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Retired British politician Alistair McAlpine accused Sally Bercow of implying in a tweet that he was a paedophile. A retired British politician sued the wife of the House of Commons Speaker for defamation on Thursday, accusing her of implying in a tweet that ...

Britain should leave the European Union because Prime Minister David Cameron's plan to claw back powers from Brussels is doomed, former finance minister Nigel Lawson said on Monday.Lawson's intervention piles pressure on Cameron just days after his ...

Twitter announcement of Ferguson's retirement was retweeted and 'favourited' 18,000 times in the first hour, although it was far less than the tweets over the announcement of Pope Francis, who garnered a substantial seven million hits.

Hundreds of opponents of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher partied in London's Trafalgar Square to celebrate her death, sipping Champagne and chanting "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead."

All-rounder John Mooney, who scored the winning runs in Ireland's historic win over England at the 2011 Cricket World Cup, has deleted the message, saying on Twitter that he was sorry for upsetting people by his tweets regarding Thatcher's death, News.com.au ...

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr says British leader Margaret Thatcher made an "unabashedly racist" comment, recalling what she said to him about Asian immigration after she left office.

Precepts, once learnt, had also to be proclaimed. Margarets Methodist upbringing and her fathers example made it natural for someone of her interests to want to speak in public, unusual though this was for a woman at that time.

The actual price of the Iron Lady's ceremonial send-off has come in at a third of the 10 million pounds figure bandied around by her left wing enemies.

Margaret Thatcher led Britain at the time of the 1982 Falklands war when an Argentinean invasion of the islands, it calls Las Malvinas, was repelled