Nassourdine Imavov beats Caio Borralho in Paris, then issued a title challenge to UFC middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev.
Published On 7 Sep 20257 Sep 2025
Nassourdine Imavov outlasted Caio Borralho in the main event of UFC Fight Night in France, earning a unanimous decision and consolidating his claim as a potential title challenger to middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev.
Imavov, fighting in front of his home crowd at Accor Arena in Paris, secured a fifth straight UFC victory, with the three judges delivering a clear win for the 84kg (185-pound) fighter: 50-45, 49-46, 49-46.
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The Saturday night bout was one-sided, with Imavov (20-4 MMA) controlling the distance for the fight’s duration with clean boxing and pressure volume, not allowing Borralho (17-2 MMA) to find openings, as he entered the contest with an imposing 62 percent of his wins by either KO/TKO or submission.
Imanov, who laid claim to the UFC middleweight division’s No 2 ranking, was hard on himself about not finishing Borralho as he had planned.
Despite not earning a stoppage victory, he had one message for Chimaev (15-0 MMA).
“I am next,” Imavov said as the crowd erupted during his post-fight speech. “[Borralho] was unbeaten for 10 years. I just beat him, and beat him with style as well. I need to be the next one [to fight for the UFC middleweight title].”
The loss for the No 7-ranked Borralho marked his first inside the UFC. After the fight, he acknowledged Imavov as one of the toughest opponents of his career.
“Thank you, Nassourdine, for the respect,” Borralho said. “Thank you so much… I think Nassourdine was the better man today. He was very fast, as I was expecting. He did very good in the fight. I couldn’t really adapt [my strategy] that much. I wanted to make this fight entertaining for the fans and the UFC. So, I tried to strike with one of the best strikers in the world, and that’s what you guys saw: a great war.”
In the co-headline fight, lightweight Benoit Saint Denis secured a rear-naked choke over Mauricio Ruffy at 2:56 of the second round.
Saint Denis (15-3 MMA) got a large lift from the hometown crowd and became the first fighter to submit Ruffy (12-2 MMA) in his career.
Ruffy’s loss to Saint Denis snapped a seven-fight winning streak dating back to November 2019.
The No 2-ranked Imavov called for his next bout to be a title showdown against middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev [Per Haljestam/Imagn Images via Reuters]
Warner Chappell Music, the publishing arm of Warner Music Group, has renewed its long-running global publishing deal with country superstar Kacey Musgraves.
“Warner Chappell has been a wonderful longstanding home for my songs and I’m so grateful for the continuation into a future I’m so excited about,” Musgraves said in a statement on Thursday (September 4).
Musgraves, an eight-time Grammy winner, recently received the Songwriter Icon Award from the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA). Her 2024 album Deeper Well (MCA Nasvhille/Interscope), became her fifth consecutive No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and featured the hit The Architect, which won Best Country Song at the 2025 Grammys.
“Kacey has been a valuable part of our Warner Chappell family here in Nashville for a long time, and we’re proud to continue championing her artistry and songs,” WCM Nashville General Manager Phil May added.
“She joined WCM shortly after I did, and I was fortunate to be a part of her first deal with us. It’s been an honor to watch her career growth over the years, and we’re very excited to see what the future holds for her as she continues to raise the bar as both a songwriter and artist.”
In a joint statement, WCM Co-Chair and CEO Guy Moot and Co-Chair and COO Carianne Marshall called Musgraves “an exceptionally gifted songwriter who has been a powerful voice in country music from the start,” and added they’re “looking forward to helping shape this next chapter.”
A native of Golden, Texas, Musgraves began writing songs at the age of eight and shortly after learned to play the guitar and mandolin. She released three self-produced albums as a teenager in the early 2000s.
“Warner Chappell has been a wonderful longstanding home for my songs and I’m so grateful for the continuation into a future I’m so excited about.”
Kacey Musgraves
Her long-running relationship with Warner Chappell began around 2010, when at the age of 21 she joined the publisher as a staff writer, sometimes writing multiple songs in one day for various artists, according to a 2021 interview in the New York Times.
In 2013 she released her first major label album, Same Trailer Different Park (Mercury Nashville), which took home the Best Country Album award at the Grammys.
That was followed by Pageant Material (Mercury Nashville, 2015), A Very Kacey Christmas (Mercury Nashville, 2016), and Golden Hour (MCA Nashville, 2018), the groundbreaking album featuring the Grammy-winning tracks Space Cowboy (Best Country Song) and Butterflies (Best Country Solo Performance). With Golden Hour, Musgraves became only the third artist ever to win the Album of the Year award at the Grammys, Country Music Awards and ACM Awards.
Her 2023 duet with Zach Bryan, I Remember Everything, debuted in the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, marking first No. 1 on that chart. That track took the Best Country Duo/Group Performance award at the Grammys, making Musgraves the only artist to win a Grammy in every Country category.
The renewed deal with Musgraves comes on the heels of a number of other signings at Warner Chappell, including a worldwide admin deal this past April with Grammy-winning DJ and producer Diplo, and an admin and sub-publishing deal with French DJ and producer Bob Sinclar.Music Business Worldwide
The jihadist group Boko Haram has killed more than 60 people in an overnight attack in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno State, local officials say.
On Friday night militants struck the village of Darul Jamal, home to a military base on the Nigeria-Cameroon border, killing at least five soldiers.
The Nigerian Air Force said it killed 30 militants in strikes after receiving reports of the raid on the village, where residents had recently returned following years of displacement.
The attack comes amid a resurgence in jihadist activity in Nigeria’s north-east, with Boko Haram fights and rivals, the West African branch of the Islamic State group, stepping up attacks.
More than 20 houses and 10 buses were destroyed in Darul Jamal, while at least 13 drivers and labourers, who had been working on reconstruction efforts in the town were killed, Reuters reported.
Visiting the village on Saturday, Borno Governor Babagana Zulum said: “It’s very sad, this community was resettled some months ago and they went about their normal business,” he told AFP news agency.
“The numerical strength of the Nigerian army is not enough to contain the situation,” he said, adding that a newly established force called the Forest Guards was set to bolster security personnel in the embattled region.
Nigerian Air Force spokesperson Ehimen Ejodame said surveillance revealed militants “fleeing northwards from the town towards nearby bushes,” on Friday night.
“In a series of three precise and successive strikes, the fleeing terrorists were decisively engaged, resulting in the neutralisation of over 30 insurgents,” he said.
The military has intensified operations in north-eastern Nigeria this year, following persistent targeted attacks on its formations and installations.
In April, Governor Zulum warned that Boko Haram was making a comeback after its fighters staged a series of attacks and seized control of some parts of the state.
Borno has been at the centre of a 15-year insurgency by the militant group, which has forced more than two million people to flee their homes and killed more than 40,000.
At the height of its powers in 2015, Boko Haram controlled huge areas in Borno state before being beaten back.
The fight against the militants became even more challenging after neighbouring Niger withdrew its troops from a regional force set up to tackle the jihadist group.
Boko Haram gained international notoriety in April 2014 when it kidnapped more than 270 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok, also in Borno state.
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South Sudan says Mexico provides assurances its national deported by the US in July would not face torture or other inhumane treatment.
Published On 6 Sep 20256 Sep 2025
South Sudan says it has repatriated to Mexico a man deported from the United States as part of US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on Saturday said Mexico had accepted the return of Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, one of eight men deported from the US to South Sudan on July 5 after a long-running legal battle.
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The statement added that Munoz-Gutierrez had been repatriated after being transferred to the custody of Mexican Ambassador Alejandro Estivill Castro in a “smooth and orderly” process.
South Sudan thanked Mexico for its cooperation and said it had received assurances Munoz-Gutierrez would not be subjected to “torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, or undue prosecution upon his return”.
The statement said he had been treated with “full respect for his human dignity and fundamental rights” during his stay in the capital, Juba.
The repatriation was carried out “in full accordance with relevant international law, bilateral agreements, and established diplomatic protocols”, it added.
‘Felt kidnapped’
In comments to journalists in Juba, Munoz-Gutierrez said he “felt kidnapped” when the US sent him to South Sudan.
“I was not planning to come to South Sudan, but while I was here, they treated me well,” he said. “I finished my time in the United States, and they were supposed to return me to Mexico. Instead, they wrongfully sent me to South Sudan.”
The US Department of Homeland Security has said Munoz-Gutierrez had a conviction for second-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
South Sudan is discussing with other countries the repatriation of the six deportees still in its custody, said Apuk Ayuel Mayen, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry.
It is not clear if the deportees have access to legal representation. Only one of eight was from South Sudan.
Rights groups have argued that the Trump administration’s increasing practice of deporting migrants to third countries violates international law and the basic rights of migrants.
The deportations have faced opposition by courts in the US although the Supreme Court in June allowed the government to restart swift removals of migrants to countries other than their homelands.
Other African nations receiving deportees from the US include Uganda, Eswatini and Rwanda. Eswatini received five men with criminal backgrounds in July.
Rwanda announced the arrival of a group of seven deportees in mid-August.
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Michael Yuen, a Winter Juniors qualifier from Sugar Land, Texas, has sent his verbal commitment to Villanova University for the fall of 2026, and he will come in as a conference scorer.
“I’m super humbled and thrilled to announce my verbal commitment to pursue my academic and athletic career at Villanova University! First off, I’d like to thank God for blessing me with this amazing opportunity and my family for being my biggest supporters towards my endeavors. Next, I’d like to thank all my teammates and coaches, especially Coach Daniel, Coach Ben, and Coach Keogh. Lastly, I’d like to extend an immense gratitude to the coaching staff at Villanova University for making this opportunity of swimming at the Division 1 level possible. GO CATS!!! #novanation”
Yuen swims for First Colony Swim Team in Texas where he was a member of their Winter Juniors West team in December. At that meet, he set a new personal best leading off the 400 freestyle relay (46.22). He also went new best times in the 200 fly (1:49.14) and the 200 IM (1:51.72).
He will be a senior this year at Strake Jesuit High School which is a Texas 6A school. At the Texas State Championships in February, Yuen swam the 200 freestyle, ultimately finishing 16th with his time of 1:41.92 in the finals. He was also a USA Swimming Scholastic All-American last season.
A few weeks later, Yuen competed at the Speedo Sectionals meet in Justin, where he set a host of new personal best times en route to five different event finals in the freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly, and IM events.
Yuen’s SCY Best Times
200 free- 1:39.51
100 fly- 49.21
200 fly- 1:48.82
200 IM- 1:51.72
Villanova is a Division I mid-major school that competes in the Big East Conference. At the 2025 Big East Championships, the men’s team was 4th overall, just 20 points away from Seton Hall in 2nd place.
Yuen will be a difference-maker on the team, coming in as a potential ‘A’ finalist in three different events. At last season’s conference meet, he would have been 5th in the 100 and 200 fly and 7th in the 200 freestyle.
He probably won’t swim the 100 fly and 200 freestyle, as they are on the same day. He doesn’t have an exceptional 3rd event at the moment, but two ‘A’ finals swims as a freshman will be huge for Villanova who is looking to make their way up the leaderboard. He will also likely end up on the 800 freestyle relay, as his best time would have been 2nd on the team last year.
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‘I’ll never take the funicular again’: Witness on moment of the crash
Portugal is reeling after 16 people died and around 20 were injured when Lisbon’s famous Glória funicular cable railway derailed on Wednesday evening.
Five of those killed were Portuguese along with three Britons, two South Koreans, two Canadians, an American, a Ukrainian, a Swiss and a French national, police say.
Police have not yet confirmed the identities of those who died, but some have been named elsewhere. Here is what we know about them.
André Jorge Gonçalves Marques
André Jorge Gonçalves Marques (Facebook)
The death of Mr Marques, who worked as the brake guard on the funicular,was reported by Portuguese transport union Sitra.
“We send our condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the accident and wish them a speedy recovery as well as the best recovery to the others injured in the accident,” the union wrote on Facebook.
He was a “dedicated, kind and happy professional, always willing to contribute to the greater good”, according to his employer Carris, which runs the funicular.
Vladimiro Santos, a childhood friend of Mr Marques, told the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manhã he had grown up in the village of Sarnadas de São Simão in central Portugal, moving to Lisbon as a young man.
Mr Marques leaves behind a wife and two children, the newspaper reported.
Pedro Manuel Alves Trindade
Portuguese Volleyball Federation
The former volleyball referee was named as a victim of the crash by the Portuguese Volleyball Federation, which said it was “deeply saddened by the tragedy”.
Mr Trindade, it said, had served as leader of the Lisbon Volleyball Association as well as being a referee for it.
He had worked for the Santa Casa da Misericórdia organisation, the largest charity in Portugal.
In all, four Santa Casa da Misericórdia employees died in the crash while two others remained in hospital as of Friday.
Mr Trindade also worked in the village of Estoril – roughly 24km (14 miles) from Lisbon – as a guest professor at a higher education institute specialising in hospitality and tourism.
Kayleigh Smith and Will Nelson
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Theatre director Kayleigh Smith and her partner Will Nelson have been named as British victims of the Lisbon funicular crash.
MADS Theatre in Macclesfield posted a tribute on Friday night acknowledging their deaths in the tragedy, writing that Ms Smith was “a dear friend to many and will be greatly missed”.
On the morning of the crash, Ms Smith had posted a series of photos of their trip to the Portuguese capital on social media.
The UK Foreign Office said it was “supporting the families of the three British nationals who have died” and was in contact with the local authorities.
A third British victim has yet to be named.
Blandine Daux and André Bergeron
Two residents of Quebec province in Canada have been named as victims by Quebec’s culture and communications ministry.
The ministry’s Facebook page announced “with great sadness” the deaths of Mr Bergeron and Mrs Daux – “two valued members of its community”.
Both “contributed remarkably” to the archaeology-ethnology workshop at Quebec’s Centre of Conservation (CCQ), the statement said.
Mr Bergeron was “one of the pioneers” of CCQ who devoted more than 40 years to restoration before retiring in 2022. Mrs Daux had joined the team in 2001.
“Their departure leaves a huge void in the CCQ and the Ministry of Culture and Communications,” the tribute read.
Mr Bergeron’s brother, Eric, confirmed the deaths of the married couple to multiple Canadian news outlets.
Eric told CBC the pair were visiting Portugal to celebrate André’s 70th birthday.
Eric described them as “a super nice couple, they were in love, it’s heart-breaking. My brother was a happy man, they were a happy couple.”
They leave behind two daughters who are “shattered”, he said.
Heather Hall
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Heather Hall has been named as a victim of the crash by the College of Charleston.
The college confirmed that she had worked at the South Carolina school for nearly two decades and had “blazed a trail as a special educator at the school”.
Ms Hall served on the disability board and was a “tireless advocate for equity, representation, and belonging,” its statement said.
“She believed deeply in the power of education to change lives, and she poured her wisdom, joy, and belief in others into her students and colleagues alike”.
Ms Hall leaves behind two children, who she “believed in with all her heart”.
Republican Senator Tim Scott wrote on X that he was “deeply saddened” by the news and that her “dedication to education and her contributions to our community will be remembered”.
Other Santa Casa da Misericórdia employees
The other employees of Santa Casa da Misericórdia who were killed have been named in Portuguese media.
Alda Matias worked at the Strategic Planning Department alongside Mr Trindade, Sandra Coelho worked in the cultural department, and Ana Paula Lopez was linked to childhood and youth projects, colleagues have told the BBC.
One employee, Valdemar Bastos, told the BBC that staff had often used the funicular, along with tourists and elderly people, rather than walking up the steep hill.
In a statement to staff, Paulo Sousa, the charity’s ombudsman, said: “It is in shock that we all find ourselves. We lost colleagues, friends, people with whom we shared our daily lives and our mission.”
Seven other deaths
Details are still emerging of the other victims.
The Ukrainian foreign ministry confirmed for the BBC Ukrainian service that a 54-year-old Ukrainian man was among the dead.
France’s foreign ministry expressed its “great sadness” following the death of a Frenchwoman.
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Lisbon’s funiculars were suspended in the aftermath of the Gloria funicular railway car derailment and crash
The injured
On Thursday, Alvaro Santos Almeida, head of Portugal’s’ health service, said 23 people had been injured. Six of them were in intensive care and three had sustained minor wounds.
Three of those injured are Portuguese, one is German, one is South Korean, one is Swiss, one is Cape Verdean and one is Moroccan.
Spanish, Israeli, Brazilian, Italian and French nationals were also involved, he added.
A German family-of-three were also on board the funicular when it crashed, local media report.
Portuguese news outlet Observador previously reported that the father had been killed, but police clarified on Friday that a German citizen named as one of the dead was discovered alive in hospital.
The mother was said to be in a critical condition in hospital, and a three-year-old boy sustained minor injuries.
A glance at the passengers in a subway car is enough to see that cell phones have changed how we communicate (and not communicate). However, it is also clear that the evolution of these terminals has been slowing down. While a decade ago there were qualitative leaps forward, today manufacturers announce a larger number of cameras or megapixels. Could we be on the verge of a technological breakthrough? Augmented and mixed reality and the development of new contact lenses and smart glasses suggest we are.
In this article, you will learn about the following:
The ultimate goal of smart contact lenses and smart glasses is to free us from the tyranny of the cell phone in our hand. This is achieved by using a non-intrusive device that performs essential computing functions. This is known as “invisible computing,” a term coined by cognitive science professor Don Norman of the University of California in the late 20th century. In this new paradigm, technology will adapt to the user’s needs and body, as with mixed reality glasses or wearables, and information will only be displayed when needed.
To achieve this, translucent materials are being investigated that incorporate circuitry and display information on the lens substrate. Thanks to the very nature of the device, the images will accompany eye movement. It is expected that smart contact lenses will integrate this type of technology:
It is still too early to tell in which direction this new generation of contact lenses will move. Still, most of the computational processing and data storage will possibly take place on other devices such as cell phones or even in the cloud.
This type of research has been underway for several years. In fact, Google announced in 2014 that it would develop a smart contact lens to measure glucose levels, but the project did not come to fruition. Then came Google Glass, which was not very well received either. Apple is rumored to be planning augmented reality glasses that would go virtually unnoticed. For now, however, it seems that no one has managed to hit the mark. But that could happen soon.
A first working prototype of a smart contact lens
A U.S. manufacturer has just announced that it has completed its first working prototype of a smart lens. The new device is a “scleral” lens, i.e. it covers the entire eye and not just the pupil and iris. According to its developers, they have successfully integrated the display, communications systems, and battery into a tiny convex sheet. The first generation will display monochrome images with 14,000 pixels per inch density.
Apart from the hardware, another breakthrough is developing the operating system and user interface (UX), allowing new applications and use cases to be tested with partners and consumers. The conjunction of the software and the integrated hardware solution will enable the technology to be tested in real-world scenarios over the coming months and years.
The initial goal of the new contact lenses is to offer a vision enhancement system to help people with partial blindness distinguish items such as road signs. However, they are also evaluating partnerships with sports shoe manufacturers and fitness companies, as applications promise to increase exponentially.
Main applications of smart contact lenses
Everything suggests that the first application of smart contact lenses will be to display basic data such as the boarding gate number at the airport, the distance of an object, or the number of steps in a training session. Later, if the technology catches on, we may see things like this:
Dynamic focus. The lenses will detect whether the wearer is reading a nearby text or looking at an object in the distance and focus automatically.
Health monitoring, thanks to the measurement of glucose, eye pressure, or eye temperature. In the future, these lenses may even be able to detect tumor markers.
Augmented and mixed reality. As soon as contact lenses can display complex images and modulate their opacity level, a user will be able to see virtual objects.
Basic applications such as compasses, map directions, or calendar reminders are now constrained to the cell phone or computer.
Medication administration for the treatment of diseases such as glaucoma.
For these applications and many others that are still unknown to us to become a reality, major scientific and technological breakthroughs in the miniaturization of batteries, processors and circuits will be needed. It will also be necessary to improve the ergonomics of contact lenses so that they can be worn comfortably throughout the day. Who knows if one day you will read an article like this one about smart contact lenses. Just in case, you can subscribe to our newsletter at the bottom of this page.
Pioneering computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, whose work has earned him a Nobel Prize and the moniker “godfather of AI,” said artificial intelligence will spark a surge in unemployment and profits.
In a wide-ranging interview with the Financial Times, the former Google scientist cleared the air about why he left the tech giant, raised alarms on potential threats from AI, and revealed how he uses the technology. But he also predicted who the winners and losers will be.
“What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers,” Hinton said. “It’s going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That’s not AI’s fault, that is the capitalist system.”
For now, layoffs haven’t spiked, but evidence is mounting that AI is shrinking opportunities, especially at the entry level where recent college graduates start their careers.
“If you could make doctors five times as efficient, we could all have five times as much health care for the same price,” he explained on the Diary of a CEO YouTube series in June. “There’s almost no limit to how much health care people can absorb—[patients] always want more health care if there’s no cost to it.”
Still, Hinton believes that jobs that perform mundane tasks will be taken over by AI, while sparing some jobs that require a high level of skill.
In his interview with the FT, he also dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s idea to pay a universal basic income as AI disrupts the economy and reduce demand for workers, saying it “won’t deal with human dignity” and the value people derive from having jobs.
Hinton has long warned about the dangers of AI without guardrails, estimating a 10% to 20% chance of the technology wiping out humans after the development of superintelligence.
In his view, the dangers of AI fall into two categories: the risk the technology itself poses to the future of humanity, and the consequences of AI being manipulated by people with bad intent.
In his FT interview, he warned AI could help someone build a bioweapon and lamented the Trump administration’s unwillingness to regulate AI more closely, while China is taking the threat more seriously. But he also acknowledged potential upside from AI amid its immense possibilities and uncertainties.
“We don’t know what is going to happen, we have no idea, and people who tell you what is going to happen are just being silly,” Hinton said. “We are at a point in history where something amazing is happening, and it may be amazingly good, and it may be amazingly bad. We can make guesses, but things aren’t going to stay like they are.”
Meanwhile, he told the FT how he uses AI in his own life, saying OpenAI’s ChatGPT is his product of choice. While he mostly uses the chatbot for research, Hinton revealed that a former girlfriend used ChatGPT “to tell me what a rat I was” during their breakup.
“She got the chatbot to explain how awful my behavior was and gave it to me. I didn’t think I had been a rat, so it didn’t make me feel too bad . . . I met somebody I liked more, you know how it goes,” he quipped.
Hinton also explained why he left Google in 2023. While media reports have said he quit so he could speak more freely about the dangers of AI, the 77-year-old Nobel laureate denied that was the reason.
“I left because I was 75, I could no longer program as well as I used to, and there’s a lot of stuff on Netflix I haven’t had a chance to watch,” he said. “I had worked very hard for 55 years, and I felt it was time to retire . . . And I thought, since I am leaving anyway, I could talk about the risks.”
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