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Theresa May will face tough questions later from her backbenchers after the Conservatives lost their majority at last week’s election. The MPs are expected to raise concerns about her leadership style, and press for more details on talks with the Democratic Unionists. Mrs May’s new cabinet will also meet for the first time after a reshuffle. Brexit Secretary David Davis predicted some parts of the Tory manifesto would now have to be “pruned”. “We have been given an instruction by the British people,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Mr Davis said that while the Tory election campaign had…

One of Spain’s biggest banks has been saved from collapse after it was bought by rival Santander for just €1. The deal will see Santander take on the bank’s customers, branches and also its liabilities, estimated at around €5bn. It also means that Santander has now become the biggest banking group in Spain. The decline of Banco Popular has highlighted two things – the first being that the shockwaves of the financial crisis continue to be felt, nearly a decade after it happened. The second is that by orchestrating the takeover deal, European authorities have shown their teeth and an…

Around 30 million voters are going to the polls in the General Election called by Theresa May just over seven weeks ago. Polling stations all over the UK are open from 7am until 10pm on Thursday, with the results being declared overnight and throughout Friday. Polling day follows a frantic dash for votes in the final 24 hours of campaigning by the Prime Minister, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron. Mrs May campaigned across England in five constituencies; in London, Southampton, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire and Birmingham. Mr Corbyn made six campaign visits, to Glasgow, Runcorn, Colwyn…

Police in Australia say they are treating a shooting and two-hour siege in Melbourne as terrorism after Islamic State said it had inspired the attack. Yacqub Khayre, 29, killed a man in the foyer of an apartment block in the beach suburb of Brighton on Monday evening. He then took an escort girl hostage, calling police to say he would hurt her if they intervened. Police attempted to negotiate with Khayre before he came out of the building shooting at police. They shot him dead. The hostage escaped without injury but three police officers were injured in the shooting, although…

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has waded into the row over police cuts, warning the Metropolitan Police is facing the loss of thousands of frontline officers under Tory plans. Mr Khan said the force could lose as many as 12,800 officers, which would reduce its strength by 40%, making it harder to tackle the terrorism threat. The Labour mayor said the Met had already had to make £600m of cuts since 2010 and is now facing £400m more. He said: “Our city has suffered two awful terrorist attacks since I was elected as mayor – and we must do everything possible…

Former London mayor Boris Johnson has said questions need to be answered over the monitoring one of the London attackers. Counter-terror agencies are facing scrutiny after it emerged that Khuram Shazad Butt was investigated in 2015, but was “prioritised in the lower echelons” of investigate work after officers found no evidence to suggest an attack was being planned. He also appeared in Channel 4 documentary The Jihadis Next Door last year. The Foreign Secretary told Sky News: “People are going to look at the front pages today and they’re going to say ‘how on Earth could we have let this…

The British Airways IT meltdown that left 75,000 passengers stranded over the bank holiday weekend may have been caused by human error, the head of its parent company has said. Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group (IAG), set out further details about how the catastrophic outage is thought to have occurred and reiterated an apology to those affected. He announced an independent investigation into the IT shutdown, adding that the actions of an engineer who disconnected and then reconnected a power supply to the data centre in “an uncontrolled and uncommanded fashion” may be central. Hundreds of flights…

BLW citizens set to saturate the Heavens with prayers in the month of June 2017. A highly anticipated segment of the Global Communion Services with the BLW President, Rev. (Dr.) Chris Oyakhilome, is the declaration of the word of the Spirit for the month, ushering millions of congregants around the world into God’s will for them, in accordance with His timing. Pastor Chris announced, as customary every 6th month of the year since 2010, that June 2017 is ‘the Month of Prayer’! The man of God, reading from Ephesians 1:16-17, emphasized that we will be praying with all kinds of…

Prince William has described “Manchester’s strength and togetherness” as “an example to the world” during a surprise visit to the city. The Duke of Cambridge personally wanted to go to Manchester, following the Queen’s visit last week, to thank some of the police officers who were the first to arrive at the scene of the Manchester Arena attack. Talking to a group of officers inside the headquarters of Greater Manchester Police he said: “You guys did a fantastic job, but hopefully you’ve been talking about what you saw and how it has affected you. “Nobody can see that and not…

Football analytics company SciSports has won a competition to see their football innovations become a reality. The firm, from the Netherlands, uses data to asses the quality and potential of football players around the world. This statistics are then used by clubs, managers and the players themselves to help with recruitment and transfers. The firm was among 10 start-ups who pitched to global sports and tech brands such as Uefa, Adidas, Amazon and Microsoft at the Hype Foundation event. Other ideas included nano-technology in shirts to measure a player’s blood pressure and training aids to develop both professional and grassroots…