Justin Bieber Tops Lady Gaga To Rule Twitter – Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber with his hordes of fans known of Beliebers became the King of Twitter on Tuesday, topping fellow pop star Lady Gaga as the user with the most followers. [reuters]

3 wounded, 2 Detained In Texas College Shooting – Three people, at least two of them students, were wounded in a shooting on a Texas community college campus Tuesday. The early-afternoon shooting apparently stemmed from an argument between two men. [cnn]

Deadly Day In Sasolburg Protests – Two people were killed in violent protests on Tuesday as Sasolburg residents went on the rampage reportedly in protest of proposed plans to merge the municipality into that of Parys. [news24]

Beyoncé Lip-Synched The National Anthem – Beyoncé’s performance of the national anthem at President Obama’s second inauguration on Monday was everything it should be: soaring, moving, symbolic and musically superlative. But was it actually live? [newyorktimes]

Eric Schmidt’s Daughter Lifts Lid On ‘Very Strange’ North Korea – Sophie Schmidt, the teenage daughter of Google chairman Eric Schmidt has shed some light on her father’s secretive trip to North Korea, in a first-hand account of the visit to a “very, very strange” country. [telegraph]

Bill Gates: “I Have No Use For Money” – William Henry ‘Bill’ Gates with an estimated wealth of $65 billion is as rich as two Kenyas, three Trinidads and a dozen Montenegros but is now engaged in the process of ridding himself of all the money in the hope of extending the lives of others less fortunate than himself. [ecotimes]

Cuba’s Mystery Fiber-Optic Internet Cable Stirs To Life – An undersea fiber-optic cable that promises to bring Cuban Internet and phone communications into the 21st Century stirred to life this week, two years after it was laid between Venezuela and the Caribbean island. [reuters]

Microsoft Joins Dell Buyout Talks as Effort Advances – The proposed buyout of Dell Inc. has another spark: Microsoft Corp. The software giant entered discussions in recent days with private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners and Dell founder Michael Dell to buy the computer maker from public stockholders, according to people familiar with the deliberations. [wallstreetjournal]

Zille Street or Malema Street? – Residents of Gugulethu in Cape Town have been creative in their suggestions for replacing apartheid-era street names. [iafrica]

Russia Pushes Ban On ‘Homosexual Propaganda,’ Including Public Kissing By Same-Sex Couples – The Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church are fighting to outlaw ‘propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism.’ The law, which the state says is aimed at protecting minors, also bans gay rights rallies. [nydn]

Taliban Brands Prince Harry A ‘Coward’ – A Taliban spokesman has branded Prince Harry a “coward” after the 28-year-old justified killing insurgents during his tour of Afghanistan, saying he saw it as “take a life to save a life.” [itv]

British Grandmother Sentenced To Death By Firing Squad For Smuggling Drugs Into Bali – A British housewife and grandmother from Yorkshire has been sentenced to death for smuggling 4.8kg of cocaine in Bali, Indonesia. That’s quite a lot. [ibtimes]

Russian Mafia Boss Astamur Guliya Killed in ‘Retaliation’ For Grandpa Khasan’s Murder – A Russian criminal boss has been shot dead in what appears to be retaliation to the murder of mob leader Aslan Usoyan, aka Grandpa Khasan, in Moscow last week. [ibtimes]

US Company Plans To Mine Asteroids For Metals – Deep Space Industries predicts it will be harvesting metals and other building materials from space rocks within a decade. [skynews]

Irish Council Votes To Relax Drink-Driving Laws – Councillors in rural Ireland have come up with a novel way of tackling the problem of drink driving – by making it legal. [independent]

Foul Odour Stinks Up France, UK – A foul-smelling cloud of gas escaped from a factory in northern France on Tuesday, making life unpleasant from the outskirts of Paris to Britain’s shores and prompting scores of emergency calls. [news24]

Maria Sharapova And Li Na Reach Australian Open Semi-Finals – Maria Sharapova maintained her impressive form to cruise through to the semi-finals of the Australian Open with an emphatic victory over fellow Russian Ekaterina Makarova. [bbcsport]

Bradford Hold Off Villa To Reach Final – Bradford City struck a blow for the paupers and restored the faith of those who say Premier League riches have killed the romance of English football by holding off aristocrats Aston Villa to reach the League Cup final on Tuesday. [supersport]

Campaign To Rid New Zealand Of Cats Angers Animal-Lovers – A campaign to eradicate cats from New Zealand in a bid to preserve native birdlife has left pet lovers howling with outrage. [telegraph]

New iPhone ‘Mailbox’ App Set To Shake Things Up – Mailbox certainly isn’t the first app that has tried to improve on Apple’s default email application, but the goal of Mailbox isn’t just to make Apple’s email app better, it’s to rethink email for mobile all together. [mashable]

Chris Brown Latest Victim Of ‘Swatting’ Trend – Cops raced to Chris Brown’s Hollywood Hills home Monday afternoon … after someone called 911 and reported a domestic incident involving a gun, but we’re told it was all a prank. [tmz]

Rolls-Royce Wraith (2013) First Teaser Image Of Ghost Coupe – Following last week’s official announcement of a Rolls-Royce Ghost-based coupe, the Goodwood manufacturer has released the first in its series of teaser images of the new Wraith two-door. We’ll see the car in full at the Geneva motor show on 5 March 2013. [car]

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David Kibuuka And Kagiso Lediga With Bailey Schneider

Stand Up Africa won’t have a host in 2013 – it will have a Foreign Correspondent in David Kibuuka, the hilarious correspondent on Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola, and will see the biggest names that African comedy has to offer, including  Kagiso Lediga, fresh from touring with his debut one man comedy show “In A Suit” in 2012. They join Bailey from 14h00-15h00 today to chat all about #StandUpAfrica. [baileyschneider]

Bob’s Weekend Getaways– Tune in to The Mid Week Weekend with bob Skinstad and Dan Green from 15h00-17h00 today where they’ll be running their weekly Kia Weekend getaway competition, treating one listener to a divine weekend away, just 2 hours outside of Cape Town or Johannesburg. Tune in to find out how you can win! [kiaweekendgetaway

FRESH PODCASTS

Diagnosed With Cancer? Befriend Your Chronic Disease – After being diagnosed with cancer, people often believe that’s the end and go into a state of denial and depression. When you in a state of shock, you become immune depressant which worsens your condition. You need to turn around and face it, and Professor Patrick Bouic talks us through how to do so using Biological Decoding to deal with your illness. When going for therapy, protect your good healthy tissues. He advises to detox in between sessions, make sure you use correct supplements to boost you where needed as the cancer compromises your immune system. People out there are battling on their own with this fear of death by cancer, but they don’t have to die. Empower yourself and befriend your chronic diseases. [podcast]