Bloomberg Boris Johnson faces another bruising week, with his future as UK prime minister in the balance amid a furious public backlash over rule-breaking parties at his Downing Street office. Six lawmakers in the governing Conservative Party have already called on Johnson to resign over allegations of alcohol-fueled get-togethers involving Downing Street staff when the country was in lockdown. ...

  Bloomberg President Cyril Ramaphosa urged South Africans to safeguard against attacks on the independence and integrity of the judiciary, a week after one of his cabinet ministers criticized the nation’s top judges as “mentally colonized.” “We need to protect our Constitution, our democratic state and the electoral process from anyone who wants to weaken our democracy and deny the ...

  Bloomberg Alphabet Inc’s Google said it would spend $1 billion to buy up its own London offices, keeping a major presence in the UK capital at a time when firms wrestle with how to manage employee work habits. The purchase and renovation of the Central Saint Giles complex it moved into in 2011 are being undertaken as the company ...