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In front of a global audience of millions, the YouTube boxing grudge match between Britain’s KSI and his American rival Logan Paul on Saturday produced, perhaps surprisingly for some, a superb sporting spectacle in Los Angeles on Saturday. KSI won on a split decision in a tear-up that was dripping in controversy after Paul has deducted two points for hitting his opponent on his way down. Here’s how the entertaining – and sometimes surreal – night unfolded in LA. KSI edges it First, the fight. Fury-Wilder it wasn’t, but it was an entertaining bout from the first bell to the…

More than two million people in India and Bangladesh have been evacuated as Cyclone Bulbul hits the Bay of Bengal. The storm made landfall at midnight local time (18:30 GMT) on Saturday, near Sagar Island in Indian West Bengal, and is expected to unleash surges as high as 7ft (2m). Two people have already been killed by the cyclone, local media report. Services at many seaports and airports in the region were also suspended – including at the busy Kolkata airport. Bangladesh’s two biggest ports, Mongla and Chittagong, were closed and flights into Chittagong airport were stopped. Shah Kamal, Bangladesh’s…

On Sunday, the fire emergency’s third day, more than 100 blazes were still burning across New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the military could be called upon to support the 1,300 firefighters working in the two states. Hundreds of civilians have also volunteered to help in affected areas. “My only thoughts today are with those who have lost their lives and their families,” Mr Morrison added. Officials warn that extreme weather conditions could fuel more fires in the week, including near Sydney. What’s the latest? In Queensland, thousands of people spent the night in evacuation…

England beat New Zealand in another super over to win a thrilling final Twenty20 and take the series 3-2. In a repeat of July’s World Cup final, the scores were tied at the end of a wildly unpredictable game in Auckland. New Zealand plundered 146-5 from 11 overs, and it took Chris Jordan hitting 12 off the final three deliveries to take the game to a super over. Jonny Bairstow, who earlier struck 47 off 18 balls, and captain Eoin Morgan scored 17 off England’s six deliveries, before Jordan limited New Zealand to eight. It was a remarkable finish to a rain-delayed…

Hundreds of mourners gathered on Friday for the burial of a mother, her months-old twins and two other children on the fringes of a township founded by breakaway Mormons in Mexico, in a second funeral for the victims of a brazen armed ambush. Suspected cartel gunmen attacked Rhonita Miller LeBaron, 30, and four of her children on Monday, also striking two other vehicles, killing a total of three women and six children on an isolated dirt road in the hills of Sonora. All of the victims were dual U.S.-Mexican citizens. Miller’s SUV exploded in flames during the attack, incinerating her…

Japan’s Sakurajima volcano shot smoke and ash miles into the sky on Friday in its biggest eruption in more than three years, Kyodo News reported. The volcano, on the southernmost main island of Kyushu, spewed ash 5.5 km (3.4 miles) high, the first time the ash cloud from an eruption has exceeded 5 km since July 2016, Kyodo said, citing a local meteorological observatory. The volcano has been highly active, erupting more than 100 times just this year, the report said, adding no damage has been reported so far. Follow us on Twitter – twitter.com/StarvisionN Like & Follow us on Facebook…

India’s Supreme Court on Saturday awarded a Hindu group the ownership of a centuries-old religious site also claimed by Muslims in a case that has caused deep divisions and deadly riots between the two communities. Following is a timeline of the events that have shaped the case. 1528 – The mosque in Ayodhya, in what is now India’s biggest state of Uttar Pradesh, was built by Mughal emperor Babur, according to documents produced by Muslim groups in court. 1949 – Muslim groups accuse government officials of conniving with Hindu monks to place an idol of an infant Lord Ram in…

An official on the White House’s National Security Council said he heard the U.S. ambassador to the European Union explicitly press Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden and his son, according to a transcript released on Friday by Democrats leading the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump. Alexander Vindman, a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and Ukraine expert on the NSC, said Ambassador Gordon Sondland made it clear in a July 10 meeting at the White House that the investigations of the Bidens and Ukrainian gas company Burisma would have to be opened for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to get an…

Ivanka Trump on Friday echoed her father’s view that the House impeachment investigation is an attempt to overturn the 2016 election. But, in an interview with The Associated Press, she parted ways with President Donald Trump by calling the identity of the impeachment whistleblower “not particularly relevant.” The Republican president and some of his allies lately have been pressing the news media to publicize the whistleblower’s name. Trump has also tweeted for the individual to “come forward.” But Ivanka Trump said the person’s motives were more important, though she declined to speculate on what they may have been. “The whistleblower shouldn’t be…

In testimony released Thursday by House Democrats, a high-ranking State Department official said he understood President Trump’s bottom-line demand of Ukraine was for a statement that included three key words: “investigations, Biden and Clinton.” “Clinton” was a reference to the conspiracy theory promoted by Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani about foreign efforts to sway the 2016 election. The official, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent, was relaying what he was told by Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union. Sondland said the president “wanted nothing less than [Ukrainian] President [Volodymyr] Zelensky to go to microphone and say ‘investigations, Biden…