Your morning briefing: What you should know for Monday, December 10

Brexit vote 'will go ahead tomorrow'

MPs will resume their debate over Britain’s Brexit deal today with Downing Street insisting tomorrow’s vote on it will go ahead.

There has been continuing speculation Theresa May will postpone the crucial vote if it appears she is still facing a heavy defeat in the Commons.

The Prime Minister also held calls with European Council president Donald Tusk and Irish leader Leo Varadkar yesterday although details of what was discussed have not been released.

Meanwhile, the European Court of Justice is also set to hand down its decision at about 8am on Monday whether Britain can unilaterally revoke its withdrawal from the EU.

New Zealand Prime Minister's emotional apology to family of dead British backpacker

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made an emotional apology to the family of British backpacker Grace Millane.

Police found Miss Millane’s body in forest on the outskirts of Auckland on Sunday and a 26-year-old man was charged with murdering the 22-year-old tourist from Essex.

Appearing to be fighting back tears, Ms Ardern told reporters Grace should have been safe visiting in the country and on behalf of all New Zealanders she wanted to apologise to her family.

The accused man was also called a scumbag by a member of the public gallery when he appeared for his first court hearing overnight.

Redknapp is King of the Jungle

Harry Redknapp has been crowned King of the Jungle on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

The football manager said he was stunned to have won the ITV reality series.

He beat Emily Atack to the title, while John Barrowman was third.

Trump unable to find his next chief of staff

Donald Trump has been evaluating new candidates to serve as his next chief of staff after plans for an orderly succession for departing John Kelly fell through.

The new hire was to be key to a West Wing reshuffle to shift focus toward the 2020 re-election campaign and the challenge of governing with Democrats in control of the House.

But even senior White House officials were caught off guard on Sunday when Mr Trump and Nick Ayers, whose hiring was believed to be a done deal, could not come to terms.

No obvious successor was in sight and there was some fretting that Mr Trump may not be able to fill the job by the time Mr Kelly was set to leave around the end of the year.

Nine-year-old draws Big Issue's Christmas cover

A drawing by a nine-year-old girl of a "welcoming" front door has been chosen as the Christmas cover for the Big Issue magazine.

The colourful drawing, showing a mat saying Welcome Home, and the word "less" crossed out, was designed by Lucy Norris from Ware in Hertfordshire.

It was chosen as the winner from more than 1,000 entries for the annual festive competition.

On this day…

1851: Melvil Dewey, who devised the library cataloguing system which bears his name, was born in New York.

1869: Wyoming became the first American territory to grant women the vote.

1896: Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish chemist and industrialist who invented dynamite, died. On this day in 1901 the first Nobel Prizes were awarded.

1936: Edward VIII signed the Instrument of Abdication. He choose his love of American divorcee Wallis Simpson over his royal duty.

2011: The Sun, Earth and Moon fell almost exactly in line.