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Dr Rowan Williams held talks with Benedict XVI in Rome for the first time since the Pope approved a decree to accept Anglicans. Pope Benedict is offering Anglican clergy the chance to transfer to the Roman Catholic Church, while maintaining...

One night at the height of the panic over what people here call the California flu, as 24-hour news stations tracked a rising death toll and politicians speculated about a mystery lung plague, Ukraine's prime minister rushed to the airport...

Winston Churchill as he planned D-Day has been unearthed – after being hidden for 66 years. Christian Williams, 33, was given it when he was 12 by his grandfather Ronald Williams. The cigar, over six inches long, has never been...

Gordon Brown was instead awarded a consolation prize of a British politician winning a key foreign affairs role instead...Observers pointed out that the post of high representative will have potentially more real powers than the EU presidency, as Baroness Ashton...

EU leaders have chosen the Belgian Prime Minister, Herman van Rompuy, to be the first permanent European Council President. The other top job created by the Lisbon Treaty - foreign affairs supremo - has gone to the EU Trade Commissioner,...

The colorless Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy of Belgium, picked as EU president this week, pales in comparison with Jacques Delors, the former head and driving force behind a united Europe. These days, a Delors-like man of vision and pragmatism,...

LONDON — Newly-appointed EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton rejected claims on Friday she lacks the experience to be the face of Europe abroad. Ashton was the surprise choice as Europe's 27 leaders shunned better-known names and plumped for her...

Officers were called to the Tropical Harmony nightclub on High Street in Bilston at around 4.30am. Two men were found with gunshot wounds and were taken to hospital...It is believed there were around 50 people in the club at the...

It's disquieting the EU's UK cheerleaders don't even seem to know who wields power on the continent "The little-known Belgian president Herman van Rompuy ," said Gavin Esler on Newsnight last night, maintaining the spirit of a programme in which...

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