CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard stared down a leadership crisis on Thursday and ensured she will lead the government into a September 14 election after she called a surprise leadership vote over her chief rival Kevin Rudd. Full story
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's ruling Labor Party will hold a special meeting to vote on leadership later on Thursday, Prime Minister Julia Gillard told Parliament on Thursday. Full story
VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta's Labour Party won a national election, returning to power after 15 years in opposition. Full story
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite said on Monday she would choose a center-left opposition leader as prime minister, ending a political stalemate after elections last month. Full story
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania's president Dalia Grybauskaite refused on Tuesday to allow a new center-left coalition government to be created until a top court has looked into allegations of voting fraud during the election held at the end of October. Full story
VILNIUS (Reuters) - The center-left winners of Lithuania's election will try again to win the president's backing for their planned government and end a constitutional stalemate, the parties said on Monday. Full story
Wayne Swan, who also serves as treasurer and is his center-left Labor Party government's ranking finance minister, says the "cranks and crazies that have taken over the Republican Party" are the greatest threat to the U.S. economy. Watch an excerpt of his speech.
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron , opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband
British MP David Miliband gestures as he talks to students on the opening day of the Labour Party annual conference in Manchester, northern England September 30, 2012. REUTERS/Phil Noble
Harriet Harman, the Deputy Leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, arrives to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London, June12, 2012. REUTERS/Olivia Harris
Britain's opposition Labour Party's Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, speaks on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, hosted by Jeremy Vine, in London March 17, 2013. Britain will compensate its military personnel based in Cyprus hit by a bank levy imposed on Cypriot accounts as part of a euro zone bailout, Osborn
