The government faces a “major decision” on whether to approve a new generation of nuclear power stations, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has told MPs.
He said ministers were also looking at possibilities including the greater use of more renewable energy sources.
Speaking during prime minister’s questions, he said the UK would become more “independent” of other countries […]
MANCHESTER, N.H. - It has the feel and look of a transformative moment, this tidal wave of young voters buoying the disparate campaigns of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.
The shouts and wild applause, and willingness to knock on doors and work on telephone banks late in the evening transformed the Iowa caucuses.
KIEV, Ukraine (CNN) — Ukraine’s parliament elected pro-Western former premier Yulia Tymoshenko as its new prime minister on Tuesday, the Ukrinform national news agency reported.
Tymoshenko won the vote with the minimum number of 226 votes, Ukrinform said.
She had failed to win the election a week earlier after receiving only 225 votes, but the 450-member parliament […]
California governor and former film star Arnold Schwarzenegger has told a magazine that marijuana is not a drug.
The ex-Hollywood actor said in a GQ interview that he had not taken drugs, even though he was shown smoking a joint in 70s documentary Pumping Iron.
“That is not a drug. It’s a leaf,” he told the magazine. […]
WASHINGTON - An experimental online “mashup” — a build-your-own Democratic presidential debate — attracted more than 1 million viewers in the past 10 days, many of them young people drawn to the interactivity of the Internet.
Comedian Bill Maher, who asked one of four questions posed to each of the eight candidates, attracted viewers 42 percent […]
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro appeared in his first television interview in more than three months on Friday, ending speculation that the ailing revolutionary had died or suffered a major relapse.
Castro, 81, spoke slowly about world affairs, the Cold War and the global economy, but appeared little changed from the last time he […]
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and the United States agreed on Tuesday to tone down their public war of words but failed to bridge major differences souring their relationship.
A string of recent hostile remarks has revived memories of the Cold War, capped by a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin last week commemorating the defeat of […]
Tony Blair has announced that he will stand down as Prime Minister on June 27.
wenty-four years after he launched his career as a young MP in the former pit villages of Co Durham, the Prime Minister returned there today to draw it all to a close.
“I have been Prime Minister of this country for just […]
www.thesun.co.ukTONY Blair today announced he will resign as Prime Minister on June 27.
He told an emotional meeting in his constituency “Today I announce my decision to stand down from the leadership of the Labour Party.
“The party will now select a new leader.
“On the 27th of June I will tender my resignation from the post of […]
