London to step in if Northern Ireland power-sharing talks fail

By Elizabeth Piper and Conor HumphriesLONDON/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Britain will step in to manage public spending in Northern Ireland and may call regional elections if political parties there fail to form a new power-sharing executive soon, Northern Ireland Minister James Brokenshire said on Monday.Irish nationalists Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) have been in talks since a March election to form a new power-sharing government and each has blamed the other for missing repeated d