Prime minister headed to country predicting that business leaders accompanying him would sign deals worth billionsDavid Cameron arrived in China early this morning vowing to double UK trade to the country to $100bn (£62bn) a year by 2015, and predicting that the army of British business leaders accompanying him on his two-day visit would [...]
PricewaterhouseCoopers warns that ‘alarming’ level of debt may prove hard to deal with if interest rates increaseBritain’s economy is sitting on a timebomb of debt on course to break through the £10tn barrier within the next five years, according to a report out today charting the country’s two-decade long addiction to borrowing.The study by consultancy [...]
• Bush admits: Tony Blair was my closest foreign ally• Waterboarding ‘helped to break up terror plots in UK’• Iraq was the right thing to do, says former presidentGeorge Bush ordered the Pentagon to plan an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and considered a covert attack on Syria, the former president reveals in his memoirs.Bush, [...]
The chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus said Monday that Rep. James Clyburn, the highest ranking African-American in the House Democratic leadership, should be the vanquished party’s second in command in the next Congress.
Today’s public hearing by the National Oil Spill Commission has been a good education for anyone who has read bits and pieces about the various investigations into the explosion of BP’s Macondo well, but still felt they did not have a complete understa…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin on Monday weighed in on the global debate over the Federal Reserve’s $600 billion plan to buy up government debt, suggesting Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke should “cease and desist.”
Here’s some news that will cheer both environmentalists and hydrocarbon producers.
The UK government is going to open up its CCS trials to gas plants as well as coal ones. After the first demonstration, the next batch of three will be open to applicati…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The congressman in line to chair the homeland security committee in the new Republican-led House of Representatives said on Monday that he plans to challenge President Barack Obama on the issue of terrorism.
House Republicans are tapping two newly elected congressman who drew tea party backing in their campaigns to help lead the party’s transition to power.
Beijing sees trip as chance to woo European leader while prime minister hopes to boost trade balanceDespite Britain’s less than glorious historical relations with China (remember the Opium wars? They certainly do) ties have been relatively stable in recent years.The US midterms showed that China-bashing remains a potent weapon in American campaigning, but it does [...]
Republicans cast themselves as the anti-Obama and scored a blowout at the polls. Now their real work — repairing the party’s still-tattered image and earning voters’ trust — begins.
The president admitted defeat on ‘60 minutes’ when he said he and his administration didn’t compromise and work with Republicans.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Suspended liberal anchor Keith Olbermann will return to the MSNBC lineup on Tuesday, four days after the cable news network suspended him for giving money to three Democratic politicians.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to American soil on Monday after a marathon two-week trip to the Asia-Pacific during which the domestic U.S. political landscape dramatically changed amid growing international concerns about China …