Kevin Pietersen Will Never Play For England Again – England will be providing no details of any of the rumoured breaches of team discipline or ethics by Kevin Pietersen in Australia this winter, despite widespread demands for further explanation of the decision to sack him. [guardian]

New Microsoft CEO Announced, As Bill Gates Steps Down – Microsoft Corp named Satya Nadella its CEO, tapping an insider steeped in business technology to speed a turnaround at a software maker that helped usher in the personal-computing age, only to be left behind as the world shifted toward the Web and mobile devices. [ecotim]

Microsoft Invests $15 million in Foursquare – Summary: Microsoft has made a $15 million investment in Foursquare and signed a multi-year contract to license Foursquare data, according to reports. [zdn]

Hoffman Withdrew $1,200 From ATM The Night Before He Was Found Dead – Philip Seymour Hoffman withdrew $1,200 from an ATM at a supermarket near his New York City apartment the night before he was found lifeless in his bathroom with a syringe still in his left arm, sources told NBC News. [nbc]

German Satire Magazine Mocks Schumacher With Front Cover Saying F1 Hero Now Looks Like Niki Lauda – A German satire magazine has been condemned after printing a picture of badly-scarred Austrian Formula One Legend Niki Lauda with the title: ‘Exclusive – First Photo After The Accident – This is how badly it affected Schumi’. [daimai]

Spain Nets A Ton Of Cocaine In Floating Backpacks – Spanish authorities went fishing for backpacks full of cocaine and netted nearly a ton of the drug after uncovering what they say was a sophisticated undersea smuggling operation. [cnn]

Putin Critic Finds 200-Pound Wooden Cock On Roof Of Her BMW – The New Republic reports that noted Twitter satirist and prominent Putin critic Katya Romanovskaya went outside last week in Moscow to find this 200 pound wooden dick (and balls, don’t forget the balls) on the roof of her 3-Series sedan. [jalopnik]

Report: Apple iPhone Still Top U.S. Smartphone, iOS Gains Traction – Despite the growing dominance of the Android operating system, Apple continues to maintain a healthy lead in the smartphone handset space, according to a report from comScore on Tuesday. [mash]

Stephen King’s Tweets About Dylan Farrow Spark Outrage – Stephen King kicked off a fury on Twitter on Monday after the author weighed in on Dylan Farrow’s vivid letter to the New York Times chronicling her alleged sexual assault at the hands of actor Woody Allen. [time]

ANC Plans To Square Off Against DA Marchers Next Week – The ANC has vowed to have thousands of its supporters ready on Wednesday of next week to face the Democratic Alliance (DA) when the latter marches to the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters. [bdlive]

48-Hour London Tube Strike Has Begun – Tube staff in London have walked out in the first of two 48-hour strikes in a dispute over ticket office closures, which will bring widespread travel disruption to the capital until Friday morning. [skynews]

Morgan Stanley Reaches $1.25 Billion Settlement of FHFA Suit – Morgan Stanley (MS) agreed to pay $1.25 billion to settle a U.S. regulator’s claims the investment bank sold faulty mortgage-backed securities to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (FMCC) that added to their losses in the financial crisis. [bloomberg]

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea Admits Faking Super Bowl Halftime Performance – In an open letter to fans, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist confirmed that he had only pretended to play bass during the halftime performance with Bruno Mars. [nydn]

Outrage As Three French Teens Film Assault On Disabled Man – Three French teenagers have been detained after they filmed themselves assaulting a young mentally disabled man and posted the footage on Facebook, sparking widespread outrage, a police source said Tuesday. [afp]

Sony Looking To Sell PC Business To Investment Fund – Sony is in talks to unload its sluggish personal computer operations to investment fund Japan Industrial Partners, part of a business overhaul designed to shift focus to smartphones, The Nikkei learned Tuesday. [nikkei]

First Shop To Use Digital Bitcoin Price Tags Trials In London – First shop to use digital Bitcoin price tags trials in LondonFirst shop to use digital Bitcoin price tags trials in London. A digital price tag that charts the fluctuation of the current value of the online currency Bitcoin is being trialled in a clothing store in London. [silirep]

Fashion Trends On The Streets Of London – Top SA fashion blog, Popyacollar is currently in London, en route to Amsterdam and Paris. Keep an eye on what street style trends are popping up this British winter! [popyacollar]

Whoopsie: Facebook Asked To Change Paper Name – Facebook has been asked to change the name of its new app Paper by a firm which has an app of the same name. The original Paper was developed by start-up FiftyThree and won Apple’s 2012 iPad app of the year. [bbc]

Missing Children Rescued From Super Bowl Sex Trade In FBI Sting – Sixteen children as young as 13, and some of whom had been reported missing by their families, were rescued from the sex trade in a law enforcement sting operation that targeted alleged pimps who brought the victims to New Jersey for Super Bowl weekend, FBI officials said. [fox]

Excess Sugar May Double Heart Disease Risk, Study Finds – High sugar consumption may double the chance of dying from heart disease, according to a study that adds to evidence that high levels of the sweetener in processed foods and drink is bad for a person’s health. [bloomberg]

Heroin Gains Popularity As Cheap Doses Flood the U.S. – Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death from an apparent heroin overdose has brought renewed attention to the drug’s increasing popularity in the United States. [time]

As Many As 988 Million Birds Die Annually In Window Collisions – Between 365 and 988 million birds die from crashing into windows in the United States each year, according to a new report. That may be as much as 10 percent of the estimated total bird population of the country. [washpo]

Leonardo DiCaprio & Jonah Hill Plan Re-Team In Story Of Richard Jewell – Fox has closed a deal to acquire rights to Marie Brenner’s 1997 Vanity Fair article “The Ballad Of Richard Jewell”, which will be developed for Jonah Hill to play the title subject. [vulture]

Ireland Baldwin Shares Butt Selfie, Reveals Bra Tattoo – On Sunday, Alec Baldwin’s gorgeous elder daughter, rumored to have posed for this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, gave the world a sneak peek into the hard work that might have made that possible. [huff]

 

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