The Bone-Chilling Letter Found in Ariel Castro’s House – Cleveland police have found, inside the house where he is alleged to have kept at least three young women captive for ten years, a 2004 letter written by Ariel Castro. Excerpts include “I don’t know why I kept looking for another – I already had 2 in my possession.” [gawker]

Kidnapped Girls Got Cake On Abduction Anniversary –  The three women, who last celebrated birthdays with their families about a decade ago, saw year after year perversely marked by Mr. Castro’s serving of a cake on each woman’s “abduction day.” [newyorktimes]

Gupta Landing Was Approved 3 Weeks Before – The Indian High Commission was given permission to land a privately-chartered plane at Waterkloof Air Force Base, its high commissioner said on Thursday. [news24]

Rolling Stone Punishes ‘Great Gatsby’ And Calls It A ‘Crushing Disappointment’ – Hollywood does not have a good track record when it comes to adapting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel The Great Gatsby, and as Peter Travers gravely points out, Baz Luhrmann’s new Leonardo DiCaprio-starring version continues the trend. But for Travers, this new Gatsby is more of a “crushing disappointment.” [rollingstone]

Amazon Is Developing A Smartphone With 3D Screen – Amazon is looking at developing a high-end smartphone featuring a screen that allows for three-dimensional images without glasses. Using retina-tracking technology, images on the smartphone would seem to float above the screen like a hologram. Sounds horrendous. [wallstreetjournal]

Free State Government Gave Gupta Guests An ‘Alibi’ – The Free State government appears to have played a key role in giving guests to the Gupta wedding an alibi – the pretext of an official visit. [mg]

Group in New York Arrested in Alleged ATM Cybercrime – Jose Familia Reyes allegedly withdrew so much money illegally from ATMs that he needed a backpack. His alleged withdrawals drained New York City ATMs of about $2.4 million in just 24 hours in February, making it the second-largest cash heist of any kind in the city’s history. [wallstreetjournal]

Sars Tackles Lolly Jackson’s R100m Tax Bill – The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has granted the SA Revenue Service (Sars) an application for two curators to take control of murdered strip club owner Lolly Jackson’s estate, Sars said on Thursday. [news24]

US Proposal To Put Warnings On Cellphones, Thrown Out – San Francisco city leaders, after losing a key round in court against the cell phone industry, have agreed to revoke an ordinance that would have been the first in the United States to require retailers to warn consumers about potentially dangerous radiation levels. [yahoo]

Springboks Are Not Paid Enough – Mallett – Former Springbok coach Nick Mallett believes the reason for the exodus of South Africa’s top players is due to players putting their careers at risk without proper compensation. [news24]

Prince Harry Arrives In Washington For Start Of US Tour – His last visit to the US is perhaps best forgotten, and Prince Harry went a long way to erasing the memory of last year’s naked antics in Las Vegas when he was greeted like an old friend by Michelle Obama as he dropped in on her at the White House. [telegraph]

Tiny Goat Straight Kicking It On a Horse [Video] – This is a tourist ad for Newfoundland. I think I’d now like to visit. [jezebel]

The International Space Station Is Leaking Ammonia – Astronauts on the International Space Station spotted “small white flakes” floating away from the ISS and into space. NASA and the Expedition 35 crew on the ISS have fingered those white flakes as ammonia. That can’t be good, right? [gizmodo]

Olympian Dies in America’s Cup Training After Yacht Flips – Andrew Simpson, a 36-year-old British sailor and Olympic gold medalist, died Thursday after a 72-foot America’s Cup yacht owned by the Swedish team Artemis Racing capsized during training in San Francisco Bay. [nytimes]

Blind: Facebook Phone Is Now Just 99 Cents – This is not a good sign. Barely a month into the first “Facebook Phone’s” life, the Facebook Home-sporting HTC First price has been slashed from $99.99 with a two year contract to just 99 cents with the same AT&T two-year agreement. [mashable]

State Department Demands Takedown Of 3D-Printable Gun Files For Possible Export Control Violations – On Thursday, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson received a letter from the State Department Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance demanding that he take down the online blueprints for the 3D-printable “Liberator” handgun. [forbes]

Australia Hunts For Cruise Ship Pair Who Fell Overboard – A search is underway off Australia for a couple who fell overboard into shark-infested waters from a cruise ship returning to Sydney from a Pacific tour. [afp]

Charlie Brown Sent To Rehab – The former child actor who was the voice of Charlie Brown in the 1960s Peanuts animated television specials has been sentenced to a year in jail and immediately ordered to a residential drug treatment centre by a California judge who told him: “Don’t be a blockhead.” [stuff]

Buzz Aldrin Says US Must Colonise Mars With A Permanent Human Presence By 2030-2040 – Buzz Aldrin, the US astronaut who was the second man to walk on the moon, says his country must lead the way toward building a permanent settlement on Mars. [newsau]

Vogue Crops Kim Kardashian Out of Its Met Ball Slideshow – Ooof. Vogue cropped Kim Kardashian out of its slideshow of the best looks of the Met Ball, leaving just a ghostly, floral-printed hand floating next to Kanye West, whose get-up the magazine praised. [jezebel]

Royal Baby Betting Odds Are Heating Up As Duchess Kate Enters Third Trimester – As Kate Middleton enters the third trimester of her pregnancy, the bookmakers’ royal baby odds are heating up in anticipation of the July due date. [hello]

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