Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has signed a multi-million-pound deal to pen his Downing Street memoirs. Blair's account of ten years as the prime minister of the United Kingdom, including few details of his turbulent relationship with his successor Gordon Brown, will be published by Random House, the Daily Mail reported on Friday.Blair's deal came just days after his wife Cherie struck a 1.5-million-pounds deal for her life story, to be published next year.
US President Barack Obama today said the frontier regions of Pakistan were "safe havens" for the Al Qaeda.
A first-hand account of how global banks got into the mess they're in.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown rejected suggestions that it was a "defeat" and insisting that the pullout, which has antagonised the US, was a "pre-planned" move.
Expressing satisfaction at Indian conglomerate Tatas' move to pump in money into Jaguar Land Rover, the head of the UK's biggest union Unite, Tony Woodley, has said he expects the Gordon Brown government to offer financial aid to the luxury car maker.
The byelection, which will be the first popularity test for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, is being held due to the death of 82-year-old Labour Member of Parliament Piara Singh Khabra.
The world needs more regulation today, not a return to autarky
The government said on Thursday it will bring a legislation next month to increase foreign direct investment in insurance sector to 49 per cent from 26 per cent at present.
Over 200 world leaders, including former presidents, prime ministers and ministers have backed a campaign urging the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations to help vaccinate the world's poorest from low-income economies against COVID-19 by paying two-thirds of an estimated $66 billion required.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh believes that most of the major economic indicators are still negative, when one looks at the world economy as a whole.
UK trade ministry has urged West Midlands companies to exploit trade opportunities with India.
England launched its bid to stage the 2018 World Cup finals with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney and David Beckham among the speakers at Wembley Stadium where England won the World Cup when it staged the tournament for the only time in 1966.
GoM meeting regarding petro product price hike has been postponed and a decision on the prices will come only after Jan 28.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is on a two-day official visit to India, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Sunday.
The country moved to its highest level of terror alert -- critical -- after a burning car crashed into the airport.
A London-based group campaigning to save Afzal Guru, sentenced to death for the attack on Indian Parliament, plans to seek the intervention of the new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to get a reprieve for him.
There was a late flurry of sympathy for Goody after she wept on last night's show and made an impassioned plea that she was not racist.
The 'ageing tax' is a central plank of a consultation launched by the prime minister on Monday in the face of a growing crisis over who should meet the costs for the care of the elderly. Under proposal put forward by the government, the 'ageing tax' could run alongside the existing National Insurance levy. The Labour government would prepare a green paper early next year on ways to provide adequate non-medical care for the elderly, but legislation before 2010 is unlikely.
Addressing a join press conference with British PM Gordon Brown, US President Bush said that failure in Iran would send a message to the world that the US cannot be counted upon. He added that it was important to succeed in Iraq to defeat the Al Qaeda and to thwart Iran's 'ambitions' of acquiring nuclear weapons. Bush and Gordon both dismissed speculation that the relationship between the two was not as 'special' as that between Bush and former British PM Tony Blair.
Warning that the rising economic might of India and China poses a threat to Britain's prosperity, the country's Chancellor of Exchequer Gordon Brown has asked businesses to do more to meet the growing strategic threat to their markets.
When President Chirac arrived in Mumbai in 1998, he declared: 'In India, France is not at the level where it should be.' Ten years later, it is still true. France has a role to play in India, but will Delhi and Paris will be bold enough to seize the occasion?
A flurry of opinion polls paint a mixed picture of Labour's popularity among British voters.
The five include Abdel Aziz Rantissi, its new leader.
Britain, which currently heads the group, is expected to make an announcement in the regard soon.
Sunak, along with his wife Akshata Murty and two daughters, stayed in the flat when he was chancellor to former prime minister Boris Johnson.
"God save the King" were the words with which those gathered reaffirmed the proclamation made by the clerk of the council.
A rotating chief ministership as a way to appease factions can work only if there is a credible guarantor, explains Aditi Phadnis.
President Droupadi Murmu on Monday joined around 500 world leaders, including US President Joe Biden and royals from across the world, at Westminster Abbey for a sombre ceremony to bid farewell to Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch.
Scotland will vote on whether it will be an independent country or will remain a part of the United Kingdom on September 18. With the vote coming up next week, a look at ten famous Scots.
IMAGES from Saturday's action in the English Premier League.
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban, has been reunited with her friend who was injured in the same attack in Pakistan last year.
A summary of Saturday's action in the English Premier League.
Paul is among the wealthy who hold legal accounts in Swiss HSBC Bank.
'Life has been full of rewards, full of sadness.'
Here are some little-known facts about Indian child activist Kailash Satyarthi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzay
Terming slavery and child trafficking the 'biggest scandal of our times', Indian Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi pn Wednesday launched a new campaign in London to end the menace posed by the trafficking 'mafia'.
Vandals on Monday defaced a memorial to the victims of July 7, 2005 London bombings hours before survivors and relatives were to gather there to pay tributes on the ninth anniversary of the attack.
'It is not right for batters to steal two or three metres and then bowlers marginally overstepping and getting a free hit. I know people want to see sixes and fours but also if you are a real cricket lover, you want to see competition between bat and ball and not just one-sided games.'
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