Your morning briefing: What you should know for Thursday, September 26

Boris Johnson is facing a huge backlash after he told the Commons the best way to honour murdered MP Jo Cox is to “get Brexit done”.

Mr Johnson was criticised for his repeat use of “Surrender Act” when describing legislation aimed at preventing no deal.

Tracy Brabin, who was elected to Labour MP Mrs Cox seat after she was killed, had called for the PM to moderate his language.

Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson was among those to criticise the PM for his comments on Jo Cox, calling him a “disgrace”.

She later revealed she yesterday report a threat against her child.

Brendan Cox, the husband of Mrs Cox, tweeted: “Feel a bit sick at Jo’s name being used in this way.”

House intelligence committee chairman has compared Donald Trump’s communications with Ukraine to the actions of a mobster.

Adam Schiff said the president's conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart represented a “mafia-like shakedown”.

A whistleblower complaint over the phone call sparked an impeachment investigation into the US leader.

Mr Trump pressed Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate his rival Joe Biden, a transcript of the call showed.

ISIS bride Shamima Begum has again begged to be allowed to return to the UK, saying she needs therapy to deal with her grief.

The former London schoolgirl said her mental health was suffering since losing three babies after joining the terror group in Syria.

Speaking from a Syrian camp, she suggested that it would be better to be in a British jail so she could access psychiatric help.

“Mentally I am in a really bad way. I need therapy to deal with my grief,” she told the Daily Mail.

Hong Kong's leader will today hold crisis talks with the public in a bid to resolve the political unrest that has fuelled months of protests.

Carrie Lam will hold a dialogue with 150 members of the community, with each participant given three minutes to express their views.

Tight security is expected around the venue in Wan Chai for the event, which follows almost four months of demonstrations.

Benjamin Netanyahu has been thrown a lifeline after an inconclusive election threatened to end his political career.

Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin asked him to form a coalition government after attempts to broker a unity government between Prime Minister Mr Netanyahu chief rival, Benny Gantz, failed.

Mr Netanyahu faces an uphill struggle.

After a tight election, his Likud party, along with smaller allied parties, controls 55 seats, short of the required 61-seat majority in parliament.

Beyonce has argued that her seven-year-old daughter Blue Ivy is a "cultural icon" in a trademark dispute with a small business owner.

The singer’s attempts to trademark her little girl’s name have met opposition from wedding planner Wendy Morales, whose business shares a name with Blue Ivy.

Lawyer's acting on behalf of Beyonce have now asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to dismiss the "frivolous" opposition.

1580: Sir Francis Drake arrived back in Plymouth in the Golden Hind - originally the Pelican - after 33 months, to make him the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world.

1687: The Parthenon in Athens was severely damaged when a mortar bomb, fired by the Venetian army, set off its gunpowder supplies.

1887: The first gramophone, invented by Emile Berliner, a German immigrant living in Washington DC, was patented.

1934: The British liner Queen Mary was launched at John Brown's Yard in Clydebank, Scotland.

1937: "The Empress of the Blues" Bessie Smith died in a car crash in Mississippi, amid rumours that she had bled to death while a white person had been given preferential treatment.

1953: Sugar rationing ended in Britain.

1957: West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein's musical based on Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet, opened in Broadway's Winter Garden, New York.

1977: Sir Freddie Laker's first Skytrain service began between Gatwick and New York.

1988: Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson flew home from the Seoul Olympics in disgrace, stripped of his 100m gold medal after failing a drugs test.