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  Los Angeles:  Riot Games, maker of the massively popular "League of Legends," announced Monday it had agreed to pay $100 million to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit. The lawsuit was originally filed by two now former employees in 2018 who alleged gender discrimination, sexual harassment and misconduct at the US-based company. Riot is the latest games developer to face a reckoning, with companies grappling with a slew of gender-based discrimination and harassment complaints in recent years. It will pay $80 million to members of the 2018 class-action suit, including hundreds of current and former California employees, Riot said in a statement, under the agreement reached with state agencies and several private plaintiffs. Another $20 million will go towards plaintiffs' legal fees, it added. The agreement still needs final approval by the court, with a hearing expected in the coming months, said Riot. In a statement the tech giant said it was "at the heart of wh...

  New York:  US jurors said they were "making progress" deciding Ghislaine Maxwell's fate in her sex crimes trial Tuesday as the judge warned of a race against time due to the rapidly spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The 12-person New York jury ended their fourth full day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in a case that could see the British socialite spend the rest of her life behind bars. "Our deliberations are moving along and we are making progress," they said in a note to judge Alison Nathan, as they asked to be dismissed at 5:00 pm (2200 GMT). Nathan granted their request but told them they must be prepared to deliberate every day this week until they reach a verdict unless they have "unmovable commitments." Previously they had not been due to meet on Thursday and New Year's Eve. Nathan has already asked jurors to extend their daily schedule by one hour to 6 pm (2300 GMT), citing an "astronomical spike" in cor...