Headless Corpse Found At Cape School – A 17-year-old boy is expected to appear in the Parow Magistrate’s Court on Monday, in connection with what could be a satanic murder. [iol]
Fresh Leak on US Spying: NSA Accessed Mexican President’s Email – The NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. It hacked into the president’s public email account and gained deep insight into policymaking and the political system. The news is likely to hurt ties between the US and Mexico. [spiegel]
This SA Government Boss Is A Porn Junkie – Blowing Hundreds Of Thousands Of Rands On His Habit – The irony of the Competition Commission’s boss spending a fortune of taxpayer’s money on porn sites – in direct contravention of the commission’s own internet policy – is too much. Let’s find out more about Shan Ramburuth’s monstrous porn appetite. [2ov]
Woolworths Under Fire For Allegedly Ripping Local Designer – A local designer/illustrator’s blog post about her experiences with the Woolworths’ Homeware buying department, is spreading rapidly. Does she make a good point? Decide for yourself [here]
Woolworths Have Responded – You can read Woolworths’ response to the allegations [here]
Poachers Kill 300 Zim Elephants With Cyanide – Cynide has been used to kill more than 300 elephants in Zimbabwe’s biggest nature reserve – three times the original estimate as new photographs show the scale of the slaughter. [timeslive]
Google Stock Tops $1,000, Highlighting a Tech Divide – Google has done something few companies ever do in the stock market: it has joined the $1,000 club. [nytimes]
Twitter Quitters Dog IPO – Retired schoolteacher Donald Hovasse signed up for Twitter about a year ago at the urging of his daughter. He lost interest after trying the service a few times and finding lots of celebrities but few of his friends using the online social network. [reuters]
FACT: You Could Be A Billionaire By Thursday – Wednesday night’s Powerball lottery is sitting on R2.1 Billion ($216 million). You can buy tickets from anywhere in the world here (if you’re clever you’ll automate your purchasers like we do see here). [tickets]
Berlusconi Banned From Politics For 2 Years – A Milan appeals court on Saturday set Silvio Berlusconi’s political ban in his tax fraud conviction at two years, setting the stage for more wrangling over the future of the embattled politician who continues to wield political influence. [cbc]
Egypt Gunmen Open Fire On Coptic Christian Wedding In Cairo – Three people, including a girl aged eight, died when gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a wedding party outside a Coptic Christian church in Cairo. [bbc]
Two Face Charges Over Blond-Haired Girl Found In Gypsy Camp – Discovery in central Greece reinforces suspicion of Roma involvement in child trafficking, but brings hope to parents of Madeleine McCann. [guardian]
City Press Editor Takes Leave Amid Racism Furore – City Press editor Ferial Haffajee has taken leave after a week in which claims of racism rocked the newspaper. [mail&guardian]
CampsBayBeachCam Is Back – One of Cape Town’s most famous webcam websites is back. After not showing any real-time images of Camps Bay Beach for a few years, campsbaybeachcam.com is posting a new pic of Camps Bay every 60 seconds. So people on the ‘other side’ know what’s going down. [campsbaybeachcam]
Facebook Is Losing Teens, And New Privacy Settings Won’t Bring Them Back – There’s no question that Facebook FB +3.85% is quickly losing teenage users to other social networks. In February, Facebook admitted in its annual 10-K report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was aware that younger users were less engaged with the social network than previously. [forbes]
RFK May Have Swiped JFK’s Missing Brain – John F. Kennedy’s noodle didn’t get buried with him on Nov. 25, 1963, at Arlington National Cemetery — and his own brother might have been behind the theft, a new book claims. [nyp]
Roger Federer Regrets Playing Injured – Roger Federer thinks he made mistakes this year by playing when injured, but insists he is ready for a strong finish to his most difficult season. [espn]
Robert Plant Discovers Unreleased Led Zeppelin Music – In a recent interview with BBC Radio 6, Robert Plant revealed that he has unearthed some previously unreleased Led Zeppelin recordings. When the DJs asked him about “hidden gems” on the forthcoming remasters of the band’s catalog, he said he’d discovered a few. [rollingstone]
Red Sox Make The World Series Again – In 2004, they wore their hair long and projected a goofy, irreverent manner. Nine years later, they are bearded, bedraggled and relentless, a formula that has carried the Boston Red Sox back to the World Series. [nytimes]
Brian May Explains Why Sacha Baron Cohen Was Wrong For Freddie Mercury Biopic – Queen guitarist Brian May has explained why Sacha Baron Cohen was wrong for the planned biopic of Freddie Mercury. [nme]
In China, Victory For Wildlife Conservation As Citizens Persuaded To Give Up Shark Fin Soup – Once a rare delicacy served to honored guests, shark fin soup had become so popular among China’s fast-growing elite in recent years that it was pushing some shark species close to extinction. [washpo]
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