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Five Rhino Poachers Shot Dead – Five rhino poachers have been shot dead in the Kruger National Park since Saturday. Three of them were shot dead on Tuesday morning shortly after 06:00 during a shoot-out with rangers in the Pretoriuskop area. According to information obtained confidentially by Beeld, no fewer than ten poachers have been killed in the park over the past five months. Good. [news24]

Steve Jobs Will Join Murdoch To Unveil iPad Paper – Rupert Murdoch will unveil News Corp.’s much-anticipated iPad newspaper onstage this month with Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, The Cutline has learned. The two media moguls will appear together at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, according to a source familiar with preparations for the event. The launch date is expected to be Jan. 19, but that may change. [yahoonews]

Facebook Pays Farm Bureau $8.5M For ‘FB’ Domain Name – In the 21st Century, Shakespeare might ask, “What’s in a domain name?” To the 6 million-member American Farm Bureau Federation, the answer is a lot of money. Facebook paid $8.5 million to acquire the Internet address ‘fb.com’ for internal use by its employees from the largest U.S. farm group. Zuckerberg announced the purchase on Nov. 15, but he didn’t reveal the pricetag. Now we know.. [reuters]

Wikileaks: Julian Assange Faces Execution Or Guantanamo Detention – In a skeleton summary of their defence against attempts by the Swedish director of public prosecutions to extradite him, released today, Assange’s legal team argue that there is a similar likelihood that the US would subsequently seek his extradition “and/or illegal rendition”, “where there will be a real risk of him being detained at Guantánamo Bay or elsewhere”. Jeepers Hudders! [guardian]

How 50 Cent Made $9M From One Weekend Of Tweeting – 50 Cent made a lot sense, financially, on Twitter over the weekend. According to the New York Post, the rapper saw the value of his 30 million shares in a penny-stock company increase by $8.7 million after sending out a series of tweets urging his 3.8 million followers to invest, which sent the price of the stock skyrocketing (relatively speaking). [popeaster]

Vanilla Ice Reckons Madonna ‘Was A Great Lover’ – Vanilla Ice has revealed that he dated Madonna when he was 24-years-old and she was 33. The rapper admitted that it was “exciting” to have a relationship with an older woman but said he ended it when Madonna published her 1992 coffee-table book Sex. “She was older than me and a great lover. She’s still the oldest person I’ve ever been with, so it was an experience.” [digitalspy]

Australian Flood Waters Hit Brisbane – Floodwaters began flowing into Australia’s third-largest city Tuesday as officials urged those living in Brisbane’s low-lying areas to move to higher ground. The flooding is expected to be the worst in the city’s history. At least 9,000 properties are expected to be inundated completely, and as many as 30,000 damaged as the Bremmer and Brisbane rivers hit record levels over the next two days. [cbcnews]

Bond Is Back! – MGM is announcing that “BOND 23” is set to go into production in late 2011. The 23rd James Bond film will have a worldwide release on November 9, 2012. Daniel Craig will be returning as the legendary British secret agent, with Sam Mendes directing a screenplay written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan. That script is being kept under wraps but the story begins after Quantum Of Solace leaves off. Nice! [deadline]

NASA Finds First Rocky World Outside Our Solar System – The Kepler space telescope has discovered a rocky planet that’s just 1.4 times the size of Earth orbiting a distant star—making it the smallest planet NASA has ever discovered outside of our solar system, and the only rocky one, NASA announced today. The bad news: the planet, dubbed Kepler-10b, appears far too hot to support any kind of life. [newser]

Judge Orders Jackson Doctor To Stand Trial For Manslaughter – A judge has ordered the personal physician of Michael Jackson to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter in the death of the pop superstar. Authorities contend the 57-year-old Murray gave Jackson a lethal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol mixed with other sedatives then failed to provide proper care. Hee hee. [associated]

MySpace Lays Off Nearly Half Its Staff – MySpace said Tuesday that it is cutting nearly half of its staff in an effort to create a “much tighter focus”. The layoffs, which will affect about 500 people, were placed in context of the site’s October redesign, which chief executive Mike Jones attempted to portray as a sign of the company’s positive direction. Huge layoffs at MySpace were expected, however, especially as executives called the losses “not acceptable” in November. [pcmag]

Owen Wilson Having A Baby – Owen Wilson’s rep has confirmed to EW that Wilson and his girlfriend of more than a year are having a baby. “Owen Wilson and Jade Duell are happy to be expecting a baby,” said his rep in a statement. No other details are being released. Wilson is currently starring in Little Fockers. [eweekly]

Biggest Ever Night Sky Image Released To The Public – The Sloan Digital Sky Survey collaboration released the largest-ever digital color image of the sky today.The new image consists of 1.2 trillion pixels and covers a third of the night sky, capturing half a billion individual stars and galaxies. Every yellow dot in the image (follow the link) is a galaxy, and zooming in on each dot reveals a galaxy’s detailed structure and individual star-forming regions. [wired]

Coming Soon: The Electric Powered Rolls-Royce For The Affluent – It was being speculated earlier that the luxury automaker Rolls-Royce could have an electric version of its Phantom luxury car hit the roads by the end of 2010. We haven’t seen one yet, but the rumors of an electric Rolls-Royce are back in the news. Torsten Mueller-Oetvoes, CEO of Rolls-Royce, has lately cited that all options for alternatively fueled vehicles were being considered. [bornrich]

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