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British mercenary Simon Mann has threatened to settle some old scores after arriving home Wednesday following more than five years in African jails for a failed plot to take over Equatorial Guinea's oil riches.
Siv Jensen has an unusual ambition for a nation famous for its cradle-to-grave welfare system: she wants to go down in history as Norway's Margaret Thatcher.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher returned home Monday following a two-week stay in hospital after she fell and broke her left arm.
The daughter of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's says her mother is recovering well from her operation and should be released from the hospital within days.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will remain in a London hospital for several days as she recovers from a broken arm, one of her representatives said Monday.
The British economy shrank in the first quarter at its sharpest rate since the early days of Margaret Thatcher's government 30 years ago as the financial crisis continued to wreak havoc on banks, retailing and manufacturing.
British consumers opted to pay off debts rather than go on a pre-Christmas spending spree, the banking industry's main lobby group said Monday, in another sign of the difficult retailing climate.
Margaret Thatcher's daughter says she first realized that her mother was having memory problems when the former prime minister struggled to distinguish between the 1982 Falklands War and the conflict in Bosnia.
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in stable condition and responsive Saturday after being hospitalized in central London, authorities said.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spent the night in a London hospital for medical checks and returned home Saturday.
Francis Pym, an antagonist of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who served as her foreign secretary during the Falklands War, died Friday after a long illness, his family said. He was 86.
Liberals are Very Small, Mean People How do you mark the Berlin Wall coming down without including Reagan?
Sarah Palin's pitch leaves Hong Kong unimpressed Several audience members reportedly walked out of Ms Palin's speech 30 minutes before the end, citing "more important things to do" or describing the talk as "too partisan and too much like a speech at the Republican convention".
Thatcher told Gorbachev Britain did not want German reunificationTwo months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Margaret Thatcher told President Gorbachev that neither Britain nor Western Europe wanted the reunification of Germany and made clear that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it.
Peru to ban gay police officersPeru has announced that it will ban homosexuals from the police force for damaging the image of the institution. The law is one of several new regulations put forward by the Interior Minister, Mercedes Cabanillas.
As Smash-and-Grab Capitalism Collapses, the French Economy ShinesMany in Britain and the United States are in mourning for what's taken as the suicide of the American (or Thatcherite, or Chicago-school) model of capitalism, accompanied by the non-interventionist state that hands the national economy over to business and financial leaders to …
Barack Obamas India-Pakistan MessIn 1998, the long rest from the end of the Cold War (a rest punctuated by genocide in the Balkans, genocide in Rwanda, genocide in Iraq, ethnic cleansing in Southeast Asia, brush wars in the Congo and far too much else of Africa, the usual round of atrocities in North Korea and C …
The Moral Defense of Tax Havens. (abridged from a speech by Daniel J. Mitchell, delivered at "Evenings at FEE" in June 2006.) 19 December 2008Tax havens play an important role in the global economy because of tax competition. Globalization has increased the mobility of the two main factors of production: capital and labor.
Neil Kinnock blasts ex-miners leader Arthur Scargill over 'betrayal' accusationFORMER Labour leader Lord Kinnock today hit back at mineworkers leader Arthur Scargill over his allegation that he "betrayed" the miners in the 1984 strike.
Carol Thatcher, the daughter of a British Prime Minister, made a remark about a French tennis player, saying how much he looks like a 'golliwog' a 'half-golliwog' and a 'golliwog Frog' (frog being a derogatory, xenophobic term for the French).
Thatcher Wouldn't Have Gone Wobbly on Detroit "Economics is too important just to be left to the economists." Margaret Thatcher
I got this comment in my mailbox, by one of my favourite authors, and was so bowled over by it, I had to give it a greater exposure here.
I was reading the NY Times (the real paper one) and GM had a full page advertisement on what they were doing to turn around their business and why they should receive a part of the TARP bailout. All I could think of is the stories that are being circulated in the news media that …
November 22, 2008 marks the 18th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher being forced to leave Downing Street. She had no intention of leaving, but the numbers were stacked against her in an ambush while she was abroad at a meeting.
Margaret Thatcher dementia fight revealedThe daughter of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher has spoken for the first time about her mother's struggle with dementia. In her new book, serialised in the Mail on Sunday, Carol Thatcher says she first noticed her mother's memory was failing over lunch in 2000.
Thatcher's struggle with dementia Baroness Thatcher's daughter Carol has revealed details of her mother's struggle with dementia for the first time.
Harman: we have not agreed Thatcher state funeralThe government has not agreed to grant Lady Thatcher a state funeral, contrary to reports last month, Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman, said yesterday.
State funeral planned for Lady Thatcher Lady Thatcher is expected to be granted the rare honour of a state funeral when she dies.
The Making of The Iron Lady.As two TV programmes this week chart Margaret Thatcher's early days, we reveal how the political career of Britain's greatest post-war Prime Minister was nearly destroyed before it had started...
PEGGY NOONAN: Sex and the SissyGreat women, all different, but great in terms of size, of impact on the world and of struggles overcome. Struggle was not something they read about in a book.
At OpEdNews: McCain & GOP Continue Politics as Usual with False Appeasement ChargesWe need a new kind of politician and President, one that embraces honesty and change. If you are reading this and saying that the American people will never be able to get someone like that for their President, I have a simple answer, "Yes We Can".
Livingstone Says Defeat in London Mayor's Race May Hurt Brown London Mayor Ken Livingstone, trailing in his bid for another term, said Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Labour government may be in trouble in the next general election if the city's voters elect the Conservative mayoral challenger.
When Women Rule While no woman has been president of the United States — yet — the world does have several thousand years' worth of experience with female leaders. And I have to acknowledge it: Their historical record puts men's to shame.
MPs surrender the £1bn EU rebate Thatcher won for BritainWe have been well and truly sold out!
Presidential hopeful "a jerk"Draws the line between tough women and tough leaders... an important distinction.
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