Tutu Demands That Blair And Bush Face Hague Trial – Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu called on Sunday for Tony Blair and George Bush to face prosecution at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their role in the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. [businessday]

Shock Result For Oscar – Brazil’s Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira stunned defending champion Oscar Pistorius to win the men’s 200m T44 title at the Paralympic Games on Sunday. [sport24]

Pistorius Blames ‘Unfair Advantage’ For Loss – South Africa’s most famous Paralympics athlete, Oscar Pistorius courts controversy by claiming Brazilian Alan Oliveira’s running blades break regulations regarding length. [guardian]

Lance Armstrong’s Assistant Calls Him A Liar And A Cheat – “I was Lance’s personal assistant for two years, during the height of his racing career. Do I think he cheated? Yep. But my real problem is something that diehard fans seem unable to grasp: the vengeful tactics he uses against people who tell the truth about him, on and off the bike.” [outside]

NPA Drops Lonmin Murder Charges – The National Prosecuting Authority buckled under pressure yesterday, provisionally withdrawing controversial murder charges against 270 Lonmin mineworkers. [timeslive]

Samsung Threatens To Leave Bloggers Stranded – Imagine you’re a blogger and you’re given the chance to review new, hot hardware from a major company and they will even fly you somewhere. All sounds pretty rad, right? Well that’s what a couple of Indian participants in Samsung’s Mob!ler program thought too, until Samsung threatened to leave them stranded in Berlin, Germany. [nextweb]

Apple Adds More Samsung Products To New Complaint – Apple on Friday filed an amended complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, adding two versions each of the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note to its original claims of patent infringement against a number of Samsung smartphones and tablets. [appleinsider]

Facebook Reveals the Sleazy Business of Fake ‘Likes’ – Facebook says it is removing fraudulently generated “likes,” which helped make some businesses on Facebook appear more popular than they really were. [wired]

Tom Cruise’s Scientology Marriages: The Secret Wife-Auditioning Process Before Katie Holmes, Revealed – In the October issue, Vanity Fair special correspondent Maureen Orth reports that in 2004 Scientology embarked on a top-secret project headed by Shelly Miscavige, wife of Scientology chief David Miscavige, which involved finding a girlfriend for Tom Cruise. [vanityfair]

Naspers Rides Big Chinese Wave – A shrewd investment 11 years ago on a little-known and unprofitable Chinese internet company is now paying huge dividends for Naspers. [mail&guardian]

FW Fights To Keep Finances Private – Former president FW de Klerk will continue his legal battle to keep the state of his finances out of the public eye, the Rapport newspaper reported on Sunday. [news24]

Girl Reveals Naked Vegas ‘Fumble’ With Prince Harry – A British-born blonde named Carrie Reichert, 32, reveals to the U.K. Mirror that she spent 15-20 minutes alone making out with the Royal after the now imfamous strip billiards game. [eonline]

Belgian Grand Prix Crash: Romain Grosjean Banned For One Race – Romain Grosjean has been given a one-race ban for causing the first-corner crash at the Belgian Grand Prix. [bbc + video]

White House Releases Obama Beer Recipe After Calls From Public – The White House has responded to requests to release the recipe for Barack Obama’s homemade beer. HEre it is. [vansun]

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Brain-Controlled Drone Takes Flight In China – Researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, have posted a YouTube video demonstrating a mind-controlled quadcopter drone. By wearing an EEG (emotiv electroencephalography) headset, Zhejiang’s researchers claim they can pilot a quadcopter by thinking. [wired]

World’s Richest Woman Says The Poor Should Drink Less – The world’s richest woman, Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, urged those “jealous” of the wealthy to “spend less time drinking” in a piece the government described as “insulting” on Thursday. [afp]

13 Whales Dead In Stranding Off Scottish Coast – A wildlife rescue organization says 13 whales have died following a mass stranding off the Scottish coast. British Divers and Marine Life Rescue said Sunday that the mammals were among a group of 26 pilot whales stranded at Pittenweem, in eastern Scotland. [yahoo]

98-Year-Old Message In A Bottle Sets New Record – It was scooped up from the sea after 98 years, and now officials say a message in a bottle discovered in Scotland has set a world record. Fisherman Andrew Leaper found the bottle– released in 1914 — in his nets in April while sailing east of the Shetland Islands, which lie off Scotland’s northern coast. [foxnews]

Seal Accuses Heidi Of ‘Fornicating With The Help” – On Friday, seven months after what seemed like an amicable split, Seal let loose, accusing his supermodel ex of cheating. “”I preferred Heidi would have showed a little bit more class and at least waited until we separated first before deciding to fornicate with the help.” [abcnews]

Kim Kardashian Is Not Getting a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Because Life Is Unfair – National treasure Kim Kardashian gives so much and asks so little — all she wanted was one measly star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce won’t budge: honorees have to have actually acted. [gawker]

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The Olympic Champion, Cameron Van Der Burg With Bailey – The 100m breaststroke gold medalist, secured South Africa’s first gold medal at the London Olympics and broke the world record with 58,46 seconds. This Pretoria native is a self proclaimed Fifa king, an avid lover of Audi and can now add four gold medals to his resume. Tune in from 14h00-15h00 today for a full hour interview with Bailey Schneider and all Cameron’s music choices! [2ovfm]

Goodnight Wembley Acoustic Session – Goodnight Wembley is a combo of Taxi Violence, 7th Son, Dead Lucky and Yes Sir! Mister Machine to form a new hard rock retro outfit. They perform an acoustic set at 13h00. [justjosie]

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Little Dragon On 2 Girls 1 Mic – At the end of their Ritual Union tour, Little Dragon performed in Cape Town and Jozi. The band are simply waiting for their final show in the Isle of Wight in September before they head off to make tea and write the next album. Kamini got to talk to this Swiss electronic band. [podcast]

UK Punk Band, Gallows On 2oVFM – Gary Cool called up Wade MacNeil who is the new Gallows singer and a former guitarist in one of Canada’s biggest punk bands Alexisonfire. Gary asked Wade about the change over from Alexisonfire to The Gallows as well as The new Album, their sound direction and possibly touring South Africa and sharing a few cold ones in studio with Mr Cool on The Rock Dimension. [podcast]