Labour Party News

London, May 23 : Google chairman Eric Schmidt has called for a more rational and predictable international tax system following widespread criticism over the company's failure to have a more transparent tax payment system.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands with French President Francois Hollande after his speech at a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Germany's Social Democratic Party in Leipzig, May 23, 2013.

The British House of Commons voted on Tuesday to legalize gay marriage . The vote was 366 to 161 in favor of same-sex marriage.

Attacks meantime protect the spotlight shifts from the US to EU. Leaders from France Germany the UK and other nations meeting in Brussels.

It is now five years since the economic crash plunged Britain into recession and, as a direct result of this government's mismanagement, we are in the longest and deepest slump since the 1870s.

Help for Heroes, the charity whose t-shirt witnesses said the victim was wearing, said: "Help for Heroes is appalled to hear that a man, believed to be a serving soldier, has been brutally murdered in Woolwich today.

A man thought to be a serving British soldier was killed by two armed men in a frenzied attack on a London street Wednesday, in what the government is treating as a suspected act of terrorism.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron arrives at the Global Investment Conference in London May 9, 2013.

Lawmakers debated legislation to allow same-sex marriage in England and Wales Tuesday, after a rebellion within Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party threatened to derail the bill.

A push by Tory backbenchers to allow opposite sex couples to enter into civil partnerships was defeated in the British House of Commons.

LAST Monday at the fantastic new Velodrome in our City's East End, I had the honour of launching the Labour Party's campaign to keep Scotland in the United Kingdom - United With Labour.

An encyclopaedia of Italian political slang has shone a light on a colourful world where lawmakers and journalists speak a language you won't find in any ordinary dictionary.

North-East MP James Wharton is to introduce a Westminster bill to make it law that an in-out referendum be held on Britain's membership of the EU.

One of the key architects of New Labour said that the politics of the Blair-era government was over and that it was time for a new generation with new ideas.

John Maynard Keynes, one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, explained how a government spends, rather than cuts, its way out of recession.

A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies.

Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy agency.

A senior White House adviser insists President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had been targeting tea party groups "when it came out in the news." A senior White House adviser insists President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had been targeting tea party groups "when it came out in the news." The night of smoke, ... (more)

His son, Leo, was born in May 2000, and was the first baby born to a serving prime minister in 150 years.

South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world. It is estimated that nearly 40 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.