By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron's flagship gay marriage policy deepened a rift in his own party on Monday after many of his own MPs defied him in a sign of growing strains on his leadership and his coalition gove... [Full Article]
By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron faced questions about his leadership on Tuesday after he bowed to pressure from within the Conservative Party to bring forward draft legislation enforci... [Full Article]
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Margaret Thatcher's funeral this week may be the costliest political advert in history, if critics are to be believed - but her death is reminding Conservatives that their current prime minister pales against ... [Full Article]
CAIRO (AP) - Senior Hamas figures gathered for the last stage of internal elections on Monday in Cairo, where two officials in the Islamic militant movement said a new leader may be announced later in the day. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia's prime minister has accepted the resignation of a Cabinet minister who had supported a bungled leadership challenge. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Prime Minister Julia Gillard has called for a leadership ballot Thursday as her party faces the growing prospect of a sound election defeat later this year. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - A government minister Thursday called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to hold a leadership ballot because her government faces defeat at elections this year. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Two senior members of Prime Minister David Cameron's ruling Conservative party spoke out to calm growing talk of a leadership challenge against him on Friday, days before a closely watched budget. Halfway thro... [Full Article]
BEIJING (AP) - China named the Communist Party's No. 2 leader, Li Keqiang, premier on Friday as a long-orchestrated leadership transition nears its end, leaving the new leaders to confront uneven economic growth, unbridled corruption and a sever... [Full Article]
BEIJING (AP) - Newly installed Chinese leader Xi Jinping faces an early test of his pledges to curb corruption, raise living standards and create a fairer society when China's national legislature opens Tuesday to appoint top government posts an... [Full Article]