Plan To Fly Radio Control Explosive Planes Into The Pentagon, Busted – A 26-year-old Ashland, Mass., physicist thought he was working with Al Qaeda to pack remote-controlled aircraft with C-4 plastic explosives and use them to blow up the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol but in fact was dealing with undercover FBI, federal prosecutors alleged Wednesday. [bizjournals]

Mexican Drug Kingpin’s Wife Gave Birth In The US – The wife of powerful Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has given birth to twins in a Los Angeles hospital and returned to Mexico. Guzman is wanted by U.S. authorities for leading an operation that has allegedly trafficked hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S. over a 20-year period. For his efforts, his cartel has received several billion dollars, according to U.S. anti-drug officials. [cnn]

Fidentia Boss Loses Court Bid – An application for a permanent stay of prosecution by former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown was dismissed on Wednesday. Western Cape High Court Judge Robert Henney turned down the application with costs. He said Brown had not satisfied the court that the prosecutors and investigators in the case were guilty of misconduct. [news24]

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Shoots, Kills And Eats Bison – Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, who vowed earlier this year that he would only eat the meat of animals he has killed himself (including pigs, goats and chickens), has now found a new more exotic creature to hunt: the bison. According to a report in Fortune.com, Zuckerberg recently got a hunting license and shot and killed a bison for his dinner table. [ibtimes]

Facebook Users Beware: You Could Be Severely Embarrassed – If you didn’t watch Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook announcements last week — and of course the vast majority of Facebook users did not — you may be in for a surprise. Aside from the dramatically redesigned Facebook Timeline profile pages, which roll out in the coming weeks (and which I’ve grown to love), Facebook’s new system to auto-share what you do around the web may catch many Facebook addicts off guard. [mashable]

Woman Accuses Ashton Kutcher Of Cheating – A 23-year-old woman is accusing Ashton Kutcher of cheating on wife Demi Moore after a booze-fueled boys night out at a San Diego nightclub last Friday. The woman, has lawyered up with a top Hollywood attorney and gone into hiding, multiple friends of the woman have revealed. [radar]

Reebok Settles ‘Toning Shoe’ Claims – Reebok International Ltd has agreed to pay $25 million to settle charges that it made unsupported claims that its “toning shoes” help wearers get fit faster, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday. The money will go toward consumer refunds. [reuters]

Shark Attack Samaritans Tell Of Horror – Two men in their sixties who rescued a shark victim (story and video here) at Fish Hoek on Wednesday, told how they braved the blood-clouded water to bring him to safety. Douglas Drysdale, 61, from Glencairn Heights, and Hugh Till, 66, from Fish Hoek were on their way home from Pollsmoor Prison, where they are voluntary spiritual guidance counsellors. [news24]

All Cubans Can Now Buy Any Car – Cuba legalized the sale and purchase of automobiles for all citizens today, another major step in the island’s economic transformation and one that the public has been requesting for decades. Unrestricted sales had previously been limited to cars built before the 1959 revolution, one of the reasons Cuba’s streets are about the only place on the planet one routinely finds a multitude of finned American classics from the 1950s, such as Chevrolets Bel Airs and Chrysler Imperials. [bostonherald]

J-Lo Buys $18 Million Hamptons House – Jennifer Lopez just purchased a 2-acre property in the exclusive Water Mill area of the Hamptons, New York. The 14,000-square foot home boasts seven bedrooms, nine and a half baths and beautiful panoramic water views. Last listed at $17,999,999, the home was built in 2010, and sites have been buzzing about her interest in the property for weeks. [people]

Roman Polanski Admits Rape And Apologises – Roman Polanski has admitted a woman he raped when she was 13 was a “double victim”, in his first public signs of contrition made during a documentary that premiered at the Zurich Film Festival this week. The 78 year-old the Oscar-winning director conceded Samantha Geimer had been left scarred by his abusive actions almost 35 years ago. [telegraph]

The Fight For Bin Laden Photos – Public disclosure of graphic photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden after he was killed in May by U.S. commandos would damage national security and lead to attacks on American property and personnel, the Obama administration contends in a court documents. [usatoday]

Thursday Is “Vote For Table Mountain” Day – Table Mountain is at the bottom of the final 28, in the running to be one of the new seven wonders of nature. Table Mountain needs YOU to vote at least every Thursday. We need 30 million votes to make the final 7.  You can vote on the website or by SMSing the word ‘table’ to 34874 (SMS cost R2). You can vote once on the website and as many times as you want on SMS. come on, gang, let’s do this thing! [votefortablemountain.com]

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