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In recent years, Mr. White and Mr. Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, have combined their passion for professional fighting, including mixed martial arts, which Mr. Zuckerberg took up in 2022.“Dana is the president and CEO of UFC and has built it into one of the most valuable, fastest growing and most popular sports enterprises in the world,” Zuckerberg said in his post. “I admired him as an entrepreneur and his ability to build such a beloved brand.”In 2023, White attempted to broker a cage match between Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, Tesla and SpaceX. Musk, who has become a close ally of Trump, eventually withdrew from the fight, citing an old injury. He said Mr Zuckerberg was guilty of not making himself available to fight afterwards.Meta, which owns Facebook, In...

A top U.S. envoy who helped broker the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah reassured Monday that Israel will fully withdraw from southern Lebanon, as called for in the fragile 60-day truce deal that put the bloodiest war on hold between the two sides in recent decades. .Speaking to reporters in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, envoy Amos Hochstein said Israeli troops had withdrawn from the southern city of Naqoura on Monday. In a statement, the Lebanese army said it had redeployed to the city following the Israeli withdrawal.“These withdrawals will continue until Israeli forces are completely out of Lebanon,” Hochstein said after meeting with senior Lebanese officials. “There has been a lot of progress in the last few days and I expect to see more progress in the days to come.”While the tr...

Snakes like these are giants. Black mambas can stretch up to 14 feet, and the longest king cobra ever recorded was 19 feet.Puff adders are small, by contrast, up to six inches short and no longer than six feet, but very thick. They have long, retractable fangs that can deliver venom to muscles.Their venom destroys blood clotting factors and victims die a slow, gruesome death, bleeding into the brain, eyes and mouth.Identifying the attacker can help personalize treatment. But many people never see the snake that bites them, or if they do, they can't identify it. To the untrained eye, venomous snakes may appear indistinguishable from harmless ones.The names don't make it any easier. Green mambas are green, but black mambas are light gray to dark brown; they are so called because the inside o...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer fired back at Elon Musk on Monday after days of inflammatory social media posts by Musk, the billionaire owner of X, indirectly accusing him and others of "spreading lies and misinformation" about gang victims of sexual abuse of minors. .“Those who spread lies and disinformation, as far as they can, are not interested in victims,” Starmer told reporters at an event in south London dedicated to the NHS clean-up. “They are interested in themselves.”Starmer also defended himself against Musk's accusations that he did not act quickly enough against gangs who abused and exploited young girls when he was chief prosecutor. Around 1,400 girls are estimated to have been exploited in the northern town of Rotherham by "grooming gangs" made up largely of British Pak...

“A journalist finds himself in the woods.” Marc Da Costa, a digital artist with a Ph.D. in anthropology, spoke from the controls of an AI-driven video installation at the Onassis Foundation's ONX Studio, a high-tech multimedia laboratory in the Olympic Tower in Midtown Manhattan. He was talking to the computer running this installation. About me.“A huge fleet of food delivery bicycles appears,” Da Costa continued, telling a nonsensical story that AI would soon render on screen. “The heavens open and a friendly, galactic being descends with a scepter. Frank and the galactic being meet the delivery men and share a meal under the forest canopy. ..."Moments later, a fleet of food delivery bikes actually appeared on the three enormous screens surrounding us, the entire scene rendered in a charm...

The Israeli military said on Sunday it had conducted "operational raids" in recent weeks on Syria's Mount Hermon, continuing a military campaign on Syrian soil that is drawing growing international condemnation.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based Syrian war watchdog, also reported airstrikes around the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Sunday, attributing them to the Israeli army. The attacks targeted an ammunition depot used by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, ousted last month in a rebel offensive, the observatory said. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the airstrikes.Israel's continued military operations in Syria, which it said on Sunday were intended to "strengthen the defense of Israeli citizens," have drawn accusations from the United Nation...

Since being diagnosed with cancer last year, Kent Manuel has regularly visited an oncologist near his home in Indianapolis. It's been a difficult time: After spinal surgery for paralysis caused by cancer, he is regaining the use of his legs with physical therapy, but still uses a wheelchair.Now, Mr. Manuel said, “I'm dealing with the pain.” His oncologist recommended palliative care, a medical specialty that helps people with serious illnesses cope with discomfort and distress and maintain their quality of life.So in November, Mr. Manuel, 72, a semi-retired accountant, started seeing Dr. Julia Frydman, a palliative care doctor. “We talk about what works and what doesn't,” he said. “Listen to what I have to say. It's very flexible."The first two drugs prescribed to reduce pain had troubleso...

The shop sold flowers and gardening tools to visitors coming right from the street, where a small breakaway region of Moldova has remained defiantly for more than 30 years, with the support of Russian troops.After the gas supply from Russia was blocked on New Year's Day, however, the shop mainly sold electric heaters to freezing residents of Transnistria, the self-proclaimed microstate in eastern Moldova.Cheaper models are already sold out, a shop assistant said, but high-end heaters are selling fast, while 350,000 Transnistrians face an energy crisis that has closed factories, left Soviet-era apartment blocks without heat and hot water and raised questions about the survival of their independent Russian-speaking enclave.The situation is so serious that the region's president, Vadim Krasno...

The two sides involved in a high-profile Supreme Court fight over a measure that could shut down TikTok submitted their closing written arguments Friday, sharply contesting China's influence on the site and the role the First Amendment should play in evaluating the law .Their briefs, filed under an exceptionally shortened schedule set last month by the justices, were part of a high-stakes fight over the government's insistence that ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, sell the app's U.S. operations or the would close. The Supreme Court, seeking to resolve the case before the statutory deadline of January 19, will consider the arguments in a special session next Friday.The court's ruling, which could come this month, will decide the fate of a powerful and pervasive cultural phenomenon that u...

Hamas' military wing on Saturday released a video of Liri Albag, one of around 250 people taken hostage by the group during the attack on Israel, as Israeli and Hamas officials held further indirect ceasefire talks through mediators in Qatar .Around 100 hostages are still held in Gaza nearly 15 months after Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023 sparked Israel's war on Gaza. Talks to free them stalled after a week-long truce in November 2023 that allowed the release of 105 Israeli and foreign prisoners.Ms. Albag, 19, served in a lookout unit tasked with monitoring possible threats along the Gaza border. During the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, Palestinian fighters overran the military base where she served, killing more than 60 soldiers and kidnapping Ms. Albag and six other female so...