Shutdown: Senate Confirms Deal To Avert Default – Senate leaders have reached a last-minute agreement to avert a threatened US default and reopen the government. [skynews]

Diepsloot Girls’ Murder Suspect On The Run – The net is closing on the man believed to have raped and murdered two toddlers in Diepsloot after the community found bloodstained children’s clothing, a nappy and a used condom in his shack just metres away from where the girls’ bodies were found. [iol]

White Jewish Land Owner Comments Are A Load Of Rubbish – The leader of the African National Congress in South Africa’s Western Cape Province has claimed that 98% of landowners in the city of Cape Town are white and “people in the Jewish community”. But, as Africa Check discovered, South African property records only listed the race of owners prior to 1994 and not their religion. [mail&guardian]

Snowden’s Father Pleased With Son’s Moscow Life – Edward Snowden’s father expressed satisfaction Wednesday with the way his son, the former National Security Agency contractor, has been treated since being granted asylum in August.  [cnn]

The Guy That Invented Gummy Bears Is Dead – Hans Riegel transformed his father’s candy business into the global sweets giant Haribo, which made gummy bears a household name in 110 countries. He died on Tuesday at the age of 90. [spiegel]

Vanity Fair Running Gwyneth Paltrow Cover Story; Editor Says She ‘Forced My Hand’ – Vanity Fair intends to publish a cover story about actress Gwyneth Paltrow, despite the fact that the actress tried to sabotage the piece. [huffpo]

3D Printer Creates Light-Weight Titanium Horse Shoes – Australian scientists have created a customized set of purple titanium shoes for a Melbourne race horse using 3D printing. [abc]

Facebook Lowers Age Rule to Allow Teens to Post Publicly – Facebook is giving its teenage users a public voice on the platform. For the first time, beginning Wednesday, users between the ages of 13 and 17 will be able to post publicly and obtain followers of their profiles. [mashabke]

Finally – We’re Getting Underwater Wi-Fi – That’s right, a team of researchers at the University of Buffalo have successfully tested an “underwater network architecture” that could one day provide Wi-Fi connections deep under the sea. [digitrends]

Yahoo To Keep Larger Alibaba Stake Than Planned – Yahoo will keep a bigger stake in China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba than originally planned, after the Chinese firm sells shares on the stock market. [bbc]

Underwater Search For Amelia Earhart’s Plane Will Resume In 2014 – The next effort to locate the remains of Amelia Earhart’s lost aircraft will involve two submarines, cost $3 million, and unfold near a coral atoll in the Pacific over 30 days next summer. [nbc]

Another Day, Another Brit Gets Bust With A Sex Slave – A deaf and mute girl was trafficked into Britain by an elderly couple to act as a sex slave. She was ten years old when she was spirited from her home in Pakistan to serve ‘evil’ businessman Ilyas Ashar, 84, and his wife Tallat. [dailymail]

IBM Shares Tumble After Sixth Quarterly Sales Decline – International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), the largest computer-services provider, dropped as much as 6.4 percent in late trading after sales fell for the sixth straight quarter and its hardware business posted a loss. [bloomberg]

The Real Reason Charlie Hunnam Dropped ’50 Shades’ Role – The latest wrinkle in the rapidly evolving casting saga that is “50 Shades of Grey” involves the details surrounding Charlie Hunnam’s recent exit. Sources reportedly tell The Hollywood Reporter that the actor was embroiled in conflict with Universal Pictures over the film’s script, leading to his decision to bow out of the project. [huffpo]

A Tribe Called Quest to Disband After Two More Concerts – Rapper Q-Tip has revealed via Twitter that A Tribe Called Quest, the hip-hop group he cofounded in the mid-Eighties, will throw in the towel after its two upcoming New York City dates supporting Kanye West. [rollingstone]

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