Your New President Is The Same President – The ANC’s elected top six leaders has yielded no surprises, with party president Jacob Zuma retaining his position at the helm. [mail&guardian]

Instagram Backtracks After User Privacy Revolt – Faced with a loud and angry backlash from some of its most active users, photo-sharing app Instagram backtracked Tuesday on new language that appeared to give the company ownership of their images. [cnn]

China Detains 500-Plus People for Doomsday Rumours – Chinese police have detained more than 500 people from a fringe Christian group for spreading rumours about the world’s impending end. [abc]

Mandela Spends 11th Day In Hospital – Doctors treating Nelson Mandela are keeping him in hospital but say they are “satisfied with his progress”. The 94-year-old has been receiving treatment following his operation in the country’s capital Pretoria. [skynews]

Obama Backs Assault Weapon Ban – US President Barack Obama wants to reinstate an assault weapons ban in the wake of the mass killings in Newtown, Connecticut, his spokesman says. [bbc]

Romeo Beckham Is The New Face Of Burberry – Victoria and David Beckham’s second son Romeo Beckham has joined the lineup of Burberry faces for the Spring/Summer 2013 campaign. Often collaborating with young British talents, Burberry has chosen the 10-year-old as a face of its line of ready-to-wear and accessories. [luxuo]

Zuckerberg Will Donate $500 Million To Charity – Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, said Tuesday that he would donate nearly $500 million in company stock to a Silicon Valley charity with the intention of providing funds for health and education issues. [newyorktimes]

Facebook Rejects Germany’s Demand For Fake Names – Facebook Inc. will fight a German privacy watchdog’s demand to allow users to register with fake names, insisting Tuesday that its current practice fully complies with the law. [globanmail]

School Massacre: Adam Lanza ‘Spent Hours Playing Call Of Duty’ – The Connecticut school massacre gunman Adam Lanza spent hours playing violent video games such as Call Of Duty in a windowless bunker, according to an interview with a plumber who worked at the family home. [telegraph]

Adam Lanza Destroyed His Hard Drive Before Attack – Before his rampage, the Newtown shooter smashed his home computer’s hard drive, a law-enforcement source tells Christine Pelisek—evidence that the shooting spree was planned in advance. [dailybeast]

Zille Freaks Over Zuma Win – The ANC’s national conference election results will hasten the “disintegration” and collapse of the ruling party, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Tuesday. [news24]

Motlanthe: Out In The Cold? – Divisions threatened to tear the ANC apart yesterday as supporters of newly re-elected party president Jacob Zuma demanded that he fire Kgalema Motlanthe as South Africa’s deputy president. [timeslive]

Mangaung ‘Bomb’ Part Of Zuma Assassination Plot – The terrorist threat at the ANC’s Mangaung conference has been revealed as an alleged assassination attempt on Jacob Zuma and other top leaders. [mail&guardian]

Putin’s Arms Dealers Are Selling More Weapons to More Dirtbags Than Ever – Vladimir Putin wants to build a big friggin’ army. But to pay for it, the Russian president has expanded the amount of Russian weapons sold around the globe, and he isn’t being all that discriminating about who he sells them to. [wired]

Ireland To Legalise Abortions – Reforms expected to allow for abortions where there is a medical risk to the woman’s life or a danger of suicide. [guardian]

Found: Whale Thought Extinct For 2 Million Years – The pygmy whale, a mysterious cetacean that looks radically different from all living whales, is actually the last living member of a group thought to have gone extinct 2 million years ago. [msnbc]

Google Meets Qumran: Thousands Of Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments Go Online – A new website makes the ‘ultimate puzzle’ of biblical scholarship accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. [timis]

Britney Split Rumors: Jason Trawick Reportedly Planning To Dump Spears – Rumors that Britney Spears’ relationship with her fiancé, Jason Trawick, has been on the rocks have been swirling for months, but now, according to Star magazine, Trawick is preparing to call it quits, and has told everyone except Britney. [ibtimes]

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Wine Extra and 2ovfm Bubbly Event – This year’s event will be taking place in the magnificent gardens of The Vineyard Hotel & Spa in Newlands, where a flight of MCC’s that have stood out this year, will be tasted and reviewed. Tune in from 12h00-14h00 today! [justjosie]

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