Queen appoints first 'woman in tights' to Britain's parliament
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Upholding law and order in the "Mother of All Parliaments" is now woman's work, after Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday approved the appointment of the House of Commons first female serjeant at arms.
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The new US secretary of state is due to arrive in the UK at the start of her first overseas trip as America's top diplomat.
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A political compromise to save the job of the new European Commissioner who thinks homosexuality is a sin was put to Euro MPs in Brussels today.
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Britain's new prime minister, Gordon Brown, started to unveil his government on Thursday, promoting old allies to top positions and bringing in a range of new faces to draw a line under Tony Blair's decade in power.
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A senior British Cabinet minister has sparked fury by saying that Muslim women who wore full veils made community relations more difficult.
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Kamalesh Sharma, India's new High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, has presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II at the Buckingham Palace in London.
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A profile of Britain's new "first lady" Sarah Brown, wife of new prime minister Gordon Brown.
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PM-designate Omar Karameh forms a new 30-member cabinet which includes women for the first time.
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A Japanese government panel begins work on whether to recommend women be allowed to take the throne.
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India's governing coalition chose a woman as its presidential candidate Thursday, setting the stage for her to become the country's first female president.
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She changed the way working women dressed.
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South Korean National Assembly Monday approved the appointment of the nation&#39;s first female Supreme Court justice, reported South Korean Yonhap News Agency.
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New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown assembled his cabinet team Thursday on his first day in office after taking over from Tony Blair vowing to lead a government of change.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II reads the legislative program from the throne to the assembled House of Lords in London in this Wednesday, June 20, 2001 file photo.Comment
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Singapore crowned its first  transsexual beauty queen at the weekend -- an about-face for a  country renowned for its strict social controls.
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Tuesday was one of those quaint ceremonial occasions that cling like barnacles to the slow-moving body of the British ship of state: The queen announced the next year's legislative program.
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Queen Elizabeth II was set Thursday to become Britain's oldest monarch, overtaking her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria amid signs the royal family is preparing for life after 81-year-old "Lillibet".