21.   So who will get the job of elected mayor in London?

22.   The game is politics, suddenly a celebrity sport in Britain with an announcement Wednesday by the government that London is to get its first popularly elected mayor.

23.   The recently elected mayor of Los Angeles, James Hahn, has taken the threat seriously.

24.   Then, a little more than two years ago, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas became the first democratically elected mayor of Mexico City, a powerful position.

25.   They want to ensure that the first elected mayor of the capital will not come from the ruling party.

26.   Under a Labor government plan, Londoners will vote in May in a referendum asking if they want a directly elected mayor.

27.   A city in northern England has voted against introducing an American-style elected mayor.

28.   A man in a monkey costume swung into action Friday as the first elected mayor of the northern English town of Hartlepool.

29.   And it has never had an elected mayor.