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Johnson started off his career as a journalist. After a brief stint as a management consultant, he worked as a reporter for The Times in 1987, before getting sacked for making up a quote. He then worked as a correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, covering the European Community during 1989-94 before becoming assistant editor in 1994.

Of his time at The Telegraph, Johnson remarked; “Everything I wrote from Brussels was having this amazing, explosive effect on the Tory party, and it really gave me this, I suppose, rather weird sense of power”.  

In 1994, he became a political columnist for The Spectator, and later went on to become the editor of the magazine in 1999, a role he continued until 2005.

In 1997, he was chosen as the Conservative candidate for Clwyd South in the House of Commons. However, he lost to Martyn Jones of the Labour Party. A few years later, Johnson again stood for Parliament and was elected as an MP for the Conservative seat of Henley-on-Thames in 2001, replacing Michael Heseltine. Around this time, Boris appeared in multiple television shows including the BBC’s “Have I Got News For You” (1990- ) from 1998 onwards.

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Britain re-created the World War I Ministry of Information for the duration of World War II to generate propaganda to influence the population towards support for the war effort. A wide range of media was employed aimed at local and overseas audiences.

The history of the Jews during World War II is almost synonymous with the persecution of Jews and murder of unprecedented scale in modern times in political Europe inclusive of European North Africa

Despite being embroiled in various scandals at the time, including the publication of an insensitive editorial about the city of Liverspool in The Spectator in 2003 and an alleged affair with a journalist, Johnson was re-elected as a Member of Parliament in 2005. 

The year 2008 saw Johnson become the Mayor of London after he was elected over two-time office holder, Ken Livingstone. As such, he stepped down as a Member of Parliament and continued to hold the post of London Mayor until 2016.

As Mayor, Johnson presided over the 2012 Olympics, which provided a significant boost to the economy. A report by the U.K. Trade and Investment Department suggested that hosting the Olympics led to a £9.9 billion ($12.3 billion) boost in trade and investment.

Turtles the size of a car once roamed the earth. Scientists just found their fossils.

The hulking reptile was about 100 times the size of its closest living relative and twice the size of the largest living turtle.New research, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, reveals important findings about the Stupendemys, a now-extinct freshwater turtle, and details the discovery of one of its shells — the largest known turtle shell found to date, at nearly nine-and-a-half-feet long. The animal would have resembled, in length and weight, a midsized car.

The terror and devastation faced by millions during World War II is essentially unimaginable. To say that the Russian people had it rough during World War II would be a monumental understatement. At the time the entry above was written, Lena was living with her aunt, who tragically died from hunger a month later. But I am afraid of how the fear of death will perturb my life . . .

The evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to protect people , especially children, from the risks associated with aerial bombing of cities by moving them to areas

During his eight years of tenure, homicide rates in London fell from 22 per million to 12 per million people, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.

He also helped introduced the Routemaster London bus, and implemented a public bicycle hire system in July 2010, which have since been popularly termed “Boris bikes.”

(Pictured) Johnson with Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) in London, England, on March 31, 2011.

Around this time his popularity increased considerably, with a June 2014 poll placing him 13 popularity points above Cameron.

In August of the same year, he announced that he would run in the upcoming general election.

A year before his term as Mayor ended in 2016, Johnson won the Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat and thus returned to Parliament in 2015. The election heralded the first clear majority Conservative Party win since the 1990s.

On February 21, 2016, he officially announced that he would campaign for a British exit from the EU. “I will be advocating Vote Leave – or whatever the team is called, I understand there are a lot of them – because I want a better deal for the people of this country, to save them money and to take control. That is really what this is all about", he had said.

Johnson said that Cameron’s (R) warnings to leave the EU were “scaremongering” and “wildly exaggerated”. He also drew flak for making racially insensitive comments about the then President of the United States, Barack Obama, when the Obama said that he thought Britain should remain in the EU.

Later, he also went on to say that the European Union is using various methods inspired by dictators to create a superstate. “Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods” he said, drawing severe criticism and inviting controversy.

With Britain voting to leave the EU on June 24, 2016, and Cameron announcing his resignation, there were speculations that Johnson could be the next Prime Minister. However, after Michael Gove announced his candidacy, Johnson declared that he would not run. Gove soon dropped out of the race in any case.

Following Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister on July 13, 2016, Johnson was recruited as the new Foreign Secretary. This was widely criticized, considering Johnson’s many controversies and remarks about foreign leaders made during the referendum campaign.

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Several Catholic countries and populations fell under Nazi domination during the period of the Second World War (1939–1945), and ordinary Catholics fought on both sides of the conflict.

The neutral powers were countries that remained neutral during World War II . Some of these countries had large colonies abroad or had great economic power. Spain had just been through its civil war, which ended on 1 April 1939 (five months prior to the Invasion of Poland)

However, in July 2018, he resigned from May’s cabinet because of his disagreement with the way she was handling Brexit negotiations. Later that year, he condemned her publicly by saying the deal she was working on would be “substantially worse” than staying in the EU.

During this stint at the Telegraph, Johnson ran into trouble with Islamophobic comments, which were later written off as him using “provocative” language, but that he was “respectful and tolerant” and entitled to use “satire” to make a point.

Not one to shy away from potentially controversial statements, he said in March 2019 that millions of police funding was being wasted on child sexual abuse allegations. Even though this was heavily condemned, Johnson remained a favourite among speculators that he would replace Theresa May as Prime Minister. 

On May 16, 2019, he confirmed he was to run for leadership of the Conservative Party. U.S. President Donald Trump at the time seemed to back Johnson by stating he would be an 'excellent' choice for the role.

On June 12, 2019, Johnson launched his campaign to lead the Tory party and made it clear that he does not want a no-deal Brexit. He stated that after two missed deadlines and three years, Britain must finally leave the EU by the extended deadline of October 31, 2019.

Palaeontologists discover a never-before-seen 168-million-year-old amphibian called Egoria in Russia that is a 8-inch long ancient salamander

Fossil remains of the amphibian - which lived around 176-161 million years ago, in the Middle Jurassic - were found in the Berezovsky quarry in Western Siberia. Experts think that the species — named Egoria malashichevi — belonged to the oldest group of salamanders, known as stem salamanders. © Provided by Daily Mail Experts have discovered a never-before-seen 168-million-year-old salamander called Egoria in Russia.

Erich Johann Albert Raeder (24 April 1876 – 6 November 1960) was a naval leader in Germany who played a major role in the Naval history of World War II . Raeder attained the highest possible naval rank—that of Großadmiral (Grand Admiral) — in 1939

Johnson was hailed as the front-runner in the race to become the next Prime Minister, according to a poll of party members that was published on June 13, 2019. After several other leadership contenders were voted out of the race, Johnson was competing solely against Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, with the winner declared in late July of 2019. 

On July 23, it was announced that Johnson had defeated rival Jeremy Hunt to become the leader of the Conservative Party and the next prime minister of the U.K. Of the result, Johnson said it was "an honor and a privilege" to be elected as the new leader. He stated his priorities were "to deliver Brexit and unite the country."

On Dec. 13, the Conservative Party secured a parliamentary majority of 80 seats by defeating Labour by 365 to 203 seats in the 2019 U.K. general election. Continuing in his position as prime minister, Johnson said; "this election means that getting Brexit done is now the irrefutable, irresistible, unarguable decision of the British people... and we will get Brexit done on time by the 31st of January - no ifs, no buts, no maybes."

(Pictured) Johnson and partner Carrie Symonds arrive at 10 Downing Street after the election results are announced.