LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for top civil servants to help tame a record deficit.
LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan's neighbours must support such an agreement.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Greece, pressing for curbs on financial speculation it blames for worsening the country's debt crisis, said on Tuesday the idea would be examined by the Group of 20 leading powers at their next summit.
CANBERRA/JAKARTA (Reuters) - A suspected mastermind of the Bali bombings was killed in a police raid in Indonesia in the latest blow to an Islamist militant movement in the world's most populous Muslim country.
KABUL (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived on Wednesday for a visit to Afghanistan, after U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert Gates said he was wary of Tehran's influence in the country.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Preliminary results of Iraq's parliamentary election, a vote seen as a litmus test of its young democracy, are likely to be released by Thursday, a United Nations official said on Wednesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - The United States deliberately kept Britain in the dark about the harsh methods it used when interrogating suspected terrorists, the former head of domestic spy agency MI5 said on Tuesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - State-owned Northern Rock shrank its losses in 2009, helped by a lower bad debt charge in the second half as house prices stabilised, but arrears rose and the lender warned loan impairments would stay high in 2010.
LONDON (Reuters) - A re-elected Labour government would preside over a backwards-looking Britain saddled with risky debt and 1970s-style trade union domination, the Conservatives will charge on Wednesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Chancellor Alistair Darling will deliver the budget at 12:30 p.m. on March 24, the Treasury said on Wednesday, just weeks away from a national election expected on May 6.