Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered a major blow Friday after his ruling Labour Party lost a crucial by-election in his native Scotland.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered a major blow Friday after his ruling Labour Party lost a crucial by-election in his native Scotland.

The Labour Party lost a key by-election in the Scottish constituency of Glasgow East, according to results announced Friday.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's ruling Labour Party lost a key by-election in the Scottish constituency of Glasgow East, according to results announced Friday.

A majority of Americans believe that Democratic candidate Barack Obama will win the presidential election against Republican hopeful John McCain in November, a Fox News poll showed Thursday.

Polls were closed Thursday in a by-election in one of the most deprived parts of Britain, with the fate of Prime Minister Gordon Brown potentially hanging in the balance.

How much of a setback for the Labour Party is the loss of the Glasgow East Westminster by-election?

Voters in one of the most deprived parts of Britain went to the polls in a by-election on Thursday, potentially holding the fate of their fellow Scot, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in their hands.

Brian Taylor blogs as the by-election polls close

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AP - The Secret Service has asked for an extra$9.5 million to cover unexpected costs of protecting the presidential candidates during what has turned into an historic year for the agency's campaign security job.

AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain had his own German experience Thursday— at a restaurant in Ohio. He asserted that he was happy to devote his time this week to touring the nation's heartland.

AP - Calculated political ploy. Timely foreign outreach. A dash of each? Ask voters across the country about Barack Obama's image-packed week of foreign travel and you'll get a mix of admiration, suspicion, even a couple of bored shrugs.

Politico - Addressing more than 200,000 elated Europeans massed in Berlin at twilight, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama  promised Thursday that he would work to unite Christians, Muslims and Jews in a safer, more united world.

AP - If Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is worried that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is complicating the Bush administration's foreign policy with freelance campaign diplomacy, she isn't showing it.

AP - Both Israelis and Palestinians came away from Barack Obama's visit to the Holy Land with the feeling he would do more for Mideast peace than President Bush has. But neither side seemed fully convinced that Obama would have their interests at heart.

AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is scheduled to meet with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, on Friday in Colorado.

AP - A federal commission is working to recruit 2 million poll workers for the November election to help handle what could be a record turnout for the presidential election.

AP - Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war's future and stop arguing over the success of last year's troop surge.

AP - Quotes from people in the United States on Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama's trip to Europe and the Middle East:

AP - Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his campaign said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey.

AP - Obama tells enormous Berlin crowd there are more walls to be torn down in fighting extremism ... With Obama in Berlin, McCain visits German restaurant in Ohio ... Hagel calls on candidates to focus on Iraq's future over past war strategy ... Rice not worried by Obama's foreign policy forays overseas ... Poll: Obama builds support among Hispanic voters ... Police seek to soften protesters' disruptions at GOP convention

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AP - Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to"defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago.

AP - Add one more item to the long list of disagreements between Democrats and Republicans: Whether it was appropriate for The New Yorker magazine to publish a cover satirizing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife as fist-bumping radicals.

AFP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Thursday that he would hold talks on Friday with the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader.

Bloomberg - July 24 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama called on European allies to commit more resources to the war in Afghanistan in a speech stressing the shared ``burdens of global citizenship'' that bind the U.S. and Europe.

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AP - Democrat Barack Obama has opened a big lead among Hispanic voters, winning support from the vast majority of those who had voted for rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries, according to a poll released Thursday.