Bolshoi Dancer Dmitrichenko ‘Confesses’ To Acid Attack – A Bolshoi Ballet soloist and two other men have confessed to an acid attack on the company’s artistic director, Moscow police say. Dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko – the alleged mastermind of the attack – was detained on Tuesday with Yuri Zarutsky, who is suspected of carrying it out. [bbc]
24 More Rhino Poached In Past Week – More than 20 rhino have been poached countrywide in the last week, bringing the total to 146 this year, SA National Parks (SANParks) said on Wednesday. [news24]
‘Real IRA Boss’ Shot Dead: Five People Held – The victim, a suspected dissident republican, was shot multiple times at close range as he got out of his car. [skynews]
Oscar Pistorius Parts Ways With PR Company – Vuma Reputation Management, the public relations company representing murder accused Oscar Pistorius and his family have parted ways. [newage]
Graça Warns Of Bullyboy Police – Nelson Mandela’s wife, Graça Machel, yesterday entered the fray provoked by public outrage at police brutality. She warned that the “increasing institutionalisation of violence” was creating a police force “actively aggressive towards a defenceless public”. [timeslive]
Mother Teresa Slammed – A new study by Canadian academics says Mother Teresa was a product of hype who housed the poor and sick in shoddy conditions, despite her access to a fortune. [huffers]
Vatican Orders Media Blackout – The College of Cardinals that will elect the next pope cut off formal communications with the news media on Wednesday after its private deliberations emerged in the Italian press, raising the specter of another leaking scandal similar to the one that shadowed the last year in office of Pope Benedict XVI. [washpo]
Chinese Couples In Rush To Divorce As House Sales Tax Looms – Shanghai saw a rush of people seeking a divorce over the past two days as couples worked out a way to escape the looming 20 percent tax on the profit from house sales. [shang]
Hackers Use Cartoon Gorilla To Punish Time Warner’s Anti-Piracy Stance – Hackers made Time Warner pay for its support of the anti-piracy Copyright Alert System. Hacker group NullCrew got into Time Warner’s website and dropped a cartoon gorilla on the service provider’s support page. [msn]
Heinz CEO Due $212.6 Million Golden Parachute – Heinz CEO William Johnson could leave the company with more than $200 million under terms of a golden parachute disclosed in a filing. [money]
Microsoft Fined $731 Million by EU Over Browser Accord – Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) was fined 561 million euros ($731 million) by European Union regulators for violating the terms of a settlement to give users a choice of web browsers aside from its Internet Explorer. [bloomberg]
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Shia LaBeouf Posts New Damaging Emails After Alec Baldwin Criticizes Former Broadway Co-Star – Shia LaBeouf may have exited stage left abruptly from what was supposed to be his Broadway debut — but the mercurial actor can’t seem to leave the drama behind. [nydailynews]
Lion Kills Worker At Sanctuary In California – A 24-year-old female intern was killed Wednesday afternoon by an African lion inside a cage at an exotic cat sanctuary in California, authorities said. [cnn]
Soon You Won’t Be Able To Buy Regular Sprite In The UK – Coca-Cola says it’s replacing Sprite in the country with a version that uses the sweetener stevia and has 30 percent fewer calories. Sprite Zero, which doesn’t have any calories, will also be available. [huffpo]
Amazon’s New Mobile Ad Network Is A Huge Threat To Google – Amazon launched a new mobile ad network this week, which will allow advertisers to run ads on mobile apps downloaded from Amazon’s app store. It’s expected that users of Amazon’s Kindle might see ads running on apps they got from Amazon. The ads will also run on any Android device that has downloaded apps from Amazon. [busins]
Why Cyber Currency Bitcoin Is Trading At An All-Time High – Bitcoin sounds like something from science fiction: A purely digital currency, created by an anonymous hacker, that operates outside the world’s traditional banking systems. The four-year-old currency is very real, though, and it’s trading an all-time high, tripling in value in the last two months alone. [cnn]
Steven Tyler Act Passes: New Curbs On Paparazzi – The Hawaii state Senate passed the so-called Steven Tyler Act Tuesday, a bill that seeks to protect celebrities from overeager paparazzi by creating a civil violation if people take unwanted photos or videos of others in their private moments. [csm]
Ty Keogh and Nicole Flint On The Bailey Schneider Show – Hottest new celeb couple, Ty and Nicole join Bailey for a full hour from 14h00-15h00 today chatting about how their romance started and when they decided to make it official. [2ovfm]
Biz Takeouts Marketing & Media Radio Show takes South Africa’s biggest online marketing, media and ad industry platform to the airwaves to give relevant, useful and interesting insight into all aspects of marketing in SA, Africa and beyond. Tune in to Biz Takeouts with Warren Harding from 17h00-18h00 today. [biztakeouts]
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