London, Nov. 13: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, will today brief British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on talks being held with the Taliban with the aim of ending the conflict in his country.

According to The Independent, Karzai is due to meet Brown after flying into London from New York. He has already briefed Saudi Arabian King Abdullah and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on the issue.

Karzai is on a short visit to Britain to attend Prince Charles’ 60th birthday party and will see Brown before the latter heads for Washington for the G-20 summit.

London, Nov. 9 : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is planning urgent tax cuts in a 15-billion-pound package of measures to combat the economic slump in the country.

According to The Mirror, Brown is considering extending tax credits to help more low-paid families as Britain teeters on the brink of recession. He is also looking at extending the stamp-duty "holiday" on more modestly-priced homes to help first-time buyers and revive the crisis-hit property market.

Other possible measures include a "significant" increase in winter fuel allowances and a further delay to rises in petrol duty.

London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown acknowledged Friday that the global financial crisis helped to turn round his political fortunes, as the ruling Labour Party celebrated a crucial by-election victory in his native Scotland.

The surprise win in Glenrothes, a constituency neighbouring his own in Fife, Scotland, amounted to a vote of confidence for the government's response to the economic downturn, Brown said in London Friday.

London  - Britain's ruling Labour Party, which lately had suffered a string of election defeats, received an important boost by winning a by-election in Scotland, home of embattled Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Labour candidate Lindsay Roy prevailed with about 700 votes over his main rival from the Scottish National Party in the Glenrothes constituency in east-central Scotland, the BBC reported.

London (dpa) - Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke with US president-elect Barack Obama on the telephone, Brown's offices said late Thursday in London.

In the ten-minute conversation, the two leaders discussed the financial meltdown, the deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the peace process in the Middle East.

In addition, Brown spoke to US President George W Bush and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

London  - The British Labour government and opposition parties Wednesday hailed as "inspirational" the victory of Barack Obama in the American presidential election which they hope will open a new era in the much-vaunted "special relationship" between Britain and the US.

"This is a moment that will live in history as long as history books are written," Prime Minister Gordon Brown said. "I have talked to Senator Obama on many occasions and I know that he is a true friend of Britain," he added.