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...state secret that he wears Speedo swimming trunks. For goodness' sake, let's grow up.' DAVID MILIBAND, British Foreign Secretary, defending Sir John Sawyers, the incoming head of MI6, the U.K.'s Secret Intelligence Service, after Sawyers' wife was assailed for posting photos and personal information on Facebook...
...weaknesses," he said in the stiflingly warm room, packed to the gills with Labour MPs and peers. "I am going to play to my strengths and address my weaknesses." By morning, the air was clearer. "The Labour Party does not want a new leader," Foreign Secretary David Miliband announced to the BBC. "There is no vacancy. There is no challenger." (See pictures of Brown as he prepared to become Prime Minister...
...election. (Imposing a second successive unelected P.M., the assumption goes, would be one too many for the electorate to swallow, making a national poll inevitable.) Rebellion was stymied, too, by a failure of the disgruntled to unite behind a policy agenda or a credible successor. When Alan Johnson and Miliband - the two leading contenders for the role - took plum jobs in Brown's reshuffled cabinet last week, the likelihood of such a move waned. (See the top 10 most outrageous British expense claims...
...Army soldiers posing on duty, and desperate civilians seeking their help. The enemy is all but invisible, reinforcing the Sri Lankan government's position that its conflict with the LTTE isn't a conventional war at all, but what Colombo calls a "war on terror." British foreign secretary David Miliband, in a speech to the house of commons on April 30, called it "a war without witness...
...system strengthened in the country." Earlier in the week, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan paid visits to Zardari and Sharif, while the Obama Administration's special representative to the region, Richard Holbrooke, held a videoconference with Zardari and later telephoned the opposition leader as well. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon have issued similar appeals. (See photos of the attacks on the Sri Lankan cricketers...