Oscar’s Fate Will Be Known Soon – After a seven-month trial, Oscar Pistorius will find out his fate on Tuesday in the High Court in Pretoria after his model and law-graduate girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead in his house. [iol]
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Oscar de la Renta, Legendary Fashion Designer, Dies At 82 – Legendary fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, who spent half a century putting high society in haute couture, has died. He was 82. [cnn]
‘Shrien Never Seemed To Grieve For Anni’ – Cousin – The first cousin of Anni Dewani was called to testify in Shrien Dewani’s murder trial, where the court heard that he didn’t grieve much for her. [m&g]
Ebola Crisis: Nigeria Declared Free Of Virus – Nigeria has been declared officially free of Ebola after six weeks with no new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. [bbc]
Norwegian Ebola Patient Cured – A Norwegian woman who contracted the Ebola virus while working for Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone was cured and released from an isolation unit Monday.
Zuma Can’t Tell His House From Proper State Expenditure: FW De Klerk Foundation – President Jacob Zuma’s reported comparison between the construction of George airport and money spent on his Nkandla home raises “disturbing questions”, the FW De Klerk Foundation said. [tlive]
Apple Profit Soars On Huge iPhone And Mac Sales – Even as Apple seeks out growth by delving into payments and watches, Apple’s core business continues to boom on the back of its revving iPhone engine. [money]
Paris Opera Expels Veiled Woman During Verdi’s Traviata – French officials are updating rules on wearing face veils in public after it emerged that a veiled woman was told to leave Paris’s Opera Bastille during a performance of Verdi’s La Traviata earlier this month. [f24]
Swedish Armed Forces Widen Hunt For Suspected Submarine – Civilian shipping evacuated off Stockholm as helicopters and navy search for vessel that experts think is Russian midget sub. [guardian]
End To Post Office Strike May Be Imminent – An announcement should be made on Monday night that will signal the end of the long-running postal strike. [f24]
Jackson Mthembu Shot In Face During ATM Robbery – African National Congress MP Jackson Mthembu was shot in the face while withdrawing money at an ATM in Witbank at the weekend, Mpumalanga police said on Monday. [tlive]
Total’s CEO de Margerie Dies In Plane Crash – Christophe de Margerie, the Total SA (FP) chief executive officer who oversaw the biggest increase in reserves at the French oil explorer in at least 15 years, died in a Moscow plane crash, Interfax reported. [bloom]
Pope Francis Wins A Battle To Welcome Gays In The Church – The war’s not over. But make no mistake, the Vatican synod paved the way for significant changes to come in the lives of gay and divorced Catholics. [beast]
Google Tries, Fails To Remove Links To Jennifer Lawrence Nude Photos – Google removed two links from its search engine to a site hosting nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, nearly a month after her legal team first asked it to do so, but the website hosting the photos changed its domain name and successfully found its way back onto Google Search within hours of being removed. [huff]
Monica Lewinsky: I Was In Love With Bill Clinton – Monica Lewinsky has said she “fell in love” with Bill Clinton during a tearful speech describing the pain of being made into a figure of global humiliation. [tele]
Bruce Jenner Dating Estranged Wife Kris Jenner’s Longtime BFF Ronda Kamihira? – Bruce Jenner has reportedly moved on from estranged wife Kris Jenner — and onto her best friend. The former Olympian is rumored to be dating momager Kris’ longtime BFF and former assistant Ronda Kamihira. [usmag]
Court Documents Say WhatsApp CEO Methodically Harassed College Ex – Years before Jan Koum sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $22 billion, a California court granted his ex-girlfriend a restraining order against the future tech CEO. After court documents surfaced today, Koum apologized telling Bloomberg, “I am ashamed of the way I acted.” [valley]
Kate, The Duchess Of Cambridge, Expecting Baby In April 2015 – Kate Middleton’s baby due in April 2015, Kensington Palace confirms, as acute morning sickness improves. [tele]
Japanese Man Gets 2 Years In Prison For 3D Printing Guns – For the first time in history, a man has been jailed for making a weapon with a 3D printer. [mash]
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