Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister. He beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival’s 46,656. The former London mayor takes over from Theresa May on Wednesday.
Nigerian police attacked Shiite protesters in the capital Abuja, killing at least six of them, eye witnesses told AFP. “I am right now in front of six dead bodies, one of them is an underage boy,” a Shiite protestor, Abdullahi Musa said. “Many, many people were shot.” An AFP journalist ...
