The Tories are hoping to regain power for the first time since 1997, when they were ousted by Labour under Tony Blair. After three leaders and three successive election defeats, the party selected Cameron, a fresh-faced, bicycle-riding graduate of Eton and Oxford who promised to modernize the party's fusty, right-wing image.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a new treaty April 8 reducing the two countries' strategic nuclear weapons — those on intercontinental missiles and in long-range bombers and missile submarines. But the two nuclear powers have never negotiated reductions in the tactical arms.

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France was expected to approve its bailout commitment Thursday while Parliament in Germany, where the rescue package is unpopular, is expected to vote Friday. Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition appeared to have the votes to pass it, with even opposition politicians signaling support.

... les yeux sont tournés vers la Banque centrale européenne (BCE) dont le conseil des gouverneurs devait se réunir, jeudi matin, à Lisbonne. Les analystes s'interrogent : l'institution de Jean-Claude Trichet choisira-t-elle de soulager les pays les plus fragiles en achetant elle-même des emprunts d'Etat ? Un pas a déjà été fait dans cette direction quand la BCE a annoncé, lundi, vouloir re...

...e a couple of dozen showgirls, in their early twenties, as candidates for the European Parliament. As an article by Alexander Stille in the New York Review of Books -- The Corrupt Reign of Emperor Silvio -- from which I have gleaned most of this information, puts it: "Few of them (the candidates) had any political experience. One of them had been the weather girl on a Berlusconi network (good for ...

In late March, Saujani also got $1,000 and backing from Diana Taylor, a Wolfensohn & Co. managing director, Citigroup board member, and the companion of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (the owner of this magazine, who is staying neutral in the race). "There are thousands and thousands of families that are voters that work at JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs and that live in this dist...

Cameron's hefty lead gives him a strong chance to return the party of rightwing icon Margaret Thatcher to power after 13 years in the political wilderness. But he may have to seek deals with Irish nationalists or others.

"I think it's cool," the league's two-time MVP said after practice. "A GM or an owner like Mark Cuban and you see M.J. (Michael Jordan), those guys it's their team, they put the team together and they can have as much fun as they want to. I think it's cool. I mean, why not? I'm not opposed to it."

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