The Trial Rupert Murdoch Would Rather Not Have, Has Begun – Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and ex-Number 10 spin doctor Andy Coulson today arrived at the Old Bailey for the start of the phone hacking trial which is expected to last up to six months. [dailymail]
Man Kills Brother Outside Tiger-Tiger Nightclub – An unknown woman has emerged as the reason for a man allegedly shooting and killing his brother outside a popular Johannesburg nightclub, Tiger Tiger, early yesterday morning. [timeslive]
Obama’s Twitter Account Was Hacked – For a brief period on Monday, links from the president’s official Twitter feed was directed to a pro-Syria YouTube account. This is how. [beast]
ANC Condemns Tokyo Sexwale’s US Detention, Demands Apology – The ANC has condemned the brief detention of party stalwart Tokyo Sexwale in the United States. [cipr]
Prince Harry ‘Drugs Slur’ Puts BBC In The Line Of Fire – BBC faces pressure to apologise after Jo Brand insinuated on Have I Got News For You that Prince Harry took cocaine. [telegraph]
Red Bull Sued For $85 Million in Man’s Death – Red Bull will get hit with a wrongful death lawsuit on Monday after a Brooklyn man’s heart stopped shortly after he chugged a can of the energy drink. [time]
UK Death Toll Mounts As Storm Leaves Trail Of Destruction – A huge operation is under way to try and restore power to thousands of homes and reopen transport networks after storm-force winds left four dead and cut a path of destruction across a vast swath of southern England. [guardian]
There’s A Website That Tracks Everything Single Thing Mark Zuckerberg Says – The Zuckerberg Files is a digital archive of all public utterances of Facebook’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Over 100 full-text transcripts and nearly 50 video files are available for researchers to download, analyze, and scrutinize. [here]
New Mechanical Culture Digital Magazine Launches – Traffic Digital Magazine, which celebrates the relationship between man and machine is a quarterly digital magazine that is produced in South Africa for a global audience. It is available for FREE on iTunes as well as Issuu. Get it on your iPad now [here]
Libya Robbery: Sirte Gunmen Snatch $54m From Bank Van – Libya’s state news agency says gunmen have stolen $54m in an attack on a van carrying foreign and local currency for the Libyan central bank. [bbc]
Sylvester Stallone Unveils His Abstract Art Exhibition In Russia – US film star Sylvester Stallone has unveiled a retrospective of his abstract paintings at the world’s largest museum of Russian art in St Petersburg. [abc]
Michael Jackson Doctor Conrad Murray Released From Jail – Conrad Murray, the former doctor convicted of causing Michael Jackson’s death, has been released from jail. [bbc]
Britney Spears’s Music Is Used to Fight Off Somali Pirates (Stop Laughing) – In his frenzied attempts at keeping a gang of dogged Somali pirates from attacking his ship in Captain Phillips, Tom Hanks was missing one apparently crucial weapon: a Britney Spears CD. [daibea]
Peru’s UFO Investigations Office To Be Reopened – Peru’s air force is reopening an office responsible for investigating UFOs due to “increased sightings of anomalous aerial phenomena” in the country’s skies. [guardian]
Desperate Housewives Africa’ to Premiere Next Summer – The African version will be filmed on location in a gated upscale community outside Lagos, Nigeria. The show, premiering next summer, will include a pan-African cast and showcase fashion from Nigerian designers. [time]
Banksy Slams 1 World Trade Center In Rejected New York Times Op-Ed – Banksy published an op-ed column on his website on Sunday slamming the design of 1 World Trade Center, the 104-story skyscraper scheduled to be opened on the World Trade Center site next year. [yahoo]
Nicolas Cage Dinosaur Skull ‘May Have Been Stolen’ – A dinosaur skull bought by the actor Nicolas Cage is at the heart of an investigation into illicit fossil smuggling. The 67-million-year-old skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, a close relative of the T rex, was bought by Cage in 2007 at an auction in California. [telegraph]
Bill Murray Dressed As Liberace, On Letterman – This interview happened a month ago and for some reason we missed it. An absolute must for Bill Murray fans – especially those who have watched the Liberace film, Behind the Candelabra (which stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon). [youtube]
The 50 Best Rock-Star Instagram Accounts – An A to Z guide to the singers, rappers and strummers who’ve mastered the art of the selfie and much more. [rollingstone]
Paris Hilton Dresses Up As Miley Cyrus For Halloween Party At The Playboy Mansion – Paris Hilton is one of many people to dress up as Miley Cyrus this Halloween season. The 32-year-old donned Cyrus’ now iconic VMAs performance outfit as she attended a party at the Playboy mansion on Saturday night. [huffers]
Did Justin Bieber Get In The Way Of Orlando And Miranda? – The Mirror (you have been warned) reports that the time Miranda Kerr spent with Justin Biber after a fashion show may have sparked off their breakup. And the fact that she taught their kid how to say ‘Bieber Fever.’ Again, this is the Mirror.. [mirror]
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