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"it's fine, I've had sex with 10,000 women", a jury has heard - Manchester city Benjamin Mendy told the court.  Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy raped a young woman then told her "it's fine, I've had sex with 10,000 women", a jury has heard. The 28-year-old is accused of attacking the woman, aged 24 at the time, at his £4m mansion in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, in October 2020. He is also accused of the attempted rape of another woman, aged 29 at the time, who said he also attacked her at his home two years before. The footballer denies both charges. The jury of six women and six men have been told by trial Judge Stephen Everett, the Recorder of Chester, that the France international was found not guilty of sexual offences alleged by other women after a trial that ended in January this year. He told jurors the jury last time could not reach verdicts on the two charges they are hearing, that of rape and attempted rape, hence his re-trial on ...

  Man Breaks World Record For Longest Distance Run While On Fire Without Oxygen A 39-year-old French firefighter Jonathan Vero has broken a world record after running the longest distance in full-body burn without oxygen. According to Guinness World Records on Thursday, Vero ran 272.25 metres (893 ft) while in flames wearing a protective suit.  He broke the previous record of 204.23 metres (670 ft) set by Antony Britton of the United Kingdom. Jonathan, in doing so, also broke the record for the fastest full body burn 100 metres sprint without oxygen, clocking in at 17 seconds, beating the previous record by 7.58 seconds. Credit: Twitter | GWR

 

Mark Zuckerberg’s advice for young people: Focus more on building relationships than being ‘objective focused’ Most people know Facebook’s dorm-room origin story. But according to Mark Zuckerberg, you might have learned the wrong lesson from it. On a recent episode of the “Lex Fridman Podcast,” hosted by MIT computer scientist Lex Fridman, Zuckerberg said his initial ability to launch Facebook back in 2004 wasn’t because he dropped out of college or abandoned any of his other interests. Rather, the Meta CEO said, it was due to the personal connections he made while he was still in school. Who you spend time with in college, Zuckerberg said, is “the most important decision” any student can make on campus. “You become the people you surround yourself with,” he explained. “I think probably people are too, in general, objective focused, and maybe not focused enough on the connections and the people who they’re basically building relationships [with].” Zuckerberg met his Facebook co-founder...

Cattle Seller: I Budget N1m Bribe For Checkpoints Between North And Cross River The Chairman of Livestock Sellers in Calabar, Alhaji Isiaka Mohammed, says he keeps N1 million for settlements at checkpoints to move his livestock from the North to Cross River State in the South. Mohammed said this to the News Agency of Nigeria while reacting to the Eid-el-Kabir celebration and the prices of rams in the market. The chairman alleged that the price of rams was high, not exactly due to the fuel subsidy removal but because of extortions on the road from North to South. He said the trucks that brought in their animals from the North were powered by diesel and the price of diesel was gradually going down, so, their challenge was not actually fuel but extortion. He said, “Moving from the North to the South, there are so many checkpoints and for some of them, you have to pay as high as N30,000 before you are allowed to pass through. “When you spend such amount of money on extortion alone, it will...