Buckingham Palace connived to keep ‘Brown at Number 10 to seal Tory-Leb Dem coalition’
November 14th, 2010 - 2:37 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 14 (ANI): British premier David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg connived with Buckingham Palace to delay Gordon Brown's departure from Downing Street while they did a deal ... Read more...
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Brown says Burmese poll sans Suu Kyi “masquerade of an election”
November 1st, 2010 - 6:09 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 1 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that the world leaders are not doing enough to highlight the plight of Aung San Suu Kyi, the embodiment ... Read more...
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‘Simples’, ‘tweetheart’ and ‘fauxmance’ - new additions to dictionary!
October 27th, 2010 - 5:00 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 27 (ANI): It has been a while since the English dictionary was updated but now a string of new words have made their way to the latest Collins English ... Read more...
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Gordon Brown branded ’scruffy’
October 26th, 2010 - 12:49 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 26 (ANI): Peter Mandelson has dubbed former UK PM Gordon Brown "a cross between a snowplough and a combine harvester"- saying he couldn't even fix his own tie.Mandelson, who ... Read more...
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Gordon Brown appointed as visiting fellow at Harvard
September 15th, 2010 - 5:02 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 15 (ANI): Britain's former prime minister Gordon Brown has been appointed as a visiting fellow at the prestigious American university of Harvard, it has been announced.Brown will kick ... Read more...
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YouGov poll suggests Ed Miliband could be new Labour party chief
September 12th, 2010 - 6:57 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept.12 (ANI): Former British foreign minister David Miliband's smooth journey towards the Labour party leadership has been dealt a blow with a YouGov poll suggesting that younger brother Ed is ... Read more...
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Blair does not rule out return to UK politics
September 3rd, 2010 - 8:35 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep.3 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has indicated that he is willing to take up another post, saying that he is a public service guy.Insisting that he had ... Read more...
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Tony Blair’s memoirs ’smash sales records’
September 3rd, 2010 - 1:38 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 03 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's autobiography 'A Journey' has broken sales records, say booksellers.Blair's memoirs, based on his time as the prime minister, have became Waterstone's ... Read more...
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Blair sought Fergie’s ‘hairdryer treatment’ advice to deal with ‘troublesome’ Brown
September 2nd, 2010 - 7:36 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 2 (ANI): To deal with his successor Gordon Brown, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair turned to Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson for advice.Blair has claimed in ... Read more...
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‘I was an animal in the bedroom’, says Tony Blair
September 2nd, 2010 - 5:55 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 2 (ANI): Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has revealed in his book that he was an animal in the bedroom.When John Smith died on May 12, 1994, triggering ... Read more...
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Gordon Brown’s allies call Blair’s criticism ‘one-sided’
September 2nd, 2010 - 2:48 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 2 (ANI): In light of former British prime minister Tony Blair's criticism of his successor Gordon Brown in his book-'A Journey'- Brown's supporters have openly accused Blair of being ... Read more...
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Blair hit the bottle under pressure as British PM
September 1st, 2010 - 4:39 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 1 (IANS) Tony Blair hit the bottle to help him cope with the pressures of being British prime minister. He used to have "stiff whisky or a gin and ... Read more...
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Blair says Brown “effectively blackmailed” him over cash-for-honours scandal
September 1st, 2010 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 1 (ANI): Former British prime minister Tony Blair has claimed his memoir 'A Journey,' due to be released today, that his successor Gordon Brown "effectively blackmailed" him while he ... Read more...
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Blair plotted to stop Brown from succeeding him as British PM: Report
August 29th, 2010 - 6:45 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 29(ANI): Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair had reportedly attempted to prolong his time in 10 Downing Street and prevent Gordon Brown from succeeding him, following warning that George ... Read more...
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British PM rents out his Notting Hill home
August 21st, 2010 - 9:11 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 21 (IANS) British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha are pocketing up to 6,000 pounds a month by renting out their London home while they live in ... Read more...
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Gordon Brown offers to lecture at $100,000
August 19th, 2010 - 9:46 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 19 (IANS) Former British prime minister Gordon Brown is offering his services as a public speaker at a sum of $100,000 per lecture.
Brown has asked an agency to put ... Read more...
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Brown aiming to pocket 64,000 pounds per public speaking engagement
August 19th, 2010 - 1:44 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 19(ANI): Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is reportedly aiming to secure bookings worth 64,000 pounds for speaking engagements in the Middle East and Asia.Anyone wishing to hire ... Read more...
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Lockerbie victims’ kin describe Megrahi release anniversary celebration a “kick in the face”
August 16th, 2010 - 4:28 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 16 (ANI): Relatives of those killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, has hit out at plans to organise a 'national party' in Libya to celebrate the first anniversary of ... Read more...
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Libya to celebrate anniversary of Lockerbie bomber’s release
August 16th, 2010 - 1:04 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 16 (IANS) Libya is preparing to mark the first anniversary of the Lockerbie bomber's release with leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi urging his countrymen to thank those who helped to ... Read more...
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“Massages and pleasure trips” typified Brown govt MP’s “Culture of excess”
August 13th, 2010 - 5:40 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 13 (ANI): "Culture of excess" seems to have flourished during the term of Gordon Brown's Labour government in the United Kingdom as the most detailed breakdown of Government spending ... Read more...
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Brown appeals to Brit people to donate more for Pak flood victims
August 11th, 2010 - 5:25 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 11 (ANI): Ex-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has insisted there is no giving fatigue among people as he appealed for donations to help Pakistan flood victims.He said it was ... Read more...
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Stresses of power ‘turning David Cameron grey’
August 4th, 2010 - 2:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 04 (ANI): UK Prime Minister David Cameron's hair is turning grey - courtesy the stresses of power.Photographs have revealed that Cameron's dark brown hair is rapidly losing its colour. ... Read more...
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Gordon Brown voted third worst Prime Minister since World War II by academics
August 3rd, 2010 - 1:16 pm ICT by ANI
London, August 3 (ANI): Former Labour leader Gordon Brown has been named the third worst Prime Minister since World War II, a survey by more than 100 leading academics revealed.According ... Read more...
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Brown Britain’s third worst PM since WW II
August 3rd, 2010 - 1:15 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 3 (IANS) Gordon Brown was Britain's third worst prime minister since World War II, a survey has shown.
A study carried out among 106 leading academics showed Brown was rated ... Read more...
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Pak needs to come clean on ISI-Taliban link: Editorial
July 31st, 2010 - 4:48 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, July 31(ANI): After the leak of classified US military documents proved links between Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Taliban, an editorial in a leading Pakistan daily has said that ... Read more...
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Gilani says Cameron’s remarks against Pak can affect war on terror
July 30th, 2010 - 1:15 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, July 30(ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that the issue of hostile statements made by British Prime Minister David Cameron would be taken up at a diplomatic ... Read more...
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‘Cheerful’ Brown admits to ‘end of an era’ when he left 10 Downing
July 25th, 2010 - 6:27 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 25 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insists he is "very cheerful" as a backbench MP and has "quite quickly", realised it was the "end of an era" ... Read more...
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George Clooney To Receive Emmy For Humanitarian Efforts
July 22nd, 2010 - 7:31 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
July 22, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The 49 year old Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney will be awarded a special Emmy for his humanitarian efforts on August 29. He will receive the award ... Read more...
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Factors behind the India-Pakistan logjam (Comment)
July 17th, 2010 - 3:48 pm ICT by IANS
By Amulya Ganguli
The unprecedented public exposure of the India-Pakistan rift after the ministerial-level talks in Islamabad was a disaster waiting to happen.A similar, though more muted, incident happened during Pakistan ... Read more...
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Brown boasted that he could beat Blair to EU presidency job
July 15th, 2010 - 4:26 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 15 (ANI): Former British prime minister Gordon Brown has boasted he could beat his predecessor Tony Blair for the job of European President.Brown is reported to have sneered at ... Read more...
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Blair felt Brown was ‘mad, bad and dangerous’
July 14th, 2010 - 1:14 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 14 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair felt his eventual successor Gordon Brown was "mad, bad, dangerous and beyond hope of redemption".Former British Secretary of State for Business, ... Read more...
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David Miliband accuses Gordon Brown of lacking “moral seriousness” as PM
July 10th, 2010 - 12:40 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 10 (ANI): The Labour leadership candidate David Miliband has made his most outspoken attack on former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, saying he lacked the "moral seriousness" he had ... Read more...
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Ex-UK PM Brown could soon be Prof Brown
July 7th, 2010 - 5:24 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 7 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is understood to have been approached by Harvard and Yale, the so-called "Ivy League" elite universities on America's East Coast, to ... Read more...
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Iraq war illegal, Tony Blair was told
July 2nd, 2010 - 10:40 am ICT by IANS
London, July 2 (IANS) Former British prime minister Tony Blair was warned that the invasion of Iraq would be illegal in a secret memo from Attorney General Lord Goldsmith three months ... Read more...
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Russia, Britain take first steps to thaw relationship
June 26th, 2010 - 5:20 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 26 (DPA) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and British Prime Minister David Cameron have agreed to revive the relationship between their two nations after years of glacial interactions, the Kremlin ... Read more...
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