Three-time ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi may be an underdog -- but at 2, 500-1, at least there's a chance.
And the killing of billionaire ex-premier Rafik Hariri in Lebanon speaks to how economic upticks don't guarantee stability.
Ex-Premier League striker Nile Ranger has been given a 12-month community order for pulling his girlfriend's hair during a row.
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The ex-premier has so far never had a conviction upheld by the highest court and never served any time in jail.
But a spokesman said that given Thatcher's age, he doesn't expect the ex-premier to leave the hospital for a few more days, the Press Association said.
Ali Haider Gilani, the son of ex-premier Yousuf Raza Gilani from the Pakistan People's Party, is running for a provincial assembly seat in the district of Multan.
The 46-year-old Letta had produced a coalition deal only a day ago between two bitter political enemies his center-left forces and the conservative bloc of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
Even as senators, deputies and regional electors put their folded paper ballots into urns in the Chamber of Deputies, leaders ranging from Monti to ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi, were paying calls on Napolitano at the presidential palace to beg him to consider serving again.
The list of casualties reads like a Who's Who of Mahathir backers: the PM's close friend and former finance minister Daim Zainuddin, former agriculture minister Sanusi Junid, the ex-deputy premier Ghafar Baba, former chief minister of Malacca Rahim Tamby Chik, current deputy ministers Khalid Yunus and Railey Jeffrey, and the party's veteran information chief Hussein Ahmad.
The first night at the San Carlo was a political event, not just for the noisy neo-Bourbons outside and an engaging Vanessa Redgrave on stage, but also for the presence in the Royal Box (sic) of two distinguished ex-communists, the Italian premier Massimo D'Alema and the popular mayor of Naples, Antonio Bassolino (who is also a minister in Signor D'Alema's cabinet).
Since April's election in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Social Democratic premier there has led a minority government tolerated by the ex-communists.
But those statistics were rendered meaningless on an afternoon of triumph for City coach and former Inter Milan boss Roberto Mancini, who pitted his wits in the Premier League for the first time against ex-AC Milan manager Carlo Ancelotti.
Ex-Blackburn striker Jansen's goal inspired Dean Saunders' team to their first Blue Square Premier win in seven games at Victoria Stadium on Tuesday.
The ex-Wigan and Bradford striker found managerial success with his former playing clubs, winning promotion to the Premier League with both sides.
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