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The Inbox Stuffer: Five Articles To Read Over the Holidays

Delia Lloyd | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living


Delia Lloyd

In an information age it's so much more useful (not to mention fun) to expand our loved one's minds - rather than their cupboards - by sending them a list of our favorite readings.

A Clear Agenda for Reform in 2010

Gordon Brown | Posted 12.23.2009 | World


Gordon Brown

As the balance of economic power changes over the next two decades, new and stronger power-brokers may be less willing to embrace change. We must avoid this race to the bottom. Here is how.

Gordon Brown Pushes For Gay Rights Across The EU

BBC News | Posted 12.15.2009 | World


Gordon Brown is pushing for British civil partnerships to be recognised across the EU - including Eastern Europe, he has told Attitude magazine....

Drug Money Saved Banks Last Year, Says U.N. Drug And Crime Czar

The Observer | Rajeev Syal | Posted 12.14.2009 | Business


Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations' drugs and crime tsar ha...

Gordon Brown: Son's Rogue Tweet Taught Him A 'Big Lesson'

Telegraph | Urmee Khan and Kate Devlin | Posted 12.10.2009 | Technology


A rogue tweet by Gordon Brown's three-year-old son taught him "a big lesson" about the importance of parental supervision when it comes to the interne...

France To Follow Suit On Britain's Bank Bonus Tax (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 12.10.2009 | Business


France is looking to match Britain's decision yesterday to impose a one-time 50% windfall tax on bank bonuses, French government officials said today....

The Consequences of Climategate

Janet Ritz | Posted 12.11.2009 | Green


Janet Ritz

At what point, when we're dealing with wars over resources and the growing chasm between rich and poor leading to political upheaval, will these skeptics step back and say: oops?

Downing Tweet Parties to Support Maternal Mortality Campaign

Sarah Brown | Posted 12.05.2009 | Technology


Sarah Brown

The inaugural #DowningTweet party brought together Twitter users with the desire to stop the scandal of a woman dying every minute of every day from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications.

Gordon Brown Slams Climate-Change Skeptics As 'Anti-Science, Flat-Earthers'

Daily Telegraph | James Kirkup and Louise Gray | Posted 12.05.2009 | Green


The Prime Minister launched an outspoken attack on climate-change sceptics amid growing signs of public doubts about the scientific and political cons...

Yousaf Raza Gilani, Pakistan PM, Says Bin Laden Not In Pakistan

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER and GREGORY KATZ | Posted 12.03.2009 | World


LONDON — Pakistan's prime minister on Thursday defended his country's efforts in fighting terrorism, saying he didn't believe Osama bin Laden wa...

Reese, Renee, Whatever: Gordon Brown Confuses Leading Ladies

AP | Posted 12.02.2009 | Entertainment


LONDON — When it comes to Hollywood stars, Britain's prime minister can't tell a Reese from a Renee. Gordon Brown was asked in the House of Com...

Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister, Mocks Rival David Cameron's Eton Past (VIDEO)

timesonline.co.uk | Philip Webster, Political Editor | Posted 12.02.2009 | World


Gordon Brown produced his most combative Commons performance for many months today as he mocked David Cameron as a smooth-talking PR man who dreamt up...

Gordon Brown Confirms 500 Extra British Troops For Afghanistan

Posted 11.30.2009 | World


The Prime Minister announced today that Britain's total military effort in Afghanistan will increase to more than 10,000 troops. In a detailed Comm...

Commonwealth Leaders Call For Ambitious, "Legally Binding" Climate Change Deal

AP | BEN FOX | Posted 11.29.2009 | Green


PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Leaders of the Commonwealth countries called Saturday for a legally binding international agreement on climate change ...

Politicians Who Look Like Turkeys (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Dan Abramson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Comedy


Is it just us, or is the political scene overrun by guys who look like turkeys? It's probably just us, but we thought we'd compile our favorites. ...

The White Man's Handshake

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.24.2009 | World


Eric Margolis

Of course Afghanistan is corrupt, like all third world nations, but compared to his western critics, poor Hamid Karzai is a mere beggar in the Kabul bazaar.

Iraq War Inquiry Begins In Britain: Tony Blair Will Be Witness

AP | PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 11.25.2009 | World


LONDON — An inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war kicked off Tuesday with top government advisers testifying that some Bush administration...

Pop Star Joss Stone Under Attack for Marijuana Comment

Mason Tvert | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment


Mason Tvert

Stone is not alone in her belief that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol. She has some pretty solid back-up among the UK's scientific community.

Brown: NATO Troop Increase For Afghanistan Possible

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | World


LONDON — Britain's prime minister says NATO nations may contribute 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan – offering key backing as the U.S. dec...

Gordon Brown, British PM, Faces "Bullying" From British News Corp Paper The Sun

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


Gordon Brown's poor spelling and awkward telephone manner may have won him sympathy this week, as the British public begins to feel sorry for a prime ...

Brown Apologizes After Misspelling Name Of Dead Soldier In Letter To His Mother

Guardian | Adam Gabbatt | Posted 11.09.2009 | World


Gordon Brown has apologised to the mother of a dead serviceman who took offence after he sent her a handwritten letter of condolence that misspelled h...

Bank Tax: Geithner And U.K.'s Gordon Brown Face Off On Bank Transaction Tax At G20 Meeting

Times Online | By Suzy Jagger | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business


ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner clashed over potential taxes on bank transactio...

Parliamentarians for Pneumonia

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 11.09.2009 | World


Dr. Orin Levine

More importantly than events in Washington and London, for the first time ever, parliaments in developing countries, where the bulk of pneumonia deaths occur, were active locally on World Pneumonia Day.

Brown: British Troops Will Be Removed If Afghanistan Does Not Tackle Corruption

AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 11.06.2009 | World


LONDON — Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Washington's closest ally in Afghanistan, toughened his tone Friday with this harsh message for the Afghan...

Gordon Brown: Murdoch's Sun Trying To "Become A Political Party"

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media


Another international leader has come out attacking a Rupert Murdoch-owned media outlet as a political operative. As the White House continues its wa...