A cousin of Manchester City owner Sheik Mansour failed with a record £2bn takeover bid for Liverpool this year.

A Liverpool source told BBC Sport the club was not for sale and there were no ongoing discussions with any group.

They said club owners Fenway Sports Group (FSG) regularly receive “proposals of interest”, and this approach had not reached them directly.

Instead the interest was dealt with by a financial services company acting as a “filter and sounding board”.

Regarding the £2bn valuation, a Liverpool source said that “would not be something FSG or any individual owner will have set”.

They added: “Any discussion of figures and valuations should be seen in the context that it was at a vetting process to weigh up credibility of the proposed investor and nothing more.”

However, Liverpool’s owners have said they would “under the right terms and conditions consider taking on a minority investor, if such a partnership was to further our commercial interests in specific market places, in line with the continued development and growth of the club”.

A Daily Mail report on Thursday said Sheikh Khaled Bin Zayed Al Nehayan approached the Premier League club over several months into late 2017 and early 2018, and that any buyout would also have involved another Chinese investor.

The report also said Midhat Kidwai, the managing director of Bin Zayed Group, Sheikh Khaled’s conglomerate of companies, met Liverpool chairman Tom Werner in New York, United States.

The Anfield club source said that meeting “would have been largely coincidental” and “not specifically arranged”, adding that John Henry and Mike Gordon are the two biggest shareholders in Liverpool and “their absence from any discussions is significant”.

Liverpool were bought by their owners, then known as New England Sports Ventures, for £300m in 2010.

Malcolm Glazer’s £790m purchase of Premier League rivals Manchester United in 2005 remains the most expensive football takeover deal.

United were in May valued at around £2.93bn by business services group KPMG – more than Spanish giants Real Madrid (£2.63bn) and Barcelona (£2.5bn), and German club Bayern Munich (£2.3bn).

Liverpool were valued at £1.42bn, Manchester City at £1.94bn, Arsenal £1.89bn, Chelsea £1.58bn and Tottenham £1.16bn.

As hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled Myanmar and settled in Bangladesh last year, health organisations were immediately concerned about outbreak of disease taking place in the overcrowded and unsanitary camps.

There are more than one million Rohingya living in 32 camps in Cox’s Bazar district after having fled persecution and a violent militarised crackdown by the Myanmar army.

In addition to contagious and non-communicable viruses, the refugees remain at risk of landslides from heavy rains.

For Peter Salama, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emergency response chief, the magnitude of the risks posed by these conditions was overwhelming.

“I realised how fragile the environment was from a human and ecological perspective,” said Salama.

“These camps are kind of incubations for disease because of the overcrowding. But with the luck and great efforts, massive outbreaks have been prevented.”

The WHO has partnered with more than 110 organisations on the ground to cater to the health needs of the Rohingya refugees.

Due to their systematic exclusion from government services, the Rohingya received almost no immunisation while living in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. That is why the first thing the WHO did was to launch comprehensive vaccination programmes.

“Within weeks of the population crossing the border, there was an unprecedented cholera vaccination programme that prevented the population from contracting that disease,” said Salama.

Khalid Eltahir, WHO’s Incident Manager in Bangladesh, said that there is a multi-sector action plan in place whenever a disease outbreak is detected.

“We also have disease surveillance in place on a daily and weekly basis,” said Eltahir.

“For vector-borne diseases like malaria and dengue, and water-borne diseases like cholera, we act immediately.”

Diphtheria contained

Yet there were some scares too, such as the re-emergence in November of diphtheria, a disease that has been largely eliminated in western countries.

Diphtheria – an infectious disease that can be transmitted through direct physical contact or indirect respiratory contact with an infected person’s coughs or sneezes – has a higher mortality rate in young children. Its symptoms include a sore throat, low fever, and swollen glands in the neck.

“There has been almost 8,000 cases,” said Suraj Man Shrestha, the head of WHO’s health operations in Cox’s Bazar.

Shrestha added that while the diphtheria outbreak was contained, “there is still a lot of work to be done”.

“We had a series of immunisation campaign rounds so that the Rohingya would be protected for the rest of their lives, bringing in resources from within WHO as well as partnering with organisations like UNICEF whose mandate is to support vaccines,” he said.

One challenge that these campaigns faced was that some children, who form the majority of the camps’ population, were missed at the time the inoculations were administered. Shrestha said that in these instances, it was important to engage community mobilisers, health volunteers, imams, and the mazis (Rohingya community leaders) to create awareness.

“This would encourage the community on health-seeking behaviour, and questions among themselves like ‘Have you been vaccinated?’ ‘Have you?’ ‘I am protected from this disease’,” he said.

Changing attitudes towards immunisation

Sadia Afrin, a young Bangladeshi woman who works in the camps as a field immunisation monitor, said that at the beginning of last year’s influx, there was a prevailing sense of mistrust from the Rohingya regarding getting vaccinated.

“The general attitude at first was deep-rooted in mistrust,” she said. “They regarded immunisation as necessary only for those who were sick.”

Shakira Khatun, who arrived at the Balukhali camp last August, said that she was, at first, wary of immunisation shots when she took her then two-year-old child to a health centre.

“We didn’t know what the vaccinations were for when we were in Myanmar,” Shakira explained. “No one told us anything about immunisation.”

Shrestha said that there was a common misconception among the Rohingya that vaccinations would make them sterile, but they were open to learning about the importance of receiving shots.

“They did not go into hiding when the campaigns were running,” he said. “They were forthcoming to receive the vaccines.”

Afrin agreed, saying that “it took time to build trust and awareness, but with the help of Rohingya community leaders, attitudes are now generally positive”.

“First, these mobilisation campaigns would hold a meeting with the target community, then the vaccination would be administered.”

Another Rohingya mother, Rahema, credits the community mobilisers for raising awareness through campaigns and consultations even before the camp population started swelling last year.

“That’s how I came to know about the vaccination programme and what it is for,” the pregnant 25-year-old mother-of-three said.

“I’ve been living in Kutupalong camp for eight years, and all of my children were vaccinated.”

Afrin said children under the age of two are now vaccinated against 10 diseases including diptheria, tetanus, Hepatitis B (through the pentavalent vaccine), rubella, pneumococcal diseases (through the PCV) and tuberculosis (through the BCG vaccine).

“Pregnant women are inoculated with Tetanus-Diphtheria, which protects newborns from whooping cough,” she said.

‘Preventing diseases and deaths’

A problem the health sector as a whole faces in the Rohingya camps is the lack of financial resources, with Eltahir pointing out that it is “one of the poorly funded areas”.

“The health sector up until now is supported by 19 percent by the Joint Response Plan that was launched in March,” he said.

Shrestha said that long-term sustainability must be looked into.

“A lot has been done one year on and we still have funds flowing in, but should the donor fatigue set in, then we need to start looking into sustainability because lives matter,” he said.

“This is about preventing diseases and deaths.”

The long-standing health issue, according to Salama, is trauma from being exposed to violence, including gender-based violence and witnessing acts of violence.

“The Rohingya population have been through very traumatic experiences, such as watching loved ones being killed, injured, or maimed and being separated from their family,” he said.

According to Shrestha, the WHO is discussing building the capacity of health workers to identify trauma and provide psycho-social support to those who need it, including substance abusers.

“We have a team of 19-20 experts looking into this,” he said. “MSF [Doctors Without Borders] has brought in 12 experts on mental health and psycho-social support, and that’s a real asset.”

Salama was quick to praise the efforts of Bangladesh, which opened its borders to the Rohingya.

“What we really need is international solidarity, especially considering that the Bangladeshi government has been extremely generous in accepting these refugees and dealing with all of the social crises that have resulted,” Salama said.

“They deserve all of our support and solidarity.”

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Twitter mostly sucks, but one of the few accounts which isn’t terrible is @dril.

Even if you don’t spend much of your time on the platform, you’ve likely come across his bizarre, nonsensical jokes that we wish we knew how to come up with.

Seemingly the ramblings of a cranky old man with poor grasp of the keyboard, @dril has been on the internet since 2008, and was also infamously doxxed last year. Now, he has a book.

Titled Dril Official “Mr. Ten Years” Anniversary Collection, the book is suitably an anthology of the mysterious writer’s tweets and sketches.

Yes, you’ll be able to grasp in your hands more than 1,500 “‘Cream of the Crop’ tweets, hand picked by The Boss, sorted categorically and accompanied by over 70 stunning Illustrations.” 

“This book is a Must Have for all admirers of Prestige Content,” reads the description on @dril’s website. For those who aren’t familiar with @dril’s “Prestige Content,” it includes pearlers like these:

Dril adds that for people who don’t want to read book “mostly filled with Shit youve read before,” a second edition will come out in early 2019.

HONOLULU — The message from Hawaiian and FEMA authorities has been consistent: Shelter at home and ride out Hurricane Lane.

But, what about people who can’t?

With Lane already battering the Big Island on Thursday, the warning by Hawaii Emergency Management Agency Administrator Tom Travis that the Aloha State does not have enough shelter space set off alarm bells in an area not used to dealing with such huge storms.

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Only three hurricanes have made landfall in Hawaii since 1950. Lane’s projected route may keep it just off the islands, but its powerful winds, voluminous amount of rain – up to 30 inches in some areas – and the accompanying high surf and swell are already creating major trouble.

Gov. David Ige also pitched in with a Wednesday tweet that said, “Shelters are intended to be a last resort option for residents and visitors without safer options to use at their own risk.’’

On Thursday afternoon, though, conditions on the ground did not call for concern about running out of space to find safe harbor.

On the Big Island, which saw some 1,700 residents evacuated three months ago because of the Kilauea volcano eruption, there was room at five shelters for about 7,000, and only about 20 had checked in, according to Maurice Messina, deputy director of parks and recreation.

At Honolulu’s Dole Middle School on the island of Oahu, about 10 folks had sought shelter at a hastily assembled evacuation center by mid-afternoon.

Andrew Pereira, communications director for Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell, said the city and county expects to be able to house all who need it.

A state report released in February indicated Oahu had 182,797 shelter spaces, or about one for every five persons on an island with a population of just under 1 million. The Big Island, with a population of 198,000 and 36,539 spaces, has a similar ratio.

“I think you’ll find that in any hurricane-ready community, you don’t ever have enough shelter space for the entire population,’’ Pereira said. “The standard operating procedure in most communities that can be impacted by a hurricane is to shelter in place, and that’s what we’re advising our folks to do.’’

That makes even more sense in Oahu because, as Pereira acknowledged, some of the schools that typically double as shelters are not rated beyond tropical-force winds, and even a weakening Lane was producing sustained winds of up to 125 mph.

They still provide more protection than the wooden houses with tin roofs that are common in tropical climates, and certainly much more than what homeless people get out in the elements. Pereira said Honolulu had opened 20 facilities by 10 a.m. local time and was providing free bus service for homeless people to reach them.

Most people are encouraged to bring their own bedding, plus food, water and medicines for 3-5 days.

“Those evacuation centers are intended for short stays,’’ said Brad Kieserman, vice president of disaster operations for the American Red Cross. “Their purpose is to allow people to ride out the storm, and after the storm passes, the folks who can go home do, and the folks who can’t are transitioned into emergency shelters, also run by the counties in Hawaii.’’

The site at the Dole school has room for at least 200, said coordinator Jennifer Dutton, who works for the Red Cross out of Los Angeles. She arrived in Hawaii on Wednesday night to begin preparations.

“I’m not sure when folks will begin to arrive. I think everyone is just waiting to see how bad the storm is,’’ Dutton said. “We’ve got some supplies here, but it’s of course limited because we’re on the island. If we need more, we’ll have them shipped in.’’

Messina said the facility set up at Pahoa Regional Park as a lava-evacuation area after the Kilauea eruption housed 600 evacuees – 55 of whom remain – and had room for 2,000.

If anybody runs out of space for those escaping harm from the storm, Messina said it won’t be the island of Hawaii.

“On the Big Island, we have more beach and park facilities than any other island,’’ he said, “so if you couple that with our all of our schools, we should be OK.’’

But folks who live surrounded by water realize they encounter different dynamics when a hurricane approaches than those in the mainland. That was part of the challenge for FEMA when assisting victims in Puerto Rico last year.

At a news conference Thursday, agency officials said they would apply lessons in Hawaii learned from the 2017 hurricanes – including Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in September.

FEMA Administrator Brock Long said there’s already a plentiful supply of generators at hand to restore power if the grid is affected. And Pereira said the agency has set up barges full of supplies ready to be distributed.

But Pereira also noted that Hawaii imports 98 percent of its goods by sea, so any damage to its ports could present serious problems. And, of course, the locals can’t just drive a few hundred miles away to escape danger.

“We are the most isolated land mass on the planet,’’ Pereira said. “You can’t just drive to a safer area like when hurricanes threaten the East Coast, where you see folks driving north or south or west to get away from the storm. We don’t have that option.’’

Contributing: Jorge L. Ortiz in San Francisco

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Hailey Baldwin’s beautiful diamond sparkler is making its debut.

The model’s engagement ring from fiancé Justin Bieber is front and center on the cover of Vogue Mexico. In the black and white image, a fresh-faced Baldwin relaxes her head on her arm, leaving her massive rock for all to see. 

Baldwin, rocking her signature blonde locks and a tweed jacket, accessorized her look with a 6 to 10-carat oval-stoned stunner from New York jeweler Solow & Co., according to People. 

“Justin wanted something that would gracefully accentuate Hailey’s beautifully shaped hands. We settled on an oval stone that was just exceptional in its length and grace. Look at her hands — she’s exquisite,” Jack Solow told the publication.

More: Alec Baldwin: ‘No. Just … No’ to daughter Ireland’s sexy Instagram photo

On Instagram, Vogue Mexico captioned the stunning photo: “The intensity of the sun gives way to the echoes of the wind, accompanied by the graceful and fresh image of #HaileyBaldwin, a model that bursts out of the catwalks wearing the autumn trends with her high-profile engagement ring.”

The September issue calls Baldwin’s bling “the ring of 12 million likes,” possibly referring to the number of double-clicks Bieber’s engagement confirmation received on Instagram (the post currently sits at over 13 million likes).

TMZ first reported the news that the singer, 24, and model, 21, got engaged in the Bahamas in July after years of on-again, off-again dating rumors.

The “Love Yourself” singer declared his love for Baldwin and confirmed their relationship status a couple days after he got down on one knee: “Was gonna wait a while to say anything but word travels fast, listen plain and simple Hailey I am soooo in love with everything about you!”

Baldwin gave fans a glimpse of her engagement ring on Instagram earlier this week. She called Beiber her “absolute best friend.”

More: Is Priyanka Chopra showing off a sparkling engagement ring from Nick Jonas?

Related: VMAs: Ariana Grande, Pete Davidson kiss and more hot red carpet couples

 

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Treasurer Scott Morrison will be Australia’s new prime minister after winning a three-way battle for the leadership of the Liberal party on Friday.

Morrison defeated the key challenger Peter Dutton, a former cabinet minister, by a vote 45-40.

Dutton’s supporters had forced incumbent Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to hold the leadership ballot. Turnbull did not contest it and later confirmed his intention to quit politics.

“I’ll be leaving the parliament … not before too long,” he told reporters.

His resignation causes a by-election that could cost the government its single-seat majority. It could also encourage Morrison to soon call general elections.

Turnbull became the fourth prime minister to be dumped by his or her own party before serving a full three-year term since the revolving door to the prime minister’s office started in 2010.

The trend is universally hated by Australians.

He condemned Dutton supporters for bringing down his leadership in an intense and bruising campaign, which the prime minister described as “an insurgency” that went public on Tuesday.

“Many Australians will be shaking their head in disbelief at what’s been done,” Turnbull said.

Internecine battle

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop had been among the favourites and could have become Australia’s second female prime minister. She was rejected on the first round of voting.

Australian media reported she would also likely resign from politics.

Morrison became Australia’s 30th prime minister after the vote ended the internecine battle that has scarred the conservative government ahead of an election due by May 2019.

Peter Hartcher, political editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, said Australians are fed up with the constant political infighting.

“I can’t begin to tell you how distressed most people are at what goes on in their name in the federal government,” Hartcher told Al Jazeera.

“Everybody will still be wondering, ‘what was this really about’? There has been no explanation from either the outgoing or incoming prime minister.” 

Taking names

A beleaguered Turnbull demanded the names of lawmakers in the Liberal party who wanted him to go before he would allow them to choose a new prime minister at a meeting at Parliament House on Friday. The names would prove a majority of his government had abandoned him.

The bare minimum majority of 43 signatures were provided shortly before the meeting started. They included more than one Turnbull supporter who signed to break the impasse.

Dutton’s and Turnbull’s camps waged the most chaotic, frenetic and at times farcical leadership struggle that Australian politics has seen in years, closing down Parliament on Thursday and damaging the Liberal party’s credibility.

Public anger became apparent overnight with windows broken at the Brisbane office of Dutton, Turnbull’s main rival in his government.

Turnbull came to power in a party-room coup in September 2015. A social liberal and multi-millionaire former merchant banker, he has struggled to appeal to conservative voters and only narrowly won a general election in 2016.

SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies

When an actor messes up, they typically have a team of managers, agents, and crisis managers to back them up with handcrafted personal statements apologizing for their actions. 

When a beauty guru messes up, they set up their tripods, get the tears going, and hit record. 

Much like break up videos, apology videos are almost a rite of passage for YouTubers. Since their content is so personal, their apologies have to be, too. As content creators’ offensive internet histories get exposed, apology videos are becoming more and more common. There’s almost a formula to them: You sob, you apologize for whatever you did wrong, you sob some more, beg for forgiveness from your fans, and then wrap it up with a teary thank-you. 

The most recent example of this tearsfest is Laura Lee, a beauty vlogger who was once just shy of 5 million subscribers, but lost 200,000 once she was exposed for racist tweets this month. A video she posted, simply titled “My Apology,” went viral for all the wrong reasons. 

Content creator Keem mocked Lee in a video that broke down the types of apology videos that YouTubers make, from gamers apologizing for a racist comment to vloggers apologizing for filming a dead body. 

In 2012 Lee tweeted, “tip for all black people if you pull ur pants up you can run from the police faster.” 

When fans of another rival beauty guru dug up the vile tweet, Lee went silent. She deactivated her Twitter account, deleted her old tweets, and then came back to Twitter with a lengthy Notes app apology. In the statement, she blamed the fact that she grew up as a “small town girl from Alabama” who lacked the “cultural education” that she has now. 

Five days later, she followed up with this apology video. 

“I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry to you guys,” she whimpers, frequently stopping mid-sentence to sob into her hands. “It hurts me so bad to disappoint you all who have supported me for many years. I know that I’m better than that person.” 

The four-minute video was dragged for being (for lack of a better word) total bullshit. One commenter called it “so funny to watch bc it’s so forced.” Another joked that it was “proof that youtubers shouldn’t be actors.”

Someone wrote fake captions over her video, and people turned her into a meme on Twitter. It even inspired parodies. 

Laura Lee is part of a group of beauty gurus who all apologized for their problematic pasts, but hers is the one getting criticized the most. 

But is there a “right” way to apologize? Crisis manager Eden Gillott Bowe says there may not be a one size fits all way to say “I’m sorry,” but there is a basic formula that best gets the point across. Like Olivia Pope in Scandal, Gillott Bowe fixes messy situations. 

“If you know you’ve done something wrong, you don’t want to hide it because the truth always finds a way of coming out,” Gillott Bowe said over the phone. “So you just want to deal with it quickly.” 

Compare Lee’s apology to that of another member of the beauty guru clique that broke apart over this past week, Gabriel Zamora. 

In contrast to Lee’s tears, Zamora opens the video by explaining that the version he’s posting is the third version he’s recorded because he was more levelheaded than in the first two. 

“I’m like, you know what? This isn’t just about my emotions,” he admits in the video.

Gillott Bowe recommends staying as calm as possible, like Zamora, while doing damage control. 

“Try not to be too reactionary and just take a moment to think about how it’s going to be perceived,” she said. “If I jump out and say this, how might it be taken the wrong way?”

With that in mind, here’s the backstory on all the beauty guru drama.  

Fellow vlogger and Lee and Zomara’s former friend Jeffree Star — who has his own history of being horrifically racist and according to the Washington Post, once joked about “throwing battery acid on a black girl’s face to lighten her skin so that her foundation matches” — was the subject of a Shane Dawson documentary series on YouTube that examined Star’s life and reputation.

The last installation of the five part series discusses the public feud Star had with his ex-friend group. Star says that “people still don’t really know what went on” that broke down the group, and that “there’s so many versions of things that never happened out there.”

In response, Zamora posted a photo of himself, Laura Lee, Manny MUA, and Nikita Dragun captioned “Bitch is bitter because without him we’re doing better,” referring to Star. Zamora topped it off in a now-deleted tweet that said, “Imagine stanning a racist? I could never.”

That kicked off a stan-led scrape through the four YouTubers’ Twitter histories, which unearthed hateful tweets from years ago. Manny MUA, Laura Lee, and Gabriel Zamora all made separate videos apologizing for their actions; Nikita Dragun addressed it on Twitter. 

But why does Star get a pass on his past actions, while Lee’s getting dropped from all of her brand partnerships? Fans agreed that their apology videos made all the difference. 

They felt the same way about Zamora’s apology video. Stans thought that compared to Lee’s apology, it was significantly more genuine because he walked through how he would improve. Commenters lauded Zamora’s apology as “a great example” and “like sitting with a friend.” 

Makeup fans haven’t forgiven Star entirely, though. Some wish he’d face the same consequences as Lee. 

Gillott Bowe recommends that when crafting an apology, whether to a friend in private or to an entire fanbase through a public statement, you don’t want to keep repeating “I’m sorry.” 

“You want to be sincere,” she said. “You don’t want to dwell on it. Once you say you’re sorry you don’t want to belabor it.” 

In Zamora’s video, he said, “I don’t want to give excuses … it was ignorant, it was stupid.” Instead of jumping to begging his subscribers not to call him racist, he asked them to take time to process his apology. He also linked two videos about the history of the N word and a lecture from author Ta-Nehisi Coates about “words that don’t belong to everyone.” 

Then, in typical YouTuber fashion, he moved on and exposed Lee and Manny MUA for throwing him under the bus and refusing to take accountability when their tweets were exposed.

Although that’s exactly the kind of drama YouTube subscribers want to hear, Gillott Bowe probably wouldn’t go for that cutthroat, spilling the tea approach. She’d rather her clients wrap up an apology by looking forward. 

“You talk about the future,” she said. “The things you want to change to make sure it doesn’t happen again, and then you stay positive.” 

So for future YouTubers who need to make an apology — whether it’s Tana Mongeau apologizing for calling her black friend a racial slur or Jenna Marbles apologizing for being an unprepared fish owner — here’s the formula that Gillott Bowe endorses. 

1. Open with something positive.

Gillott Bowe recommends “easing into it” by thanking people for their support.

2. Say you’re sorry and don’t drag it on.

“Focus right on the apology,” she said. Don’t try to skirt responsibility or avoid taking accountability. It’s better for all parties if you just own up to what you did wrong. 

3. End on a good note.

Gillott Bowe calls this a “compliment sandwich.” You want to close the apology with something “nice and hopeful,” like outlining the steps you’ll take to improve.

4. Don’t do it again.

She brings up a quote often misattributed to Albert Einstein: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

“People have a tremendous capacity to forgive,” Gillott Bowe explains, “But you don’t want to keep apologizing if you’re going to end up doing shitty things again anyway.” 

Navigating the public sphere after a major scandal will probably be rocky for a while, but Gillott Bowe is sure that if an apology is genuine, the person at fault will be OK. 

“There are the kinds of people who are going to hate you no matter what you do,” she said. “But if the people in the middle could be swayed either way, those are the people you’re gearing toward.”

Or, you know, you could also just try not to be racist. 

Rod Mcguirk, Associated Press
Published 12:41 a.m. ET Aug. 24, 2018

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia government lawmakers on Friday elected Treasurer Scott Morrison as the next prime minister in a ballot that continues an era of extraordinary political instability.

Morrison defeated the key challenger Peter Dutton, a former Cabinet minister, by a vote 45-40.

Dutton’s supporters had forced incumbent Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to hold the leadership ballot. Turnbull did not contest the ballot and has said he will quit politics.

Dutton’s failure prevents the Australian policy shifting to the hard right.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop had been among the favorites and could have become Australia’s second female prime minister. She was rejected on the first round of voting.

A beleaguered Turnbull demanded the names of lawmakers in the conservative Liberal Party who wanted him to go before he would allow them to choose a new prime minister at a meeting at Parliament House on Friday. The names would prove a majority of his government had abandoned him.

The bare minimum majority of 43 signatures were provided shortly before the meeting started. They included more than one Turnbull supporter who signed to break the impasse.

Turnbull has become the fourth prime minister to be dumped by his or her own party before serving a full three-year term since the revolving door to the prime minister’s office started in 2010. The trend is universally hated by Australians.

Dutton’s and Turnbull’s camps waged the most chaotic, frenetic and at times farcical leadership struggle that Australian politics has seen in years, closing down Parliament on Thursday and damaging the Liberal Party’s credibility.

Public anger became apparent overnight with windows broken at the Brisbane office of Dutton, Turnbull’s main rival in his government.

But the extend of disquiet about Turnbull’s leadership proved to be exaggerated by many Dutton supporter. Of the 85 lawmakers at Friday’s meeting, 40 opted for no change.

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A local news site wants you to get your facts straight before destroying their mentions. 

The National Enquirer kept a LITERAL SAFE of records that documented “hush money payments” during the 2016 presidential election. The tabloid essentially buried stories that would damage Trump’s campaign. 

On Thursday, National Enquirer chief David Pecker was granted immunity, and angry people took to Twitter to voice their rage. 

Except, they directed their anger at the wrong Enquirer. 

The poor Cincinnati-based local news site put out an official announcement in the form of an ASCII bunny meme. 

Someone, let them take a break. 

They really weren’t here for snarky comments.

And really, whoever’s tweeting these clapbacks deserves a bonus.

So before you decide to complain about our rapidly imploding state of politics on Twitter, make sure you’re tweeting at @NatEnquirer, not @Enquirer.

They say the truth will set you free, but on Big Brother, the truth will send you to the jury house. At least, that’s what it looks like for Scottie. The one moment our nerdy little virgin friend is actually loyal is the moment the target on his back grows larger. His and Sam’s wild last-minute throw for safety in last night’s episode has only made things more cloudy with a veto meeting and live eviction to look forward to tonight.

We join a mad and confused Faysal in the HoH room after Sam and Scottie’s madcap meetings. Unconvinced by their overtures, Faysal tells Haleigh about their efforts to have her put up as the replacement nominee, saying they have the votes to get her out. Genuinely hurt by her friend’s backstabbing, she tearfully confesses to the diary room that she feels stupid for going out of her way to keep Scottie around in the game so many times. Haleigh soon joins Angela, Tyler, and Kaycee in the game room, and seems emotionally spent as she tells them how angry she is that Scottie would do that to her. The Level Six-ers nod along and give her support, but Kaycee brags in the diary room about how easy this week is going for her alliance with all this newfound drama on the other side. Haleigh decides she needs to meet with Scottie to figure out exactly what’s going on. When she finds him in his bed, she’s quickly caught off guard as he tells her that she should disassociate herself from him. Scottie admits to everything she’s heard in the house, saying that he’s told the other side that she’s playing him and fesses up to calling her Kaitlyn 2.0. “It’s best for you if I go,” Scottie says, telling the diary room that his and Sam’s idea was “even stupider than I thought.” Haleigh is at once frustrated and confused, telling him that she’s always had his back in the game, even when it meant getting on Fessy’s bad side. Things quickly get tearier than a General Hospital binge-watch between the two friends as their uncertainties grow. When Haleigh says the moments they’ve shared together have been more than just a game for her, Scottie responds by saying those were his favorite moments of this entire summer. If anyone needs me, I’ll be crying in the corner over these two foolish, foolish souls.

Scottie, now realizing his plan to throw Haleigh under the bus is futile, meets with Faysal to take back everything he said. He tells Fessy that he did all this to make his likely eviction less harmful for Haleigh’s game, and then admits that he’s never had feelings for anyone like he has for Haleigh. Yes, he just said that — to Fessy!!! Who knew Scottie’s truths were more far-fetched than his lies? He then makes the pitch to put up Sam as the replacement nominee, as she would easily win the whole game if she made it to the finale (she wouldn’t, but keep going). Fessy says to the diary room that while Scottie is his target, Sam’s increasingly erratic behavior this week is making him wonder if her presence is too risky for his game. He won’t commit to any plan with Scottie but says he’ll sleep on it before the veto meeting.

It’s time for the veto meeting and, whew chile, this is a whole entire mess. Though Brett holds the veto, he gives Scottie the floor to make his case as to why it should be used on him. Instead of making that speech, he decides to throw Sam under the bus, telling Fessy directly that she should be the replacement nominee as she was the one who put Haleigh and Kaitlyn up and made him choose between the two. Ultimately, Brett uses the veto on himself and Scottie’s plea is ignored as Kaycee is picked as his replacement. Faysal explains this by saying that Scottie flip-flopped from wanting Haleigh out to trying to get Sam evicted, which was a “red flag” for him. Sam is simply confused as to how she went from Scottie’s helper to his target, telling the diary room that she’s “done.” As Brett, Angela, and Tyler tan in the backyard, Brett is convinced this will be the first unanimous vote of the season as they have the votes to get Scottie out. In the diary room, he goes over how The Hive/Foute/Bad News Bears have had two straight opportunities to take down Level Six and have ended up shooting themselves in the foot, He also says that Faysal’s their next target.

Fire in the kitchen! In a fitting metaphor for Faysal’s HoH reign, the oven goes up in flames until Sam comes with an extinguisher to put it out. Tyler and Angela meet with Fessleigh in the HoH room to go over the final four deal discussed in last night’s episode; Fessy says the “floaters” in the house are counting on them to go after each other, so by joining forces they’ll only be stronger. Angela tells the diary room there’s no way she’s leaving Level Six, but that if Haleigh wins HoH next week, this “alliance” may be how she and Tyler manage to stay safe. She tells Tyler the final four arrangement may be worth sticking with for a while because winning the next HoH would be useless with everyone targeting Sam for different reasons. Tyler, now in some sort of final two or final four deal with everyone left in the house except Scottie, says that it’s great to feel safe, but notes the plan could quickly backfire as he’ll have to go back on his word along the way. He tells the diary room that while his ideal final four is himself, Kaycee, Angela, and JC (poor Brett), he ideally wants to go to the finale with Kaycee. He’s certain he’ll win against her as opposed to JC, who lest we forget has won 0 competitions this season.

After a week of messiness, bad decisions, tears, flames, and zings, it’s finally time for the live eviction. Scottie, knowing he’s a goner, turns his speech into one big apology to the people he’s hurt. It’s on this note that he becomes the third evictee of the season by a vote of 6-0, the first unanimous vote of the season. In his exit interview with Julie Chen, he has explanations for just about every bizarre move he’s made this week. On the whole Sam/Haleigh drama, he says that his initial thinking was that Fessy would be so frustrated with Sam’s pitch that she would be put up next to him. Scottie believed his only chance to stay in the game was against her. When Julie asks why he didn’t fight harder to make the house believe that he, not Brett, was the vote to keep Rockstar last week, he says that he thought he’d be believed since Brett is a lying liar who lies and he didn’t feel he had to defend himself to Fessy since he was on his side. “That’s why I panicked, that’s why I acted a fool because none of that makes sense to me,” he says in his classic frantic style. Quizzed if his admission of feelings for Haleigh was the truth or just game, he waffles for a bit but ultimately says it’s all real. And for good measure, he calls Fessy a hypocrite for going after him for the vote to evict Swaggy C when he and Foute went back on their word to keep Steve, his first (and truest?) friend in the house. For someone who lied a good deal in the house, Scottie’s truthfulness was ultimately his downfall. When he needed his allies to save his back, the flipped votes and doublecrosses were simply too big to ignore. It’s a shame, but that’s Big Brother.

The time has come for the HoH competition, “Sweet Shot.” The houseguests will have to search through a ball pit for a piece of candy with a token inside; once that token is given to Faysal, they’ll have to grab a ball and roll it through a conveyor belt. The first houseguest to make a “perfect shot” will be the new HoH — but there’s a catch. If a houseguest doesn’t land the “perfect shot,” the ball will land below the belt in scored slots from 1-40. From there, they have to choose between keeping that score or going back to the pit to find another token for a second roll. If no one lands a perfect shot after an hour, the houseguest with the highest score will be the new HoH. We’ll have to wait until Sunday to find out how all that pans out, but the biggest news is that we’re gonna have a jury battle-back! Yep, after next week’s eviction, Scottie, Rockstar, Bayleigh, and the fourth member of the jury will square off for the chance get back in the game. Depending on who wins this battle-back, this will give Level Six some more opposition and quite possibly change the trajectory of this season once and for all. Is it next Thursday yet?