London, Sep 22: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been given time till June 2009 by his senior Cabinet ministers to prove himself capable of saving the Labour Party from a general election meltdown or face being unseated.

For the first time those loyal to Brown have put a time limit on the Prime Minister’s survival, The Telegraph reported.

Brown pleaded for more time to turn around Labour’s problems but admitted he had made mistakes. “I will do better,” he said.

London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in an interview Sunday that he has made mistakes in office but will do better in future.

Speaking to the BBC on the second day of the Labour Party's annual conference in Manchester, Brown said "you asked me had we made mistakes and I said yes ... Of course I always want to do better and I will do better."

Chandigarh, Sept 21 : Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Sunday said that extraordinary laws to deal with terror are prone to misuse.

Moscow/Minsk - Opposition parties in Belarus said Sunday they will boycott next week's parliamentary elections despite assurances from President Alexander Lukashenko they will be democratic.

The United Democratic Forces alliance justified the move by saying the government had refused to allow the opposition to sit on regional election commissions, thus depriving them of the chance to monitor the vote.

Lukashenko, criticized by human rights groups in his homeland as "Europe's last dictator," said Belarus had strictly adhered to the guidelines laid down by the West in preparing the elections.

Srinagar, Sept 21 : Preparations are in full swing to elect a new Legislative Assembly in Jammu and Kashmir with poll officials working round the clock to prepare voters'' identity cards in time.

Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his cabinet Sunday that he intends to resign the premiership, following the election of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni as the new leader of his ruling Kadima Party.

"I am announcing to the cabinet my decision to resign my position as prime minister of Israel," Olmert said in remarks broadcast later by Israel Radio.

"This is not an easy decision and not a simple one," he said, adding that "I think I am acting in a suitable, statesmanlike and responsible manner, as I promised the Israeli public."