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London, Jan 6 (DPA) Two senior former British ministers called for a ballot on Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s leadership Wednesday – just months before the general election.
The pair, both of whom served under Brown in the cabinet, have written to colleagues asking for a secret internal party ballot of parliamentarians to ‘lay the matter to [...]
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British actor RAY WINSTONE has refused to vote since the age of 18 – because he doesn’t trust politicians.
The Departed star admits he longs to get involved in general elections in his native U.K., but he can’t bring himself to visit the polling booths as he has so little faith in the country’s political parties.
He [...]
A senior spokesman of Britain’s main opposition party has criticised government policies that have allowed Indian companies to send employees abroad on intra-company transfers.
‘It seems extraordinary that when British workers can’t find jobs we are bringing foreign workers from halfway round the world,’ said the Tory Party’s Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green.
His comments came after [...]
London, Jan 4 (ANI): Travellers at British airports will be subjected to a full-body scan after the country’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, backed the new system.
Brown, 58, said the controversial technology, which will be introduced at Heathrow and other airports, was [...]
ROBERT PATTINSON has been voted the best dressed man in showbiz by style bible GQ.
The Twilight hunk topped the list by the British edition of the magazine, seeing off competition from the members of U.K. boyband Take That – Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Howard Donald and Jason Orange – who were voted second, and [...]
London, Jan. 4 (ANI): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has apparently ruled out an early general election, while indicating that May 6 could be the polling date.
Brown, in an interview slip, said he could announce a spring budget, yet it won’t be a part of the [...]
London, Jan. 3 (ANI): Radical Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary is plotting to register “sick” protests against British troops fighting in Afghanistan by sending hate letters to relatives of fallen soldiers.
A hardline group led by hate preacher Anjem Choudary is also planning to march through the town that welcomes home British dead troops.
Choudary’s henchmen are [...]
London, Jan 3 (DPA) Britain and the US will jointly fund a counter-terrorism unit in Yemen, a British government announcement said Sunday.
The British administration said the plan had been agreed upon by the two nations in response to the failed attempt by an Al Qaeda operative to down a passenger jet in Detroit, Michigan, on [...]
Sana’a/Cairo, Jan 3 (DPA) Yemen will fight terrorist groups on its soil, the country’s foreign minister said Saturday, as the government welcomed a planned international conference on growing extremism in the poor Gulf country.
Security forces meanwhile began a clampdown along Yemeni coasts in efforts to prevent infiltration by Islamist militants from neighbouring Somalia.
The previous day, [...]
London, Jan.1 (ANI): Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned that Britain faces a decade of terror as al-Qaeda finds fresh methods for its murderous attacks.
Brown issued the grim warning after receiving new intelligence reports, and said the failed Christmas Day jet bomb should act as a wake-up call to the world.
The Sun quoted him as [...]
London, Dec. 30 (ANI): The Chinese warning that Britain’s protest against the execution of drug trafficking-accused British citizen, Akmal Shaikh, could harm diplomatic ties between the two countries, has its roots in the historical China-Britain Opium Wars in the 19th century.
An official statement [...]
London, Dec 30 (IANS) Relatives of a Briton executed by China Wednesday blamed the British media, government and human rights campaigners for not pleading his case early or strongly enough.
‘This is an example of Britain’s powerlessness in the world,’ said Amina and Ridwan Shaikh, whose cousin Akmal Shaikh was executed by China Tuesday after being [...]
London, Dec 29 (IANS) Relations between China and Britain – at a low over climate change – worsened Tuesday amid an angry exchange of words over China’s execution of a Briton who London says was mentally ill.
The foreign ministry in London summoned the Chinese ambassador to give what one newspaper described as a ‘dressing down’ [...]
London, Dec 29 (IANS) Britain reacted with fury Tuesday as China refused to heed pleas for pardon and executed a convicted Briton who is thought to be mentally ill.
Pakistan-born Akmal Shaikh, who was arrested at Urumqi airport in September 2007 for carrying four kg of heroin, became the first European to be executed by China [...]
London/Beijing, Dec. 29 (ANI): Britisher Akmal Shaikh’s execution in China on Wednesday for drug smuggling is unlikely to damage Sino-UK ties in the long term.
Shaikh’s execution, despite repeated pleas for clemency by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to President Hu Jintao, though [...]
London/Beijing, Dec.29 (ANI): A British man arrested in China on drug smuggling charges has been put to death, the Briitsh Foreign Office has confirmed.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned the execution of Akmal Shaikh “in the strongest terms” saying he was “appalled and disappointed that London’s persistent requests for clemency had not been granted.”
According [...]
Beijing, Dec 28 (DPA) Family members of a British citizen due to be executed for drug smuggling have arrived in China to make a final plea for clemency to authorities, a rights group said.
Akmal Shaikh, 53, is due to be executed Tuesday morning in Beijing after he was convicted of trafficking 4 kg of heroin [...]
London, Dec. 28 (ANI): At least 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners, police here have claimed.
The fanatics, in five groups, are now training at secret terror camps in Yemen, The Sun quoted them, as saying further.
The British extremists in Yemen are in [...]
London, Dec. 23 (ANI): The family of Akmal Shaikh, who is facing execution in China for trafficking drugs, has claimed that the British man was duped into smuggling heroin by gang who exploited his pop star delusion.
Shaikh is due to be executed on 29 December, but his [...]
London, December 20 (ANI): Alcohol is cheaper than water at some supermarkets in Britain.
Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s have marked the price of beer at 5p per 100ml, while 100ml brand-name mineral water is available for 8p.
However, the companies have come under fire for promoting binge drinking, reports The Times.
Earlier this year, Sir Liam Donaldson, [...]
London, December 20 (ANI): The face off between French President’s wife Carla Bruni and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spouse Sarah may not happen soon.
Things turned sour between the two when Bruni posted an unflattering pic of the British First Lady on her website.
However, France’s premier may not have her wife alongside him in his [...]
London, Dec 17 (ANI): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown found it difficult to manage his expenses while he attended university, it has emerged.
Bill Paterson, 63, warden of Goschen House where Brown stayed at Edinburgh University, disclosed that he was the only student whose weekly rent cheque for 3 pounds bounced.
The Bank of Scotland [...]
London, Dec. 17 (ANI): Prince Charles has come under fire for allegedly interfering in government policy by writing directly to eight ministers of the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s cabinet over the last three years.
Documents obtained by the Guardian, using the [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 16 (DPA) The European Union may raise its greenhouse-emissions-cut target to 26 percent in a bid to overcome deadlock at a UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, EU sources said Wednesday.
The 27-member bloc has already promised to reduce its emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
Prior to the start of the [...]
London, Dec 15 (DPA) Britain’s Prince Charles, a veteran campaigner on environmental issues, plans to urge the UN Copenhagen conference to take ‘comprehensive and all-embracing’ action to avert a climate change disaster, his office said Tuesday.
The prince, 61, has been invited by the Danish government to address the summit as heads of governments arrive. British [...]
Dhaka, Dec 15 (IANS) US President Barack Obama has said he would ‘try to convince’ Bangladesh’s neighbour India and China to speak in Dhaka’s favour at the climate summit at Copenhagen.
His assurance of support for Dhaka’s case for special funds as it’s a disaster-prone state came during a telephone call he made to Prime Minister [...]
Aussie singer PETER ANDRE and ROBERT PATTINSON have been voted the celebrities with the best hairstyles.
The Mysterious Girl singer and the Twilight hunk topped a new poll by styling product Brylcreem, with British Formula 1 ace Jenson Button taking third place.
American Idol star Simon Cowell was named top in the worst hair rundown, with funnyman [...]
London, Dec.14 (ANI): The new Church of England bishop for the British armed forces has said the Taliban can be admired for their faith and sense of loyalty to one another.
The Right Reverend Stephen Venner called for a more sympathetic approach to the Islamic fundamentalists and [...]
London, Dec.9 (ANI): Britain’s former chief of army staff, Gen. (retired) Sir Richard Dannat has said that Prime Minister Gordon Brown was clueless about developments in Afghanistan.
Fifty-eight-year-old General Dannatt claimed that it took two years for Brown to finally “get it”.
He told the Daily Star that Brown had failed to grasp the importance of [...]
London, Dec 8 (IANS) The head of the British army has urged people not to judge the Afghan campaign ‘by casualties alone’ after the death of the 100th British soldier in the conflict this year.
‘For those of us in the Army, whilst we grieve for a fallen comrade, his loss hardens our determination to succeed,’ [...]
