As certain as day follows night, a new dawn has greeted a very uncertain Italy after voters rejected Prime Minister Matteo Renzi via a referendum that was meant to be about Senate reform and cost cutting, not his mandate, but wound up seeing him formally hand in his resignation overnight.
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Closer to home, New Zealand's woke up to the reality of their popular Prime Minister John Key also calling quits. Decision on a successor could come quickly, but there's only one problem: they are not John Keys.
Over in London, new Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has had to give up his bike. Not metaphorically, but literally. Our Latika Bourke writes that due to security, Mr Johnson has had to abandon his Boris Bike. Thankfully, the bike-retail scheme he started, is staying.
From Delhi, our Amrit Dhillon reports on the death of worshipped Indian politician Jayaram Jayalalithaa, whose passing has sparked mass suicide fears.
While from Beijing, our Philip Wen reports that Trump's Taiwan phone call was part of a master Trump plan all along. Along with that read, don't miss the story about the Taiwanese city hoping to be redeveloped with the help of the Trump Organisation.