DA Youth Reveals Constitution Burning Poster – A new Democratic Alliance Youth poster showing the SA Constitution being burnt was revealed on Monday. The unveiling of the new poster, in the DA Youth’s “In our future” campaign series, coincided with a sit-in by the party at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg on Monday afternoon. [news24]
SAA To Pay Penalty For Price Fixing – South African Airways has agreed to pay a R18,8m penalty after admitting guilt for fixing prices on flights between Johannesburg and Hong Kong. [businessday]
Wouter Basson Developed Chemical Weapons “For The Benefit On Mankind” – Wouter Basson, the infamous Doctor Death, has told the professional conduct committee of the Health Professionals Council of South Africa (HPCSA) that he was acting “for the benefit of mankind and to limit loss of life” when he led the development of chemical weapons during the apartheid era. [mail&guardian]
France Gunman Sent Video Footage To News Channel – Mohammed Merah, who shot seven people in France before being killed after a 30-hour police siege, sent video footage of his attacks – set to music – to Al Jazeera in Paris. The TV news network received a computer memory drive containing a montage of footage and sent the package on to police on Monday. [skynews]
Rael-Madrid To Build $1 Billion Artificial Island Resort – Real Madrid football club will spend $1bn to build a lavish resort island in the United Arab Emirates, complete with luxury hotels, marina and amusement park. Executives unveiled plans for the “Real Madrid Resort Island”, featuring an oceanside stadium and hi-tech club museum in the northern Emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah, on the doorstep of the lucrative football-mad Asian market. [luxuo]
Carte Blanche Presenter’s Cousin Found Dead – The cousin of a well-known Carte Blanche presenter, Devi Sankaree Govender, was found dead, hours after being hijacked on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, according to a report. [news24]
Murdoch Firm Used Hacker Site To Target Pay-TV Rival – A News Corporation company recruited a pay-TV “pirate” to post hacked details of a rival’s secret codes online, BBC Panorama has found. The widespread availability of the secret codes meant ITV Digital’s services could be accessed for free by pirates. The company went bust in 2002. [bbc]
Coutts Fined For Money Laundering Failures – Coutts, best known as banker to The Queen, was fined 8.75 million pounds for “significant and widespread” failings in its money laundering controls, its second penalty for financial trangressions in four months. [reuters]
New Mad Men Premiere Ratings Shatter Records – After a 17-month absence, a heavy marketing campaign and a flood of adoring publicity, TV’s most critically acclaimed drama returned Sunday night to record ratings. The fifth-season debut of AMC’s “Mad Men” delivered 3.5 million viewers for its two-hour premiere. [cnn]
BMW Recalling 1.3 Million Cars Worldwide – German luxury-car maker BMW AG said on Monday that it is recalling about 1.3 million vehicles world-wide for repair due to potential problems with a battery-cable cover, one of the German luxury car maker’s largest recalls in recent years. [wallstreetjournal]
Police Arrest Psycho Brick-Wielding Female Intruder At Simon Cowell’s House – Armed police were sent to the home of Simon Cowell after a woman allegedly battered her way in wielding a broken brick. Leanne Zaloumis, 29, is accused of breaking into the pop mogul’s £9million mansion by smashing his bathroom window with a rock after scrambling on to a flat roof. [dailymail]
North Korea Is Launching That Rocket – Thumbing its nose at threats from both Japan and South Korea to shoot it down if it comes near their territory, North Korea has moved a long-range missile onto its launch pad in preparation for an April liftoff. [businessinsider]
Cameron Faces Cash-For-Access Probe – British prime minister David Cameron yesterday faced demands for an inquiry into “cash for access” allegations after he confirmed he had hosted wealthy individuals at Downing Street and Chequers who between them donated millions of pounds to the Conservative Party. [irishexaminer]
Sarkozy To Ban Some Muslim Clerics From France Following Shooting – French President Nicolas Sarkozy today said some Muslim clerics are “not welcome” on French soil following a deadly shootout believed to have been the work of an Al-Qaeda-inspired gunman who was killed after dramatic three-day police seige last week. [glopo]
DSK Charged In French Hooker Case – Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn faced preliminary charges Monday of “aggravated pimping” and procurement in an illegal prostitution ring in France. [yahoo]
5th Biggest Lottery Jackpot In History Goes Off Tonight – That is what is happening tonight, as the MegaMillions lottery enjoys a jackpot of $356 million. In Rands that works out to R2.7 Billion. You can pretty much buy anything you want with that. You can have a ship like Roman Abromovich. You can buy an island like Richard Branson. ANYTHING! Buy tickets online and mobile. [here]
Stripper / Journalist In Jeremy Piven “Kiss” And Tell – “I alternated between being nervous that I was not as hot as his last hookup, being amazed that I was looking at Entourage’s Ari Gold eat my p*ssy, and being bored with how mundane it was. It was all somewhat disappointing, frankly.” [gawker]
“The Markets Have Outdone Themselves” – Yesterday’s daily 2ov Radio Financial Report [podcast]
Justin Bieber’s New Song Drops, Internet Explodes – Justin Bieber’s new single, “Boyfriend,” dropped at midnight Monday, and the track was — unsurprisingly — everywhere shortly thereafter. The single off the pop prince’s upcoming album, Believe, hit iTunes shortly after the clock struck 12. Biebs himself was in fine form on Twitter, whipping his nearly 19 million followers into a frenzy with a countdown to the moment of truth. [huffpo]
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