Plans to rejuvenate a dilapidated London icon -- known worldwide to movie and music fans -- were unveiled last week.
British mercenary Simon Mann faced a possible verdict Friday in his trial on charges of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea -- a plot which Mann has testified was financed and planned by others.
The trial of British mercenary Simon Mann continued Thursday, a day after Mann implicated former friend Mark Thatcher in the alleged plot to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher walked out of a London hospital Saturday morning where she spent the night after feeling "unwell" during a dinner at the House of Lords.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was taken to the hospital Friday evening after falling ill at her home, a Conservative Party spokesman said.
The wife of a British mercenary accused of plotting to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea has asked the west African country to let him go.
A gift given to me years ago from Benazir Bhutto, an elegantly decorated wood jewelry box slathered in lacquer, still adorns a sideboard in our home. Bhutto had wanted everyone in the room of visitors to remember her for her best. This was in 1993, not long after her second election as prime minister of Pakistan.
Gordon Brown admits that "mistakes have been made" over financial donations to the Labour party
It was 1962, and Nelson Mandela was on the run. Hunted by South African authorities and gearing up for armed struggle against his country's apartheid government, Mandela visited London seeking money, training and support.
Veteran British journalist Bill Deedes, the inspiration for the naive young reporter in the novel "Scoop", has died aged 94, ending a 76-year career during which he was a cabinet minister and newspaper editor.
Plans to rejuvenate a dilapidated London icon -- known worldwide to movie and music fans -- were unveiled last week.
British mercenary Simon Mann faced a possible verdict Friday in his trial on charges of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea -- a plot which Mann has testified was financed and planned by others.
The trial of British mercenary Simon Mann continued Thursday, a day after Mann implicated former friend Mark Thatcher in the alleged plot to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher walked out of a London hospital Saturday morning where she spent the night after feeling "unwell" during a dinner at the House of Lords.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was taken to the hospital Friday evening after falling ill at her home, a Conservative Party spokesman said.
The wife of a British mercenary accused of plotting to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea has asked the west African country to let him go.
A gift given to me years ago from Benazir Bhutto, an elegantly decorated wood jewelry box slathered in lacquer, still adorns a sideboard in our home. Bhutto had wanted everyone in the room of visitors to remember her for her best. This was in 1993, not long after her second election as prime minister of Pakistan.
Gordon Brown admits that "mistakes have been made" over financial donations to the Labour party
It was 1962, and Nelson Mandela was on the run. Hunted by South African authorities and gearing up for armed struggle against his country's apartheid government, Mandela visited London seeking money, training and support.
Veteran British journalist Bill Deedes, the inspiration for the naive young reporter in the novel "Scoop", has died aged 94, ending a 76-year career during which he was a cabinet minister and newspaper editor.
It's a mistake to underestimate the power of sleep. The former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once proclaimed she slept only four hours a night.
The UK Government has unveiled proposals to stop golf clubs and other private establishments from treating women as "second class" members.
UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith on Friday denied media reports that he ordered investigators to conceal payments from an international anti-bribery watchdog agency.
Five years after leaving the prime minister's office in Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher finished the second part of her memoir, "The Path to Power."
Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who helped shape modern free market economics, died Thursday in San Francisco. He was 94.
Queen Elizabeth II was praised for her "calmness, serenity and stillness" at a special service of thanksgiving on Sunday to mark her 80th birthday.
To the tune of a brass band playing "Happy Birthday," a beaming Queen Elizabeth II joined throngs of loyal subjects at Britain's Windsor Castle to celebrate as she turns 80.
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Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was released from hospital Thursday after an overnight stay.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been hospitalized after falling ill Wednesday afternoon, her political party said.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair found himself in a major row at home and abroad on the future of the EU budget as he stopped off in Hungary as part of his tour to meet eastern European leaders.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned new eastern EU members not to miss out on a budget deal and the newcomers signaled they could accept a small cut in planned aid.
THESE DAYS AMERICANS seem to love their mortgage-interest tax deduction as much as the house that comes with it. So, let's get something straight right now: President Bush's tax panel probably won'...
These days, Americans seem to love their mortgage-interest tax deduction as much as the house that comes with it.
Delving into a well-stocked drinks cabinet can unearth all kinds of treasures, from the kind of exquisite French brandies favored by doomed aristocrats, to vodkas strong enough to fuel industrial lawnmowers.
(CNN) -- "OK let's go. Hands down. No, head up. Look to the light! Oh dear!"
As the floodwaters rose in New Orleans last week, a group called Columbia Christians for Life announced that it had discerned God's purpose in the storm: the destruction of the five abortion clinics in the city.
Armed guards dragged NBC's chief foreign correspondent from a photo-op last month after she asked the President of Sudan a tough question.
Zimbabwe has freed 62 men linked to a plot to overthrow the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea that also implicated the son of Britain's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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Senate Democrats warned Thursday they might delay a vote on President Bush's pick for U.N. ambassador a second time unless the State Department turns over documents requested by the Foreign Relations Committee.
If Tony Blair is re-elected people will know what they are getting. As President George Bush's closest ally he has become well known on the international stage.
Here we go again. In Downing Street amid the popping flashbulbs as Tony Blair sets off for Buckingham Palace to ask the queen to dissolve Parliament and hold an election on 05/05/05.
James Callaghan, a World War II veteran who rose through the ranks of the British government and became prime minister in the mid-1970s, died Saturday at age 92.
IN HIS RECENT STATE OF THE UNION speech, President Bush waxed rhapsodic about the benefits of partially privatizing Social Security. "You can build a nest egg for your own future," he said. "Best o...
Mark Thatcher has left South Africa after pleading guilty to unwittingly bankrolling an alleged coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea in a plea bargain deal that allows him to avoid jail.
British leader Tony Blair is the first head of government to meet with President Bush since his re-election, a reaffirmation of the long-acknowledged "special relationship" between the United States and Britain.
Even by the colorful standards of British scandals, the arrest in late August of Mark Thatcher, son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was explosive news. The 51-year-old former racecar d...
A court in Zimbabwe has sentenced a British man accused of leading a group of mercenaries plotting to topple the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea to seven years in jail.
Equatorial Guinea said Saturday it had requested international arrest warrants for Mark Thatcher, son of the former British prime minister, and other Britons implicated in an alleged coup plot for this oil-rich African nation.
A court in Zimbabwe has found a Briton alleged to be the leader of 70 men accused of plotting to topple the government of the oil-rich West African country of Equatorial Guinea guilty of weapons offenses.
Mark Thatcher, the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, has been arrested and charged in South Africa with the financing of an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been celebrating 10 years as leader of his ruling Labor Party after facing down his parliamentary critics over the war in Iraq.
From a dignified departure at the Capitol, to a cathedral filled to capacity with leaders past and present, Friday's events served as both a somber farewell and a celebration of the life of Ronald Reagan.
The following is a transcript of a eulogy, prerecorded by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, played Friday at Ronald Reagan's funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington:
The nation's capital prepared to say its final goodbye to former President Ronald Reagan, who will be honored with a national funeral service Friday.
While networks scramble to coordinate camera positions, the National Cathedral is on virtual lockdown while security is beefed up for Ronald Reagan's state funeral where dozens of dignitaries will converge Friday.
Fueled by gusts of wind over drought-parched land Sunday, a wildfire approached the ranch that served as President Ronald Reagan's western White House in the 1980s, said fire officials in Santa Barbara County, California.
Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan was remembered as "a truly great American hero", for his warmth, for restoring America's greatness after the Vietnam War and for ending the Cold War in tributes that flowed from current and former leaders around the world.
It was August 1990 when George Herbert Walker Bush met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Aspen. Saddam Hussein had just swallowed Kuwait, and Bush was buffeted by conflicting views a...
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