Lolly Jackson’s Alleged Killer To Be Extradited Back To SA For Trial – Lolly Jackson’s alleged killer George Luca has failed in his final bid to avoid extradition rom Cyprus to South Africa to stand trial. [enca]

Witness In Mob Boss Whitey Bulger’s Trial Found Dead – Stephen “Stippo” Rakes, a possible witness in the murder trial of alleged crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger, has been found dead, authorities said. [abc]

Shuttleworth Wins Some, Loses Some In Court – Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth’s bid to have South Africa’s entire exchange control system declared unconstitutional has failed. [mail&guardian]

Mandela Burials Fight Blights 95th Birthday – On the day the world celebrated Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday, his grandson, Mandla, was back in court fighting over where the icon’s children should be buried. [timeslive]

President Zuma Visits Poor Whites – President Jacob Zuma appeared touched by the reception he received from residents of Danville, Pretoria West, on Thursday. [news24]

Murdoch Reckons He Had No Idea About Bribes – Britain’s Channel 4 News has obtained letters sent by Rupert Murdoch to two British MPs in an attempt to clarify statements he made to Sun staff that were secretly recorded in March and revealed earlier this month. [deadline]

The City Of Detroit Is Bankrupt – Detroit, the cradle of America’s automobile industry and once the nation’s fourth-most-populous city, filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, the largest American city ever to take such a course. [nytimes]

Putin Critic Goes To Jail For 5 Years – Russia’s leading opposition figure Alexei Navalny was jailed for five years on Thursday after being found guilty of embezzlement following a trial he claimed was politically motivated. [nbc]

Law Firm Sorry For Exposing JK Rowling’s Secret Identity – The literary mole hunt to discover who outed superstar author JK Rowling as the creator of a detective novel written under a nom de plume was in danger of turning into a better whodunnit than the book itself. [independent]

Bolshoi Violinist Dies In Orchestra Pit Fall – A senior violinist at Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre has died after falling into the orchestra pit below the stage. [bbc]

Snowden Book On The Way – We all knew that the saga of Edward Snowden and his NSA leaks would eventually get the tell-all book treatment (several times, probably), but it looks we’ll soon get an account from someone who is actually in a position to tell-all: journalist Glenn Greenwald. [atlawire]

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Liam Gallagher Seems To Have A Love-Child Of Sorts – Rock-and-roll journalist Liza Ghorbani, published in The New York Times and Rolling Stone, claims the British musician is the father of her love child. They first met in May 2010 for a Times story. [nydailynews]

Michael Moore To Divorce His Equally Large Wife Of 25 Years – Flint’s best-known power couple is apparently splitting with Michael Moore and Kathleen Glynn going their separate ways. [mlive]

Gold Found In Outer Space – Astronomers panning the heavens for glints of gamma-ray bursts have struck gold. No, really. They found gold — so much of it, in fact, that they say they could potentially account for the universe’s entire reserve of the precious metal prized by Earthlings for jewelry and industrial uses alike. [latimes]

It’s Jay-Z’s World – We’re Just Living In It – Married to the queen of pop, best friends with the president, and fresh off his 13th No.1 album, Jay-Z is king. How the media built his throne. [dailybeast]

Jay-Z Will Be Dropping The Hyphen From Now On, Guys. Thanks – The rapper formerly known as Jay-Z has been known to stylize his name as Jay Z for some time. Now word has trickled down through the powers-that-be that Jay Z is what we’re all supposed to be calling him for the foreseeable future. [spin]

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Mark Banks On 2 Girls 1 Mic At 13h00 – After several years of working on the biggest comedy line-up shows in South Africa, Mark Banks stages his triumphant return to one-man shows with “Banksrupt!”. With stand-up, sketch and video seamlessly interwoven, this is the show the world could not ignore. Tune in for a sneak peak of what to expect from the his show. [2girls1mic]

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