Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Storm and typhoon wreak havoc. Florence kills 13; 'hurricane far from done'. Hong Kong on lockdown as Typhoon Mangkhut arrives. Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka in Asia Cup opener.
Alvarez dethrones Golovkin with majority decision win.
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Alvarez dethrones Golovkin with majority decision win.
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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, September the 16th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08U.S. authorities have warned residents displaced by a killer hurricane that its devastation
00:14was far from over.
00:15Hurricane Florence dumped epic amounts of rainfall across the southeastern U.S., bringing
00:20catastrophic flooding and up to 13 deaths.
00:23Florence made landfall on Friday as a Category 1 hurricane, but has since been downgraded
00:28to a tropical storm even as it continued to wreak havoc along the East Coast.
00:33It downed trees and power lines and forced 20,000 people to flee to shelters.
00:39Hong Kong and southern China, meanwhile, hunkered down under red alert today as strong winds
00:44and heavy rain from Typhoon Mangkut lashed the densely populated coast.
00:49It came a day after the biggest storm of the year left at least 28 dead from landslides
00:54and drownings in the northern Philippines.
00:57Nearly half a million people had been evacuated from seven cities in Guangdong province where
01:02the typhoon is due to make landfall later today.
01:05Mushfiqur Rahim smashed a brilliant career-best century to steer Bangladesh to an emphatic
01:11137-run victory over Sri Lanka in the opening Asia Cup match in Dubai.
01:16The former captain's 150-ball 144 with 11 4s and 4 6s lifted Bangladesh from a precarious
01:241-for-2 in the first over to 261.
01:28Sri Lanka, who have won five Asia Cup titles, lost half of their side for 60 in the 17th
01:34over before being bowled out for 124.
01:37Mexico's Sol Canelo Alvarez dethroned unified middleweight champion Kennedy Golovkin by
01:43a majority decision last night to win a hard-fought rematch.
01:47Alvarez showed skill and durability to outlast Golovkin in another attritional battle between
01:53the two rivals at the T-Mobile Arena.
01:55With one judge scoring it even at 114-114, Alvarez claimed the win after two judges scored
02:02it 115-113 in his favour.
02:06And finally, the weather.
02:08Today's high across the UAE will be 43 degrees Celsius, dropping to 33 degrees at night.
02:14That's all for now.
02:15Thanks for watching.
02:16And as always, you can get the latest updates on gulfnews.com.