United Nations: The father of Pakistani school girl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by the Taliban for advocating girls' right to education, has been named as the Special UN Advisor on Global Education. The announcement was made by Gordon Brown, who is the United Nations' Special Envoy for Global Education.
He said that once the 15-year-old Malala, who is currently in London, gets well, she too will join the campaign. "Ziauddin Yousafzai, Malala's father, will become my special advisor on global education. His unique qualities -- a teacher and headteacher as well as a parent who has had to struggle against opposition to girls' education and the closing of schools - makes him ideally suited to lead in our educational effort to get all to school," Brown said in his Huffington Post blog.
Yousafzai has been appointed to help in what Brown has dubbed a new 'Malala Plan' to get all girls into school around the world by the end of 2015. The former British Prime Minister is also pitching for Malala's birthday, July 12, to be designated a day of action each year when children around the world are invited to march, demonstrate, petition and pray for education to be delivered worldwide.
"Now and for every day until all young children have the chance to go to school, 'I am Malala' will be the banner under which millions of girls throughout the world will demand their right to education," he said. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the province
05:44 PM, Dec 10, 2012
London: British police have found evidence that private investigators working for newspapers hacked into the email account of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown while he was finance minister, The Independent newspaper reported on Monday. Hundreds of other people may have also had their emails intercepted, perhaps as many as were caught up in the phone hacking scandal at News International's now defunct News of the World tabloid, the paper said....
05:37 PM, Jan 02, 2012
London: The Guardian newspaper on Friday apologised to the Sun, part of Rupert Murdoch's News International group, for reporting that it accessed former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's son's medical records. The Guardian had claimed this week that the Sun hacked into Brown's son Fraser's medical records before reporting he had cystic fibrosis. The Sun said its source was the father of another child with cystic fibrosis who heard the...
10:05 PM, Jul 15, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch's media empire sank into deeper controversy with former British prime minister Gordon Brown accusing newspapers from the group of using 'known criminals' to hack into his personal information. It is not only Brown but other ministers and lawmakers who are up in arms against the 80-year-old media baron and spate of allegations against the group have plunged BSkyB shares six days in running. Brown told BBC that...
05:02 PM, Jul 12, 2011
London: Allegations that former British prime minister Gordon Brown was a target of illegal data gathering by Rupert Murdoch's newspapers have piled pressure on the media baron as he tries to prevent investors pulling out of his News Corp empire. Murdoch and the British government tried to draw the financial and political sting from a newspaper phone-hacking scandal by referring his $14 billion bid for the profitable pay-tv operator BSkyB...
08:54 AM, Jul 12, 2011
Former British PM Gordon Brown's accounts were hacked into by News of the World's journalists and that too, to learn about his son's medical condition. ...
07:47 AM, Jul 12, 2011
London: Police have said that former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have been a victim of phone hacking by an investigator working for British newspapers, his spokeswoman said on Monday. The Guardian and Independent newspapers reported on their websites earlier on Monday that journalists from Rupert Murdoch's newspapers repeatedly tried to hack into Brown's voicemails when he was finance minister and prime minister. The Guardian said News International reporters...
02:35 AM, Jul 12, 2011
London: Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was billed for 200 breakfasts on the day he left 10 Downing Street, according to local media reports. In what came to be known as the "Battle of the Breakfasts", a refusal by Sarah Brown to cater morning snacks for her hubby when he was in his Downing Street study left the couple with the "expensive bill", 'The Scotsman' reported. Ahead of the...
03:46 PM, Feb 21, 2011
Burlingame, California: Former Wall Street financial executive Gordon Murray, who co-authored the best-selling 'The Investment Answer' after ceasing treatment for terminal brain cancer, has died, his publicist said. He was 60. Murray died at his Burlingame home on Saturday, said publicist Jennifer Musico. He was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer, in 2008. After a recurrence of the disease last year, he declined all further treatment and began...
12:42 PM, Jan 18, 2011
New Delhi: As Europe and the US struggle with fears of the Irish crisis triggering off another world financial collapse, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says India and China must take a leadership role in increasing growth. He spoke to CNN IBN's Suhasini Haidar "I worry about low growth decade in Europe and in America and Asia's inability to take millions out of poverty. If the great powers could...
04:34 PM, Nov 22, 2010
Washington: The little blue bird was taken down by the mouse on Tuesday. Millions of Twitter users around the world were affected when the popular social networking website went down to a virus for a few hours. What’s alarming is the kind of security concerns the website has now raised. Thousands of users scrolled over links on twitter.com only to find ugly content appeared without warning, in some cases re-tweeting...
09:21 AM, Sep 22, 2010
Former British PM Gordon Brown is publishing an insider account of the global financial crisis, his first book since being ousted from office. ...
05:53 PM, Jul 26, 2010
Labour Party is trying to form the next government with the smaller Liberal Democrats. ...
12:38 AM, May 11, 2010
Talks has started between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to form a government. ...
12:34 PM, May 09, 2010
Britain's Conservatives and Liberal Democrats will hold talks on Sunday after an inconclusive election. ...
07:26 AM, May 09, 2010
For the first time since 1974 General Elections in UK have thrown up a hung Parliament. ...
12:26 AM, May 08, 2010
Brown was campaigning when he came upon Gillian Duffy, who gave him an earful on taxes. ...
10:37 AM, Apr 30, 2010
An anti-bullying charity had been contacted amid allegations on Brown's temper. ...
03:36 PM, Feb 22, 2010
Brown said modern Britain "simply wouldn't be the same without out India." ...
08:04 AM, Jan 21, 2010
They said a one-off tax on bonuses "should be considered a priority". ...
06:21 PM, Dec 10, 2009
