1 hour ago Conor McGregor says he is 'soon to be vindicated' as he launches furious tirade against his rape accuser Nikita Hand after she won €250,000 from him in court

Conor McGregor has warned he is 'soon to be vindicated' and will launch an appeal against a decision to award his rape accuser nearly €250,000 during a furious tirade on social media.

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2 hours ago Conor McGregor will be given UFC lifeline by Dana White, despite fighter losing sexual assault case

The Irishman was told on Friday that he must pay the woman who accused him of raping her in a hotel six years ago €250,000 ($260,000).

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3 hours ago Conor McGregor brands victim 'liar' and blasts 'kangaroo court' as UFC star launches rant

Conor McGregor has launched a furious rant on social media against Nikita Hand who accused him of rape and vowed to appeal after a jury found the UFC star assaulted the victim in a Dublin hotel

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4 hours ago Trump’s Cabinet and staff tracker: Here’s who is among the White House appointments so far

Here is who Donald Trump has chosen to fill key cabinet positions in his second administration

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4 hours ago Elizabeth Line workers to strike on New Year’s Eve in pay and conditions dispute

Workers on London’s Elizabeth Line are to strike in a dispute over pay.

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5 hours ago Emily Atack shares rare photo of baby son Barney and shows how much he has grown

Emily Atack, who is starring in Disney+ racy drama Rivals, has shared a rare photo of her son Barney and he has grown a lot since the last time he appeared on social media

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5 hours ago I’ve joined Bluesky and it feels like a breath of fresh air – in some ways | John Naughton

The flourishing new platform may be like Twitter once was. The problem is the limited algorithmic scope of all social mediaAs I write, there’s a window on my laptop screen that is providing a live view of a stampede. It’s logging the numbers of people joining the social network Bluesky. At the moment, the number of registered users is 20.5 million. By the time you read this there will be more than 30 million of them, judging by the rate that people are currently joining.The proximate cause of it is the role that Elon Musk, owner of X (née Twitter), played in the election of Donald Trump, when a significant proportion of the platform’s 200 million-plus users realised that they’d been had – that they had, in effect, been useful idiots for Musk on his path to the centre of political power....

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6 hours ago Makeup, floss and hair dye use in pregnancy leads to more PFAS in breast milk – study

‘Forever chemicals’ pose health threat to developing children and linked with preterm birth, shorter lactationHigher usage of personal care products among pregnant or nursing women leads to higher levels of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” in their blood and breast milk, new research shows, presenting a serious health threat to developing children.The new study helps connect the dots among previous papers that have found concerning levels of PFAS in personal care products, umbilical cord blood, breast milk and shown health risks for developing children. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Atletico Madrid call out Spanish police in astonishing social media post

Atletico Madrid made their frustrations clear after a police account posted an image of their stadium next to a statement over racist chanting at last month's El Clasico

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