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Behind a great woman, a shy man
The Margaret-Denis partnership was always the key relationship in the Thatcher family.
The Margaret-Denis partnership was always the key relationship in the Thatcher family.
The fracas over President Barack Obama's decision to call California's top law enforcement officer "the best-looking attorney-general in the country" refuses to go away.
Republican lawmakers have asked for an investigation into Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z's visit to Cuba for their wedding anniversary.
Bill Gates may be only the second richest man in the world, with a net worth of US$67 billion ($79.7 billion), but he is assuredly the most generous.
Radicals both right and left are sensing that France's political tide is rising in their favour, driven by a President plumbing record unpopularity less than a year after taking office.
Hitherto unseen evidence given to the Chilcot Inquiry by British intelligence has revealed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was told that Iraq had, at most, only a trivial amount of weapons of mass destruction.
Each time it makes a threatening gesture to its sister in the south, the US and China respond like different parents. But a sibling often knows a troubled child better than either parent, says John Roughan.
Naomi Long Naomi Long, Westminster MP for east Belfast, is very much a child of her constituency, born into its loyalist backstreets and a committed community worker.
Geo-politically, socially, environmentally, economically, financially and spiritually, the world and state of human affairs is in a state of unparalleled flux and change.
The advice from the front office at East Side High in Cleveland, Mississippi, is clear
The Princess of Wales pub in Pyla looks as if it has been flatpacked and flown in from a town in the UK, complete with British pensioners who tuck into roast beef.
At first blush the actions of the euro area in seeking to impose a levy on ordinary Cypriot bank depositors made no sense, writes David Mayes.
His upbeat oratory reflected his country's innate optimism, despite the turbulence of the times.
British ministers came under fire over benefit cuts as the independent body representing 1200 English housing associations described the controversial bedroom tax as bad policy.
It has become an ominously frequent ritual. Officials announce that Nelson Mandela, 94, is in hospital.
Julia Gillard has elevated two key supporters to the Cabinet, expanded the jobs of three frontbenchers and made four new ministers after a "self-indulgent" leadership dispute.
Boris Johnson's past troubles finally returned to haunt him yesterday when he gave what senior Conservatives called a "car crash" television interview which they said had dented his hopes of becoming Conservative Party leader.
The changing climate will increase security threats to Australia, including the possible collapse of fragile states in the region and resource wars, a new report has warned.
Cyprus has secured a package of rescue loans in tense, last-ditch negotiations, two EU diplomats said, saving the country from a banking system collapse and bankruptcy.
According to Oxfam, nearly 750,000 people die each year from firearm-related violence.
Will investors keep their money in Cyprus? Or will they trigger a banking collapse and the first ejection from the euro?
Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith supports Anthony Albanese remaining in the Cabinet in the post-leadership ructions reshuffle.
The bats are loose in the parliamentary belfry. But then came the shenanigans from across the ditch, says Kerre McIvor.
Julia Gillard has survived as Australian Prime Minister after ousted predecessor Kevin Rudd refused to stand against her in a sudden leadership spill.