Michelle Obama Visits Madiba – United States First Lady Michelle Obama met South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, at his home Tuesday in a rare visit with the ageing icon whose legacy frames much of her journey here. [mail&guardian]

Facebook To Launch Music Dashboard – Facebook is reportedly working on a music dashboard, according to GigaOm. The company is planning partnerships with several music services and will add a tab to user profiles showing songs users have listened to on music sites they subscribe to. [washpo]

iPhone 5 Expected In September – Apple plans to introduce a new iPhone in September that boasts a stronger chip for processing data and a more advanced camera. The device will include the A5 processor, the more powerful chip that Apple added to the iPad 2 earlier this year, along with an 8-megapixel camera. [bloomberg]

Essex Teenager Arrested For US Government Hacks – Investigators believe a teenager (Ryan Cleary, 19) arrested at his family home in Essex may have been a “significant” figure in a computer hacking group alleged to have staged attacks against websites belonging to the US government, the electronics giant Sony, and an elite British crime unit. [guardian]

Greek PM Survives Vote – Greece’s parliament backed Prime Minister George Papandreou’s new cabinet in a midnight vote of confidence, a crucial hurdle towards approving the country’s austerity package and restarting the flow of bailout funds that are staving off default. [cnbc]

JP Morgan Pays $153 To Settle Mortgage  Fraud Charges – JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay $153.6 million to settle civil fraud charges that it misled buyers of complex mortgage investments just as the housing market was collapsing. J.P. Morgan Securities failed to tell investors that a hedge fund helped select the investment portfolio and then bet that the portfolio would fail. [nytimes]

Paris Hilton Is Single Again – That’s right, folks – the 30-year-old heiress has split with Las Vegas nightclub promoter Cy Waits. The word is that Waits wasn’t too hot about being in the spotlight all the time and detested appearing on her Oxygen reality show, Life According to Paris. [miamiherald]

Top Drug Cartel Leader Captured – Mexican authorities captured the top leader of one of the country’s most violent drug cartels Tuesday. Federal police captured Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, also known as “The Monkey,” in an operation in the state of Aguascalientes, Mexico’s national security spokesman said. [cnn]

Paris To New York In 90 Minutes – If the futuristic plans for ZEHRA, standing for Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation, prove feasible, the 3,125 mph jet will transport up to 100 passengers at more than four times the speed of sound, soaring 20 miles above the Earth – just outside its atmosphere. At such speeds, it will take just 90 minutes to fly from Paris to New York. [telegraph]

Andiamo Kicks Off Annual R99 Special – For the fourth consecutive year Andiamo bring you their legendary R99 Special. Two pizzas or two pastas and two glasses of wine for less than one hundred bucks! They have other Winter specials (like any meal on their breakfast menu is R20 on weekdays) and a new Loyalty Card. Check out their websie for more details or call +27 21 421 3687/8 to make a booking. [andiamo]

Live Cruise Ship Camera Show A Hit In Norway – Worn out by a fast-paced life and faster-paced television shows but lack a vacation budget? Take a five-day cruise along Norway’s scenic fjords, all free and streamed live on Norwegian public television. For 8,040 minutes straight, viewers can follow the Hurtigruten MMS Nordnorge cruise ship and its roughly 670 passengers and crew as the vessel steams north along Norway’s jagged coastline. [reuters]

Rare Violin Sells For Record £9.8 million – A rare Stradivarius violin that once belonged to the granddaughter of English poet Lord Byron sold for a record £9.8 million at auction. The 1721 violin was bought by an anonymous bidder for around four times the previous auction record for a Stradivari violin. [telegraph]

Google Notches 1 Billion Uniques In A Month – Over the past year, Google’s unique visitors per month have increased 8.4% to just over one billion. During the same period, Microsoft maintained the No. 2 position with 905 million unique visitors, while Facebook’s count surged by 30% to about 714 million visitors. In May, Yahoo saw 689 million visitors, up 10.8% over the past year. [wallstreetjournal]

Penguin Goes 2,000 Miles Off Course – Ends Up In New Zealand – One poor emperor penguin took a wrong turn and ended up in New Zealand instead of Antarctica — a 2,000-mile detour. How exceptional is it for a penguin to get this lost? The last time people in New Zealand saw a penguin on their beaches was 1967. [npr]

Oceans Heading For Mass Extinctions, Experts Warn – Mass extinctions of species in the world’s oceans are inevitable if current trends of overfishing, habitat loss, global warming and pollution continue, a panel of renowned marine scientists warned Tuesday. There’s a brewing worldwide die-off of species that would rival past mass extinctions, the 27 scientists said in a preliminary report presented to the United Nations. [msnbc]

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