Whitney Houston’s Will: Ex-husband Bobby Brown Doesn’t Get A Cent – Whitney Houston’s will and estate leave no room for confusion. Everything goes to a single heir: Bobbi Kristina Brown, 19, the late singer’s one and only child. And ex-husband Bobby Brown gets nothing. Hectique. [Chicago Tribune]
Pittsburgh Shooter Killed In Exchange Of Gunfire With Authorities – A gunman died in an exchange of gunfire with authorities Thursday after entering a Pittsburgh psychiatric clinic and opening fire, officials said. Two other people were killed and seven were wounded when the gunman entered through the lobby and started shooting with two semiautomatic weapons. [LA Times]
Vavi Says ANC Risks Being Overthrown – Fresh from a march that exposed the deep divisions between the unions and the ruling party, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said yesterday that the African National Congress (ANC) needed to pull up its socks or risk being overthrown. [Business Day]
New iPad Lights Up Trade-in Services – Record numbers of iPad owners sold their devices yesterday following Apple’s introduction of its next-generation model. Today both eBay and Gazelle, online services that buy used tablets and other gadgets, reported a record influx of people selling their tablets, many of which were models less than a year old. eBay says it had “more than” 20,000 trade-in offers for tablets yesterday, 89 percent of which were iPads. [CNet]
Justice Department Threatens To Sue Apple, Publishers Over e-book Prices – The Justice Department told Apple and five of the nation’s biggest book publishers that it will sue them for their alleged price-fixing of electronic books unless the companies agree to change their business practices. Federal officials found that Apple, Simon and Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group, Macmillan and HarperCollins Publishers “engaged in a pattern of behavior that violates antitrust laws,” according to a person familiar with the investigation. [Washington Post]
Bronx Accused “Used Tik” – Three men implicated in the murder of Bronx nightclub owner Bruno Bronn allegedly smoked tik after they killed him, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court has heard. Investigating officer Sergeant Mervyn Bezuidenhout was testifying during the bail application of Fareez Allie, one of the four men who has been charged with Bronn’s murder on February 7. [IOL]
China To Offer Renminbi Loans To Brics – China is planning to extend renminbi loans to other major emerging Bric countries in another step toward the expansion of the yuan’s role in foreign exchange, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Wednesday. The China Development Bank (CDB) will sign a memorandum of understanding at a meeting with its Brics counterparts – Russia, South Africa, Brazil and India – in New Delhi on March 29. [Fin24]
Hope About Greece Spurs Stocks – U.S. stocks closed higher Thursday as investors grew hopeful that private-sector bondholders are on the verge of accepting a debt-swap deal with Greece. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) added 70 points, or 0.5%, according to early tallies. The S&P 500 (SPX) gained 13 points, or 1%, and the Nasdaq (COMP) rose 34 points, or 1.2%. Greece is moving closer to finalizing an agreement with its private-sector bondholders on a restructuring of Greece’s debt. [CNNMoney]
Chinese Cyber cCapability Puts US At Risk – Chinese cyber warfare would pose a “genuine risk” to the US military in a conflict, for instance over Taiwan or disputes in the South China Sea, according to a report prepared for the US Congress. Operations against computer networks have become fundamental to Beijing’s military and national development strategies over the past decade. [News24]
Iran Offers Rare Praise For ‘The Great Satan'[VIDEO] – Iran’s supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei today gave brief but unprecedented praise to a leader of the United States, welcoming President Obama’s effort to cool down war rhetoric in the West surrounding Iran’s nuclear program. [Christian Science Monitor]
Syrian Amateur ‘Doctor’ Recounts Life In Baba Amr Battle Clinic – Security is tight at the inconspicuous hospital in an area of Lebanon now home to thousands of refugees fleeing the violence in neighboring Syria. A medical staffer steps into the elevator and punches in a code giving access to the floor where a number of wounded Syrians are being treated. Some escaped from the devastated Baba Amr neighborhood in the city of Homs. [LA Times]
Paris Is Burning: Giant Fire Breaks Out in Historic Neighborhood – Fire broke out in the underground parking garage today at Place Vendôme, the famous Parisian square near the Ritz Hotel and Tuileries Gardens. According to Huffington Post and its French affiliate, “over 100 firemen and 25 trucks” are “on the scene.” [Gawker]
Piers Morgan In Disbelief Over Filmmaker’s Inability To Find Fault In Barack Obama: ‘Oh, Come Off It’ – On his show Thursday, CNN’s Piers Morgan entered into a rather heated discussion with filmmaker Davis Guggenheim — the man behind the new very pro-Barack Obama documentary The Road We’ve Traveled — on the apparent lack of balance in his film. [Mediaite]
Smith & Kallis Go To Centuries – South Africa took control with both Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis going to centuries as they reached 268 for three at stumps on the third day of the first test against New Zealand in Dunedin on Friday. [Supersport]
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