Pro-Palestine activists have targeted Trump’s Turnberry golf course in Scotland, spraying “GAZA IS NOT 4SALE” on the lawn and splattering red paint on the clubhouse in protest against his plans for the US to take over Gaza and resettle its population.
Magomed Ankalaev scored a stunning upset with a unanimous decision to take Alex Pereira’s undisputed light heavyweight belt at UFC 313 in Las Vegas.
All three judges scored in favour of Ankalaev (21-1-1) in the Saturday night clash, with scores of 29-26 and two at 28-27.
Ankalaev fought a tactical, measured bout to unseat Pereira, who struggled to generate opportunities in the Octagon to unleash his signature left hook against the Dagestan fighter.
“I knew it would be a war”, said Pereira (12-3-0). “Every fight of mine is a war”.
Pereira’s loss to Ankalaev ends a highly publicised streak of three title defenses within the last year, a stretch that saw the 37-year-old become arguably the biggest star in the sport. A win would have made Pereira the second-fastest fighter to four title defenses in UFC history.
In the co-main event, the number three-ranked lightweight and fan favourite Justin Gaethje (27-5-0) earned a unanimous decision over number 11 Rafael Fiziev (12-4-0).
Gaethje was scheduled to fight Dan Hooker, who pulled out because of a hand injury. Gaethje dropped Fiziev with a stiff right uppercut in the second round.
CCTV video captured the moment a Peruvian man miraculously survived after being run over by a train in Lima while he was asleep on the tracks. Authorities believe the 28-year-old was under the influence of alcohol, and he was taken to a hospital with minor hand injuries.
Jayson Tatum had 40 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists, helping the Boston Celtics defeat the visiting Los Angeles Lakers 111-101 in a game where LeBron James exited the contest with an injury.
Jaylen Brown added 31 points and six rebounds for the Celtics, who also received 14 points and nine rebounds from Al Horford in the Saturday night blockbuster clash between the NBA’s two winningest franchises.
James, who had 22 points and 14 rebounds for the Lakers, left the game with a groin strain with 6: 44 remaining in the fourth quarter and did not return.
James, 40, told reporters the injury would be treated “day-to-day” and added that there was “not much concern”.
Luka Doncic led the Lakers with 34 points and eight rebounds. He made five of 10 three-point attempts.
Austin Reaves was the only other Laker who scored in double figures with 16 points.
Los Angeles trailed by 22 points in the second half but was within four points after two Doncic free throws made it 96-92 with 5: 06 to play. The Lakers failed to get any closer, however, and Boston was able to pull away to secure the victory.
The loss ended the Lakers ‘ eight-game winning streak. They dropped down to third place in the Western Conference with a 41-22 record.
Boston improved to 46-18 to remain second in the Eastern Conference, seven and a half games behind leaders Cleveland.
Gusts and torrential rain have caused widespread power outages and triggered flash floods in parts of Australia’s east coast, with one person killed and a dozen soldiers wounded.
After days hovering off the coast as a Category 2 tropical cyclone and battering a 400km (250-mile) stretch of coastline, Alfred significantly weakened on Sunday, but still left significant disturbance along its path.
Some 316, 540 people were without power as of Sunday in Queensland’s southeast, where the Gold Coast city was the worst-hit area, energy distributor Energex said in a statement.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that the “situation in Queensland and northern New South Wales remains very serious due to flash flooding and heavy winds”.
“Heavy rainfall, damaging wind gusts, and coastal surf impacts are expected to continue over coming days”, Albanese said in Canberra.
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In Queensland’s Hervey Bay, more than 230mm (9 inches) of rain was recorded in just six hours on Sunday morning, according to State Premier David Crisafulli.
“We’ve seen that culminate in reports of flash flooding in homes and in businesses”, Crisafulli was quoted as saying by the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.
News.com. au reported that emergency services in Hervey Bay have carried out multiple rescues “in one of its worst weather emergencies on record” in the area.
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said heavy rainfall that could cause flash flooding was developing on Sunday and could affect Brisbane as well as the Queensland regional centres of Ipswich, Sunshine Coast and Gympie.
Damaging winds with gusts of about 90km/h (60mph) were also possible in the state, the bureau said on its website.
Brisbane airport reopened on Sunday but posted on X that “ongoing weather may affect the schedule”.
Queensland will decide later on Sunday whether about 1, 000 state schools, closed due to the bad weather, will reopen on Monday.
The neighbouring state of New South Wales (NSW) has confirmed all public schools that were closed on Friday due to Alfred will remain closed again on Monday.
On Saturday, one man died in a flood in northern NSW.
Meanwhile, 13 Australian Defence Force soldiers en route to help residents in NSW’s city of Lismore were injured in a road collision, officials said. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, two of the soldiers remain in serious condition.
Alfred is the first cyclone to cross the east Australian coast , near the Queensland state capital of Brisbane since 1974.
In cities like Buenos Aires, Argentina on Saturday, those warnings were particularly grave, as protesters railed against austerity plans put forth by President Javier Milei that they say will roll back services for women.
Milei’s government has shut down the country’s Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity and plans to strike “femicide” – the term for the murder of women in the context of gender violence – from the country’s penal code. His justice minister has called the term a “distortion of the concept of equality”, claiming it indicates a higher value for women’s lives.
Reporting from Buenos Aires, Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo said demonstrators say the move is particularly harmful given that one woman is killed every 30 hours in the country. A UN report released last year found that about 60 percent of women and girls killed in 2023 were murdered by their intimate partner or a close relative.
“Women here say that they’ve been fighting for too long, that they won’t back down, that they won’t be silent”, Bo said. “They say that their fight is too important, and that’s why they say that they will continue with their struggle on the streets”.
Hundreds of women in Ecuador marched in the capital Quito holding signs that opposed violence and the “patriarchal system”.
“Justice for our daughters”! demonstrators yelled in support of women slain in recent years.
In Bolivia, thousands of women began marching late Friday, with some scrawling graffiti on the walls of courts, demanding that their rights be respected and denouncing impunity in femicides, with less than half of those cases reaching sentencing.
In many European countries, women also protested against violence, for better access to gender-specific healthcare, equal pay and other issues in which there are still disparities with men.
In Poland, activists opened a centre across from the parliament building in Warsaw where women can go to have medical abortions, also known as non-surgical abortions, either alone or with other women.
Opening the centre on International Women’s Day across from the legislature was a symbolic challenge to authorities in the traditionally Roman Catholic nation, which has one of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws.
Protesters also took to the streets in Madrid, Spain.
Some protesters held up hand-drawn pictures depicting Gisele Pelicot, a French woman who was drugged by her now ex-husband in France over the course of a decade so that she could be raped by dozens of men while unconscious.
Pelicot has become a symbol for women all over Europe in the fight against sexual violence.
In the Nigerian capital of Lagos, thousands of women gathered at the Mobolaji Johnson Stadium, dancing and singing and celebrating their womanhood.
Many were dressed in purple – the traditional colour of the women’s liberation movement.
In Russia, the women’s day celebrations had more official overtones, with honour guard soldiers presenting yellow tulips to girls and women during a celebration in St Petersburg.