内容摘要：Eight tumultuous days after US President-elect Donald Trump picked Matt Gaetz to be attorney general, the firebrand congressman has withdrawn from consideration for the post.

Eight tumultuous days after US President-elect Donald Trump picked Matt Gaetz to be attorney general, the firebrand congressman has withdrawn from consideration for the post.

In recent years, there have been several such funerals following the deaths of the late Queen, the former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, and Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian president.But "working funerals" have also been the subject of satire. Jim Hacker, the eponymous PM in the Yes, Prime Minister comedy on the BBC, said working funerals were a "heaven sent" opportunity.

"Dignified grief goes down very well with the voters, especially when it is shared by the world's statesmen," he told his aides. Working funerals were "much better than a summit because there are no expectations. People don't expect their leaders to come back from a funeral with test ban agreements or farm quote reductions. So we can actually have some meaningful discussions. A summit is just a public relations circus."The mayor of London has written to every primary school in London asking them to help counter the "pernicious influence" of misogynists such asCity Hall has funded a £1m programme to help educate children about healthy and respectful relationships as part of efforts to reduce violence against women and girls (VAWG).

It follows a similar scheme for secondary schools and comes amid fears children as young as nine may be being regularly exposed to misogynistic content online.Working with the educational charity Tender, the mayor's office has produced online courses to help teachers run classes, workshops, drama and interactive sessions for children aged nine to 11.

is designed to be delivered by teachers, with the option of support from Tender's specially trained workshop leaders, City Hall said.

However, the scheme is optional will not be part of the national curriculum."It's just not good, it's not good at all," he said.

Showers continued through the night on Monday and on Tuesday in parts of south-west England, the north coast of Northern Ireland, north-west England and the coastal counties of Scotland.Some of these showers are heavy with thunder over the hills.

But through Tuesday evening and overnight another area of low pressure will sweep in from the Atlantic, bringing a spell of wet and potentially windy weather to England and Wales.On its current track, the low pressure will bring rain north-eastwards across south-west England this evening and then Wales, the Midlands, East Anglia, parts of northern England and south-east England, where it could turn heavy and thundery.