May gets down to work after Brexit

German Chancellor Merkel invites counterpart for talks in Berlin, declines to comment on Johnson

Theresa May came under immediate pressure on Thursday on her first full day as Britain's new prime minister after a series of surprise appointments to her Cabinet, including the gaffe-prone Boris Johnson as foreign minister.

Three weeks after Britain voted to leave the European Union, May also came under fire from EU leaders, who pressed her to trigger a Brexit as quickly as possible.