EDINBURGH, Scotland — Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced mounting criticism Wednesday as the widening controversy over the release of the convict...
Rob Johnson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Chanos and Paul Singer briefed prominent policy officials about the growing financial instability. They told officials that banks that were about to sink the global economy. They called for decisive action. And they were ignored.
Vicky Ward | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Megrahi's release and hero's welcome in Libya, along with the leak of two letters from Britain's justice minister, have prompted calls for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to stop evading the issue.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
We will push for the Libyan government to sell their compound in Englewood and clear out of the neighborhood. We don't want a terrorist-funding government in our midst.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
As bystanders to tragedies like the Lockerbie disaster, you and I have no moral weight; we are outsiders. But we aren't outsiders in our own lives, where we face moral choices just as tangled.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
Another media report from Scotland raises the question as to whether doctors who promoted release of the mass murderer may have been paid by the Libyans.
guardian.co.uk | Severin Carrell, Scotland Correspondent | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
Gordon Brown is under renewed pressure to release details about the UK's dealings with Libya after Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son said there was an "ob...
Evening Standard | Paul Waugh | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business
This happy band of G7 finance ministers looked perfectly relaxed as they arrived for their gathering in Washington in April 2007. But it now turns ...
Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Here are reactions to Ted Kennedy's death: President Obama: Michelle and I were heartbroken to learn this morning of the death of our dear friend, S...
AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
LONDON — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown broke his silence on the Lockerbie bomber Tuesday, saying he was repulsed by the hero's welcome Lib...
Vicky Ward | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
Imagine if Bernie Madoff were to have cancer and he were to be released like the Lockerbie killer? There would, no doubt, rightly be outrage in the streets.
Michael Wolff | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
The Brits are in a mess: They have freed the Lockerbie bomber for reasons that nobody truly, or reasonably, believes. And yet, maybe they know what they're doing.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
Kowtowing to moneyed Middle Eastern and African oil interests may not be new, but as the release of the Lockerbie bomber shows, this has become Britain's new norm.
AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
LONDON — Britons love to mock their National Health Service – just don't let anyone else poke fun at it. They particularly resent the Bri...
Alda Sigmundsdottir | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
In her article, Mme Joly denounces what she calls the "blackmailing of Iceland" by a number of states, as well as the IMF and the EU, into taking on billions of Euros in debt.
Cedric Perrier | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics
Perhaps what America is observing is political opportunism in its freshest form. We see this a great deal in the new order of the entertainment industry: fame without responsibility.
bloomberg.com | Gonzalo Vina and Andrew MacAskill | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business
July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the U.K. government will adopt plans forcing banks to hold back half of all bonuses for senior...
Simon Jenkins | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
President Obama now owns Afghanistan. As a result, he and his British ally, Gordon Brown, are sucked into mendacity that is on the scale of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Cedric Perrier | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
Defense is clearly at the sharp end of the Government's ongoing budget cuts. Yet British coffers alone may not be the only reason Brown is willing to stand firm.
AFP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday called for a global fund worth $100 billion a year to tackle climate change in the developing world, ahead ...
AFP | Posted 08.12.2009 | World
A key adviser to Prime Minister Gordon Brown has contracted swine flu and was banned from attending the G8 summit in Italy, reports said late Sunday....
Guardian | Gordon Brown | Posted 08.12.2009 | Green
wo centuries ago, Britain was at the forefront of a new industrial age that transformed our small island into the workshop of the world and a global e...
Steven Crandell | Posted 08.11.2009 | World
There is no doubt that the time is right for our President to assert the importance of working through global cooperation to achieve the mutally-desirable goal of planetary survival.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
Twitter may have succeeded in proving to the world how much the Iranian people want change, but Internet technologies cannot deliver real freedom and hope.
Gordon Brown | Posted 08.03.2009 | World
When UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon meets the military dictatorship in Burma today he will have the whole world with him. His mission is critical to the future of the Burmese people.
AP | BEN McCONVILLE | Posted 10.18.2009 | World