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Foggy wins down under –
Former motorbike rider Carl Fogarty, four time winner of the World Superbike Championship, has won the British “I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here” in Australia. The 49-year-old known as Foggy beat former X Factor contestant Jake Quickenden and TV presenter Melanie Sykes in the final of the ITV show.
Carl Fogarty

LA Galaxy win MLS again –
Californian soccer team LA Galaxy have won a fifth Major League Soccer (MLS) title with a 2-1 victory over the New England Revolution in the championship-deciding MLS Cup. LA have won three of the last four league titles and Irish striker Robbie Keane grabbed an extra-time winner to give the Galaxy the victory after New England’s Chris Tierney had cancelled out Gyasi Zardes’ opener for LA. (See List of The Day)
Robbie Keane

Royal US visit starts –
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have arrived in New York for a tour of the east coast of the United States during which Prince William will meet President Barack Obama. The Royal couple previously met the Obama’s after their wedding in 2011.
The Royals meeting the President and Mrs Obama in London in 2011

Not out of the woods yet –
Tiger Woods return to competition golf ends badly as he finishes last in the 18 player Hero World Challenge tournament in Florida and is physically sick on the fairway. He has not played competitively for four months due to back pain.
Tiger Woods

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MLS Cup titles and Supporters’ Shield Wins

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian Civil War
  • The Israeli Air Force bombs two Syrian Armed Forces bases near Damascus and the town of Dimas, according to Russian and Syrian sources. (BBC News)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Ugandan rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces and National Army for the Liberation of Uganda kill 36 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo‘s North Kivu province. (Reuters/AFP via ABC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Typhoon Hagupit
  • The death toll from Typhoon Hagupit in the Philippines is at least three as the storm weakens. (BBC)
• A bus goes off a mountain road in western Nepal, killing 17 passengers. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Philippines v. China
  • China condemns the Philippines over the latter’s “pressure” over the South China Sea despite the disadvantage of the Armed Forces of the Philippines against China’s People’s Liberation Army. (The Sunday Times), (Bloomberg)

Law and crime

• The Obama administration orders the transfer of six prisoners from Guantanamo Bay detention camp to Uruguay, the largest single group of detainees to be released in five years and the first to be resettled in South America. (New York Times)
• The Saudi Interior Ministry arrests 135 on terrorism offences, including dozens suspected of links to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (Al Jazeera)
• A chlorine gas leak injures 19 at the Chicago’s ‘Furfest’, a Furry convention. Police say the act was intentional. (NBC News)

Politics and elections

• United States Senate election in Louisiana, 2014
  • Democrat Mary Landrieu loses her bid for a fourth term representing Louisiana in the United States Senate toRepublican Congressman Bill Cassidy in Saturday’s runoff election, increasing the GOP majority in the U.S. Senateto 54 seats. (USA Today) (Newsweek)

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