Heard 'absolutely not' able to pay Depp $10.35 million in damages: lawyer
Actress Amber Heard is unable to pay her ex-husband Johnny Depp more than $10 million in damages, her lawyer said Thursday, after a US jury took the side of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star in a bitter defamation trial.
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EU drops Russian patriarch from sanctions to seal new deal
EU ambassadors on Thursday dropped the leader of Russia's Orthodox church from a proposed blacklist, allowing them to agree a new round of sanctions after opposition from Hungary, diplomats said.
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Surgeons transplant 3D ear made of living cells
A US medical team said Thursday they had reconstructed a human ear using the patient's own tissue to create a 3D bioimplant, a pioneering procedure they hope can be used to treat people with a rare birth defect.
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Prince Andrew to miss jubilee service due to Covid: palace
Queen Elizabeth II's disgraced second son Prince Andrew has contracted Covid and will not attend a thanksgiving service for her Platinum Jubilee, Buckingham Palace said Thursday.
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O'Connor targets Tour de France after Hindley Giro joy
Watching fellow Australian Jai Hindley win cycling's Giro d'Italia has boosted Ben O'Connor's belief that he can win the Tour de France, the AG2R leader said Thursday.
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Oil price rises as OPEC backs higher output
Oil prices rose Thursday even as major crude producers agreed to boost output by more than the usual amount following an EU ban on Russian imports.
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Cambridge kids step out at first Trooping the Colour
Don't upstage the queen is the unwritten rule at royal occasions. Four-year-old Prince Louis of Cambridge might not have got the memo.
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Displaced by rebel clashes, people in east DR Congo make uneasy trek home
People who fled fighting between DR Congo's army and M23 rebels have begun to make a nervous return home, with tensions in the volatile east of the country remaining on a hair trigger.
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Swiatek extends winning run to reach second French Open final
Iga Swiatek booked her place in a second French Open final on Thursday as the world number one outclassed Russian Daria Kasatkina to extend her unbeaten streak to 34 matches.
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OPEC backs bigger output boost amid Russian isolation
Major oil producers led by Saudi Arabia and Russia on Thursday decided to open taps wider than expected amid soaring prices and hard on the heels of an EU ban on Russian oil imports.
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