Three US Women Missing For Decade Found Alive – Three young women who vanished about a decade ago in the US state of Ohio have been found and are in hospital in a fair condition, officials have said. [bbc]

Gupta Scandal Dividing The ANC – The recent Gupta aircraft scandal has caused divisions in the ANC and in Cabinet and could lead to President Jacob Zuma’s ousting, according to unnamed sources in news reports. [timeslive]

The Top Spooks’ Gupta Warning – Which Cost Them Their Jobs – A persistent question following the Gupta jet being allowed to land at Waterkloof Air Force Base is “How could this have happened?” The answer is rooted in debacle in the Department of State Security two years ago. [dailymaverick]

Arrested Gupta Cops Are Back At Work – Nine metro police officers arrested last week for allegedly moonlighting as bodyguards – while using their service pistols – to escort the Gupta wedding guests are back on duty. [timeslive]

North Korea Seems To Be Chilling Out A Bit – Two North Korean Musudan missiles have been withdrawn from a launch site in the eastern part of the country and sent to a storage facility, a U.S. official confirmed Monday. [cnn]

Facebook Cracks Fortune 500 List For The First Time – On Monday Fortune magazine released their Fortune 500 list, an annual survey of the largest companies in the U.S., ranked by revenues. [cbs]

Critics Bash ‘Great Gatsby’ Excesses, DiCaprio’s ‘Marshmallow’ Accent – Call it the Great Gats-lash. In the lead-up to the arrival of Baz Luhrmann’s kinetic reimagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” in theaters Friday, most critical thumbs are pointing either sideways or downward. [latimes]

Babylon’s Hanging Garden: Ancient Scripts Give Clue To Missing Wonder – The whereabouts of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world – the fabled Hanging Garden of Babylon – has been one of the great mysteries from antiquity. The inability of archaeologists to find traces of it among Babylon’s ancient remains led some even to doubt its existence. [guardian]

Details Emerge About Bridal Party Burnt To Death In Limo – “They had the music up in the back, and I figured she was asking, ‘Can I smoke?’ ” [time]

Kate Middleton Baby: Prince Harry Reveals Sex Of Duchess Of Cambridge’s Baby – Uncle-to-be couldn’t contain his excitement and let it slip after Kate dropped hints during public engagements. [mirror]

British Tourists Complaint Over £54 Ice Cream Hits A Nerve In Rome – No visit to Rome is complete without a gelato but a group of British tourists got a nasty shock when they were charged 64 euros (R754) for four ice creams. [telegraph]

YouTube Pay Channels Set To Launch Within Weeks: Report – YouTube is set to announce within a few weeks a series of channels that will require payment, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. [huffpo]

Lauryn Hill Sentenced to Three Months in Jail for Unpaid Taxes – Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for failing to pay taxes on approximately $1.8 million in earnings. [rollingstone]

German Police Arrest 93-Year-Old ‘Auschwitz Guard’ – A 93-year-old man who was deported from the US for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities on Monday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said. [guardian]

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