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Mo Farah has revealed he was illegally smuggled to Britain aged nine, given a fake name and forced to work as a servant. The four-time Olympic champion, originally Hussein Abdi Kahin, eventually confided in his PE teacher, who arranged for him to be fostered by another family. The UK’s new prime minister will be announced on 5 September. The Tory leadership race formally begins today: Conservative MPs will whittle the list down to the final two by 21 July, after which party members will make the final choice. A group of Indian conmen fleeced nearly $4,000 from Russian gamblers by staging a fake version of cricket’s Indian Premier League, says The Times. Matches took place on a farm in Gujarat, with a bogus umpire and commentator, and labourers were paid to pose as players. “It’s not cricket.”