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The violent incidents left UFC president Dana White “disgusted and sick” and he hinted Nurmagomedov could face serious repercussions for his actions at the end of the bout. MORE: Join DAZN and watch more than 80 fight nights a year Here we take a look back at what led up to the shocking scenes in Las Vegas. THE BACKGROUND - McGregor was stripped of the lightweight title due to inactivity after he switched to boxing to face Floyd Mayweather Jr, and Nurmagomedov was booked to battle Tony Ferguson for the vacant strap at UFC 223....

Since 1990, the church has been roiled by a series of scandals involving philandering bishops, embezzlement by the denomination’s treasurer and reports of sordid orgies in a Brooklyn church by cross-dressing priests using young men imported from Brazil. Over the last three decades, church membership has declined by a third to a modest 2.4 million members. Instead of civil discourse, traditionalists and modernizers in the church are hurling epithets like ““apostate’’ and ““Shiite Episcopalian’’ at each other....

$10 million Sports-duds firm claims line of Jacko-themed footwear bombed because he failed to produce an album in time to promote it. Filed 1992, settled. $7 million Said Jackson lifted 67 seconds of its recording of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for “Will You Be There?” from the film “Free Willy.” Filed 1992, settled. $10 million Claim they were fired because they “knew too much” about Jackson’s alleged indiscretions. Field 1993, pending....

Is Evans the fiend he says he is? His lawyer, Frederick J. Lusk Jr., says Evans wept frequently when he described his crimes, but it’s hard to determine whether remorse or egotism was driving his confession. The FBI joined local officials last week in creating a task force to investigate Evans’s claims and the possible complicity of Beatrice’s mother in the case. They promised to proceed with caution. “You are not going to see us doing a Henry Lucas thing,” said Gulfport Police Chief George Payne Jr....

If anything, the new league season promises to be bigger and better than ever before and the first set of mouth-watering fixtures, including a rematch of last season’s grand final, will hopefully serve as a teaser to an exciting campaign ahead. Without further ado, Goal explores five storylines that could impact the first weekend of the 2017-18 season. Arnie and Muscat renew their rivalry As last season’s top two sides prepare to do battle at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday evening exactly five months after an epic Grand Final, the Big Blue has been overshadowed by a war of words between the two rival coaches....

The U.S. officials charge that the film is Libyan propaganda, They say it was funded by more than $1 million funneled to the production company Hemar from the Libyan-Arab Finance Corp., a Libyan government entity. When the film began, Hemar was a subsidiary of Metropole, controlled by British businessman Tiny Rowland–and partly owned by LAFICO. The FBI, asked by Scottish police, is preparing a rebuttal of the film. “It’s Libya disinformation,” says Vincent Cannistraro, ex-head of CIA counterterrorism....

I get out of my car and glide through the Stop & Shop’s sliding doors. I tuck my sunglasses into my jacket pocket, and scoop up a shopping basket without breaking stride. While my eyes adjust to the fluorescent lighting, I notice a frustrated man struggling to separate two shopping carts that have been wedged together. Good luck, pal. I stop by the deli first, the only potential speed bump in my meticulously choreographed routine....

The reasons are not hard to fathom. Our appetites–forged in Stone Age settings where food was scarce and physical labor was a daily reality–are not easily suppressed. Our love of certain foods often takes root during childhood, long before we know or care about their nutritional value. And we don’t relinquish our pleasures lightly. Nothing predicts failure like the grim anticipation of feeling deprived. Healthy living is not just an exercise in abstinence....

“The guy over there at Pease-a woman, actually-she said something about a country-Western song, you know, about the train, a light at the end of the tunnel, I only hope it’s not a train coming the other way. Well, I said to her, well, I’m a country-music fan. I love it, always have. Doesn’t fit the mold of some of the columnists, I might add, but nevertheless– of what they think I ought to fit in, but I love it … But nevertheless, I said to them you know there’s another one the Nitty Ditty Nitty City-that they did....

Actually, Lebed insisted that he intended to rule democratically. He is feared by rival political leaders, all of whom applauded his dismissal, but ordinary Russians have made him the country’s most popular politician. Still, after four months in office as national-security chief, the 46-year-old retired general had become the loosest cannon in Russian politics. At times, his high-handed independence served the country well; he made peace in Chechnya largely through the force of his own will, and now that he is gone, the breakaway republic may slide back into war....

The known facts of the case are these: For a week in July 1969, bullets rained and entire city blocks burned, sparked by the shooting of a black resident. Lillie Belle Allen, a preacher’s daughter, rode with her parents and sister through the turf of the Newberry Street Boys, a white gang. “It’s n—-rs, and they have guns,” a kid yelled, according to grand-jury testimony. Rifle-toting teens charged the Cadillac, causing Allen’s sister to swerve and stall the car on railroad tracks....

Neymar equals Puskas’ record The Argentine was on target for his club as they downed Alaves 3-1 to take the trophy for the third successive season. And while another Copa may feel like scant consolation after falling short in La Liga and the Champions League this campaign, Messi was delighted to celebrate his triumph with those closest to him. Messi had first spoken with team-mate and compatriot Javier Mascherano, checking up on his compatriot’s health after a nasty clash of heads forced him out of the game early on....

Pearse was a cattle farmer who built and flew a bamboo-framed mono-wing airplane far enough and high enough to crash-land on a lonely country road on top of a 12-foot-high gorse hedge. It was March 31, 1903, historians and witnesses say, eight months before the Wright brothers flew. At the end of the month, more than 5,000 revelers are expected to join a parade and air show in Timaru, a port town near Pearse’s farm....

A bacterial illness earned by the deer ticks that also transmit Lyme, HGE (human granulocytic ehrlichiosis) was first identified in Minnesota in 1991. But it’s new enough that most doctors don’t even look for it. So far, 60 cases have been confirmed nationwide, primarily in the Northeast and upper Midwest, and there could be many more. Four patients have died, but experts are divided over whether HGE is truly lethal–or whether underlying medical problems contributed to the fatalities....

Two fossils discovered in Kenya suggest that evolution was a lot messier than that. One of the specimens, found just east of Kenya’s Lake Turkana, is the upper jaw bone of a habilis from 1.44 million years ago; habilis was thought to have become extinct about 1.6 million years ago. The other is an erectus, say their discoverers, a well-preserved skull from 1.55 million years ago and the smallest ever found for this species....

World leaders have committed nearly $13 trillion to address COVID-19 and economic crisis, and even in the midst of the pandemic, many are continuing to step up climate action. This reveals a growing realization that there are clear benefits to combating climate change alongside enacting economic recovery. The massive amount of public spending could contribute to building a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable world. The Biden administration plans to play a critical role in moving global low-carbon recovery forward....

A heart attack is a life-changing medical emergency. The sooner a heart attack is diagnosed and treated, the sooner blood flow can be restored to the organ, which means less damage will occur. When damage does happen, one of the markers used to detect it is called troponin. The initial findings of the research were presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress last week. One of the researchers, Roi Westreich, MD, PhD, of the Soroka University Medical Centre in Beer Sheva, Israel, demonstrated that troponin can be detected in a saliva sample more rapidly than it can be in a blood sample....

Many evangelicals have begun elbowing against the narrowness of the religious right, becoming more globally focused and more likely to consider themselves “pro-life and pro-poor.” Depending on your perspective, this may be creeping liberalism or political maturity. But where did it come from? First, in reacting against the harsh tone of some on the religious right, many have been led back to the text of the Bible itself. Throughout the prophetic tradition of the Hebrew Scriptures and the teachings of the New Testament, social arrangements are judged by their effect on the weak....

Faithfull, the daughter of a onetime British spy and a fallen Austro-Hungarian baroness, was 17 and a charity boarder at a British convent school when she met the Rolling Stones at a party. From then on, as she makes clear in Faithfull: An Autobiography (310 pages. Little, Brown. $22.95), the singer chose her own fate and embraced hedonism at every turn. Hers was not a downward slide into decadence, but a swan dive....