Prime Minister David Cameron has reaffirmed Britain's decision to continue its aid programme to India, amidst a row sparked by some ruling Conservative members of Parliament demanding an end to it, and reports that India did not need it.
Pat Cummins confirmed Australia's new-look batting line-up on Tuesday with Steve Smith to open and Cameron Green at number four in the team to face West Indies in the first Test at Adelaide Oval from Wednesday.
A British politician defied a court order on Monday by identifying Manchester United's Ryan Giggs as the soccer star fighting a legal battle to prevent newspapers from publishing allegations of an affair.
Congress sources have disclosed that Sonia is probably away from the country, visiting her ailing mother, Paola Maino.
His huge delegation comprising six Cabinet ministers, including Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, too, talked money.
The new coalition government headed by prime minister David Cameron is determined to have 'very good relations' with India's Tata Group, owners of Jaguar Land Rover and Corus, British business secretary Vince Cable said on Thursday.
Leading Conservative MP Shailesh Vara has been appointed shadow deputy leader of Britain's House of Commons, the first ethnic minority Tory to sit on the front bench.
McDonald said there was no concern around Marsh's lack of match practice over the last two months as Australia will play some practice games before their T20 World Cup opener against Oman on June 5.
The British public will be given the right to recall their local MP if they are found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing under proposals published in a draft bill in Parliament.
The government will deploy the 1,200 troops who were put on stand-by last week to help secure the London Olympics, a minister said on Tuesday as security arrangements were tweaked to make up for a private firm's failure to recruit enough guards.
Britain's new coalition government has committed itself to forge a 'new special relationship' with India, an objective Prime Minister David Cameron had articulated as early as 2006 during his visit to New Delhi as the Conservative leader.
An influential group representing skilled professionals from India and outside the European Union said on Wednesday any attempt to impose an annual cap on immigration by the David Cameron government will be unworkable and will be opposed.
As per the understanding between the Conservative and Liberal Democrats parties, it is the Conservative policy that has been adopted by the new coalition government.
Despite a welter of protest over giving aid to an increasingly prosperous India, the cash-strapped David Cameron government has decided to continue the present level of aid 280 million pounds per year until 2015. Saddled with mounting budget deficit, British aid to several countries is being cut or substantially reduced as part of its overall efforts to cut public spending.
Aung Saan Suu Kyi's alma mater Oxford is abuzz with anticipation as it awaits the return of the democracy icon to receive a doctorate from the university that was announced way back in 1993, in what would be her first visit outside Myanmar in 24 years.
As peace returned to the streets of London and other riot-hit cities, a 68-year-old man who was critically injured in the violence has died, taking the death toll to five in Britain's worst unrest in decades.
"God save the King" were the words with which those gathered reaffirmed the proclamation made by the clerk of the council.
Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch, his son James and former aide Rebekah Brooks will face British lawmakers on Tuesday about the phone-hacking scandal which has engulfed their media empire and rocked police and politicians to the core.
In what is seen as the first humiliation suffered by Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul on Wednesday dramatically withdrew the bid to takeover broadcaster BSkyB in the face of public revulsion about illegal news-gathering practices of titles owned by his company in Britain.
London's Conservative mayor Boris Johnson has opposed the David Cameron government's plans to place an annual limit on professional migrants from India and outside the European Union, taking the controversy to a new level.
Pakistan's obsession with India that makes it look at its neighbour as an 'existential threat' is a mistake and it would do well to shed this contest mentality, United States President Barack Obama has said.
'I don't think it's deserved. I think he'll be able to work through that. It's a new challenge for him, a new position.'
British Prime Minister David Cameron's recent comments in Bangalore on the "export of terror" by Pakistan have enormously pleased the Indian strategic establishment, but the fact is that India is already gearing up for the November visit of US President Barack Obama and is keenly aware that there is nothing like a defence deal to sweeten the mood.
Smith carried his bat with an unbeaten 91 in a losing cause in Brisbane.
Backing British Premier David Cameron's call to Pakistan to stop "exporting" terror, the United States says more needs to done by that country in fighting terrorism despite making a strategic shift in taking aggressive action.
A 500 million-pound deal for BAE systems, Britain's biggest defence contractor, to supply Hawk jet trainers is expected to be among a string of high-profile contracts to be signed during Prime Minister David Cameron's two-day visit to India commencing on Wednesday. BAE Systems will announce a 500 million-pound deal to build 57 Hawk trainer jets in collaboration with their Indian partners HAL near Bengaluru, as a centrepiece of Cameron's visit.
The London Olympics countdown entered its final 200 days on Monday with government and organisers talking up the legacy Britain can look forward to long after the last medal has been won and the show is over.
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The David Cameron government is committed to reduce migration from non-EU countries like India after official figures showed that Indians topped the list of of people who acquired British citizenship in 2009.
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.
Over 45 years after Labour leader Harold Wilson first suggested a debate before elections, Britain will witness the first of three live television debates between leaders of the three main parties on Thursday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been voted as the seventh most popular leader in the world in a new poll topped by US President Barack Obama.
In their asset declarations, Indian ministers reveal the cars they dig.
Prince William and Kate Middleton will marry on April 29 at Westminster Abbey, which has hosted the weddings of the Queen and Queen Mother and was the venue for Princess Diana's funeral in 1997, Clarence House announced on Tuesday.
Between April and June, 186,000 people started work in Britain, of which 145,000 were foreigners and 41,000 were British.
Prime Minister David Cameron will take a planeload of Cabinet ministers and business leaders to India during his visit to the country which is expected to begin next Wednesday, seeking to boost trade links with the former 'jewel in the crown' of the erstwhile British empire.
The 25 per cent cut announced by the David Cameron government will lead to over 22,000 jobs losses in universities and colleges, including over 10,000 academic jobs, the Universities and College Union said.
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