Europe

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to step down: reports

The Conservative leader late on Wednesday defiantly responded to calls from his loyalists and cabinet colleagues to step down by sacking minister and former top ally Michael Gove. 

The Communities Secretary was reportedly the first to tell him that he must resign for the good of the Tory party and country, with a source close to Johnson telling the BBC that Gove was “a snake”. 

Entertainment International

Singer R. Kelly gets 30 years in jail over sex crimes

Kelly, a three-time Grammy Award-winner, chose not to speak at the hearing due to pending litigation.

The sentence comes just over a month before jury selection is due to start in Kelly’s separate, long-delayed federal trial in Chicago on August 15. 

In that case, Kelly and two of his former associates are alleged to have rigged the singer’s 2008 pornography trial and hid years of sexual abuse of minors.