The UK’s Boris Johnson has become the first serving leader of the country to be sanctioned for breaking the law. He, wife Carrie and Chancellor Rishi Sunak have been fined for going to an hour-long gathering in the Cabinet Room in June 2020 to celebrate Johnson’s birthday. The get-together breached the COVID rules in place at the time. Johnson has again apologised and is resisting renewed calls for his resignation. And in Pakistan, opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif will replace Imran Khan as PM. Khan was dumped because he had not made inroads into fixing the nation’s economy and corruption problem, and had lost the support of the all-important military. Sharif heads the centrist Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party and his older brother is Nawaz Sharif who was PM 3 times before he was jailed and then fled to the UK in 2019. The next election is next year, and Khan is expected to be a candidate.