Monaco’s Prince Casiraghi In New York Bar Brawl – A vicious fight involving vodka and supermodels at a Meatpacking District nightclub sparked a royal beatdown that landed Monaco’s Prince Pierre Casiraghi in hospital The attack on the 24-year-old son of Princess Caroline and grandson of Grace Kelly came during a late-night confrontation between the prince and his playboy pals at trendy Double Seven this weekend. Paris Hilton was there. [nypost]
Auction Alliance Kickback Scandal – Insiders have blown the lid on auction house Auction Alliance, linking bank staff, liquidators and attorneys to a money-making racket. Based on a paper trail dating back a number of years, and on the damning evidence provided by a number of insiders who have broken ranks, the Saturday Star can reveal… click for more. [iol]
Euro Crisis: Greece To Be Handed An Extra £108 Billion In New Bail-Out Deal – After more than 12 hours of talks, countries in the eurozone reached an agreement early on Tuesday to hand Greece £108 billion (130 billion euros) in extra bail-out loans to save it from a potentially disastrous default next month, a European Union diplomat said. [telegraph]
BMW’s SA Investment Seen As Vote Of Confidence – A major car manufacturer is to invest R2.2-billion in the South African economy with a new vehicle series, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said on Monday. “[This] is a private-sector vote of confidence in our economy,” Patel said in a speech prepared for delivery at Rosslyn in Pretoria. The launch would create 600 new jobs. [mail&guardian]
Chinese Court Orders Ban On Apple iPad – A lawyer representing Proview International on Monday announced that the Intermediate People’s Court in Huizhou, a city in southern China, ruled on Friday that distributors should stop selling iPads in China, Associated Press reports. [bgr]
Microsoft’s ‘SkyDrive’ Could Put iCloud To Shame – Microsoft’s SkyDrive is an adequate cloud storage service (and one that boasts 17 million customers to boot), but it’s not something that the folks at Redmond can afford to leave in its current state. With Apple playing up their iCloud integration in their forthcoming OS X Mountain Lion update, SkyDrive program managers took to the Building Windows 8 blog to outline what’s next for their own cloud service. [techcrunch]
Japan Tsunami: One Year Later [Incredible Pictures] – As Japan approaches its first anniversary since the devastating tsunami, the country’s clean-up effort has been making striking progress. In this set of before and after pictures, scenes of the devastation are juxtaposed with images of the same spots, cleaned of debris and effectively reclaimed by the Japanese people. [huffpo]
The Cops Are Now Officially After Mandla Mandela – Eastern Cape police are on the hunt for Mandla Mandela, who they claim is evading arrest. A warrant for his arrest was issued last Friday after the Mvezo chief failed to appear in court on charges of bigamy. [timeslive]
Chisora Faces Hearing After Haye Brawl – Heavyweight Dereck Chisora faces being sanctioned by the British Boxing Board of Control, after being called to a hearing next month following his brawl with fellow-Briton David Haye at a press conference on Saturday night. [cnn]
Test-Tube Burgers: A Taste Of Things To Come – Lurking in a petri dish in a laboratory in the Netherlands is an unlikely contender for the future of food. The yellow-pink sliver is state-of-the-art in lab-grown meat and a milestone on the path to the world’s first burger made from stem cells. [smh]
Lady Gaga Reckons The Devil Is Haunting Her – The ‘Born This Way’ hitmaker has enlisted the help of Michael Jackson’s former doctor and spiritual adviser Deepak Chopra – who helped the late singer achieve better sleep and breathing patterns with counselling sessions – to try to ward off evil spirits from her “terrifying” dreams. [ctv]
Texas High School Nears Completion Of R460 Million Stadium – One high school football team in Texas is going to need a lot more Friday night lights. Allen High in suburban Dallas is nearing the completion of a $60 million upgrade that will transform its football stadium into a college-style coliseum. [dailynews]
Chris Brown’s First Line on His Rihanna Remix Is Unbelievable – Here, finally, is the remix of “Birthday” to which Rihanna infamously invited her abusive ex-boyfriend Chris Brown to contribute a verse. His first line? “Girl, I wanna fuck you right now/Been a long time, I’ve been missing your body.” Oh. Cool. [gawker]
The 2012 Ferrari California – Ferrari has confirmed the revised 2012 California convertible will get more power, a lower body weight and a new optional handling package. The model will be about 30kg lighter and will deliver an additional 30 HP. Both the exterior and interior will also be improved. [luxuo]
Caffeine Inhalers All The Rage – It’s advertised as “pure energy,” but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration isn’t so sure that inhalable caffeine, sold in lipstick-sized canisters, is actually healthy. FDA officials plan to investigate whether AeroShot, sold in a canister for a quick, 100-milligram hit of caffeine, is safe for consumers. [thedaily]
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