Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Spain's prime minister says his government is determined to stick to harsh austerity measures for as long as is necessary.
Mariano Rajoy acknowledged Spain is experiencing turbulence, but said Saturday that the country "will not sink."Spain, where unemployment stands at 24.4 percent, has imposed spending cuts and tax hikes to get out of a financial crisis that many fear will drag down the rest of the struggling eurozone.Rajoy says his government has "the will to persevere in this line for as long as is necessary."Spain's banking sector is laden with soured investments on real estate and the government needs €19 billion ($23.4 billion) to rescue just one bank, Bankia SA....Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison Saturday for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the uprising that forced him from power last year. The ou...
In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village.She will alway...
The patriotic bunting is ready, the golden carriage on standby, the boats freshly painted, the shops filled with royal souvenirs.The normal ebb and flow of British l...
Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison Saturday for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the uprising that forced him from power last year. The ou...
Queen Elizabeth II went to the races Saturday, at the start of a four-day celebration of her 60 years on the throne.Later in the weekend she'll make a trip down the ...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't commenting directly on the life-in-prison sentence handed down to ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (HOHS'...
International forces cannot solve Somalia's security problems in the long term and the fragile country needs its own strong force to do the job, U.N. Secretary-Gener...
Thousands are rallying in the northern Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria against the man who served as Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister and who is to face an Is...
President Barack Obama has written a letter to the Polish president expressing "regret" for an inadvertent verbal gaffe that caused a storm of controversy in Poland ...
A lawyer for Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group says the company could face 500 lawsuits from victims of tabloid phone hacking — far more than have so far been...
The patriotic bunting is ready, the golden carriage on standby, the boats freshly painted, the shops filled with royal souvenirs.The normal ebb and flow of British l...
Ireland's voters have agreed to ratify the European Union's deficit-fighting treaty with a resounding 60.3 percent "yes," results Friday showed, but government leade...
Somalia's prime minister said Thursday that his country has more to offer than pirates, militants and images of the hungry, and that Somalis can even teach the world...
The tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat no longer wants the United Nations to list it as a colony.Premier Reuben Meade says the island of 5,000 people is an overseas...
Protesters blocked Thailand's Parliament from opening debate Friday on a bill they fear will let former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra return from exile.Pushing a...
Somalia's prime minister said Thursday that his country has more to offer than pirates, militants and images of the hungry, and that Somalis can even teach the world...
Australia has talked to the United States about the future of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Thursday that it can't protect ...
Queen Elizabeth II went to the races Saturday, at the start of a four-day celebration of her 60 years on the throne.Later in the weekend she'll make a trip down the ...
The U.N.'s top human rights official said Saturday that there should be no amnesty for serious crimes committed in Syria, even if the threat of prosecution might mot...
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2012 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. All market data delayed 20 minutes.
