Good afternoon. Hollywood actor Rebel Wilson has denied lying and maintains she had no involvement in websites that attacked a producer with whom she is feuding, she testified today in her defence of a blockbuster defamation suit that began last Monday.
The Pitch Perfect star is being sued by Charlotte MacInnes, the Australian lead actor of the musical comedy The Deb. She claims she was defamed by Wilson in four social media posts that claimed the young actor made a sexual harassment complaint and then retracted it to further her career.
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Yip Shun-Ting Carbon returned for the first time to salvage belongings at the Hong Kong apartment where he grew up, met his wife and built a life. He and his father, Yip Ka-kui, had spent decades in the estate before last November’s fire killed 168 people, including Yip’s mother.
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“It didn’t land where it should have landed, and I have to wear that, and I take full responsibility for what I said.” – Ross Lyon
The St Kilda coach has received support from Indigenous players after he made a comment during a training session that was deemed “casual racism”.
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Inside the White House correspondents’ dinner shooting
When gunshots were heard from inside the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night, guests weren’t sure what was happening or if they were in danger.
Sitting at his table in the lavish ballroom as the events unfolded was the Guardian’s Washington DC bureau chief, David Smith. He tells Nour Haydar about it.
Before bed read
In Tehran, the Guardian spoke to six people about how the US-Israel war is transforming their feelings toward the Iranian regime and their country’s future.
English teacher and psychology student Nika (above right) lives with her mother, but since the war began they have been forced into uneasy cohabitation at her estranged father’s country place. She says she has lost what used to steady her: her room, her privacy, the small solitude of ordinary life. Sometimes, exhausted by the constant stream of news her father listens to from morning to night, she goes to sleep in the car.
“I don’t want anyone to be killed,” she says. “I want all of us to live together well and happily.”
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Today’s starter word is: DIP. You have five goes to get the longest word including the starter word. Play Wordiply.
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