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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been hospitalized after falling ill Wednesday afternoon, her political party said. She would be hospitalized overnight at London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where tests were being carried out, Conservative Party sources told CNN. The sources said she was expected to go home Thursday. Thatcher, now 80, retired from public life in 2002 after suffering a stroke. She has suffered a number of minor strokes since th ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide bomber on a bus in Baghdad killed at least 30 people and wounded 25 others Thursday, police said. The bus was packed with passengers traveling home for the weekend, authorities said. It was headed to Nasiriya and was leaving the al-Nahtha terminal near the Kindi hospital in southern Baghdad when the explosion occurred about 11 a.m. (3 a.m. ET), police said. Nasiriya is a Shiite city about 320 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of the Iraqi capital. "I was stan ...

(Reuters) -- Liverpool and New York prepared to honor pop icon John Lennon on Thursday with floral and musical tributes and a candle lit vigil close to where he was shot dead 25 years ago. In a ceremony in the center of the northern English city where Lennon was born and raised, fans and officials will create a shrine beneath a statue of the legendary Beatle, gunned down in New York by a fan in the presence of his wife Yoko Ono. Later in the day, the city holds a memorial service for the man w ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spent a peaceful night in hospital after being admitted for feeling faint, a hospital spokesman said on Thursday. Thatcher, 80, the "Iron Lady" who dominated politics for more than a decade, had been kept overnight as a precautionary measure after falling ill at her hairdressers. "She had a peaceful night, very rested, in her room," said a spokesman for the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in central London. "She will be seen by docto ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary Jack Straw appealed on Thursday to the kidnappers of four Westerners in Iraq to get in contact and called again for their release. Briton Norman Kember, 74, two Canadians and an American were seized by a group calling itself the "Swords of Truth" on November 26 in Baghdad, where they were working with a Christian peace group. "As I've said before, if the kidnappers want to get in touch with us, we want to hear what they have to say. We have people in Iraq i ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- How do you say "Merry Christmas" in Scottish terrier? Just ask presidential pups Barney and Miss Beazley. First lady Laura Bush showed a home video of White House holiday life -- from the first dogs' point of view -- to a group of patients, their families and staff at Children's National Medical Center on Wednesday. The video, "A Very Beazley Christmas," tells the story of a very jealous Barney, who hides presents meant for his more popular sister, Miss Beazley. The preside ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The House of Lords will rule on Thursday on whether victims of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) can claim compensation in a landmark test case to determine the liability of airlines for victims of the potentially fatal condition. A group of eight people are seeking to sue British Airways and other airlines for death and injury which they say was the result of DVT, or so-called econom ...

By Mike Collett-White LIVERPOOL (Reuters) - Liverpool prepared to honour a famous son on Thursday with floral and musical tributes to mark the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's death. In a ceremony in the centre of the city where Lennon was born and raised, fans and officials will create a shrine beneath a statue of the legendary Beatle, gunned down in New York by a fan in the presence of his wife Yoko Ono. Later in the day, the city holds a memorial service for the man who created some of th ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Four Britons are due to appear in court on Thursday accused of planning to detonate bombs on London's transport system on July 21 two weeks after suicide bombers had killed 52 people in similar attacks. The men, Ibrahim Muktar Said, Ramzi Mohammed, Yassin Hassan Omar and Hussain Osman, are due to appear at London's Old Bailey criminal court via videolink from a high security ja ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The country's highest court will rule on Thursday whether evidence obtained under torture can be used in British legal hearings. A panel of seven Law Lords will unveil their decision on a challenge against an Appeal Court ruling brought by eight men held without charge in Britain on suspicion of terrorism. The Appeal Court ruled in August 2004 that secret tribunals hearing cas ...