Since Tony Blair's New Labour government took office on May 1, 1997, Britain has had ten years of buoyant economic growth, exceeding 3% for the last quarter of 2006 alone...
A 26-year-old man, born in Cuba under the regime of Fidel Castro and still a citizen of that Caribbean island nation that maintains no diplomatic relations with the United States, joins the Army, not having completed high school and unable to speak any language but Spanish...
Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who earlier in his career developed a powerhouse international influence in action films and body building, now appears to be exporting a new Arnold product: a signature blend of California conservatism that has growing appeal to political leaders in other countries...
Allegedly during the 1930s, The Times cover properly synthesized Britons’ idea of themselves in relation to Europe: “Dense fog over English Channel. Continent isolated..."
One can make all sorts of clever arguments—indeed the Brits have, from blaming us to blaming their own—about why this crisis was someone else’s fault, due to a misunderstanding, due to media exaggeration, due to an accident...
Diplomatic tensions between London and Tehran continued to rise Wednesday, as British officials demanded the release of 15 of its sailors and marines captured by Iranian forces and decried the captives' appearance on Iranian television...
Last week, while the European Union celebrated 50 years of peace, freedom and solidarity, 15 Europeans were kidnapped from Iraqi territorial waters by Iranian Revolutionary Guards...