Radiohead Drum Technician Killed In Stage Collapse – Investigators combed through the wreckage of a Toronto stage yesterday to determine what caused the structure to come crashing down ahead of a Radiohead concert, killing the band’s drum technician and injuring three other crew members. [todayonline]
Webb Simpson Wins US Open – Simpson shoots a final round of 68 to win his first major championship Sunday at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. Graeme McDowell fails to force a playoff after missing a 24-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole. [latimes]
Tokyo Sexwale Gives Zuma A Warning – Presidential hopeful Tokyo Sexwale has warned that a president who stopped listening to his people would be removed at the ANC’s elective conference. In a thinly veiled reference to President Jacob Zuma, Sexwale also cautioned against efforts to sideline the party’s youth. [timeslive]
Facebook To Pay $10 Million In User Lawsuit Over ‘Like’ Ads – Facebook Inc has agreed to pay $10 million to charity to settle a lawsuit that accused the site of violating users’ rights to control the use of their own names, photographs and likenesses, according to court documents made public over the weekend. [msnbc]
Microsoft To Buy Yammer For $1.2 Billion – Business-software company Yammer Inc. agreed to sell itself to Microsoft Corp. MSFT +2.32% for $1.2 billion, according a person familiar with the matter, in a sign Microsoft may be trying to plug holes in its ubiquitous Office software. [wallstreetjournal]
Greeks Vote To Stay In The Euro: Pro-Bailout Parties Win Majority – Voters gave their backing by the slimmest of margins to the parties which want the country to accept the punishing terms of a bailout deal. Exit polls showed the conservative New Democracy collected 30 per cent of the vote, squeaking past the left-wing Syrzia bloc, which rejects the austerity measures being imposed on Greece. [metro]
Muslim Brotherhood Wins Egypt – Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood declared on Monday that its candidate Mohamed Morsy won the country’s first free presidential race, beating Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister and ending six decades of rule by presidents plucked from the military. [reuters]
Zuma’s ‘Slap In The Face’ To Youth Lambasted – President Jacob Zuma has shown he has no interest in young people by failing to remain in the country on 16 June, the Democratic Alliance Youth said on Sunday. [news24]
Rodney King, whose beating led to LA riots, dies – After his beating by police stunned the nation and a jury’s decision not to hold them responsible sparked a deadly race riot that left Los Angeles smoldering, Rodney King in a quavering voice pleaded on national television for peace while the city burned. King was found at the bottom of his swimming pool on Sunday. [associated]
Fear-Filled Sect Keeping Syria’s Dictatorship Alive – They live in a sliver of land about 50km wide, trace their ancestry back to the Canaanites and swear allegiance to a totalitarian state, which serves as their protector. And, after more than 16 months of revolt in Syria, the country’s Alawite sect remains firmly at the heart of the regime’s fight to see off its challengers. [mail&guardian]
Wildlife Camera Catches Austrian Politician Having Sex In Forest – An Austrian politician is in line to get up to £16,000 in compensation after a hidden camera used for snapping wildlife photographed him having sexual intercourse in a forest. [telegraph]
Chessmaster Garry Kasparov Is Determined to Checkmate Vladimir Putin – Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov is determined to stop Vladimir Putin’s tyrannical crackdown on political opposition. He tells Eli Lake about his strategy. Plus, why he thinks Hillary Clinton’s comments about Putin’s inauguration were ‘horrendous’ and ‘despicable.’ [dailybeast]
Prince Philip Is Back In The Mix – The Duke of Edinburgh appeared to be in good spirits as he attended the annual Trooping the Colour ceremony in honour of the Queen’s official birthday. Prince Philip, who has resumed official duties after recovering from a bladder infection, attended the parade in London with the Queen. [bbc]
Let’s Chat About Wendi Murdoch – Even as her husband’s company, News Corporation, faces scrutiny over a phone-hacking scandal at its British newspapers, Mrs. Murdoch has emerged with her own independent career and has immersed herself in a social circle that includes David Geffen, Larry Ellison, Tony Blair, Nicole Kidman and Bono, one that is often free of her husband’s presence. [nytimes]
Underground Injection Gives You A Tan, Makes You Thin And Improves Sex Drive – People looking for a quick and easy bronze that doesn’t involve harmful sun or tanning bed exposure have been turning to a quick-fix, injectable drug available online. Marketed as Melanotan II and nicknamed “the Barbie drug” — users claim it makes you thin, too — it is technically illegal to sell for anything but medical research purposes. [thedaily]
Woody Allen Admits Fame Has Its Perks – Promoting his new film, “To Rome With Love,” the venerated filmmaker admits that the disparity between being famous and ordinary is “kind of disgusting – but I can’t say I don’t enjoy it.” [hollyrep]
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