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Ghislaine Maxwell To Challenge Claims She Groomed Girls For Epstein To Abuse –  Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist specialising in memory issues, would testify about “false memories” of sexual abuses that people could describe on the witness stand with “confidence, detail, and emotion”, without deliberately lying. [guardian]

Cleo Smith Abduction: Australian Police Investigate ‘If Anyone Else Involved’ – Cleo was missing for 18 days after vanishing from her family’s camp trip in Western Australia on 16 October. [bbc]

Bill Gates May Have Been Richer Than Bezos And Musk Combined If He’d Kept His Microsoft Shares – Gates had the equivalent of 2.06 billion shares in September 1998, when the software maker first became the world’s most-valuable company. [news24]

116 New Covid-19 Cases And 20 Deaths Recorded In 24 Hours: NICD – The National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Monday that only three provinces recorded double-figure increases. [timeslive]

Trump Aimed To Start Own Party Until He Learned How Much It Would Cost: Book – “This is what Republicans deserve for not sticking up for me,” the former president reportedly told GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel. [huffpost]

100 Learners Get 100% Tuition Covered For New UCT Online High School Through Sanlam – The programme will provide 100 academically strong learners with 100% of their high school tuition over a five-year period. [here]

West Australian Shark Attack Investigation Takes Grim Turn – British dad Paul Millachip could have been mauled to death by two sharks, it has emerged. [newsau]

Airbnb Struggles To Recover Stolen Domain Name From Sneaky Thief – The online vacation rental marketplace Airbnb has recently failed to win a cybersquatting case in an attempt to recover the premium domain name, Tilt.com, that was snagged from the company. [mashable]

Watch A Cargo Plane Snatch A Drone Right Out Of The Sky Mid-Flight – The pilotless drone can be repaired and refueled without ever having to land again. [gizmodo]

Bitcoin And Ethereum Prices Jump To New Records – Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $67,673.74 on Monday, according to CoinMarketCap. That’s just a few weeks after it hit a previous high of nearly $67,000. [cnn]

Farmers Vs Pharmacists: How SA’s Ivermectin Use Slips Through The Cracks – There’s less demand for human ivermectin in South Africa when the country is in between Covid waves. But nobody is tracking how many people may be using the animal formulation. [dailymav]

Wow – Nice Pad! First Time We’ve Ever Seen Inside A Cargo Ship – Bryan Boyle, a second mate merchant marine, takes us on a tour of all the intricate mechanics that keep the ship moving, as well as the crew and officer’s living quarters. [here]

Dave Portnoy Of Barstool Sports Wages War On Insider Over Article About His Sexual Conduct – It’s a familiar scenario in the Barstool universe, in which fans of the company lob attacks on perceived critics, often at Portnoy’s signal. [washpost]

Eddie Jones’ Advice To Young Flyhalf: ‘Don’t Be Like Emma Raducanu’ – England head coach Eddie Jones has warned young flyhalf Marcus Smith to avoid the pitfalls of celebrity in order to become a top player. [iol]

Firefighters Cut Naked Man Out Of The Walls Of A Theatre After He Got Trapped There For 2 Days – Images from inside the theatre posted by the fire department show the cavity after they broke it open, which appears to consist of a long, narrow, coffin-like space. [businsider]

People Keep Turning Up At ERs With Bizarre Household Objects In Their Butt – Documented cases include flashlights, bottles, cooking ladles, toothbrushes and, in one instance, a knife. [vice]

Travis Scott: Head Of Houston Police ‘Expressed Concerns’ To Rapper Ahead Of Fatal Concert – Eight people aged between 14 and 27 were killed in the crush at the Astroworld Festival, Houston, while hundreds more were injured. [sky]

TikTok And QAnon Panic Over ‘Satanism’ Conspiracies At Deadly Travis Scott Concert – A TikTok video on ‘inverted crosses’ at Astroworld racked up more than a million views in one day, in the latest sign that Q-style conspiracies are infecting the platform. [dbeast]

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