Britain's leadership contest was blown open on Saturday by reports that police were called to a "row" between frontrunner Boris Johnson and his partner, hours before campaigning was to begin to win over grassroots Conservatives.
Britain's leadership contest starts a month-long nationwide tour on Saturday as Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt each seek to win over grassroots Conservatives in their bid to become prime minister. After five rounds of secret voting by MPs in the governing Conservative Party, former London mayor Johnson and Foreign Secretary Hunt are the two final contenders out of an original field of 13 hopefuls.
Father John Letts, 58, and mother Sally Lane, 57, were found guilty during a jury trial at the Old Bailey court in London for sending a total of 1,223 pounds to their son Jack Letts while he was in Syria.
Hot favourite Boris Johnson will face foreign minister Jeremy Hunt in a run-off vote to decide who takes on the tricky task of piloting the country's departure from the EU.
Carney, who has previously warned about the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit, made the comment in an interview with the BBC, an excerpt of which was broadcast on Friday.
A British court has ruled that the UK government acted unlawfully in selling weapons to Saudi Arabia for use in the Yemen war, though it did not order a halt to the exports. The Court of Appeal ruled in favour of anti-weapons campaigners, who argued that the sales should not have been allowed because there was a clear risk the weapons might be used in violation of international humanitarian law.
Conservative MPs will decide on Thursday who will join Boris Johnson in the final two battling to become Britain's next prime minister. Three contenders are jostling for the second spot. The last two will then face 16 hustings meetings around the country and two televised debates before Tory party members send in their postal votes to pick a new leader who will be the new PM.
Ahead of another round of voting among Conservative MPs, former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab said Johnson was the "only candidate" who would take Britain out of the European Union as planned on October 31. On Tuesday, Raab was eliminated from the contest to replace Theresa May as the leader of the governing Conservative Party and therefore as prime minister, leaving five candidates standing.
Greenpeace on Wednesday raised the alarm over microplastics in rivers after finding the pollutant in all the rivers it tested in Britain, calling it a "problem of enormous complexity". "Once microplastics are in the river, they become impossible to remove again, so we have to solve the problem at the source." Researchers from the NGO tested 13 rivers earlier this year, casting nets in 30 rural and urban areas
Brexit figurehead Boris Johnson will look to cement his stranglehold of the UK leadership race on Wednesday after emerging unscathed from a TV debate against his four remaining rivals. He kept his cool and made no evident stumbles in a showdown that followed a second-round ballot in which he grabbed more votes than his three nearest challengers combined.
A UK judge has sentenced a teenager who created an "abhorrent" online image of Prince Harry to 4 years and three months in a young offenders' institution. The Judge lambasted student Michal Szewczuk, 19, for creating an image of Harry with a pistol to his head against a blood-spattered background. The post included the phrase "See Ya Later Race Traitor."
Johnson, the favourite to replace May, won the support of 114 Conservative lawmakers in the first round of the leadership contest. A total of 313 lawmakers voted. His closest rivals were: Jeremy Hunt, the foreign minister, who won 43 votes; Michael Gove, environment minister, with 37 votes and Dominic Raab, former Brexit minister, on 27 votes.
Trump and Sadique Khan have repeatedly clashed ever since the mayor questioned the red carpet being rolled out for the US President by Britain, most recently for a state visit hosted by Queen Elizabeth II earlier this month.
Several hopefuls vying to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May turned their fire on favourite Boris Johnson on Sunday, questioning his pledge to leave the European Union by the end of October no matter what.
