AT&T-Vodafone Merger: What About Vodacom? – A merger between AT&T and Vodafone would create the world’s largest telecommunications operator, but it could impact Vodacom. [m&g]

Sunny Side Up: Goldman Sachs Reckons Its Not All Doom And Gloom In SA – Colin Coleman, the head of the South African Office for Goldman Sachs International, believes the global narrative of South Africa has “become somewhat hysterical, short-term and often negative” since the Marikana massacre last year. [dailymav]

BlackBerry Calls Off Sale, Spurring Doubts And Stock Plunge – BlackBerry Ltd abandoned on Monday its plan to sell itself and said its CEO is stepping down, sparking a 16 percent dive in its share price and raising fears the struggling smartphone maker is running out of options. [reuters]

Dog-Fighting Ring Bust – Investigations into the multimillion-rand illegal dog-fighting business have resulted in the smashing of a major syndicate and 14 severely injured animals being rescued. [timeslive]

British Chain Tesco Face Scanners To Target Till Adverts – The screens, which can tell a customers’ age and gender, are being placed into petrol stations across the UK. [sky]

The Most Powerful Gay Man in Silicon Valley Stays Quiet on Being Gay – Everyone knows Tim Cook is gay. Valleywag said it in 2011. His colleagues say it now. It’s a social triumph that the arguably most powerful businessman in the world is also gay. So why, at one of the rare moments that Cook’s sexuality actually matters, won’t he finally say it? [valwag]

ATP World Tour Finals: Roger Federer Tries To Silence Critics As He Faces Novak Djokovic – Roger Federer has won the ATP World Tour Finals six times, but will this year confirm he is slowing down? [telegraph]

Amanda Knox’s Boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito ‘Visited Meredith Kercher’s Grave in London’ – Family of British student murdered in Perugia had warned suspects to stay away from cemetery. [ibtimes]

Ali G’s Back, Innit: Sacha Baron Cohen Revives Show In US – Ali G is back in da house – at least, if your house is in the US and you subscribe to the Fox network’s FXX comedy channel, which has persuaded Sacha Baron Cohen to revive his breakthrough comic character. [guardian]

M&G Newsroom: Riah Phiyega And Intrigue At The SAPS – Sanef deputy Makhudu Sefara speaks about the police’s threats of legal action over intercepted calls involving commissioner Riah Phiyega. [m&g]

India Is Building The Tallest Statue In The World – Turner Construction, the US-based company that built the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is now preparing to create the biggest statue on earth in India – a tribute to a long-deceased politician and nationalist hero, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, in Kevadiya in Gujarat state. The ‘Statue of Unity will stand 182 meters tall. [ibtimes]

Jeff Bezos’ Wife Pans Book On Husband, Gives It One Star On Amazon – The wife of Jeff Bezos (BAY’-zohs) is giving a thumbs-down to a recent book about her husband’s company, Amazon.com Inc. [time]

Edward Snowden: Congress and White House Reject Clemency – The White House and top US lawmakers have rejected clemency for the fugitive intelligence analyst Edward Snowden. “Mr Snowden violated US law. He should return to the US and face justice,” said White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer. [bbc]

Solved: The Mystery Of King Tutankhamun’s Death – It has taken thousands of years, but a combination of 21st-century forensic science and luck has finally revealed what happened to Tutankhamun – the world’s most famous pharaoh. [independent]

Other Planets Like Ours – There are likely “tens of billions” of Earth-like planets in our Milky Way galaxy, according to a study released Monday by astronomers from the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Hawaii. [usat]

Schoolgirls Caught At Booze And Porn Party – A group of 13-year-old girls from Nelson Mandela Bay’s elite Collegiate High School have landed in hot water after being caught sipping vodka and watching a pornographic video – allegedly of one of them having sex with her boyfriend – on a cellphone. [timeslive]

Michelle Pfeiffer: The Day I Realised I Was Part Of A Cult – Michelle Pfeiffer, the actress, has disclosed that she was once part of a “cult” which believed humans can exist without food or water. [telegraph]

Porn Offers Are Rolling In For Kendall Jenner – The sun was barely rising on Kendall Jenner’s 18th birthday … when the top porn companies started offering her lucrative deals … including one for over a million bucks! [tmz]

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This SA Band Will Be On The Jimmy Kimmel Show Today [VIDEO] – Meet Jean-Philip Grobler, aka St. Lucia. Originally from Johannesberg, St. Lucia grew up performing with the Drakensberg Boys Choir School in KwaZulu-Natal. Nowadays he lives in Brooklyn, and is blowing up on the New York music scene. On October 31 he posted the following announcement to the band’s Facebook page. [here]

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