David Cameron Resigns

David Cameron has resigned, bringing an abrupt end to his six-year premiership, after the British public took the momentous decision to reject his entreaties and turn their back on the European Union. Just a year after he clinched a surprise majority in the general election, a visibly emotional Cameron, standing outside Number 10 on Friday morning alongside his wife, Samantha, said: “The will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered.”

The prime minister campaigned hard in the divisive referendum on Britain’s relationship with the EU, appearing at hundreds of public events up and down the country to argue that Brexit would be an act of “economic self-harm”. But a frustrated electorate used the poll to reject the status quo and, as the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, described it, “stick two fingers up” at Britain’s politicians. “I was absolutely clear about my belief that Britain is stronger, safer and better off inside the EU. I made clear the referendum was about this, and this alone, not the future of any single politician, including myself.

Britain in shock after killing of Labour MP Jo Cox

 British lawmaker Jo Cox, 41, died after being shot and stabbed in her constituency in northern England, prompting the suspension of campaigning for next week’s EU referendum.

German chancellor Angela Merkel leads the Armed Forces

German chancellor Angela Merkel leads the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, through conflict and peace.

Don’t Bomb Syria : Anti-war protesters demonstrate

Don’t Bomb Syria : Anti-war protesters demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain.

British Prime Minister David Cameron meets Syrian refugee

British Prime Minister David Cameron meets Syrian refugee families at a settlement camp in the Bekaa Valley on the Syrian-Lebanese border.

Tunisia victims’ bodies arrive in Britain

British Home Secretary Theresa May (front 2nd R), French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve (front L), German interior minister Thomas de Maiziere (front 2nd L) and Tunisia’s Interior Minister Najem Gharsalli © lay bouquets of flowers at a makeshift memorial at the beachside of the Imperial Marhaba resort, which was attacked by a gunman in Sousse, Tunisia,

Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) (also known by crewmembers as “the Big Stick” or within the navy simply as TR) is the fourth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. Her radio call sign is Rough Rider, the name of President Theodore Roosevelt’s volunteer cavalry unit during the Spanish–American War. She was launched in 1984, saw her first action during Operation Desert Stormin 1991. She is currently engaged in a round-the-world deployment.

Initially, U.S. President Gerald Ford cancelled the order for CVN-71 in 1976 and substituted two CVV-type medium-sized, conventional-powered carriers that were expected to operate V/STOL aircraft. The existing T-CBL design formed the basis for the new CVV, serving as a replacement for the aging Midway-class aircraft carrier, while capable of operating all existing conventional carrier aircraft. This capability to operate conventional aircraft proved important as the hoped-for supersonic V/STOL fighters did not come to fruition at the time. In any case, construction of the proposed CVV medium-sized carrier never took place.

Authorization for CVN-71 was further delayed when President Jimmy Carter vetoed the 1979 Fiscal Year Department of Defense authorization bill because of the inclusion of this Nimitz-class nuclear supercarrier in the U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding program. Because of the international crisis that required the increased deployment of U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups to the Indian Ocean, President Carter reversed his stand on Nimitz-class nuclear supercarriers, and CVN-71 was subsequently authorized under the 1980 Fiscal Year authorization bill for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Leaders gather for ‘family photo’ ahead of G7 summit

President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, talian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker (L-R) wave hands as they pose for a family photo during their meeting at the hotel castle Elmau in Kruen, Germany.  

Asia remembers devastating 2004 tsunami with tears

Sri Lankan tsunami survivor fishermen pull a fishing net on the beach in Peraliya, Sri Lanka. The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami following the Indian Ocean Earthquake killed approximately 230,000 people across fourteen countries. Sri Lankan authorities reported approximately 35,000 confirmed deaths by tsunami. The village of Peraliya was the worst single site of casualties where a train was swept away killing over a thousand people.

Russian President Vladimir Putin leaves G20

Russian President Vladimir Putin leaves his hotel en route to Brisbane Airport as he leaves the G20 leaders summit. Putin told reporters he was leaving before the release of the G20′s communique because of the long flight to Russia and he wanted to get some sleep.