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Awaz Apni: Conservative leader David Cameron has become the new UK prime minister after the resignation of Gordon Brown. Mr Cameron, 43, entered 10 Downing Street after travelling to Buckingham Palace to formally accept the Queen's request to form the next government. He said he aimed to form a "proper and full coalition" with the Lib Dems to provide "strong, stable government". His party won the most seats in the general election last week, but not an overall majority. In a speech outside his new Downing Street home, Mr Cameron said he and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg would "put aside party differences and work hard for the common good and the national interest". Cabinet posts He paid tribute to outgoing Prime Minister Gordon Brown for his long years of public service and pledged to tackle Britain's "pressing problems" - the deficit, social problems and to "rebuild trust in our political system". Mr Cameron...

Britain has its first hung parliament since 1974, with the Conservatives as the largest party. The Tories have won 290 seats so far but can not now reach the 326 needed to win an overall majority. Leader David Cameron said Labour had "lost its mandate to govern". Gordon Brown, whose party has 247 seats, has returned to Downing Street with aides. Both may now turn to Nick Clegg's Lib Dems, who have so far won 51 seats, to try to form a coalition government. The BBC projection suggests David Cameron's Conservatives will have 306 seats. If there are 10 Unionists elected in Northern Ireland then Mr Cameron might be able to command 316 - probably still slightly too few for him to be sure of winning a Queen's Speech. But Labour and the Lib Dems together would have 317 seats, according to the BBC figures, which even with three SDLP MPs would still leave them at 320 - again a few votes short of a majority In other election night news: * Northern Ireland'...

CNews TOKYO: Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan abruptly announced his resignation on Monday, ending a short-lived and unpopular government marred by political paralysis.Mr Fukuda’s sudden departure, announced at a hastily called news conference on Monday night, seemed to catch his country by surprise.It also appeared to plunge the world’s second-largest economy into further political confusion, coming after the equally sudden resignation last year of Mr Fukuda’s predecessor, Shinzo Abe.Mr Fukuda’s decision was particularly unexpected because he came to office last September as a veteran political insider widely counted on to bring stability after Mr Abe’s hasty departure. In the end, Mr Fukuda, 72, lasted about as long as Mr Abe — roughly a year.Fukuda explained his decision at the news conference by saying that Japan needed “a new team to carry out policies.”This was an apparent reference to his government’s inability to pass legislation in a divided Parliament where the oppositio...