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Queen Elizabeth delivers message of austerity in Britain, rest of Europe follows suit. Wearing her diamond-studded crown, Queen Elizabeth II arrived at Parliament in a gleaming horse-drawn carriage to deliver a message of austerity and making do with less in troubled economic times.

The new coalition government made slashing the country's mammoth public deficit its top priority on Tuesday, as Queen Elizabeth II set out plans including radical electoral reform.

Britain's new coalition government made slashing the country's mammoth public deficit its top priority on Tuesday, as Queen Elizabeth II set out plans including radical electoral reform.

After historic and messy election, Britain's government sets out austere legislative program. Queen Elizabeth II delivered a somber message of austerity Tuesday in a speech outlining the plans of Britain's new coalition government ? setting out a program for sharp curbs to public spending, new regulation of the financial sector and changes to the centuries-old political system.

Britain's new coalition government made slashing the country's mammoth public deficit its top priority on Tuesday, as Queen Elizabeth II set out plans including radical electoral reform.

The new coalition government made slashing the country's mammoth public deficit its top priority on Tuesday, as Queen Elizabeth II set out plans including radical electoral reform.

Britain's new coalition government made slashing the country's mammoth public deficit its top priority on Tuesday, as Queen Elizabeth II set out plans including radical electoral reform.

Britain's new coalition government made slashing the country's mammoth public deficit its top priority on Tuesday, as the Queen set out plans including radical electoral reform.

Britain's new coalition government made slashing the country's mammoth public deficit its top priority on Tuesday, as the Queen set out plans including radical electoral reform.

Britain's new coalition government made slashing the country's mammoth public deficit its top priority on Tuesday, as Queen Elizabeth II set out plans including radical electoral reform.

The Queen officially opens parliament on Tuesday in a ceremony of pomp and history following the election, and will set out the new coalition government's legislative programme.

Britain's government sets out legislative program after historic and messy election. Queen Elizabeth II has opened Parliament nearly 60 times, but she will have an unfamiliar task Tuesday as she sets out the legislative program of a coalition government ? the country's first since World War II.

A left-wing lawmaker who was the first black woman Member of Parliament announced Thursday she was joining the race to become leader of the opposition Labour party defeated in elections this month.

Britain's deputy chief will scrap ID card program, trim DNA database in civil liberties push. Britain's new deputy prime minister pledged Wednesday to lead a sweeping drive to protect civil liberties, curbing official surveillance and data collection by scrapping an unpopular national identity card program, limiting the retention of DNA profiles and regulating the spread of closed-circuit TV cameras.

The new coalition government will usher in the biggest shake-up of politics since the 19th century, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg promised on Wednesday.

The new coalition government will usher in the biggest shake-up of politics since the 19th century, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg promised on Wednesday.

UK Parliament opens with its first coalition government in decades. Britain's House of Commons opened a new legislative session on Tuesday with centuries-old rituals and a stark change: its first coalition government since World War II.

Laughing with, no longer at, each other, odd couple at Britain's helm vow to tackle deficit. Britain ushered in its first coalition government since World War II on Wednesday as a pair of rivals-turned-partners pledged to set aside their deep policy differences and tackle the country's disastrous budget deficit.

Belize to join Caribbean Court of Justice, leave colonial-era British Privy Council. The government of Belize says it will stop sending appeals cases to the colonial-era British Privy Council starting June 1.

The Green Party gained their first ever seat in parliament on Friday when their leader Caroline Lucas won in the south coast constituency of Brighton Pavilion.