George Michael hid being gay to protect his career in the US, Andrew Ridgeley says. Andrew Ridgeley knew Michael was gay in 1983 when the pair were shooting Club Tropicana, but it was 15 years before he came out publicly. Discarded false teeth and incontinence pads form enormous fatberg in Devon retirement town. The 209ft blockage clogging sewers in Sidmouth, Devon, is thought to have taken two years to form. It took 36 tanker trucks to remove the congealed mass over a period of eight weeks. Dung beetles are being pushed towards extinction. Mexican researchers found the chemicals can alter the growth and development of dung beetles, which can then reduce their ability to function. Simon Cowell ENDS his feud with nemesis Sharon Osbourne over the phone. Speaking to The Mirror on Friday, the music mogul, 59, claimed he would never criticise the TV personality, 66, 'for being mouthy' when that was why he had hired her as a judge to begin with. Paying College Athletes Answers to Key Questions on New Law. California is challenging the N.C.A.A.s business model built on amateur athletes. Heres what that means. PayPal QUITS group backing Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency. PayPal said in a statement on Friday that it would forgo any further participation in the Libra Association, saying instead it would focus on its own core businesses. Brightest supermoon since 1948. See photos of November's supermoon -- the brightest in nearly 70 years. New SpaceX animation of Starship launching shows plans to turn Texas into interplanetary hub. Newly released video from Elon Musk's Space X shows how the company would turn a small town in Texas into a major hub for interplanetary travel built around its cutting edge Starship prototype.

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