*Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson slapped opponent Jake Paul* after the *Youtuber-turned-boxer stepped on his foot* as the two men faced off for the final time ahead of their controversial Netflix-backed bout. 🥊 🇺🇸 *Tyson, 58, hit Paul flush on the cheek with his right hand* after the formal weigh-in for Friday's fight at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, with *images showing Paul had initially stepped on the ex-champion's right foot.* *Tyson is reportedly being paid $20 million* for Friday's officially sanctioned bout in Texas, which will be comprised of eight two-minute rounds. *The contest has divided opinion across the boxing world*, with many prominent figures decrying the prospect of *Tyson lacing up his gloves nearly 40 years after his professional debut* and 19 years after his last officially sanctioned fight.

US President *Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will attend the first day of an Asia-Pacific leaders' summit* ahead of a face-to-face meeting under a cloud of diplomatic uncertainty cast by Donald Trump's election victory. 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 *Biden and Xi are due to hold talks Saturday,* in what a US administration official said will *probably be the last meeting between the sitting leaders of the world's largest economies* before Trump is sworn in in January. With the *Republican president-elect having signaled a confrontational approach to Beijing* for his second term, the bilateral meeting will be a closely watched affair. *Xi and Biden arrived in Lima on Thursday along with other world leaders* for a two-day heads-of-state meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping.

Donald Trump has tapped *anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.* as his secretary of health in the latest provocative nomination from the incoming Republican president. 🇺🇸 *Kennedy, a scion of the famous political family* who is popularly known as RFK Jr., is a longtime environmental campaigner who *abandoned a fringe bid for the presidency to endorse Trump* against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. The nomination could meet opposition, given *Kennedy's history of promoting medical conspiracy theories* -- including the *disproven claim that childhood vaccines cause autism* -- and saying that the Covid-19 vaccine was deadly. Since his election last week, several of Trump's choices for top jobs -- *including a TV news anchor at the helm of the Pentagon* and an *ally embroiled in sexual misconduct allegations for attorney general* -- have unnerved the Washington establishment.

Scientists say they have found the *world's largest coral "pulsing with life and colour" near the Pacific's Solomon Islands* . 🇸🇧 The *coral is so immense* that researchers sailing the crystal waters of the Solomon archipelago initially thought they had stumbled across a hulking shipwreck. 🐠 Measuring 34 metres wide (111 feet) and 32 metres long (104 feet), *the "mega coral" was three times bigger than the previous record holder* -- a coral dubbed "Big Momma" in American Samoa. The researchers said the *standalone structure had been growing for some 300 years* , and is distinct from a coral reef, which is made from many distinct coral colonies.

*NASA's Europa Clipper probe has blasted off from Florida, bound for an icy moon of Jupiter* to discover whether it has the ingredients to support life. 🚀 🇺🇸 *Lift-off aboard a powerful SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket took place on Monday,* with the probe set to reach Jupiter's moon Europa in five and a half years. *NASA confirmed that it had successfully acquired a signal from the probe* and that its massive solar arrays -- designed to capture the weak light that reaches Jupiter -- had fully unfolded. *The mission will allow the US space agency to uncover new details about Europa,* which scientists believe could hold an ocean beneath its icy surface.

NASA's Europa Clipper probe has blasted off from Florida, bound for an icy moon of Jupiter* to discover whether it has the ingredients to support life. 🚀 🇺🇸 *Lift-off aboard a powerful SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket took place on Monday,* with the probe set to reach Jupiter's moon Europa in five and a half years. *NASA confirmed that it had successfully acquired a signal from the probe* and that its massive solar arrays -- designed to capture the weak light that reaches Jupiter -- had fully unfolded. *The mission will allow the US space agency to uncover new details about Europa,* which scientists believe could hold an ocean beneath its icy surface.

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson slapped opponent Jake Paul* after the *Youtuber-turned-boxer stepped on his foot* as the two men faced off for the final time ahead of their controversial Netflix-backed bout. 🥊 🇺🇸 *Tyson, 58, hit Paul flush on the cheek with his right hand* after the formal weigh-in for Friday's fight at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, with *images showing Paul had initially stepped on the ex-champion's right foot.* *Tyson is reportedly being paid $20 million* for Friday's officially sanctioned bout in Texas, which will be comprised of eight two-minute rounds. *The contest has divided opinion across the boxing world*, with many prominent figures decrying the prospect of *Tyson lacing up his gloves nearly 40 years after his professional debut* and 19 years after his last officially sanctioned fight.

US President *Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will attend the first day of an Asia-Pacific leaders' summit* ahead of a face-to-face meeting under a cloud of diplomatic uncertainty cast by Donald Trump's election victory. 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 *Biden and Xi are due to hold talks Saturday,* in what a US administration official said will *probably be the last meeting between the sitting leaders of the world's largest economies* before Trump is sworn in in January. With the *Republican president-elect having signaled a confrontational approach to Beijing* for his second term, the bilateral meeting will be a closely watched affair. *Xi and Biden arrived in Lima on Thursday along with other world leaders* for a two-day heads-of-state meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping.

Donald Trump has tapped *anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.* as his secretary of health in the latest provocative nomination from the incoming Republican president. 🇺🇸 *Kennedy, a scion of the famous political family* who is popularly known as RFK Jr., is a longtime environmental campaigner who *abandoned a fringe bid for the presidency to endorse Trump* against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. The nomination could meet opposition, given *Kennedy's history of promoting medical conspiracy theories* -- including the *disproven claim that childhood vaccines cause autism* -- and saying that the Covid-19 vaccine was deadly. Since his election last week, several of Trump's choices for top jobs -- *including a TV news anchor at the helm of the Pentagon* and an *ally embroiled in sexual misconduct allegations for attorney general* -- have unnerved the Washington establishment.

Scientists say they have found the *world's largest coral "pulsing with life and colour" near the Pacific's Solomon Islands* . 🇸🇧 The *coral is so immense* that researchers sailing the crystal waters of the Solomon archipelago initially thought they had stumbled across a hulking shipwreck. 🐠 Measuring 34 metres wide (111 feet) and 32 metres long (104 feet), *the "mega coral" was three times bigger than the previous record holder* -- a coral dubbed "Big Momma" in American Samoa. The researchers said the *standalone structure had been growing for some 300 years* , and is distinct from a coral reef, which is made from many distinct coral colonies.