Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/19/2015

Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who gained worldwide fame for a “selfie” taken with President Obama at the funeral of Nelson Mandela, has resigned her post, and has also stepped down as the leader of the Social Democrats. Ms. Thorning-Schmidt’s party was bested in this week’s elections by a bloc of center-right parties, in which the Danish People’s Party was the largest winner.

In other news, a stowaway in the wheel well of a British Airways flight from South Africa to the UK fell to his death on a London rooftop as the plane made its descent to land at Heathrow. A man who accompanied him survived, and is recovering in a hospital.