Los Angeles (CNN) -- As mobile games migrate to powerful smartphones and tablets that are becoming direct competition to portable gaming devices such as Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita, the E3 convention has become a prime stage for game publishers to showcase new titles.
On an international stage, the prime minister often cuts an awkward, slightly defensive figure, tall, but stiff and unsmiling.
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The Prime Minister remains firmly committed to England's bid to stage football's World Cup tournament in 2006, according to Sports Minister Tony Banks.
By 1996, when the macroeconomic indicators were looking sturdily healthy, Mr Mubarak appointed a new prime minister, Kamal Ganzouri, and embarked on the next stage of structural reform: privatisation and deregulation.
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After the Scotland win, Prime Minister Lee Han-Dong urged the country's largest union not to stage any strike action during the finals.
The prime minister's official spokesman said no official announcement would would be made at this stage.
But Mr Byers - who is also secretary of state for the regions - received a boost in the form of the backing of Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott who predicted his colleague would play a major part in the next stage of the government's plans for devolution into the English regions.
With only a weak electoral mandate, the Prime Minister will have to use his personal popularity and all his skills to forge consensus for the next stage in Malaysia's political and economic development.
One by one, the main players in the peace process have exited the main political stage, from SDLP leader John Hume to Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble to US President Bill Clinton to prime ministers Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern.
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