Serial Killer On The Loose In Pretoria – A serial killer, believed to be behind the rape and murder of at least 10 young girls, is on the loose in the capital city, Pretoria. [timeslive]

Golden Night For SA Swimmers – South African Chad Le Clos backed up his Olympic 200m butterfly title with a first world championship gold medal in Barcelona on Tuesday night thanks to a storming last 50m that saw him pull away from Poland’s Pawel Korzeniowski. [sport24]

Mass Killer Breivik Applies For University In Norway – Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has applied for a place at Oslo University – a move that is reportedly causing outrage among staff. [bbc]

Microsoft Forced To Rename SkyDrive Following Trademark Case With Broadcaster – A UK court recently ruled that Microsoft’s SkyDrive name infringed on a trademark owned by British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB), and the software maker has agreed to change the name of its cloud-based service worldwide as a result. [verge]

Claims That Samsung Is Cheating On Galaxy S4 Benchmarks – A report by AnandTech suggests Samsung is gaming benchmarks by allowing the GPU in its flagship Galaxy S4 handsets to operate at a higher frequency with benchmark apps than with other apps. [intomobile]

A Year Later – Facebook Finally Back To Where It Started – Facebook has at last mobilized back to square one. Its shares finally broke above the $38 price set in the company’s messy initial public offering 14 months ago. [nytimes]

JK Rowling Donates ‘Substantial’ Figure After Winning Pseudonym Legal Battle – JK Rowling has accepted a substantial donation to charity from a law firm which breached her confidentiality by outing her as the author of a crime novel she wrote under a false name. [dailymail]

This Could Be Germany’s First Black MP – In July 1991, two youths punched Karamba Diaby in the face and chased after him in a racist attack in Halle, an eastern German town with a significant neo-Nazi problem. Now he’s about to campaign in the city to become the first black member of the German parliament in the September general election. [spiegel]

NSA Tool Collects ‘Nearly Everything A User Does On The Internet’ – A top secret National Security Agency program called ‘XKeyscore’ allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. [guardian]

Microsoft Office Lands on Android Phones – Microsoft yesterday announced that its Office 365 suite is now available for Android phones. [pcmag]

Queen’s Sombre Nuclear War Speech Revealed – In a speech written but never recorded, the Queen tells fearful Britons they must prepare “to survive against great odds”. [skynews]

7 Years Jail, 600 Lashes For Saudi Rights Blogger: Lawyer – A Saudi court sentenced on Monday a rights activist to seven years in jail and 600 lashes for setting up a “liberal” network and alleged insults to Islam, activists said. [afp]

Zynga Sues Casual Sex App Over Trademark Infringement – Zynga Inc. sued the maker of the “Bang With Friends” casual sex Internet application, claiming it infringes Zynga’s trademark for its “with friends” family of games. [bloomberg]

Syria’s President Is All Smiles On His New Instagram Account – It’s not quite as epic as posing with a tiger a la Vladimir Putin. But Syria’s Bashar al-Assad has joined Instagram and the photos are propagandastically fantastic. [cnn]

Kebble Murder Case Forensic Detective Hosts Murder Mystery Weekend – Any armchair detective would be crazy to miss the murder mystery weekend in Stanford, with SA’s top forensic Scientist, David Klatzow. Klatzow is most famous for his case-breaking testimonies in famous SA trials, including the Helderberg and the Kebble murder. He is currently involved in the Pistorius case. [info]

Ashes 2013: England Aim To Repeat History Against Australia In Third Test At Old Trafford – While talk of a whitewash by England is not even being countenanced by the players, Alastair Cook’s side can still retain the Ashes with a flourish this week by winning their third successive match of the series – the first time they will have defeated Australia over the opening three games for 85 years. [telegraph]

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