Norway Killer Caught On CCTV Shortly Before Bomb Blast – Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to killing nearly 80 people in twin terror attacks in Norway on July 22, was filmed by a security camera right after he placed a bomb outside a government building in downtown Oslo. [abcnews]
Cameron And Sarkozy Receive Heroes Welcome In Libya – David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy could not have asked for more from Libya on Thursday as they toured Tripoli and Benghazi, the cities they decided at great political risk to liberate from the grip of Col Gaddafi six months ago. In Tripoli’s main hospital, doctors climbed over each other to touch them. [telegraph]
Denmark Gets Its First Female Prime Minister – Denmark’s centre-left has won the country’s general election, ending nearly a decade in opposition. With all votes counted, the bloc led by Social Democrat leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt had won a narrow majority in parliament. She is set to become Denmark’s first woman prime minister. Incumbent Lars Lokke Rasmussen has admitted defeat. [bbc]
Al Qaeda Chief Killed – Al Qaeda’s chief of operations in Pakistan was killed earlier this week, senior administration officials said today. Abu Hafs al-Shahri, killed in Pakistan’s Waziristan region, “played a key operational and administrative role for the group,” a senior official told ABC News. [abcnews]
Google’s Rivals Unite On Ads – In their boldest attempt to battle the growing dominance of Google Inc. and save their embattled advertising businesses, Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and AOL Inc. plan to band together to sell ads on each other’s sites, according to advertising executives pitched on the initiative. [wallstreetjournal]
Scarlett Johansson Admits The Pictures Are Real – Scarlett Johansson has admitted that she took naked photographs of herself which were leaked online. The 26-year-old actress Lost In Translation star has been left humiliated after the explicit pictures were published on a website yesterday. [dailymail]
Norway: Two Die As Fire Breaks Out On Cruise Ship – Two people have died and several more been injured after a fire broke out in the engine room of a Norwegian fjord cruise ship. At least nine people were hurt after the blaze broke out on the MS Nordlys, one of the Hurtigruten company’s coastal cruisers. Another four people are reported to be missing. [skynews]
We’re Getting New Nuclear Power Stations – Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Thursday she had signed off on a proposal for new nuclear power plants which will go to the cabinet soon. She expects the cabinet to decide on the plan by the end of this year and the bidding process to start early in 2012. [fin24]
Arms Deal Inquiry Welcomed – Arms deal inquiry welcomed across the board. De Lille said all the allegations contained in the “De Lille Dossier”, some of which had led to the arrest and conviction of Schabir Shaik and Tony Yengeni, should be included in the terms of reference of the commission. [businessday]
Old Couple’s Video Goes Viral – An American couple were fiddling with their new laptop, trying to take a picture. But what they didn’t know is they filmed the whole thing. And now the video has gone viral. It’s got some great highlights, including the old ballie releasing a massive burp. [katu]
Apple Bans Satirical iPhone Game Phone Story From App Store – Removal of game that includes references to child labour and factory-worker suicides reignites debate about how Apple treats apps differently to music, books and films. [guardian]
The World’s Biggest Afro [Video] – The 2012 edition of the Guinness Book of Records has been published, after 56 years charting the world’s fastest, longest, tallest, widest and every other conceivable type of record available. But what is it like to be the record holder for the largest afro? [bbc]
Nic Cage Stalker Ate Fudgesicle At The Foot Of His Bed – “It was two in the morning. I was living in Orange County at the time and was asleep with my wife. My two-year old at the time was in another room. I opened my eyes and there was a naked man wearing my leather jacket eating a Fudgesicle in front of my bed.” [reuters]
Microchip Implant Brings Lost Kitty Home After Five Years – Five years ago, a cat named Willow went missing in Boulder, Colorado. She turned up this week 1,800 miles away in New York City. How’d her owners track her down? A tiny microchip, and huge heaping helpings of luck. [gizmodo]
Gay Archie Character Is Getting Married – The adult version of Kevin Keller is set to appear in Life With Archie #16, the magazine-format series that depicts, in each issue, the experiences of a 20something Archie married to Betty in one possible future, and another where he’s married to Veronica. The comic is set to depict Keller as returning to Riverdale as a war hero, and marrying his “Mr. Right.” [newsarama]
Mocking The Kardashians [Video] – Mike Jerrick and Sheinelle Jones of Philadelphia’s Fox 29 morning show, Good Day, had just finished interviewing Kim and Kourtney Kardashian when they began mocking them. As soon as the studio cut the Kardashian feed, Mike asks if they’re still on and lifts up the shoulders of his jacket making fun of Kourtney’s shoulder pads and imitates the Kardashians’ high-pitched voices. It’s funny. [blemish]
British Airways Release Crazy Package Tours – There is only a week left of the crazy British Airways sale. They’ve put together reduced rate flights and holiday packages from Johannesburg and Cape Town to all over the world. Example – Eight grand a person including 3 nights accommodation in Paris. Check out the deals. Only six days left of the deal. [britishairways]
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