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Egyptian Businessman Mohamed Mansour Given Knighthood

Members of the Cambridge rowing team practice in the Thames ahead of The Gemini Boat Race against Oxford rowing team, in London, on March 27, 2024. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
Members of the Cambridge rowing team practice in the Thames ahead of The Gemini Boat Race against Oxford rowing team, in London, on March 27, 2024. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
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Egyptian Businessman Mohamed Mansour Given Knighthood

Members of the Cambridge rowing team practice in the Thames ahead of The Gemini Boat Race against Oxford rowing team, in London, on March 27, 2024. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
Members of the Cambridge rowing team practice in the Thames ahead of The Gemini Boat Race against Oxford rowing team, in London, on March 27, 2024. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

Mohamed Mansour, a businessman and former Egyptian government minister, has been given a knighthood in the United Kingdom for his business, charity and political service.

The Egyptian-born business tycoon, who has British citizenship, is the chairman of the Mansour Group and founded the London-based investment firm Man Capital.

Mansour was joined in receiving a knighthood by Demis Hassabis, founder of artificial intelligence company DeepMind, and by film-making couple Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas, who will receive a knighthood and a damehood. American businessman Ted Sarandos, the co-chief of Netflix, was given an honorary knighthood.

Backbench MP Philip Davies and Mark Spencer were also knighted, while Tracey Crouch, a former minister, was made a dame along with Treasury committee chair Harriett Baldwin.

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Pope Calls Buzz Aldrin to Mark 1969 Moon Landing

20 July 2025, Italy, Castel Gandolfo: Pope Leo XIV visits the Vatican Observatory to mark the anniversary of the 1969 moon landing in the summer papal estate in Castel Gandolfo. Photo: -/IPA via ZUMA Press/dpa
20 July 2025, Italy, Castel Gandolfo: Pope Leo XIV visits the Vatican Observatory to mark the anniversary of the 1969 moon landing in the summer papal estate in Castel Gandolfo. Photo: -/IPA via ZUMA Press/dpa
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Pope Calls Buzz Aldrin to Mark 1969 Moon Landing

20 July 2025, Italy, Castel Gandolfo: Pope Leo XIV visits the Vatican Observatory to mark the anniversary of the 1969 moon landing in the summer papal estate in Castel Gandolfo. Photo: -/IPA via ZUMA Press/dpa
20 July 2025, Italy, Castel Gandolfo: Pope Leo XIV visits the Vatican Observatory to mark the anniversary of the 1969 moon landing in the summer papal estate in Castel Gandolfo. Photo: -/IPA via ZUMA Press/dpa

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called astronaut Buzz Aldrin and visited the Vatican's astronomical observatory in Castel Gandolfo to mark the 56th anniversary of man's first moon landing.

"This evening, 56 years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, I spoke with the astronaut Buzz Aldrin," the American pope wrote on X.

"Together we shared the memory of a historic feat, a testimony to human ingenuity, and we reflected on the mystery and greatness of Creation", he wrote.

After Neil Armstrong, who died in 2012, Aldrin was the second person to set foot on the Moon on the historic Apollo 11 mission that secured the United States' victory in the space race.

A devout Christian, Aldrin took communion on the lunar surface using a travel kit provided by his Presbyterian pastor.

According to AFP, the pope said he blessed the 95-year-old US astronaut and his family during the call.

Earlier Sunday, Leo visited the Vatican Observatory, which sits on a leafy hilltop near the papal summer home of Castel Gandolfo.

Vatican photographs showed the pope looking through a large telescope in the Observatory, one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world, where planetary scientists mix the study of meteorites with theology.