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You needed TV for the panoramas in a Chicago park, for the weeping faces and visions of hope; you needed computers to keep your detail bank brimming through the hours of waiting, and bloggers to keep your spirits up; you needed newspapers ...

To an unusual degree, this US election was driven by television moments: Obama's 30-minute advertorial, Colin Powell's endorsement of the Democrat on NBC's Meet the Press, Sarah Palin's ruinous interview with Katie Couric of CBS and Tina Fey's satirical demolition of the ...

Political commentator Michael White discusses the thinktank Progress and its warning to Gordon Brown that he must offer voters a programme of Blairite reforms if he is to win the next election. & #8226; Subscribe free to Newsdesk, via iTunes& #8226; The ...

When George W. Bush arrives for his European visit next week, a special ceremony will be laid on in Brussels: Even if the Conservative leader was at the European Union summit, he's unlikely to have been granted an audience; he languishes, unforgiven, ...

DENVERCity Councilwoman Inez Dickens of Harlem supported Hillary Clinton during the primaries, and even though she said she plans to vote for Barack Obama in the roll call this week, she thinks Clintons candidacy was historic, especially in the context of other ...

Britain hailed incoming US president Barack Obama as a " true friend" Wednesday, as London eyes opening a new chapter in its "special relationship" with Washington after recent cool ties.More specifically analysts say the new US leader could help Prime Minister Brown's ...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown congratulated US president-elect Barack Obama Wednesday, hailing his " "Brown, who took over from Tony Blair as premier last year, has been widely seen as trying to distance himself from his predecessor's controversially close ties with outgoing US ...

One of the disappointments of yesterday's central London seminar on business loan schemes - an event graced by Alistair Darling and Peter Mandelson - was the no-show by Baroness Shriti Vadera, the minister for economic competitiveness. #8226; Trouble as the fur wars ...

Wall Street failed to take any early comfort today from the US Senate's vote in favour of the $700bn (& #8211; sending the Dow Jones industrial average down by over 230 points to as low as 10594.59, a 2.2% fall.The latest official ...

my ceiling needs repainting, my car has a dent in it and Henry VIII (as played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers in The Tudors) is all thin, with no beard!It has taken me a while to get glasses. It continued with the London ...

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