The beloved king of the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan married his commoner bride Thursday in an ancient Buddhist ceremony at the country’s most sacred monastery fortress. Horns sounded across Punakha valley as the bride, whose father is an airline pilot, arrived in a procession of singers, government ministers and members of Bhutan’s royal [...]
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown – revealing he was “in tears” when he learned his ill son’s medical records had been illegally obtained by one of Rupert Murdoch’s papers – condemned what he dubbed “the most disgusting work” of the media baron’s reporters and editors. Gordon Brown, in an interview on Tuesday with [...]
A gaggle of foreign ministers and heads of the international community are convening here today to discuss the future of Libya, most importantly how to pave the way for Moammar Gadhafi’s exit. The meeting this afternoon will include more than 40 foreign ministers, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.N. Secretary General Ban [...]
Britain’s coalition government survived the most serious challenge yet to its austerity plans on Thursday when Parliament narrowly approved a sharp increase in college fees. But violent student protests in central London, including an attack on a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, to the theater, provided a stark measure of growing public [...]
Cameron says UK deployed two helicopters to help control fires; UK foreign secretary, Obama also send condolences and offer assistance. British Prime Minister David Cameron called his Israeli counterpart on Friday afternoon to extend condolences and sympathies for the lives lost in the ongoing forest fires in the Carmel. “The Prime Minister extended his sincere [...]