Cyclist Thrown Off Tour For Headbutting Rival – Australian Mark Renshaw paid the price for his team’s win-at-all-costs approach to the Tour de France 11th stage on Thursday when he was excluded from the race for headbutting. Iin the final 500 metres of the 184.5km stage from Sisteron, the normally affable Australian lost his head when he tried to headbutt Garmin-Transitions’ Kiwi lead-out man Julian Dean three times. [afp + video]

Bill & Hillary’s New $11Million House – Looks like Bill and Hillary Clinton are moving to this intense 7,000 square-foot house in the Westchester town of Bedford Hills. It’s got a stable and everything! The 20-acre property the Clintons are said to be buying comes complete with a totally useless pond/fountain, pool, wine cellar, and artist’s studio for whenever Bill feels like picking up the watercolors again. Check out the pics after the jump. Might need some redecorating .. [gawker]

Oil Stops Flowing Into Gulf For First Time – A happy milestone for the Gulf of Mexico: BP says oil has stopped gushing into the water for the first time since its rig exploded 3 months ago. “It’s too early to celebrate,” said exec Doug Suttles, noting that the company has hours of testing to conduct before determining for sure that its new cap will hold. Ja, don’t count your chickens before they hatch, my bru. [newser]

MTN Boss Gets R33Million – MTN Group shareholders approved a R33m windfall for outgoing boss Phuthuma Nhleko on Thursday. The settlement, which will be due in a once-off sum, is payable on April 1 2011 and is in respect of a three-year restraint of trade. This dwarfs the R7m paid to Alan Knott-Craig when he exited Vodacom Group in 2008. Yes it certainly does. But it’s still less than this weekend’s EuroLottery jackpots! [koos]

Dramatic Rise In “Smartphone” Car Radio Listenership – Radio listening via a ‘smartphone’ is becoming ever more popular, according to figures released today by the organisation that monitors radio listening behaviour in the UK. Says RAJAR, some 20 per cent of smartphone owners – or 1.4 million people – have downloaded an application that enable them to listen to a radio service via their smartphone. Not surprising, given the FM signal is shutting down in 5 years in the UK. [allmediascot]

Apple Engineer Warned Steve Jobs About iPhone 4 Antenna – Well I tell you what I’m quite pleased I went for the iPad rather than the iPhone 4, at this stage of the game. Latest news on the antenna problems are that a top Apple Inc. antenna expert (kiff job) voiced concerns to Big Steve in the early phases of the iphone 4’s design process. He warned it might drop calls. Oh dear. Personally, I wouldn’t mind – I don’t do phone calls.. [bloomberg]

Pink Goes To Hospital After Stunt Goes Wrong – The 30-year-old singer, who is famous for her acrobatic stage routines, fell out of a harness high above the stage during a particularly difficult move as part of her Funhouse tour. Pink was then rushed off stage and taken to a nearby hospital by ambulance. However, the singer quickly took to her Twitter page to reassure fans who were left terrified by the dramatic accident. Cntd..[dailymail]

World Celebrates With Madiba – Anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela celebrates his 92nd birthday at home with his family on Sunday, just one week after the Soccer World Cup showed off the successes of democratic South Africa. “The man who has suffered so much and who, when he came out [of jail] set out to bring peace, solidarity and humanity, he had a dream, and his dream was to see the World Cup in his country,” Fifa president Sepp Blatter said this week. [mail&guardian]

Tycoon Will Pay French Burka Ban Fines – A French property tycoon enraged at his government’s plans to ban women from wearing the full veil in public has promised a fund of €1m (£830,000) to help any Muslim who is fined for wearing the niqab in the street.Rachid Nekkaz, a businessman of Algerian origin who launched a short-lived campaign in the 2007 presidential elections, has already put €200,000 into a bank account aimed at bailing out women who find themselves on the wrong side of the new law. [guardian]

In a First, Full-Sized Robo-Copter Flies With No Human Help – In mid-June, a single-turbine helicopter took off from a test field in Mesa, Arizona, avoided obstacles during flight, scoped out a landing site and landed safely. It’s the kind of flight choppers have made tens of thousands of times before. Except this time, the helicopter did it entirely on its own — with no humans involved. It was the first fully autonomous flight of a full-sized chopper, ever. Quite mean.. [wired]

David Cameron Condemns Dead Fugitive Sympathy – Facebook said it would resist MPs’ calls to remove a page set up in honour of Raoul Moat, the fugitive who shot his former girlfriend, her boyfriend and a police officer before killing himself after he went on the run for a week. David Cameron condemned public sympathy for Moat today and described the gunman as a “callous murderer”. General whinging on the mud island. Surely not? [guardian]

New Ford And GM Cars Will “Talk” To Google Maps – Google’s “Send-To-Car” feature lets users send destinations from Google Maps directly to their vehicles. This feature previously worked with BMW and Audi vehicles, and now Google has extended its partner base for the program to Ford and GM. We have the same thing in Cape Town that helps you find your way. We’ve had the techonology for quite some time here. It’s called “Table Montain.” [mashable]

Tracy Morgan Chats About Mel Gibson – Sandwiched in between talking about the quest to find his biological father and his new motorcycle, Morgan gave his thoughts on the seemingly endless supply of Mel Gibson rants. Explaining why the tapes are selling like hotcakes in Compton, Morgan joked, “Calling women b-tches and using the N-word. That ain’t nothing but hip-hop…He stole that concept from Lil’ Wayne.” [huffers]