First Minister Alex Salmond takes his cabinet on the road again in the latest of a series of meetings around the country.
Highland Perthshire is the latest stop on Tuesday, with a meeting of cabinet at the Atholl Palace hotel in Pitlochry.
Mr Salmond and his team of cabinet secretaries will then face the public in a [...]
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown handed President Bush good news on two fronts Monday: a modest increase in Britain’s troops for the tough Afghanistan fight and a fresh European effort to squeeze Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The deeply unpopular prime minister seemed to calculate he had more to gain politically by being hawkish than he risked losing [...]
About a dozen top New York City officials and staff members, including Speaker Christine C. Quinn of the City Council and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, are landing this week for a government-sponsored investment conference.
The trip comes at a politically delicate time for Ms. Quinn, a likely mayoral candidate who is trying to maintain her good-government [...]
The federal government intends working with the states to take more responsibility for indigenous affairs, Health Minister Nicola Roxon says.
Ms Roxon, fresh from her first ministerial trip to the Northern Territory, said she was determined to ensure real improvements were made to indigenous health.
She said a suggestion by former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie that the [...]
NINE days ago, Scottish drawing rooms echoed with the glorious,
phlegm-sodden sounds of Robert Burns poems, recited loudly and at
length.
Burns Night takes place every year on January 25, the presumed
birthday of the adored Scottish poet. A haggis supper is optional,
but recitation of Burns’ most famous poem, the feisty Address to
a Haggis, is not.
In it, he hails [...]
