Dolce and Gabbana Sentenced To Jail For Tax Evasion – Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have been sentenced to jail in Italy for one year and eight months for tax evasion. [bbc]

Tony Soprano Actor, James Gandolfini Dies, Aged 51 – [Fade To Black] – James Gandolfini, who played the head of the Soprano crime family in one of the greatest TV series of all time, The Sopranos, is dead. [2ov]

Zuma On The Guptas: My Pals, My Business – President Jacob Zuma yesterday defended his controversial friendship with the Gupta family, telling the National Assembly that he had every right to be friendly with the powerful business family. [timeslive]

Investors Are Not Worried, Says Zuma – President Jacob Zuma has rejected the notion of South Africa lacking policy certainty and investor confidence. Shame. [fin24]

Vatican To Announce John Paul II ‘Miracle’ – The Vatican has secretly attributed a mystery miracle to the late John Paul II, clearing the way for him to be declared a saint. [telegraph]

Facebook Adding Ability To Post Images In Comments – Facebook comment threads are about to get quite a bit more crazy. A new camera button is rolling out that allows users to reply to posts with a picture. [verge]

Kate Is Going For Natural Birth And Doesn’t Know Baby’s Sex – THE Duchess of Cambridge is planning a natural birth for her baby but does not know if it will be a girl or a boy. [newsau] 

Daily Maverick Retracts ‘Al-Qaeda In SA’ Story – The Daily Maverick has retracted a controversial story which claimed that al-Qaeda is active in South Africa. [mail&guardian]

Eastern Cape Pupil Takes Basic Education Minister To Court – An Eastern Cape Grade 11 pupil has taken Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to the Bhisho High Court over conditions at her school. [citypress]

Los Angeles School System To Purchase iPad For Each Student – Los Angeles’ school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks. [foxnews]

Exploding Sidewalks Menace London Pedestrians – There’s a new menace lurking in the streets of London — exploding sidewalks. [cnn]

Saudi Prince Eyes World’s Big Cities For Mile-High Tower – Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he is looking at the world’s largest cities, including Shanghai, Moscow, London and New York, as possible locations to build a mile-high skyscraper that would be the world’s tallest building by far. [reuters]

Kanye West Under Attack Over ‘Parkinson’s’ Lyric On New Album – Kanye West is being slammed as “ignorant” and “distasteful” over a lyric on his new album which uses Parkinson’s disease as a punch line. [tmz]

FBI Says Drones Used To Monitor People In US – The US uses drones for surveillance in some limited law-enforcement situations, the head of FBI has said, prompting additional debate about the Obama administration’s use of domestic surveillance. [aljazeera]

‘Obama Not Wanted Here’ – University of Johannesburg students and some staff members have rejected a proposal that US President Barack Obama be awarded an honorary law doctorate. [timeslive]

Serena Apologizes For Statements On Rape Case – Serena Williams released a statement on her website Wednesday apologizing for controversial comments about the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case that appeared in a Rolling Stone article. [usatoday]

‘TrailView’ 2.0? Google Patents Image-Capturing Walking Stick – Google has already started to expand its StreetView system beyond roads, capturing 360-degree images of trails in North America using gigantic backpack contraptions such as the one above. But a new patent received by the company points to a far more elegant solution. [geekwire]

U.N. Gives Australia Time to Spare Barrier Reef – The United Nations delayed a decision to place one of Australia’s top tourist attractions on its list of endangered world heritage sites, giving the country more time to limit mining, oil and gas exploration and infrastructure projects that threaten the Great Barrier Reef. [wallstreetjournal]

Charlie Sheen Gets Selma Blair Fired – Charlie Sheen and Selma Blair are in an all out WAR on the set of “Anger Management” … so much so, Sheen says he fired the actress and REFUSES to shoot if she comes to set. [tmz]

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