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By Danielle Broadway, Reuters Photo: Image Press Agency / NurPhoto via AFP A Michigan inmate who accused Sean "Diddy" Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting him at a party almost 30 years ago has been awarded a USD$100 million (NZD$162m) judgment against the rapper and record producer. Derrick Lee Smith, 51, won the multimillion-dollar judgment by default in Lenawee County Circuit Court during a virtual hearing on Monday after Combs, 54, failed to show up. An attorney for Combs said the rapper would move to have the judgment dismissed. "This man (Smith) is a convicted felon and sexual predator, who has been sentenced on 14 counts of sexual assault and kidnapping over the last 26 years," attorney Marc Agnifilo said in a statement. "His resume now includes committing a fraud on the...

Dave Grohl of rock band Foo Fighters performs at Roskilde Festival in Denmark Photo: AFP Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has admitted he has become a father to a baby girl outside of his marriage. In a statement posted to Instagram on Wednesday, Grohl, 55, said: "I've recently become the father of a new baby daughter, born outside of my marriage. "I plan to be a loving and supportive parent to her. "I love my wife and my children, and I am doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness." He did not share any other details about the baby or the mother of the child. Grohl met his wife Jordyn Blum in 2001 and they married two years later. The couple have three daughters together, Violet, 18, Harper, 15, and Ophelia, 10. Before tying the knot with Blum, a TV produc...

Conor McGregor Photo: INPHO/Tom Hogan UFC boss Dana White anticipates Conor McGregor will return to the Octagon in "early 2025". McGregor has not fought since suffering a broken leg in a July 2021 loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264. The 36-year-old Irishman had to pull out of a fight with Michael Chandler at UFC 303 in June due to a broken toe. McGregor, the former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion, had been campaigning to fight at UFC 310 in Las Vegas in December. Speaking to the New York Post ahead of Saturday's "Noche UFC" event, White confirmed that McGregor will not make his comeback before the end of this year. "Let me tell you this, I was the one this year saying I don't think he's going to fight this year, amid all the talk and everything else," White said. "Conor McGreg...

By Joshua McElwee, Reuters After mass, Pope Francis visited a school for children with disabilities in Dili, Timor Leste. Photo: VATICAN MEDIA/Hans Lucas via AFP An estimated 600,000 people in Timor Leste, just under half its population, turned out in the baking heat for a mass with Pope Francis at a coastal park synonymous with the country's long struggle for independence from Indonesia. Filling a wide, dusty area where Indonesian forces buried slain Timorese independence fighters, people arrived as early as 1am and sat on the ground, many braving the sun for hours in temperatures as high as 32 degrees Celsius. Many sheltered under umbrellas decorated in the white and yellow colours of the Vatican flag, while others carried signs asking for blessings and sang local melodies, in one ...

Damaged buildings and debris after Typhoon Yagi hit Ha Long, in Vietnam. Photo: AFP/ Nhac Nguyen By Khanh Vu and Phuong Nguyen, Reuters The death toll in Vietnam from Asia's worst storm this year reached 127 on Tuesday, with torrents of rain triggering floods and landslides, burying homes, sweeping away a bridge and now threatening the capital Hanoi. In several northern provinces, including the suburbs of Hanoi, residents waded through knee-high floods. Brown water cascaded down pedestrian steps. Landslides and floods triggered by the typhoon have killed at least 127 people in northern Vietnam and 54 others were missing, the disaster management agency said on Tuesday in its latest update on the situation. Most of the victims were killed in landslides and flash floods, the agency said, a...