Burnham to take helm of ‘poverty stricken disaster,’ says Trump
Andy Burnham speaks after being confirmed as the new leader of the Labor Party and the country’s next prime minister during the ‘Labour Party Special Conference’ in central London on 17 July 2026.
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Hello, I’m Leonie Kidd coming to you from London.
Football may not have come home this time, but England’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham has a new home.
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What you need to know today
Andy Burnham today He will enter Downing Street as British Prime Minister.
London is expected to announce a range of policy changes, from devolution to an overhaul of the Treasury. But the most controversial may be its approach to North Sea oil.
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump Real Social Welcoming Burnham’s approach to “opening up” North Sea oil, saying it would take “the UK from a Poverty-Face Disaster to one of the Richest Countries anywhere in the world”.
The devil will be in the details, says Labor deputy party leader Lucy Powell he told the BBC He said he would not break Burnham’s manifesto commitment to end new exploration licences.
He is expected to travel to Aberdeen in Scotland for further drilling at existing oil fields ahead of decisions on the offshore Jackdaw and Rosebank fields.
Oil is on the rise
A third soldier has been confirmed killed in recent operations. US Central Command made a statement Explanation about X He said he had completed attacks on targets in Iran for a ninth consecutive night, “further weakening Iran’s military capabilities.”
Early Monday, sirens continued to be heard in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan as Iran launched drone strikes on targets in its Gulf neighbors.
Tension continues between Russia and Ukraine. While Moscow carried out one of the largest ballistic missile attacks against Ukraine’s capital Kiev, unmanned aerial vehicles from Ukraine carried out one of the deadliest attacks on Russia in more than two years.
Boeing is back
Spain’s success, FIFA wins
Spaniard Rodri celebrates by lifting the FIFA World Cup trophy with his teammates after the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final match between Spain and Argentina.
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Another winner was FIFA itself. The world’s football governing body is ready Net revenue of over $9 billion for 2026.
Meanwhile, another market that rose to the top is the Kalshi prediction market, which added 3 million new users during the World Cup.
More than $1.2 billion was traded in Kalshi’s contracts asking investors to predict the winner of the World Cup; This is a record for a single market.
—Leonie Kidd
And finally…
Universal and Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ opens to $124.5 million
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” gets off to an epic start.
The Universal film adaptation grossed an estimated $124.5 million in its opening weekend as audiences flocked to premium large-format releases, particularly IMAX theaters.
“Death, taxes, and Christopher Nolan,” said Shawn Robbins, director of analytics at Fandango and founder of Box Office Theory. “He reinvented the superhero genre, captured the zeitgeist with many thought-provoking originals, and turned a three-hour biopic into a global blockbuster. He did it again by retelling a 2,700-year-old poem that served as the foundation of what we consider modern storytelling.”
—Sarah Whitten
