Julius Malema Wins ‘Mampara Of The Year” Award – The Sunday Times runs a weekly Mampara of the week award, which goes to the person they believe has acted like the biggest Mampara (asshole). The competition is stiff and you can only imagine what a jerk you have to be to win the Mampara of the year award. Congratulations, Julius – you are officially the biggest asshole of 2011. [timeslive]

Christmas Day Online Shoping Grows 16.4% – A growing number of shoppers apparently need only the briefest of breaks before diving back in, especially if they can log in to shop. IBM found that online shopping jumped 16.4 percent on Christmas Day over last year, and the dollar amount of those purchases that were made using mobile devices leaped 172.9 percent. [washpo]

Sony Sells LCD Stake To Samsung – Sony Corp. sold its stake in the venture with Samsung Electronics Co. to make liquid-crystal displays to the South Korean company after predicting an eighth consecutive year of losses from TVs amid sluggish demand. Samsung will pay 1.08 trillion won ($935 million) in cash for Sony’s stake in S-LCD Corp., a venture formed in 2004. [bloomberg]

Prince Philip Leaves Hospital After Heart Surgery – Prince Philip was discharged after undergoing heart surgery where doctors fitted a coronary stent in his heart. The 90-year-old has been in Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire, since December 23. Prince Philip was fit enough to join other members of the Royal family for a shooting party lunch after returning to Sandringham. [telegraph]

FOR THE LADIES: Cut, Wash And Blow Dry For R99 – Here you go girls – a little Christmas time magic for you. Why be the slovenly sloth slinking around the side-lines when you can stand out like the multicoloured Macaw with this festive deal: Pay R99 for a cut, wash and blow dry or R299 to add a half-head of highlights or colour at Hair Quarters. [get-it-now]

The FDA Warned About Those French Breast Implants – As early as 2000, U.S. health authorities raised concerns about the French breast implant maker at the heart of a scandal affecting hundreds of thousands of women worldwide. That was almost 10 years before the company came under scrutiny from European regulators. [reuters]

Mel Gibson Loses Half His $850 Million Fortune – Mel Gibson is not only single, but $425 million poorer, thanks to a divorce settlement finalized Friday between the actor and his wife of 31 years, Robyn Denise Moore. The judgment, finalized by a judge in Los Angeles, keeps virtually all details of the settlement secret. [abcnews]

Heart Transplant Team Fatal Helicopter Crash – A surgeon and technician from a Mayo Clinic in Florida flying across the northern corner of the state to retrieve a heart for transplant died Monday in a helicopter crash that also killed the pilot, officials said. [washpo]

900 Road Deaths So Far This Season – More than 900 people have been killed on South Africa’s roads this month, according to Road Traffic Management Corporation (RMTC) spokesman Ashref Ismail. “We are extremely concerned about head-on crashes,” he said. “Out of the 16 major fatal crashes since December 1, 13 were head-ons. [timeslive]

Sinead O’Connor Ends 16-Day Marriage To Husband Number 4 – Irish singer Sinead O’Connor says her fourth marriage has ended after just 16 days, with the star blaming pressure put on her husband by those close to him. O’Connor, 45, met therapist Barry Herridge, 38, earlier this year when he responded to an online appeal posted by the singer, and they married in a Las Vegas chapel on December 8. [theaus]

Irish Privacy Watchdog Calls For Facebook Changes – The Irish data protection commissioner has recommended widespread changes to improve privacy on Facebook. They include making its terms and conditions clearer and offering users greater control over how their data is used on the site. The findings are particularly significant because Facebook Ireland was given responsibility for all non-US and Canadian data in September 2010. Facebook has six months to implement the changes. [bbc]

Occupy Protesters Are Building Their Own Facebook – “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook,” said Ed Knutson, a web and mobile app developer who joined a team of activist-geeks redesigning social networking for the era of global protest. They hope the technology they are developing can go well beyond Occupy Wall Street to help establish more distributed social networks, better online business collaboration and perhaps even add to the long-dreamed-of semantic web. [wired]

Rare WWII Bomber Found Off Florida Coast – Randy Jordan went for a dive last week off the coast of Jupiter, Fla. — one of about 600 he does yearly as the owner of Emerald Charters, a scuba diving charter. A group of frightened fish led Jordan to the discovery of what might be a Curtiss Helldiver SB2C, an extremely rare World War II aircraft submerged in 200 feet of water four miles at sea. [abcnews]