Margaret Thatcher, also known as the "Iron Lady" has died, aged 87, after suffering a stroke.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died following a stroke, a spokesperson for the family said.
Poor Margaret Thatcher: her transformation into biopic drag queen is now complete.
A firestorm on the United States right erupts after reports that Sarah Palin will be denied a meeting with Margaret Thatcher.
Margaret Thatcher’s famous handbag — the symbol of her authority as Britain’s prime minister — is being auctioned for charity.
Sarah Palin is promising to honour the woman she calls the Iron Lady by visiting Britain to see Margaret Thatcher.
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/ 30 December 2009
Margaret Thatcher banned her envoy from meeting Robert Mugabe in 1979, refusing to talk ”with terrorists until they become prime ministers”.
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/ 2 September 2009
What on earth is a sex test? How is it done? Who does it? Nikiwe Bikitsha asks.
The true impact of this plan lies in the limitations it will place on other areas of public spending, writes Bill Emmott.
Milton Friedman’s fans plan to set up an
institute in his name. Not everyone approves, writes Kurt Jacobsen.
According to African tradition women are emotionally weak — tears are not only okay, they are expected.
Clinton did not sign on to a tough campaign, or to a more negative strategy against Obama, until late February.
Britain’s opposition Conservative Party won a mid-term parliamentary seat from the ruling Labour Party on Friday in a new blow to Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s bludgeoned political fortunes. The Conservatives’ win in the northern town of Crewe was the party’s first gain from Labour in a mid-term election since 1978.
Britain’s Labour Party suffered its worst local election defeat on record and lost control of London on Friday, forcing Prime Minister Gordon Brown to rethink his strategy to avoid losing the next national poll. Conservative Boris Johnson, a journalist-turned-lawmaker prone to gaffes, wrested the prized post of London mayor from Labour’s maverick Ken Livingstone.
T Boone Pickens is famous for thinking big. He founded his Texan oil company, Mesa Petroleum, in 1956 with just 500 in the bank. After a string of audacious takeovers he turned it into an independent empire that challenged the big oil companies, and today he is worth -billion. Now this straight-talking Southerner is launching the biggest and most audacious project of his career.
A Briton accused of masterminding a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea is being held illegally and has been denied access to his lawyer since he was charged in February, a defence attorney said on Saturday. British mercenary Simon Mann was secretly deported to the West African state of Equatorial Guinea on January 31 from Zimbabwe.
"This much I know is true: don’t trust those who say things with absolute certainty. Back in primary school, they told me I couldn’t subtract a big number from a little number. ‘Don’t even try,’ said crow-faced Mrs Pillay, leaning in, breath smelling of cough drops and decay," writes Lev David.
A British mercenary awaiting trial in Equatorial Guinea for leading a failed 2004 coup has said the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was involved in the plot, the public prosecutor said on Sunday. Jose Olo said former British special forces officer Simon Mann had testified that Mark Thatcher knew all about the scheme to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
Mark Thatcher, the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, has married again in a secret ceremony in Gibraltar, according to a London Sunday newspaper. Thatcher (54) married Sarah Russell (42) after a three-year courtship, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s son shrugged off Equatorial Guinea’s attempts to have him arrested for his alleged role in a plot to overthrow the country, according to a newspaper report on Saturday. The West African country has issued a warrant for Mark Thatcher’s arrest for his role in helping to finance and organise a coup plot.
Britain’s former prime minister Margaret Thatcher is due to leave hospital later on Saturday, her spokesperson said. The 82-year-old Thatcher was taken to a south London hospital on Friday for precautionary medical tests. ”She has just been given the all clear,” the spokesperson said.
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/ 23 February 2008
A secretive Swiss bank landed an apparently novel censorship blow against the internet this week. Anyone who tried to call up Wikileaks.org, a global website devoted to publicising leaked documents, found themselves frustrated. The site simply wasn’t there any more.
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/ 31 January 2008
A court in Zimbabwe dismissed an appeal against the extradition of Simon Mann, a former British special forces officer accused of leading a coup plot to topple the government in the oil-rich West African nation of Equatorial Guinea, his lawyers said on Thursday. Mann’s lawyers had argued he would face torture and a likely death sentence if extradited Equatorial Guinea.
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/ 31 January 2008
Zimbabwe’s High Court ruled on Wednesday that a former British special forces officer could be extradited to Equatorial Guinea to face coup-plot charges, rejecting arguments that he might be tortured. Simon Mann was jailed in 2004 and was briefly released after serving his sentence in May last year.
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/ 25 December 2007
Kenyan police fired teargas to disperse stone-throwing supporters of the country’s main presidential contenders on Monday after the candidates made a final push to win votes in a race deemed too close to call. Scuffles briefly flared shortly after President Mwai Kibaki and his opposition challenger, Raila Odinga, addressed huge rallies in the capital.
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/ 21 December 2007
What a country. Both our president-in-waiting and our police chief separately face the prospect of corruption and racketeering charges; our previous national director of public prosecutions was accused of once being an apartheid-era spy and all but hounded out of office for pursuing the first investigation; our current national director was suspended by the president for pursuing the second, writes Sam Sole.
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/ 11 September 2007
Nearly a decade since Humphrey was shown the door to 10 Downing Street, the prime ministerial house has a cat in residence again. Sybil, named after Basil’s wife in the 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers, has moved down from Edinburgh with Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling and his family who are living in the three-bedroomed flat above number 10.
A surprise visit by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to Namibia tomorrow.