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Mark Zuckerberg has been pictured in training ahead of a proposed cage fight with his social media rival Elon Musk. Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and owner of Meta, was shown at a training session with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight champion Israel Adesanya and UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski. In a post on Twitter, Adesanya said "this is serious business" as Zuckerberg, who also posted images on his Instagram page, prepares for a potential fight with Musk. READ MORE https://news.sky.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-pictured-training-with-ufc-champions-ahead-of-possible-elon-musk-bout-12919665

UPDATE: Huw Edwards in hospital as he is named in BBC presenter row Huw Edwards is in hospital with "serious mental health issues", his wife says, as she named him as the BBC presenter at the centre of allegations. His wife Vicky Flind said she was issuing a statement on his behalf after days of speculation "primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children". The Sun has claimed he paid a young person for sexually explicit images. The Met Police says Edwards, 61, will not face any police action. READ MORE https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66180799

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UPDATE: Trump not entitled to immunity in Carroll defamation lawsuit, DoJ says The justice department has reversed its position on defending former US president Donald Trump in a lawsuit brought by writer E Jean Carroll, paving the way for a possible trial in January. The department said in a court filing on Tuesday that it can no longer conclude Trump was acting in his capacity as president when he made allegedly defamatory statements about Carroll in 2019. The former Elle magazine columnist alleges that she was sexually assaulted by Trump in a New York department store in 1996, a claim that he dismissed as “a complete con job”. READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/11/doj-trump-not-entitled-to-immunity-carroll-defamation-lawsuit

Scientists are a step closer to officially declaring a new geological time period that marks the start of humanity's irreversible impact on the planet. How to define the start of the Anthropocene epoch, which would need to be visible in layers of rock in millions of years' time, has proved controversial. Although humans began to have big impacts on the planet with the rise of widespread farming, and later the industrial revolution, neither happened in every part of the world at the same time. Now an international team of experts has concluded that the Anthropocene is visible globally in the top sediment layer of the Earth's surface, starting in the 1950s. READ MORE https://news.sky.com/story/earth-moves-closer-to-new-geological-epoch-as-surface-shows-indelible-impact-of-human-activity-12919076

UPDATE: LIVE BBC boss Tim Davie defends delay in speaking to presenter Key dates from new BBC timeline 18 May: A family member of a young person attends a BBC building to make a complaint about a BBC presenter 19 May: The complainant contacts BBC Audience Services; the details are referred to the BBC’s Corporate Investigations Team 19 May: That team emails the complainant seeking additional information - there was no response 6 June: Having received no response to the email, a phone call was made to the mobile number provided by the complainant - this call did not connect. "No additional attempts to contact the complainant were made after 6 June, however the case remained open throughout" READ MORE https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-66159469

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UPDATE: Claims about BBC presenter are rubbish, says young person at centre of scandal The young person at the centre of a scandal over a BBC presenter reportedly paying for explicit pictures has issued a statement in which they claimed the key allegations are “rubbish”. The young person’s mother made the allegations in the Sun newspaper, which published her claim that payments from the BBC presenter helped fund her child’s crack cocaine habit. Yet in a dramatic turn of events, on Monday evening the young person’s lawyer issued a statement saying the mother and the Sun had made false claims. READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/10/claims-about-bbc-presenter-are-rubbish-says-young-person-at-centre-of-scandal

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UPDATE: BBC presenter accused of making panicked calls to teenager to ask ‘what have you done?’ after story broke The BBC presenter accused of paying a teenager for explicit pictures made panicked phone calls to them after the story was published to try and stop the investigation, it has been claimed. The TV star, who was suspended by the broadcaster on Sunday, allegedly called the teenager twice after the claims were made in The Sun last week and asked: “What have you done?” He also asked the alleged victim - who is now 20 but said to have been 17 when the payments began - to call their mother and get her to “stop the investigation”, according to the newspaper. READ MORE https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bbc-presenter-accused-suspended-phone-calls-b2372180.html