Conservative hopes hinge depend on motivating supporters stayed home four years ago.
However, half of the self-described Conservative voters in Gallup's April survey said the party wasn' t ready to govern again. The Protestant leader of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government said Tuesday he would resign if the Irish Republican Army doesn't begin to disarm by July 1. An underground explosion Tuesday morning in a gold mine killed at least 12 workers and left several employees missing, mine officials said. Protesting textbooks that critics believe whitewash Japan's wartime atrocities, South Korea on Tuesday called off a scheduled joint naval exercise with Japan and China upbraided Tokyo. Hundreds of thousands of baby seals are likely to starve to death this spring in the White Sea, a Russian scientist said Tuesday.