Rachel Reeves becomes the UK’s first female finance minister while David Lammy is appointed as foreign secretary. The United Kingdom’s newly elected Keir Starmer has announced key members of his ministerial team after his centre-left Labour Party’s landslide general election victory ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Starmer on Friday appointed Rachel Reeves as finance minister, the first woman to hold the post in UK history. The former...

US president says his recent debacle in a televised debate with Donald Trump was due to ‘exhaustion’ and a ‘bad cold’. United States President Joe Biden used a much-anticipated interview with ABC News to reiterate that he is the candidate to beat Donald Trump in November’s presidential election and again called his recent disastrous debate against Trump “a bad episode”. Biden, 81, told ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos...