Cherie Blair

Cherie Blair has signed a book deal to write about her life as a leading British human rights lawyer and the wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Cherie Blair's autobiography will be published in October 2008, Little, Brown Book Group said in a statement. Her memoirs will likely come out before her husband's much-anticipated memoir, which a Blair representative said last month was years away from publication with no book deal yet.

SERIES Flashpoint: Inspired by the Toronto police's Emergency Task Force, this new drama series centers on an elite team of Canadian police officers who handle the most delicate cases, from hostage situations and would-be suicides to bombings and gang warfare (8 p.m. CBS). SPECIALS Samantha Brown's Napa: Samantha travels through the Napa Valley wine region and its surrounding mountains in this new special (10 p.m. Travel). MOVIES The Best Years of Our Lives: Director William Wyler's 1946 drama remains an extremely telling portrait of the effects of war on ordinary citizens.

If you believed half the snarky descriptions the British press has slung at Cherie Blair, you'd have expected her to arrive in Southern California astride a broomstick, accompanied by flying monkeys. Happily for the wife of Britain's former prime minister Tony Blair, just about the only baggage she carried to the New World on a recent visit was literal -- packing among other things the deep blue pantsuit she wore when she got a heroine's welcome at the annual women's conference led by Gov.

If you believed half the snarky descriptions the British press has slung at Cherie Blair, you'd have expected her to arrive in Southern California astride a broomstick, accompanied by flying monkeys. Happily for the wife of Britain's former prime minister Tony Blair, just about the only baggage she carried to the New World on a recent visit was literal -- packing among other things the deep blue pantsuit she wore when she got a heroine's welcome at the annual women's conference led by Gov.

A smiling Cherie Blair, the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, said Friday that she had been surprised to learn she was pregnant at age 45 but was "feeling very well, thank you." Britain's politicians and media feted her, and Downing Street said her husband was "completely, totally 100% stunned." Blair will become the first British prime minister in more than 150 years known to have fathered a child while in office.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife agreed Friday to drop court proceedings against her children's former nanny in return for a pledge that she would not spill private family details in a book. A spokesman from the prime minister's office said Ros Mark had promised Cherie Blair that she would keep private any information about life at the Downing Street residence that she had written in memoirs.

The wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair gave birth to a boy early today--the couple's fourth child, Blair's Downing Street office said. Cherie Blair, 45, and the baby were in good health and were back at home, officials said. She had been due to give birth May 24 but was admitted to Chelsea and Westminster hospital in London at midday Friday. The prime minister joined her early in the evening.

Declaring Tuesday that she is no "superwoman," Cherie Blair, the savvy lawyer spouse of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, acknowledged a lapse in judgment in accepting real estate advice from a man who turned out to be a convicted criminal. The first lady choked back tears in her first public remarks on a controversy that has dominated the British tabloids for a week and led to charges of impropriety and cover-up.

SERIES Flashpoint: Inspired by the Toronto police's Emergency Task Force, this new drama series centers on an elite team of Canadian police officers who handle the most delicate cases, from hostage situations and would-be suicides to bombings and gang warfare (8 p.m. CBS). SPECIALS Samantha Brown's Napa: Samantha travels through the Napa Valley wine region and its surrounding mountains in this new special (10 p.m. Travel). MOVIES The Best Years of Our Lives: Director William Wyler's 1946 drama remains an extremely telling portrait of the effects of war on ordinary citizens.

Call it a busman's paternity leave. British Prime Minister Tony Blair says that when his 45-year-old wife, Cherie Booth, gives birth to their fourth child next month, he will go into "holiday mode" for a time, canceling public engagements but otherwise running the country. Any parent knows that having a newborn is no holiday, so Blair's announcement Sunday sounded a little implausible. Like having your baby and sleeping too. Or like taking paternity leave and not taking it.

Cherie Blair has signed a book deal to write about her life as a leading British human rights lawyer and the wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Cherie Blair's autobiography will be published in October 2008, Little, Brown Book Group said in a statement. Her memoirs will likely come out before her husband's much-anticipated memoir, which a Blair representative said last month was years away from publication with no book deal yet.

It was the end of January 2003. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was five days away from giving a critical speech at the U.N. Security Council, laying out the case that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction and posed a danger to world peace. But huddled with aides at the White House, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were not sure there was enough evidence to convince the Security Council.

Declaring Tuesday that she is no "superwoman," Cherie Blair, the savvy lawyer spouse of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, acknowledged a lapse in judgment in accepting real estate advice from a man who turned out to be a convicted criminal. The first lady choked back tears in her first public remarks on a controversy that has dominated the British tabloids for a week and led to charges of impropriety and cover-up.

The wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair gave birth to a boy early today--the couple's fourth child, Blair's Downing Street office said. Cherie Blair, 45, and the baby were in good health and were back at home, officials said. She had been due to give birth May 24 but was admitted to Chelsea and Westminster hospital in London at midday Friday. The prime minister joined her early in the evening.

Call it a busman's paternity leave. British Prime Minister Tony Blair says that when his 45-year-old wife, Cherie Booth, gives birth to their fourth child next month, he will go into "holiday mode" for a time, canceling public engagements but otherwise running the country. Any parent knows that having a newborn is no holiday, so Blair's announcement Sunday sounded a little implausible. Like having your baby and sleeping too. Or like taking paternity leave and not taking it.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife agreed Friday to drop court proceedings against her children's former nanny in return for a pledge that she would not spill private family details in a book. A spokesman from the prime minister's office said Ros Mark had promised Cherie Blair that she would keep private any information about life at the Downing Street residence that she had written in memoirs.

It was the end of January 2003. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was five days away from giving a critical speech at the U.N. Security Council, laying out the case that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction and posed a danger to world peace. But huddled with aides at the White House, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were not sure there was enough evidence to convince the Security Council.

As Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor describe it, there was no need for the cast of Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" to have long, philosophical discussions about the movie's creepy real-life parallels. It wasn't necessary, for example, to dissect Brosnan's character, a hazily sinister British ex-prime minister who's a dead ringer for Tony Blair, or to over-analyze his seething, neurotic wife, played by Olivia Williams as a cross between Cherie Blair and Lady Macbeth. It was all pretty obvious and pretty amusing.

A smiling Cherie Blair, the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, said Friday that she had been surprised to learn she was pregnant at age 45 but was "feeling very well, thank you." Britain's politicians and media feted her, and Downing Street said her husband was "completely, totally 100% stunned." Blair will become the first British prime minister in more than 150 years known to have fathered a child while in office.