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It was a night of surprises at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards in Hollywood as Briton Phoebe Waller-Bridge (pictured) took top honours in the comedic actress category against eight-time winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus of Veep. She later went on to earn best comedic series for Fleagbag. Phoebe earned her acting award justt minutes after topping the Writing category also for Fleabag. Waller-Bridge was blindsided by her comedic acting win, saying 'No! Oh, my god, no,' before going into her thanks. Billy Porter of Pose won best actor in a drama, making history as the first openly gay man to earn the honor. 'The category is love y’all!' Porter rejoiced before quoting James Baldwin.

British shows and their stars once again featured heavily on the nominations list at this year's Primetime Emmy Awards, held at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday evening. And Brit actors cranked up the glamour as they turned up en masse for the 2019 ceremony, with the likes of Brit-heavy shows such as Bodyguard, Fleabag and the final season of Game of Thrones leading the noms.

Inquests are to be held into the deaths of Averil Hart (pictured left and right with father Eric in hospital), Amanda Bowles, Madeline Wallace, Emma Brown, and Maria Jakes who died after suffering with anorexia. Four out of five were in one year. And Sean Horstead, assistant coroner for Cambridgeshire, said the 'potential' for common themes is 'obvious'. Miss Brown's father Simon Brown has said the family has had to 'overcome difficulties caused by those that should have been helping her' while she suffered for 15 years. This is after report warned about the 'serious lack of training' where some doctors got around 'a couple of hours'.The local eating disorder service for adults in Cambridge experienced 'significant difficulties' recruiting staff, according to a report by a Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group.

The Prime Minister was arriving in New York last night (pictured left) for the annual UN General Assembly, which he hopes to turn into a mini Brexit summit, with talks with Angela Merkel (top right), Emmanuel Macron (bottom right) and Jean-Claude Juncker (inset). Mr Johnson is thought to be planning three-way talks with the German Chancellor and French President to outline his plans to replace the Irish backstop. Tory sources said the PM would also try to persuade them to make it clear that any new deal would have to be passed by October 31.

GUY ADAMS: An energetic Californian blonde who had arrived in the UK as a business student in 2011, she'd first met Johnson after volunteering to work on his 2012 re-election campaign. In March that year and on Facebook, where like many of her generation she chose to chronicle daily life, Arcuri (also pictured left, right, and again inset with Johnson) posted pictures of herself posing with the Mayor on a double-decker bus, along with others wearing a blue T-shirt and holding a placard which read: 'Better off with Boris.' Within weeks, they had forged a familiar personal and professional friendship. Indeed, by May, the duo were sufficiently well-acquainted for Boris, who can earn six-figure sums for commercial speaking engagements, to agree to give the 'keynote' address at a technology 'summit' that Arcuri was organising. He would appear, for free, at no fewer than four similar conferences that she staged in the ensuing few years, each of them named after her fledgling events firm, Innotech.

With their showbiz smiles firmly in place, the stars of Strictly Come Dancing certainly know how to rake in the cash. Though the professionals earn a flat-rate fee of £50,000 - regardless of how well they do - most will try to top this up with extra work. So who is the best-paid face on Strictly? ALISON BOSHOFF reports on what the stars of the show earn in a year.

Jane and Bryan Schalch were both teachers at a prestigious independent school when Mr Schalch began an affair with the 17-year-old girl - who he had been tutoring on a private basis. He kissed the girl in clandestine meetings in a supermarket car park, eventually inviting her back to his £480,000 marital home in Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire, where they had sex three times. Once, he was caught by his wife with the girl in their guest bedroom. But Mrs Schalch, 39, did not report him to their superiors at Warwick School and now faces the prospect of a teaching ban for failing to do so. The Teaching Regulation Agency said that Mrs Schalch ignored her safeguarding responsibility to the teenager. When he embarked on the relationship in September 2015, Mr Schalch, now 42, was a housemaster at the day and boarding school, where fees for boarders are up to £31,431 a year. His wife learned of the affair in November 2015 when she arrived home to find the girl in her underwear. But the relationship continued in secret until March 2016, and only came to the attention of the authorities when a friend of the girl blew the whistle.

Prince Harry can't wait to introduce baby son Archie to Africa, though royal staff have admitted that taking the baby on the tour could make it 'more lively'. The Sussexes are set to undertake their first official tour as a family of three, starting and ending their trip with engagements in impoverished townships in Cape Town and Johannesburg. In between Harry will visit Botswana, Angola and Malawi, leaving his wife and young son in Cape Town for five days as the small propeller plane he will be travelling isn't child friendly. The family will be reunited in Johannesburg for the last leg on their trip.

Carmen Blandin Tarleton, 51, suffered burns over 80 per cent of her body afterher estranged husband Herb Rodgers beat her with a baseball bat and doused her body with lye in 2007. Six years ago, she received a face transplant at Brigham and Woman's Hospital in Boston but doctors have now discovered tissue damage. They say that it will likely will lead to the loss of the donor face, meaning Tarleton will have to have another. Pictured left is Tarleton in 2014, a year after her operation. Top right is Tarleton before the attack and bottom right is the mother just after the operation. 

President Hassan Rouhani (left) has called on foreign powers to 'stay away' from the Gulf' and said their presence 'has always brought pain and misery.' Today is Iran's annual military parade (soldiers middle and inset) which marks the start of a week commemorating Iran's 1980-1988 war with Iraq known as 'sacred defence'. The parade showcased tanks (top right), drones and missiles (bottom right) - including the Khorramshahr said to have a range of 2,000 kilometres. Also on display was the Khordad-3 air defense system that shot down a U.S. drone in June. Tensions have flared in the Gulf since May, when Iran began reducing its commitments to the nuclear deal and the US said it was sending forces to waters near the Islamic republic in response to 'indications of a credible threat'. Relationships were tested once more this month following attacks on Saudi oil installations, which made the price of fuel rise across the globe, that Washington and Riyadh have to varying degrees blamed on Tehran. Also during his speech today Rouhani, who is expected to travel to New York on Monday ahead of a debate at the UN, said: 'Our logic is the logic of a Persian Gulf whose security comes from within. Foreign forces can cause problems and insecurity for our people and for our region.'

Becky Crandley, 30, (pictured with her son during the class) walked into Sittingbourne Community College (left inset) in Kent and sat herself down next to her son Harley, 12, as part of a 'surprise' experiment on Friday. His mother's threats to sit with him in his class did little to change his attitude so Becky took matters into her own hands after receiving emails from his teacher about two incidents which had got him into trouble. After being in contact with the school, she offered to come and sit with him during a maths lesson.

Melisa Patino and Jonathon Besley's son Logan (circled) was born half the size of his three sisters and has been in and out of hospital for much of his first year. Miss Patino, 34, said: 'It's wonderful to have all the babies home at last. Logan has had such a struggle but now he's finally back with his sisters where he belongs. To celebrate their first birthday with them all home together was wonderful. There were times when we didn't even think Logan would be coming home.'

Sarah Jessica Parker (pictured), 54, who starred as Cosmopolitan cocktail girl, Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City, has produced her own wine. The mother-of-three revealed she drinks wine daily and was deeply involved in making her new beverage in partnership with New Zealand-based merchants Invivo. Sarah who has an estimated £75 million fortune discussed her plans for a fashion line and views on feminism.

HENRY DEEDES: Labour is hosting its autumn conference and that thorniest of issues, Brexit, is once again proving capable - like some abominable parasite - of eating a party from within. The leading man in this bumbling scenario, Jeremy Corbyn, now suggests - in a rather obfuscatory way - that leaving the European Union might not be so bad after all. Two of his senior Kommandants, deputy Tom Watson and foreign affairs spokesman Emily Thornberry, say otherwise.

The victim - named locally as Elton Gashaj (left) - was wounded at a skate park and died at the scene on Saturday evening (top right shows paramedics treating him at the scene). Witnesses said a group of boys were 'messing about' when a 'play fight' turned nasty. One was said to have pulled out a knife because he felt like he was being taunted by the others, it was claimed. Three boys, two aged 15 and one aged 17, were arrested on suspicion of murder yesterday after police appealed for information and mobile phone footage of the incident in Slough, Berkshire. Pictured is a forensic officer at the scene.

Dinesh D'Souza shared a photo of Greta Thunberg next to a Nazi poster in a tweet on Sunday, asserting that she had been recruited by 'today's progressive Left' as a political pawn. D'Souza has consistently dismissed well-established science behind global warming as a political ploy orchestrated by liberals. Thunberg made international headlines last week as she inspired millions of people across 150 countries to take to the streets for the Global Strike 4 Climate.

Linda Kelsey, 67, and her sister Susan, 70, (pictured left with Tony) recently discovered they have a half-brother based in Canada. A test from Ancestry linked them to Tony, 79, who shares the same father (pictured right with Linda). Born in Essex in June 1940, at the start of the war, Tony was just seven-years-old when he emigrated to Canada with his parents. The new siblings discussed trying to piece together the mysteries of the past and the challenges of building a relationship.

He's been busy filming promotional material on behalf of lavish Chinese hotel The Londoner Macao ahead of its grand opening. And David Beckham was support by daughter Harper for his latest stint for the luxury establishment, as they filmed in London earlier this month. The football icon, 44, looked lovingly at his youngest child, eight, as the pair got to work on set and met a British Bulldog during filming.

Commuters were horrified when the girl (pictured) screamed in the face of the man on the 195 bus in Hayes, west London. The fight is said to have erupted after the girl's mother got into an argument with the bus driver after claiming it was overcrowded. Police took the unusual step of issuing mobile phone footage from the September 14 incident, which was circulated on social media.

Dozens of people held a wake today on a Swiss mountain to mark the disappearance of an Alpine glacier, as the UN revealed the last five years have been the hottest ever globally.  Around 250 people, including children, joined the solemn two-hour climb up the side of Pizol mountain in northeastern Switzerland to the foot of the rapidly melting ice formation. The 'funeral march' comes as a damning new UN report said that the world is falling badly behind in the race to avert climate disaster as a result of runaway warming.

The migrants, believed to be from Syria, wore matching tracksuits and even carried sports bags and balls, according to police who arrested them in Athens. The migrants were attempting to travel to Switzerland when they were caught.The group were arrested because of their passports, which appeared to be from the Ukraine. Greece has become a popular destination for migrants trying to get into Europe, with around 36,000 people entering the country already this year.

World Car Free Day was marked across the globe on Sunday, with pedestrians and cyclists in London, Brussels, Paris, Berlin and Lisbon taking to streets typically packed with motorists. London Mayor Sadiq Khan closed 17 miles of road across the UK capital for the event, in an attempt to highlight the need to reduce 'harmful air pollution' in the city (top left). A 'Fancy Woman Bike Ride' was organised in Berlin to celebrate the car-free day, which saw hundreds of women decorate their bicycles and wear elaborate gowns for a ride around the city (bottom right). People were also spotted taking to the streets on skateboards in Brussels (top right), and cycling on a dual carriageway that passed the beach near Lisbon (bottom left).

Erin McNaught, representing Wales with shepherd Kevin Evans, 38, won the junior-and-senior team contest along with her dog Sam, five (pictured together right and competing bottom inset), pipping England, Scotland and Ireland to the trophy. Last night viewers saw Erin, from Bala, North Wales, and Mr Evans triumph in the contest held on the Bowhill Estate in the Scottish borders. England were represented by Katy Cropper, 58, who won One Man and His Dog in 1990 (left).

A travel influencer's engagement rock was mocked by ring shamers because of it's enormous size (bottom right). The Los Angeles-based owners of make-up subscription site Liveglam, Dhar Mann and Laura G (main left and right top), had jetted into Paris on day three of the scavenger hunt and had been keeping her nearly two million followers updated with the trip which ended in a proposal (main left). The oval-cut rock surrounded by jewels on a band of more diamonds, was slammed by Facebook group Ring Shaming, for looking 'fake' and 'tacky'.

Thousands of people continue to attend the event at IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire, as it enters its second day. The weekend sees Lancasters, Spitfires and Hurricanes take to skies as well as visitors dressed in 1940s attire. This year is the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain film and pilots will recreate the airfield attack scene.

James Ketchell, 37, from Basingstoke, Hampshire, set off from Popham airfield on March 31 in the small aircraft which is similar to the one seen in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice (bottom right, the aircraft piloted by Sean Connery's Bond). His 24,000 nautical mile 175-day journey took him across Europe, Russia, Canada, the US and the Atlantic Ocean heading to Greenland and Iceland, before his final staging post on the Danish Faroe Islands (inset top). The intrepid pilot landed (top right) in front of hundreds of wellwishers - including his beaming parents John and Trish Ketchell and nephew Max - in the pouring rain at the same airfield he started his journey. 'It's quite overwhelming, it's magical,' said an elated Mr Ketchell, while clutching a celebratory glass of prosecco (left).

Today she passed beneath the three iconic Forth crossings near Edinburgh in Scotland - lowering her main mast to do so - as she headed out to the North Sea. This now means the two largest warships ever built for the Royal Navy will be at sea at the same time, with the HMS Prince of Wales joining the HMS Queen Elizabeth which is currently in the North Atlantic preparing for operational training. Once in the river, the £3.1 billion aircraft carrier anchored for three days before waiting for a low tide to pass under the Firth's famous bridges today. The move was completed as heavy rain fell in Scotland today but that did not deter crowds who gathered to watch the impressive vessel pass under the bridge.

The opening weekend of the 186th Oktoberfest celebration has now entered its second day in Munich attendees donned traditional Bavarian clothing along with an array of bushy beards as part of the costume parade. Around six million beer lovers from around the world are expected to attend before it ends on October 6.