Prime Minister Gordon Brown summoned the head of Britain's central bank and chief financial regulator for talks Tuesday after banks' share prices plunged amid investors' worries that the government has not done enough to strengthen bank balance sheets.
As the ruling Labour Party struggles to appear united behind him, the Wall Street meltdown offers the Prime Minister his best hopes for a political revival
The British government unveiled a package of tax cuts and increased spending targeted at first-time home buyers on Tuesday in a bid to reverse the country's worst housing slump in almost two decades
The UK is facing the worst economic conditions for 60 years and the current crisis will be "more profound and long-lasting" than expected, British finance minister Alistair Darling warned Saturday.
Three men who were detained and questioned over an alleged threat against British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have been charged with terrorism offenses, Lancashire police said Thursday.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown summoned the head of Britain's central bank and chief financial regulator for talks Tuesday after banks' share prices plunged amid investors' worries that the government has not done enough to strengthen bank balance sheets.
As the ruling Labour Party struggles to appear united behind him, the Wall Street meltdown offers the Prime Minister his best hopes for a political revival
The British government unveiled a package of tax cuts and increased spending targeted at first-time home buyers on Tuesday in a bid to reverse the country's worst housing slump in almost two decades
The UK is facing the worst economic conditions for 60 years and the current crisis will be "more profound and long-lasting" than expected, British finance minister Alistair Darling warned Saturday.
Three men who were detained and questioned over an alleged threat against British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have been charged with terrorism offenses, Lancashire police said Thursday.
A videotaped statement claiming one of five British hostages captured in Iraq last year has committed suicide is an "abhorrent film" that will only increase the anguish suffered by their families, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Sunday.
There is often an air of theatrical unreality about EU summits. This one seems to be the Keystone Cops Meets Othello, or any other tragedy you care to name.
Britain will freeze assets of Iran's largest bank in a
further move to discourage the country from developing nuclear
weapons, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday
British lawmakers narrowly approved a counterterrorism bill Wednesday that allows authorities to hold terrorism suspects without charge for up to six weeks.
Britain's Conservatives crushed the governing Labour Party in a special election that underlined the deepening unpopularity of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government
To the affectionate crowds that greet him around the world the Dalai Lama, the exiled leader of Tibet's Buddhists, is a revered campaigner for human rights, peace and religious understanding.
Tony Blair considered not running for a third term as British prime minister but his wife and others persuaded him it would be seen as an admission that he had been wrong about the Iraq war, she says in her newly published autobiography
The contest to be London's mayor, running a city of about 13 million people, has come at a crucial moment in British politics. It could help determine the outcome of the next general election.
Britain's prime minister Wednesday called for an arms embargo on Zimbabwe and urged condemnation of the country's recent elections as initial results of an opposition-decried recount showed in favor of President Robert Mugabe's party.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British leader Gordon Brown Thursday called for an early warning system to alert international markets to further turmoil in the wake of recent banking scandals fueled by the U.S. credit crunch.
New video from China suggests that security forces have yet to gain complete control of Tibet and neighboring provinces which have suffered eruptions of anti-Chinese violence since last week.
Australian pop star Kylie Minogue and the professor who created Dolly the sheep are among the prominent figures who have received awards from Queen Elizabeth II in her annual New Year Honors list.
Up to 1,000 human rights campaigners demonstrated Saturday in front of No. 10 Downing Street, the official residence of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, calling on the British government to demand that full democracy be restored in Pakistan.
While all eyes were on Gordon Brown at his first Labour Party conference this week as Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary David Miliband threatened to steal the limelight.
The likelihood that foot-and-mouth disease could have spread through the air from a laboratory to a nearby farm in Surrey is remote, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday evening, after meeting with health and safety experts.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday that the United States and Britain are engaged in a "generation-long battle" against al Qaeda-inspired terrorism and that Britain "absolutely" shares President Bush's philosophy on the war on terror.
Two people were killed using a gas-powered pump to drain a flooded basement in Tewkesbury -- the first reported deaths from England's worst flooding in 60 years, officials say.
When Tony Blair strode across a Manchester stage on Sunday June 24 and declared, "the new leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown," it was the moment his Downing Street neighbor had been waiting for, with growing impatience, for 13 years.
He is the longest-serving chancellor of the exchequer the UK has had in 200 years, and he was Tony Blair's right-hand man during the last three election wins for the Labour party, but is Gordon Brown the best man to take over as British prime minister?
The UK's Guardian says that there is no doubt that Gordon Brown will be the next Prime Minister of England, in the wake of his speech at the Labour Party conference yesterday.
A is for Advertising, which at election times more than ever reminds us of George Orwell's definition of the trade: "The rattling of sticks in swill buckets."
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has repeated his call for unity within the Labour government as speculation mounted about a growing rift between him and Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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