to Mohsen Rezai, a prominent conservative politician, died while in Tehran's infamous Evin Prison after being swept up in the recent unrest, news websites reported today in the latest ...Read More
Ex-PRIME Minister Margaret Thatcher was in hospital last night after breaking her arm in a fall. Frail Lady Thatcher, 83, tripped over a carpet at her London home. The former Tory leader, was taken to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. She was "recovering ...Read More
