On Thursday 20th November 2008 Joanna Lumley will take the Gurkha Justice Campaign to 10 Downing Street to present a petition following a massive rally of Gurkha supporters in Parliament Square which starts at 11:00 am. The rally and petition

Alistair Darling defends the G20 summit progress as the Tories say the PM failed to secure a global tax cutting deal.

The shadow chancellor rejects criticism of his warning about sterling, saying it is his job to tell the truth about the economy.

The administration contended that a fired staff lawyer never offered advice about the governor's policy requiring public records, including e-mails, to be retained.

The Metropolitan Police’s attempts to criminalise Stop the War’s June 15th protest against George Bush received a blow yesterday, when a judge stated that the case against one of the protestors arrested on the demonstration should be thrown out.

It was rather rich to see Saudi Arabia sponsoring a United Nations conference last week on religious tolerance. This from an Islamic nation that maintains a national police force to enforce strict Wahhabi orthodoxy. As one dissident Saudi Shiite Muslim

Renzi, a three-term congressman who announced his retirement last year, was indicted in February on 35 counts including conspiracy, extortion, money laundering and insurance fraud.

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), the top ranking Republican on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, said using any of the $700-billion economic rescue package to help the American auto industry stay in business would be a mistake.

The hand-made white cardboard sign is posted to a tree on Vay, Idaho resident Ken Germana's property. The sign reads "Free Public Hanging" in large letters. It also has Obama's name written in equally large letters.

And now a look at last week's economic news:

A few days before the historic election that swept him into the presidency, Barack Obama was asked to name his top priorities for 2009. They were, in order, the economy, energy independence and health care reform.

Fresh from their success in capturing the entire North-western coast, the Sri Lankan Air Force fighter jets on Sunday pounded bunkers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and seized hundreds of arms and ammunitions while recovering the bodies of

A consignment of 1700 tonnes of food and relief material from India reached Colombo as part of humanitarian aid for thousands of civilian Tamils caught in the war between the LTTE and the island nation's Army, officials said on Sunday.

L ast April, top George W. Bush administration officials, desperate to exploit any possible crack in the close relationship between the Nouri al-Maliki government and Iran, launched a new round of charges that Iran had stepped up covert arms assistance

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All smiles and compliments, President-elect Obama and his wife, Michelle, called on President Bush and first lady Laura Bush Monday in a White House visit.

President-elect Obama planned to honor fallen troops Tuesday, taking a short break from his primary task of mapping out his administration to mark Veterans Day

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