President’s son flees to Britain: Report
Egypt's longtime President Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal, seen as his likely successor, has reportedly fled to Britain, along with his family.
The 48-year-old younger Mubarak boarded from an airport in western Cairo a private jet bound for London with his wife and daughter, and nearly 100 pieces of luggage, the US-based Arabic website Akhbar al-Arab reported.
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'Doing my best': Elon Musk on ‘collapsing birth rate’ amid twins report
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk once expressed concerns about the falling birth rate and said he was doing his best to help the underpopulation crisis. "Mark my words, they are sadly true," he said in another tweet. The Billionaire tech entrepreneur made the comment after a report by Business Insider that Musk quietly welcomed twins in November with an executive at his artificial intelligence company Neuralink, Shivon Zilis.
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WHO issues snapshot of monkeypox cases
The World Health Organization issued its first situation report on the spread of monkeypox on Thursday, detailing the typical profile of those affected by the outbreak so far. From January 1 to July 4, 6,027 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox and three deaths have been reported to the WHO from 59 countries. Some 82 percent of the cases are in Europe and 15 percent are in the Americas.
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Zelenskyy expresses sadness at UK PM's exit, praises his ‘leadership, charisma’
“To be a leader, to call Russia an evil and to take responsibility in the hardest times. To be a leader - to be the first to arrive in Kyiv, despite missile attacks. Thanks Boris Johnson for realising the threat of RF (Russian Federation) monster and always being at the forefront of supporting Ukraine,” Mykhaylo Podolyak, aide of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said in a video on Twitter on Thursday.
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British Conservative leaders who were toppled by their party
Duncan Smith, one of a cabal of right-wing eurosceptics dubbed "bastards" by Major, won the Conservative leadership in 2001, replacing William Hague after the party suffered another election defeat to Labour. He lost a confidence vote, becoming the first Tory leader not to fight a general election since Neville Chamberlain, who was accused of appeasing Adolf Hitler in the late 1930s.
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Johnson resigns as conservative party leader. Read full text of his speech here
Boris Johnson said on Thursday that he would resign as Britain's prime minister, bowing to calls from ministerial colleagues and lawmakers in his Conservative Party. Because if I have one insight into human beings, it is that genius and talent and enthusiasm and imagination are evenly distributed throughout the population but opportunity is not. And that's why we must keep levelling up, keep unleashing the potential in every part of the United Kingdom.
