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Images show the scene outside St Thomas' Hospital in London where British Prime minister Boris Johnson is in intensive care. Johnson began a third day in intensive care battling the coronavirus, which has struck at the heart of the British government, infected more than 55,000 people across the country and killed nearly 6,200. IMAGES
Images show the scene outside St Thomas' Hospital in London where British Prime minister Boris Johnson is in intensive care. Johnson spent the night in the ICU with a deteriorating case of coronavirus and has been given oxygen but is not on a ventilator, according to a government minister. IMAGES
Britain's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer returns from Buckingham Palace, saying he has has officially been asked to form the new government "of this great nation", following his party's landslide victory in the general election. SOUNDBITE
Former UK prime minister David Cameron comes out of 10 Downing Street in surprise return to frontline politics after British leader Rishi Sunak appointed him foreign secretary in a government reshuffle. IMAGES
New Zealand's former Covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins emerges as the sole nominee to replace Jacinda Ardern as the country's new prime minister. Speaking to reporters outside parliament in the capital Wellington, Hipkins said he will strive to "reach a consensus about who was best to lead Labour and therefore New Zealand forward." SOUNDBITE