Donations led by the UK and Bill Gates have far exceeded the $3.7-billion targeted in a drive to fund vaccinations for children in poor countries.
Ministers gathered in Qatar on Wednesday for talks on Libya’s future, with some eager to step up air strikes against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces.
Britain urged the world to exert pressure on Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi and the EU said it was considering sending a intervention force.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will try to persuade a British judge on Monday to block his extradition to Sweden to face trial for sex crimes.
Lawyers for Julian Assange, held in Britain over allegations of sex crimes in Sweden, will try again on Tuesday to win bail for the WikiLeaks founder.
WikiLeaks said on Saturday its release of classified US files on the Iraq war showed 15 000 more Iraqi civilians died than previously thought.
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Ed Miliband has finally emerged from his older brother’s shadow but now faces a challenge to unify the Labour Party.
Britain’s opposition Conservatives said on Friday they would try to form a government with the smaller Liberal Democrats.
Goldman Sachs sees pressure building on both sides of the Atlantic, two days after it was charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Nationalisation of South Africa’s mines is not government policy and is unlikely to become so, the trade minister said on Wednesday.