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British foreign minister David Miliband has turned down the chance to become the European Union's envoy to the rest of the world, the BBC reported Monday.

A page has turned in the grim tale of Britain's military involvement in Afghanistan.

LONDON: Five British soldiers have been killed and more wounded in a shooting at an Afghan police base in Helmand province.

The deaths of five British soldiers at the hands of an Afghan policeman with whom they were working has unleashed an outcry in Britain and highlighted the vulnerability of Western troops as they carry out a key part of the counterinsurgency strategy to train more Afghan army soldiers and police officers.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Saturday accused critics of U.S. President Barack Obama of foolishly expecting him to fix the world's woes singlehandedly.

By DAVID Cameron may believe his party is on course for an election victory. The opinion polls back him up.

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree unsuccessfully ran for a Westminster City Council in London, England in 2007, and also ran for a Labour Party seat in the city in 2008, but now he's preparing for an even bigger political campaign.

In unusually harsh terms reflecting international frustration with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan , Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday that the Kabul government would forfeit its right to support against the Taliban insurgency if it failed to root out corruption.

Lord Mandelson has called for new leadership in Europe to give the EU a key role in the world.

The deaths of five British soldiers gunned down by an Afghan policeman as they made tea after a patrol has shaken public support for the war in Afghanistan, intensifying debate about the human cost of the conflict and increasing calls for a pullout.

The major political parties made many promises during their recent annual conferences, including vows to curb crime and eradicate political corruption - but improving the state of Britain's economy is the number one concern for many Britons going into the national election in mid-2010. Worries about the housing and the healthcare systems follow.

A major rift in Britain's governing party over the war in Afghanistan opened up Wednesday when a former Foreign Office minister became the first senior British politician to call for a withdrawal of British troops.

Kim Howells, a Labour Party MP who chairs a parliamentary committee overseeing intelligence and security, published his article calling for withdrawal just ahead of news that five British troops were shot dead in southern Afghanistan. Analysts say his senior position, and the access to classified information it affords him, will likely give his words resonance among the broader British public.

Five U.K. soldiers were killed yesterday in a shooting at an Afghan police base in southern Helmand province, making this the deadliest year for British troops in more than two decades.

British lawmakers will be banned from using taxpayers' money to make mortgage payments on second homes or hiring family members as staff under new rules published Wednesday in the wake of a scandal over legislators' allowances.

Hundreds of Darfuris fleeing persecution in Sudan will be given protection in Britain after a government U-turn on its handling of asylum claims brought by refugees from the troubled African state.

Thousands of workers facing job losses at Tata-owned Jaguar and Land Rover factories.

How many MPs would have criminal records if police had found them smoking drugs? Alan Johnson has taken a sledgehammer to crack a Nutt.

Foreign Secretary: David Miliband 'has not lived up to his honourable tradition' The office of Foreign Secretary is one of the highest in the United Kingdom.

Two more drug advisers to the British government have stepped down amid an increasingly heated debate over the country's marijuana policy.

What happened in Britain that in that once great democracy,A one-fifth of the electorate would consider voting for the BNP, a genuine fascist party? Shannon Love on The Collapse of the British Liberal Order liberal orders dona t slowly evolve into authoritarian ones.