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Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour leadership contest and vows “fightback” –
Jeremy Corbyn has promised to lead a Labour “fightback” after being elected the party’s new leader by a landslide. The veteran left-winger got almost 60% of more than 400,000 votes cast, trouncing his rivals Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall. He immediately faced an exodus of shadow cabinet members – but senior figures including Ed Miliband urged the party’s MPs to get behind him. Mr Corbyn was a 200-1 outsider when the three-month contest began. But he was swept to victory on a wave of enthusiasm for his anti-austerity message and promise to scrap Britain’s nuclear weapons and renationalise the railways and major utilities. [BBC]
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Russian Cosmonaut Returns From Record-Breaking Space Mission –
Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka’s safe return from months aboard the International Space Station has put him in the record books for spending more time in space than any other human — the equivalent of nearly two and a half years on five different flights. Padalka, whose latest 168-day stay on the ISS gives him a total of 879 days in space, has smashed the previous record, which was set by fellow Russian Sergei Krikalev in 2005, by two months. [NPR]
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Floyd Mayweather beats Andre Berto to make it 49 straight wins –
Floyd Mayweather made it 49 straight wins with a wide points victory over Andre Berto in Las Vegas. The challenger was game but his fellow American, defending his WBC and WBA welterweight titles, was simply too difficult to hit at the MGM Grand. Mayweather, 38, was awarded the verdict 120-108, 118-110 and 117-111. Mayweather was adamant it was his last fight, but having equalled Rocky Marciano’s career record of 49-0, he might decide to have one more. “My career is over, that’s official,” said five-weight world champion Mayweather, widely regarded as the greatest fighter of his generation. Mayweather made $34m (£22m) for his latest outing but few expect him to fulfil his promise to retire. [BBC] In June Mayweather topped the Forbes Celebrity rich list
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Harvard’s exclusive Spee club invites women to join after decades of resistance –
The barriers have fallen one by one at Harvard’s exclusive Spee Club. First Catholics were admitted at the start of the 20th century, then Jews in the 1930s and blacks in the 1960s. But female undergraduates were always a step too far. The Spee even moved off campus in the 1980s when the university ordered it and eight other clubs to open their doors to women. This week, things finally changed for a club that once counted John F Kennedy among its members. A number of female students reported waking on Friday to find invitations – set out in ornate calligraphy and sealed with an elaborate “S” – had been slid under their doors asking them to attend a reception next week, the first step to membership. [Daily Telegraph]
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen, Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, Yemeni Civil War (2015)
- A drone strike kills four suspected Al-Qaeda militants in northern Yemen. (Reuters via Trust)
- Medics claim that at least 16 other people have been killed in Saudi led airstrikes. (Reuters)
- Houthi militants backed by allied Yemeni troops seize control of four Saudi military bases in Saudi Arabia’s southern ‘Asir Region according to Yemeni state TV. (Press TV)
- Sino-Indian border dispute
- Chinese and Indian troops face-off in the Burtse region of northern Ladakh after Indian troops dismantled a disputed watchtower the Chinese were building close to the mutually-agreed patrolling line. (Economic Times)
- Sinai insurgency
- The Egyptian Armed Forces claim that an offensive against ISIS militants in northern Sinai over the past week has killed at least 164 insurgents with the loss of eight troops. (AFP via Sky News)
- Arts and culture
- Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas wins a Golden Lion award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival for Desde allá. (AP)
- Disasters and accidents
- An Indian Railways train derailment near Gulbarga in Karnataka state kills at least two people with several others injured. (AP via Star Tribune)
- Tropical Storm Etau (2015)
- Petlawad explosion
- A series of explosions involving propane triggering nearby illegally stored mining detonators in the Indian town of Petlawad in the state of Madhya Pradesh kills at least 104 people with over 150 missing. (News 18), (ABC News Australia), (AP via US News)
- 2015 California wildfires
- The Butte Fire has destroyed 60 homes in the rural counties of Amador and Calaveras and threatens 6000 residents. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
- Politics and elections
- The outcome of the election for the next leader of the United Kingdom Labour Party is announced with Jeremy Corbyn winning the contest ahead of Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall while Tom Watson is elected as the new deputy leader. (The Telegraph), (Evening Standard)
- Sport
- 2015 US Open (tennis)
- In tennis, Italian Flavia Pennetta defeats fellow countrywoman Roberta Vinci in two sets to win the 2015 US Open women’s singles title. During the awards ceremony, Pennetta announces her retirement from tennis. (AP) (BBC) (US Open)
- Major League Baseball
- David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox hits two home runs in the Sox’ 10–4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, making him the 27th player in MLB history with 500 career homers. (ESPN)
- In boxing, Floyd Mayweather, in what is expected to be the final fight of his career, defeats Andre Berto by unanimous decision to extend his record to 49–0. (ESPN)
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