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Friday evening news briefing: London Bridge attack - what we know

Chris Price

Man shot by police as incident treated as 'terror-related'

Armed police have shot a man on London Bridge after several people were injured in a stabbing in an incident officers are responding to "as though it is terror-related". Eyewitnesses said they saw what they believed to be a fight between several men trying to restrain another man. Armed police then responded, firing shots. Videos on social media purport to show a man lying on the pavement on the bridge as armed police officers can be seen pointing guns at him. Police have also evacuated London Bridge station and the surrounding area including offices and restaurants. Gareth Davies has live updates.

Boris Johnson tells Donald Trump to stay out of the election

Boris Johnson has said he is being kept updated about the incident in London Bridge. Earlier, he urged Donald Trump to stay out of the general election when he arrives in London next week for a gathering of world leaders. In a radio interview, he reminded listeners that Barack Obama's intervention during the 2016 EU Referendum, when the then president said an independent UK would be "at the back of the queue" for a trade deal, ultimately worked against Remain. During a press conference this morning, he promised to introduce a new state aid regime to end the "chilling" effect which they say EU law has on Government support for industry. All the latest is on The Telegraph’s politics liveblog.

Meanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has attacked the sale of the i paper to the publisher of the Daily Mail, saying that "two billionaire press barons" now own half of the UK's top 10 daily newspapers. DMGT agreed to buy the i today for £49.6m from JPI Media, more than double its price tag in 2016. It comes after the Labour leader's biggest union backer launched a scathing attack on the Chief Rabbi, saying it was "extraordinary" and "wrong" for him to criticise Mr Corbyn over anti-Semitism. Len McCluskey, the general secretary of Unite, said he "fundamentally" disagreed with Ephraim Mirvis's suggestion that Mr Corbyn was "unfit for high office". Danielle Sheridan has the full story.

PS - It is worth reading this touching piece by Boris Johnson on his hero, Professor Jasper Griffin, who died last Friday, aged 82. His classics teacher taught him about heroes, life, death and glory – and the genius of Homer.

Divorce rate at its lowest in nearly 50 years, new data reveals

Children of divorce are sticking at marriage, experts say, as official figures reveal that the divorce rate has fallen to the lowest for almost 50 years. The Office for National Statistics today published data showing there were 90,871 divorces of opposite-sex couples in 2018, a decrease of 10.6% compared with 2017 and the lowest number since 1971. Researchers also found the percentage of marriages ending in divorce has been decreasing for those who have married since the mid-1990s. This graph shows how the trend has changed since the 1960s.

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Video: The political legacy of Jean-Claude Juncker

Jean-Claude Juncker will go down in history as the man who succeeded in keeping Greece in the EU but failed to prevent Britain voting to leave in the Brexit referendum. The president of the European Commission retires at the end of today in Brussels, after decades enmeshed in its politics and five tumultuous years in office facing crisis after crisis. Take a look at his legacy.

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World news: The one story you must read today...

Journalist murder case | Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said today the main suspect in the 2017 killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia would not be granted immunity to disclose what he knows about the case. After an emergency cabinet meeting that dragged on for more than six hours through the night, Muscat told reporters the decision to deny an immunity request for suspect Yorgen Fenech followed the recommendations of the attorney general and police commissioner. It comes as an intensifying probe into the murder of Caruana Galizia, who was blown up by a car bomb in October 2017, has destabilised Muscat's government. Read on for details.

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Business and money briefing

Black Friday | As shoppers hunt for a bargain, ever wondered how Black Friday got its name? Read the history behind the biggest sales event of the year.

Sport briefing

Arsenal sack manager | Unai Emery has been fired by the Gunners after 18 months in charge, with Freddie Ljungberg installed as the club's interim head coach. Arsenal's executives and director Josh Kroenke have pulled the trigger on the Spaniard after the club produced their worst run of results since 1992. Sam Dean has the inside story on his failed reign amid player unrest and fan anger.

And finally...

Record trip | He's visited 195 countries (193 UN-member states, the Vatican and Chinese Taipei) in 543 days, gathering 1.1 million social media followers along the way. At just 26, Anderson Dias has set a new world record for the time taken to complete a trip to every nation. Here is how he escaped poverty do so.