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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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