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Philip Stevens had previously enjoyed going to horse races but had always been "careful" with his bets. Photo: PIXABAY / Creative Commons A British man who became a compulsive gambler and shopper after he was prescribed a medication for restless leg syndrome has received a £70,000 (NZ$153,000) settlement from his doctor, his lawyers said on Friday. Philip Stevens, 66, was prescribed Ropinirole - a dopamine antagonist medication - in 2017 but was not warned of known possible side effects such as impulse control disorder. He had previously enjoyed going to horse races but had always been "careful" with his bets. But after taking the medication his gambling "spiralled out of control" and he regularly made bets on his smartphone and even woke up in the middle of the night to place a wager. ...

New Zealand rugby player Rory Grice (R) leaves the court following a hearing at the Bordeaux courthouse, south-western France on 17 June, 2024. Photo: CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP Warning: This story contains details of sexual assault. A court in France on Friday jailed three rugby players formerly with French side Grenoble for 12 to 14 years over the 2017 gang rape of a student. It sentenced Irishman Denis Coulson, 30, and Frenchman Loick Jammes, 30, to 14 years behind bars, and New Zealander Rory Grice, 34, to 12 years in jail. It handed four years in jail, including two suspended, to ex-Ireland international 31-year-old Chris Farrel over failure to prevent the crime. New Zealander Dylan Hayes, 30, received a two-year suspended sentence, also for not intervening to stop it. In the sma...

By Manas Mishra, Reuters Photo: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters via CNN Newsource Mangione and his mother were not UnitedHealthcare customers Woman charged in Florida with threatening her insurer UnitedHealth Group CEO makes first public comment since shooting The suspect in the murder of UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson was not a customer of the health insurer, a company spokesperson said on Friday (US time). Ivy League-educated Luigi Mangione was charged with murder on 9 December for the killing of Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel before a company conference, following a five-day manhunt. Mangione suffered from chronic back pain that affected his daily life, according to friends and social media posts, though it is unclear whether his personal health played a role in the s...

Photo: CFOTO / NurPhoto via AFP By David Shepardson, Reuters The chair and top Democrat on a US House of Representatives committee on China told the chief executives of Google-parent Alphabet and Apple on Friday they must be ready to remove TikTok from their US app stores on 19 January. Last week, a US federal appeals court upheld a law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok in the United States or face a ban. Representative John Moolenaar, a Republican and chair of the committee, and the top Democrat on the committee, Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, separately urged TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew to sell the short-video app used by 170 million Americans. "Congress has acted decisively to defend the national security of the United States and protect TikTok-s American u...