Prime Minister Gordon Brown is increasing British troop levels in Afghanistan to 9,500 -- an increase of 500, he announced Wednesday.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will repay more than $19,000 in expenses after an independent auditor found that he and other lawmakers had made excessive claims, according to Brown's office.
Britons including Prime Minister Gordon Brown have leapt to the defense of their creaking healthcare service after President Barack Obama's plans for a similar system in the United States were branded "evil" by Republicans.
A UK government minister on Wednesday reopened the dispute over support for troops in Afghanistan by insisting they had insufficient helicopters.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended the military mission in Afghanistan amid tough questions Wednesday from the opposition leader.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has defended the UK's involvement in the war in Afghanistan following the British Army's bloodiest day of the near eight-year conflict.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a defiant response to calls for his resignation Friday saying he "will not walk away" despite heavy election losses and a raft of high profile resignations that forced a Cabinet reshuffle.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday he was "disappointed" over the resignation of his work and pensions secretary, the third Cabinet minister to step down in as many days.
The pressure on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown intensified Wednesday as the continuing row over lawmaker's expenses claimed a second Cabinet minister in as many days.
A minister has lost his job in a furor over expenses claimed by British lawmakers and two others have been cast out from their party.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is increasing British troop levels in Afghanistan to 9,500 -- an increase of 500, he announced Wednesday.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will repay more than $19,000 in expenses after an independent auditor found that he and other lawmakers had made excessive claims, according to Brown's office.
Britons including Prime Minister Gordon Brown have leapt to the defense of their creaking healthcare service after President Barack Obama's plans for a similar system in the United States were branded "evil" by Republicans.
A UK government minister on Wednesday reopened the dispute over support for troops in Afghanistan by insisting they had insufficient helicopters.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended the military mission in Afghanistan amid tough questions Wednesday from the opposition leader.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has defended the UK's involvement in the war in Afghanistan following the British Army's bloodiest day of the near eight-year conflict.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a defiant response to calls for his resignation Friday saying he "will not walk away" despite heavy election losses and a raft of high profile resignations that forced a Cabinet reshuffle.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday he was "disappointed" over the resignation of his work and pensions secretary, the third Cabinet minister to step down in as many days.
The pressure on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown intensified Wednesday as the continuing row over lawmaker's expenses claimed a second Cabinet minister in as many days.
A minister has lost his job in a furor over expenses claimed by British lawmakers and two others have been cast out from their party.
Britain's justice minister became the latest politician ensnared in an escalating parliamentary expenses scandal when he decided Friday to step down.
Britain's ruling Labour Party cut ties Thursday with a top member of parliament who admitted guilt in an escalating parliamentary expenses scandal.
Now it is political. With the public holding their noses as they pass the British Parliament, so tainted has it become by the shameless exploitation of a sloppily-policed expenses system by elected representatives from all quarters, it has become a competition between the parties as to who can most deftly extricate themselves from the mire.
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has apologized on behalf of parliamentarians of all parties for a series of revelations about their expenses claims, revelations which have seriously damaged the authority of government and parliament.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered a stinging defeat in Parliament Wednesday, losing a vote over the right of Ghurkha veterans to settle in the United Kingdom.
A record number of senior citizens attended a job fair this week in Loveland, Colorado.
A key aide to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has resigned after e-mails reportedly smearing top political opponents were leaked, British media said Sunday.
The office of the British prime minister has apologized after e-mails sent by one of Gordon Brown's senior officials reportedly smeared political opponents, British media said Saturday.
The disabled young son of UK opposition leader David Cameron has died.
A second teenager has reportedly claimed to be the father of a child born to a teenaged girl in a case which has caused an outcry in Britain.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that the world economic downturn is likely to cause a recession in the United Kingdom
The annual conference of Britain's hopeful opposition party is overshadowed and unsettled by Congress
Conservative leader David Cameron's rise is proof of his political prowess -- and of how much the country has changed
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met with British Prime Gordon Brown on Saturday on the last leg of his weeklong overseas tour.
British prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing fresh woes after his party was defeated in a special election in one of its strongholds.
Just when the party thought the worst was over, it loses a once solid seat in a by-election. Now, the backbenchers are getting restless
Conservative Boris Johnson has defeated the ruling Labour Party's two-term mayor of London, election officials announced Friday.
Conservative Boris Johnson wins the mayor's office in a rout of Britain's ruling party in local elections
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown's leadership is under pressure after his party suffered its worst local election results for a generation.
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.
Before an unimpressed British media, the Republican candidate softens his criticism of British policy in Iraq, and tries to explain his al-Qaeda gaffe
Gordon Brown always wanted to emulate his predecessor Tony Blair. But being investigated wasn't what he had in mind
British political leader Sir Menzies Campbell has quit, blaming Prime Minister Gordon Brown's decision not to hold a snap general election.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said the number of UK troops in Iraq will fall from the current level of 5,500 to 2,500 by next spring.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has defended a decision not to call a mid-term general election, a move that ended weeks of speculation the new head of the ruling Labour party was set to cash in on an early surge in popularity.
British troop numbers in Iraq will be cut by 1,000 by the end of 2007, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday, shortly after arriving in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi officials.
Two teenagers have been arrested over the murder of an 11-year-old boy shot dead in Liverpool as he played football, police said on Thursday.
A boy has died after being shot in a pub car park in Liverpool, police said on Wednesday.
With a possible election looming, Tony Blair's successor tries to avoid the damage done by Britain's last outbreak
Gordon Brown is the UK's new prime minister after replacing the outgoing Tony Blair on Wednesday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair met with his Cabinet Thursday morning ahead of an expected midday announcement that he will stand down as Labour Party leader and prime minister after a decade in power.
Prime Minister Tony Blair led his beleaguered Labour Party into electoral combat for the final time Thursday in local and regional elections that, amid his unpopularity, could put Scotland on the road toward independence from the rest of Britain.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's embattled Labour Party suffered major losses in local elections in England, which could increase pressure on Blair to announce a date for stepping down as prime minister.
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