Heidi Klum And Seal Are Set For Divorce – A rare leading story for the Morning Spice – Supermodel Heidi Klum is preparing to divorce singer Seal after six years of marriage. Klum is expected to lodge divorce papers any day, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split. A message was posted on Seal’s Twitter page, seeming to confirm the divorce rumours. It simply read: ‘The End’. [newsau]
Julius Malema Appeal Begins Today – Embattled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema will today throw his penultimate dice when his legal team makes submissions to the ANC’s disciplinary appeals committee. Malema’s lawyers will pull out all the stops, including ripping into the entire disciplinary hearing process, in a bid to have his five-year suspension overturned. [timeslives]
Cruise Ship Had Unregistered Passengers On Board – As rescue workers recovered another body on Sunday from the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, bringing the death toll to 13, Italian officials offered their first explanation for the shifting numbers of missing people, saying that there may have been unregistered passengers aboard the ship. [nytimes]
Insulting Compensation Offer To cruise Ship Passengers – The owners of the Costa Concordia are offering survivors of the disaster a 30 per cent discount off future cruises as they battle to stave off law suits expected to cost hundreds of millions of pounds. [telegraph]
Shaik Reckons Zuma Owes Him Two Bar – The presidency has declined to comment on a Sunday news report that convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik wants a presidential pardon and the repayment of a claimed R2m loan to President Jacob Zuma. [news24]
RIM Drops CEOs, As It Struggles To Answer Apple – Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) shook up its top management, replacing co-Chief Executive Officers Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, who guided the BlackBerry maker for two decades and struggled to compete against Apple Inc. (AAPL) Thorsten Heins, a chief operating officer who joined RIM four years ago from Siemens AG, will replace the pair in the CEO post effective immediately. [bloomberg]
Kate’s Parents Selling Adult Outfits Online – The parents of Prince William’s wife Catherine have launched a range of outfits for “adult occasions” on their party goods website, a British tabloid said Saturday. The Party Pieces firm, owned by the Duchess of Cambridge’s parents Michael and Carole Middleton, offers a mini-skirted French maid outfit and a female pirate fancy dress costume under a section entitled adult occasions. [vancsun]
It’s Patriots Vs. Giants In SuperBowl 2012 – A Super Sequel. Four years after New York stunned previously undefeated New England in the Arizona desert, the Patriots and Giants are going at it again at the Super Bowl – this time in Indianapolis. Brady and Belichick. Eli and Coughlin. Both teams rolling through the playoffs. Yep, here we go again. [huffers]
Serena Williams Out Of Australian Open – Serena Williams lost at the Australian Open on Monday for the first time since 2008, struggling with her serve and hitting too many unforced errors during a 6-2, 6-3 setback against Ekaterina Makarova. Williams was surprised by the power of the groundstrokes from the Russian left-hander, who at No. 56 was the lowest-ranked woman to make the fourth round of the season’s first major. [yahoo]
Andy Murray Through To Quarters – British fourth seed Andy Murray advanced to the quarter-finals of the Australian Open on Monday after his opponent Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan retired early in the third set with a hip injury. The Scot was in total command when Kukushkin called it quits, leading 6-1, 6-1, 1-0 in hot conditions on Rod Laver Arena. [sport24]
Joe Paterno – US College Sex Abuse Scandal Coach, Dies – Joe Paterno, the longtime Penn State coach who won more games than anyone in major college football but was fired amid a child sex abuse scandal that scarred his reputation for winning with integrity, died Sunday of lung cancer. He was 85. [espn]
Croatia Votes To Join EU – Croatia has voted to join the EU by a sweeping majority, delivering a greater than expected yes vote in a referendum watched nervously in Brussels for fear of a backlash. With the EU facing its worst ever crisis, with the sovereign debt emergency sapping its self-belief, and Greece’s membership of the euro in doubt, there were fears that the pessimism engulfing Europe would dampen pro-EU sentiment in Croatia. [guardian]
Britney Spears To Regain Control Of Her Finances – She’s well and truly back on the straight and narrow, with a stable relationship and her life back on track. And now it looks like Britney Spears is to finally regain her life and finances officially. Her father Jamie has been conservator of her affairs for almost four years after her life spiralled out of control in 2007. [dailymail]
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