The 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held in Gold Coast after the Australian city beat off the challenge of Sri Lankan town Hambantota.

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2018 Commonwealths in Gold Coast

Prime Minister David Cameron presses for progress on a range of human rights issues at the Commonwealth summit.

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PM Commonwealth human rights plea

PERTH, Australia — The 16 Commonwealth countries for which Queen Elizabeth II is monarch agreed Friday that males will no longer have precedence over females in the order of succession to the throne. Commonwealth national leaders also agreed at a summit in the western Australian city of Perth to lift a ban on monarchs marrying Roman Catholics, British Prime Minister David Cameron said. Read full article > >

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The 16 Commonwealth countries for which Queen Elizabeth II is monarch agreed Friday that males will no longer have precedence over females in the order of succession to the throne.

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Commonwealth Nations Change Royal Succession Rules

Sons and daughters of any future British monarch will have equal right to the throne, after Commonwealth leaders agreed to change succession laws.

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Girls equal in throne succession

The Queen arrives in Australia for an 11-day tour of the country, ahead of a meeting of Commonwealth leaders in Perth next week.

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Queen arrives for Australian tour

Uganda’s former Vice-President Gilbert Bukenya is charged with fraud over a $3.9m (£2.4m) deal to supply cars to the 2007 Commonwealth summit in Kampala.

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Uganda ex-VP charged with fraud

British author Aminatta Forna’s novel The Memory of Love is named best book at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize ceremony in Sydney.

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RICHMOND — Virginia will require Northrop Grumman to pay nearly $5 million for a series of mistakes that led to a computer meltdown last summer that left more than two dozen state agencies unable to handle residents’ requests for more than a week. The giant Los Angeles-based defense company, which holds a $2.4 billion computer-services contract with the state — the largest in Virginia history — agreed to implement a series of recommendations outlined in a state audit . “We are committed to holding all state contractors accountable for the performance of their duties,” Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) said in a statement Thursday. “This agreement brings closure to this incident, and provides the commonwealth with an improved information technology infrastructure that will reliably support Virginia’s citizens and agencies in the years ahead.” Read full article > >

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Welsh boxer Sean McGoldrick looks set to be awarded a Commonwealth gold medal following the disqualification of Sri Lankan fighter Manju Wanniarachchi.

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The chief organiser of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, Suresh Kalmadi, is remanded in jail for 14 days over charges of corruption.

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India Games boss remanded in jail

The former British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight champion Sir Henry Cooper passes away at the age of 76.

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Hundreds of millions of people are said to have watched the marriage of Prince William and the newly-anointed Duchess of Cambridge. But how did it go down in those Commonwealth countries?

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Commonwealth reactions to royal wedding

Hundreds of millions of people are said to have watched the marriage of Prince William and the newly-anointed Duchess of Cambridge. But how did it go down in those Commonwealth countries?

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Commonwealth reactions to royal wedding

The government is consulting Commonwealth countries about changing the laws on royal succession, Nick Clegg has said.

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Royal succession reform discussed