Sunning themselves: Cameron and Miliband jet away for the half term break.
David Cameron and Ed Miliband were making the most of parliament's half-term break today, with major trips to India and Europe.
View ArticleBBC strike takes down news programming
A 24-hour walk-out by BBC staff hit several of its most prominent news programmes this morning, with BBC Breakfast and the Today programme being cancelled.
View ArticleIndia Visit: David Cameron Leads Trade Mission
David Cameron has arrived in India where he is heading the largest ever trade delegation to travel overseas with a British Prime Minister.
View ArticleBritish Royal Mint makes first gold sovereigns in India in century
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Royal Mint has started to manufacture gold sovereign coins in India for the first time in almost 100 years, it said on Monday. Indian residents have been unable to buy...
View ArticleNo change in law to curb tax avoidance: Cameron
MUMBAI (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday he did not want to change the law to outlaw "aggressive tax avoidance", but said the practice raised moral questions and that...
View ArticleJon Ashworth: Cameron in India - unless he changes his immigration policy on...
Labour MP Jon Ashworth says the Government's immigration policies are 'undermining our universities'.
View ArticleCameron in trade offensive amid India graft scandal
British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in India on Monday with what he called Britain's biggest ever overseas business delegation for a three-day visit clouded by a corruption scandal.
View ArticleJust a third of Britons want to stay in European Union - poll
LONDON (Reuters) - Only a third of Britons would vote to stay in the European Union in a proposed referendum, a poll showed on Monday, underlining the scale of Prime Minister David Cameron's task in...
View ArticleIndia Visit: Cameron Reveals UK Trade Plan
David Cameron has told an audience in Mumbai he will make it easier for businessmen and students to come to Britain - but in return he wants India to tear down barriers to investment from the UK.
View ArticlePM: India should open markets to UK
David Cameron has urged India to open up its markets in areas such as insurance and banking to British companies while he leads a 100-strong trade mission to the emerging economic giant.
View ArticleOnly one in three Britons wants to stay in EU: poll
Only one in three Britons would vote to stay in the European Union in a referendum promised by Prime Minister David Cameron, according to a poll published in the Financial Times on Monday.
View ArticleEurofighter still in race for India jet deal - CEO
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - The chief of the Eurofighter Typhoon said on Monday that it is still in the race for a fighter jet deal in India as British Prime Minster David Cameron began his tour to win new...
View ArticleCameron on India trade trip as graft scandal erupts
MUMBAI (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron flew into India on Monday promising to try to revive Indian interest in the Eurofighter even though New Delhi has chosen a French-made rival and...
View ArticleBritish PM seeks to deepen India ties amid graft scandal
British Prime Minister David Cameron was due to hold talks with Indian leaders Tuesday in pursuit of deeper trade ties as a widening corruption scandal threatened to overshadow his visit.
View ArticleBritain and India to agree cyber crime joint taskforce
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Britain and India are expected to agree to set up a joint task force to fight cyber crime on Tuesday, a move London hopes will help it safeguard the personal banking and mobile phone...
View ArticleCuban dissident blogger met by small protests in Brazil
RECIFE, Brazil (Reuters) - Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, was greeted on Monday by small groups of protesters who called her a CIA agent upon arriving in Brazil, the first stop on...
View ArticleFighting breaks out in Sudan's Blue Nile border state
CAIRO (Reuters) - Fighting broke out in a Sudanese border state between the military and rebels trying to overthrow President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, both sides said on Monday, and the government said...
View ArticleAnalysis: Japan's Abe looks to prove this time, he has the right stuff
TOKYO (Reuters) - Five years after staring into a political and personal abyss, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is out to prove that the man who threw in the towel after barely a year in office has...
View ArticleCameron wants RBS to speed restructuring
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron says he wants state-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland to speed up restructuring and has refused to rule out giving the government's share in the bank to...
View ArticleCameron calls for accountability in NHS neglect case
David Cameron urged health chiefs to hold to account those responsible for the neglect of patients under the care of the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust between 2005 and 2009.
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