The English statesman Harold Wilson (1916-1995), who served as prime minister and leader of the Labour party, was one of the most skillful political tacticians in 20th-century British history. James Harold Wilson was born on March 11, 1916, in...

David Miliband, Britain's new foreign secretary, became the first British Cabinet minister to post a blog last year _ though his entries are often thick with technical jargon.A technology buff, he also has an avatar in Second Life _ an online world rarely inhabited by...

Lyndon B. Johnson showed his intensity over Vietnam War negotiations and calculated the public response to his nomination of the first black justice for the Supreme Court in 1967 telephone recordings released Tuesday.The late president's rough demeanor and sometimes salty language emerge in the conversations...

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2007. There are 76 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 16, 1987, a 58 1/2-hour drama in Midland, Texas, ended happily as rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl trapped in an abandoned...

More than 100 years of British tradition came to an end Friday as the final bottle of HP brown sauce _ a popular alternative to ketchup _ rolled off a production line at a factory in central England.HP's U.S. owner, H.J. Heinz Co., stuck by...