Author: News Desk

The 2019 BRAVE International Combat Week is officially open. In a breathtaking ceremony featuring two main attractions and speeches by IMMAF president Kerrith Brown and BMMAF president Mohammed Qamber, His Highness Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa opened the proceedings with a speech of his own, alongside the visionary for BRAVE CF and the man behind Team Bahrain’s groundbreaking success, His Highness Shaikh Khaled bin Hamad Al Khalifa. The sporting world convened at the Khalifa Sports City Arena for the beginning of MMA’s premier amateur competition and the incredible scenes that await fans throughout the week were also put in…

A towering “Baby Trump” balloon — which has become a popular symbol for critics of the president — was knifed and deflated in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Saturday during President Donald Trump’s visit to watch a collegiate football game. A few dozen people were gathered in Monnish Park protesting the president’s visit to the Alabama-LSU football game a half-mile away and holding various anti-Trump signs when a disapproving man approached the helium-balloon with a knife and slashed an 8-foot-long gash in its back. There were still two hours to kickoff in the college town when “Baby Trump” quickly deflated out and the balloon-stabbing suspect…

Oleg Sokolov, 63, was drunk and fell into the river as he tried to dispose of body parts, Russian media said. Police then found the decapitated body of Anastasia Yeshchenko, 24, at his home in the city of St Petersburg. Prof Sokolov is a Napoleon expert who has received France’s Légion d’Honneur. “He has admitted his guilt,” his lawyer Alexander Pochuyev told AFP, adding that he regretted what he had done and was now cooperating. Prof Sokolov reportedly told police that he killed his lover during an argument and then sawed off her head, arms and legs. He is said…

BRAVE 29 will showcase two of the best Flyweights in the world as Jose Torres and Marcel Adur clash for the inaugural world title in a blockbuster of a bout. As if their professional records and styles weren’t enough for BRAVE Nation to be excited about this Friday’s co-main event, then Road to BRAVE is what is needed. This edition’s episode cuts deep into both men’s personal tragedies and how they relate to fighting. Last month, Jose Torres lost his father right after accepting to fight Marcel for the title. He has decided to fight on regardless of his grief…

The instructions for lamb stew read more like a list of ingredients than a bona fide recipe: “Meat is used. You prepare water. You add fine-grained salt, dried barley cakes, onion, Persian shallot, and milk. You crush and add leek and garlic.” But it’s impossible to ask the chef to reveal the missing pieces: This recipe’s writer has been dead for some 4,000 years. Instead, a team of international scholars versed in culinary history, food chemistry and cuneiform (the Babylonian system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia) have been working to recreate this dish and three…

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…