The winner of the world’s biggest speeding fine. EVER!

The World’s Biggest Speeding Fine: R6 Million – A 37-year-old Swedish man is facing the world’s biggest motoring fine yet of €650 000 (about R6-million) after being clocked at 290km/h while driving through Switzerland in his R1.6-million Mercedes SLS AMG. Over there you get fined according to your income – clearly our boy does well. If he opened the doors it would have taken off. [motoring]

Video Of Steven Slater Deploying Emergency Slide And Jumping To Freedom – Here it is. The video the world has been waiting for: a security camera that captures JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater’s infamous slide down the emergency chute. If you keep your eye trained on the front of the plane on the side opposite the walkway, you can see the chute deploy and Slater slide on by moments later. [nbc ]

De Beers Jewellers In London Robbed – A gang of armed raiders smashed their way into two top jewellers last night escaping with gems in a daring double heist. They stormed into the Royal Exchange shopping centre in central London, smashing the windows of De Beers and Omega to grab handfuls of glittering rings, necklaces and watches. Awesome! Nothing like a good old jewellery robbery! [dailymail]

Tiger Woods and Beckham Have Nothing On The Romans – “Chicken feed” is what they’re making these days. While golfer Tiger Woods was heralded last year as the first athlete to earn over $1 billion, the figure would apparently have been small beer for the fearless entertainers of the Circus Maximus. One charioteer, named Gaius Appuleius Diocles, amassed a fortune 35,863,120 sesterces in prize money – the equivalent of $15 billion (£9.6 billion). Quite mean! [telegraph]

Murdoch Launching iPad Newspaper – Rupert Murdoch is planning to launch a digital newspaper in the US to be distributed as paid content for tablet computers, such as the iPad, and mobile phones. The initiative underscores Murdoch’s belief in the game-changing power of the iPad, which is in the process of transforming the reading habits of consumers. [guardian]

Cops Make Very Boring Drug Bust At DF Malan – A 19-year-old Malaysian woman travelling with 1.2kg of tik was arrested at Cape Town International Airport, Western Cape police said on Sunday. “Her suitcase was equipped with a false compartment, containing 1.2kg tik with a street value to the tune of R360 000.” God, how boring. That’s like being bust with a carton of Stuyvesant. Who smuggles tik, anyway? What is this, amateur hour? [koos]

The Cooling Towers Are Coming Down On Sunday August 22 – If you’re from Cape Town, you’ll know the Smelly Towers (The Athlone Power Station), you know, those ones on the wait out to the airport. It’s not the towers that smell, it’s the sewerage plant opposite the N2, but hell, this is the name they’ve received and they’re a landmark. But alas, they are getting imploded on Sunday 22nd August at midday. [imod]

Celebrity Twitter Pics – It’s another week of interesting and generally spicy pics tweeted by celebrities the world over. This week’s installment includes the likes of Paula Abdul, Russell Brand (taking a bath with Helen Mirren), Shaq, Eva Longoria, Ricky Martin, Denise Richards, Jenny McCarthy and more! [dailybeast]

US Confidence In Newspapers, TV News A Rarity – Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news — with no more than 25% of Americans saying they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in either. These views have hardly budged since falling more than 10 percentage points from 2003-2007. Is South Africa heading in the same direction? [gallup]

Why Women Become Lesbians Later In Life – A woman ends her marriage of 12 years, begins dating and finds love again — but this time, with another woman.For many years, researchers assumed so-called “late-life lesbians” were simply repressed by society until they felt comfortable coming out. But that’s not entirely the case.. [npr]

South Korea Suggests Unification With North Korea – Given North Korea’s penchant of late for threatening nuclear destruction and seizing fishing boats, the South had a strange message today: Let’s get together. In a speech marking the Koreas’ liberation from Japan, President Lee Myung-bak today called for a special tax that would pave the way for Seoul to shoulder the financial cost of merging with the impoverished North. Don’t do it, Kim – it’s a trick. [newser]

French Not Digging Topless Bathing Anymore – “Sexual intercourse began in 1963,” the poet Philip Larkin said of the revolution that liberated women and changed the world. And nowhere was that revolution more on display, literally, than on the beaches of the French Riviera, where the first bare breasts appeared just a year later. Nearly half a century later, however, the French have fallen out of love with naked breasts on the beach. [latimes]

Chinese Set World Human Domino Record – 10,267 people, to be exact. In the city of Ordos, located in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China, the throng of people toppled over from seated positions, shattering the previous record held by 9,234 Singaporean students in 2000. It took them an hour to complete the entire domino chain. Wonderful. [geekosystem]

Paris Hilton Topless On A Yacht – Yes I know we’ve all seen Paris Hilton topless (and then some) before. But I think it’s good to keep *ahem* tabs on her progress. Here we see Hilts on a yacht off the coast of Sardinia. Say what you want about the billionaire home-movie maker, you cannot deny she is in pretty good nick! Gravity doesn’t seem to be playing a role. Yet. NSFW. [hotcelebs]

[thanks mike]