London - The British government was due Tuesday to unveil a package of support

London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Monday warned of a threat of "de-globalization" to the world economy if nations should fail to tackle the current crisis together.

"The stakes are high. Unless we create a new consensus which embeds international financial markets in a framework that is global in governance and accountability I fear that the legitimacy of globalization will be lost imperilling all our prosperity," Brown told the Foreign Press Association in London.

London, Jan 25 : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown doesn't like being portrayed as `fat' in cartoon strips.

Cartoonists have revealed that Brown repeatedly complains to them in person that they portray him as overweight.

Speaking at a new exhibition of sketches and caricatures chronicling Brown''s first 18 months in office, UK''s leading political cartoonists have revealed how the Prime Minister takes offence at his bulky portrayal in cartoons.

London - Gloomy weather, rising credit card debt and abandoned New Year resolutions conspire to make the third Monday in January the most depressing day of the year, British psychologists have found.

On Monday, their research provided a suitably bleak background to an announcement by Prime Minister Gordon Brown that his government would step in to protect banks from so-called toxic assets in an effort to unfreeze lending and soften the blow of a deepening recession.

London, Jan 19: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been likened to the disgraced former US President Richard Nixon by screenwriter Peter Morgan.

Morgan, who had written the film Frost/Nixon and also Brown''s character in `The Deal', noticed that the two men shared personality traits that were totally alike.

"They are people who are hard to like, people who have complicated emotional inner landscapes, and somehow have had trouble accessing them," the Sun quoted him as saying.

"People will hate me for saying this, but there are emotional similarities between Gordon Brown and Richard Nixon.

London, January 19 : Gordon Brown tried to woo U. S. President George W Bush by gifting him a big box of chocolates when they met for the first time, after the former was appointed British Prime Minister in the summer of 2007.

The revelation comes as the U. S. releases records on gifts to the outgoing president.

The records show that that Brown tried to win over his US counterpart with a deluxe selection of Charbonnel et Walker delights.