Osama Bin Laden Killing: US Navy Seals Row Over Shooting – A public row has arisen over which US commando fired the shot that killed Osama Bin Laden, more than three years after the al-Qaeda leader’s death. [bbc]
Moody’s Takes SA’s Rating Down A Notch – In a much-anticipated move Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the South African government’s sovereign credit rating by one notch, citing the country’s poor medium-term growth prospects and the likelihood that this will cause the government’s debt ratio to keep rising. [bdl]
Murder-For-Hire Charge Dropped Against AC/DC’s Phil Rudd – Main charge against drummer withdrawn for “insufficient evidence,” but drugs and threatening-to-kill charges remain. [rollingstone]
Jay Z Buys Armand De Brignac ‘Ace Of Spades’ Champagne Label – Ultra-pricey luxury brand, popular as a status symbol for the rich, has been closely associated with the hip-hop star since 2006. [guardian]
Man Who Posted Photos Of Strangled Woman On 4chan, Caught: Cops – A man charged with killing his girlfriend in Washington state and accused of posting pictures of her body online and writing that he wanted authorities to kill him walked up to an Oregon officer Wednesday night and surrendered, police said. [huff]
Harvard Secretly Photographed Classrooms To Monitor Attendance – Some 2,000 Harvard undergraduates, as well as some faculty, were photographed in lecture halls at the school last spring as part of a university study into student attendance. Harmless enough, right? Well, those photographs were taken without those students’ knowledge or permission. And that has some people upset. [npr]
Here’s The Real Reason Mark Zuckerberg Wears The Same T-Shirt Every Day – He answered a lot of different questions, but the one that got a lot of interest was, “Why do you wear the same T-shirt every day?” [busins]
FBI Arrests Alleged ‘Silk Road 2.0’ Operator Blake Benthall – FBI agents arrested alleged “Silk Road 2.0” owner and operator Blake Benthall in San Francisco on Wednesday, the bureau’s New York field office announced Thursday. [nbc]
Parkinson’s Stem Cell ‘Breakthrough’ – Stem cells can be used to heal the damage in the brain caused by Parkinson’s disease, according to scientists in Sweden. [bbc]
Miley Cyrus Dating Patrick Schwarzenegger After His Longtime Crush On Her – Miley Cyrus is now singing “Adore You” to a brand-new man. The boundary-pushing singer, 21, is dating actor Patrick Schwarzenegger, sources confirm to Us Weekly. [usmag]
Amanda Bynes Is Sleeping In Shopping Malls Now – After wandering around homeless, Amanda Bynes is in desperate straits … with no place of her own to live … Amanda crashed on a sofa in the middle of The Beverly Center in Los Angeles. [tmz]
Uruguay’s Jose Mujica Gets $1m Offer For His VW Beetle – Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica says he has been offered $1m (£630,000) for his vintage Volkswagen Beetle. [bbc]
‘Star Wars 7’ Gets A Title: ‘The Force Awakens’ – The latest chapter in the sprawling saga concluded principal photography recently, and with that finish came a tweet, posted Thursday morning, with the (presumably official) title. [cnn]
Terrorists Are Taking Cruises On Their Way To Join ISIS – Interpol agents say that might be a terrorist getting a custom-made egg-white omelet next to you on the Grand Ballroom buffet line. The hot new trend among ISIS-bound terrorists is apparently cruise ships—which were, up until now, a fairly easy way of traveling undetected. [gawker]
Mark Wahlberg to Play Inflation-Adjusted Six Billion Dollar Man – Mark Wahlberg will star in The Six Billion Dollar Man, the film reboot of the 1970s TV series The Six Million Dollar Man–with the title adjusted for inflation, of course. [time]
Landlords Put Spy Cams In Young Tenant’s Pad – If a rent-free apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan seems too good to be true, that’s because it is. A young student living in New York who got a rent-free deal is suing her landlords for allegedly playing “I spy” with her by installing illegal cameras in the bedroom and bathroom of her apartment. And yes – he got footage of her naked and having sex. [realdeal]
Rachel Bilson And Hayden Christensen Welcome A Baby Girl! With Disney Princess Name – The longtime couple welcomed their first child, a baby girl, her rep confirms to E! News. “Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson welcome their daughter Briar Rose Christensen born on October 29, 2014,” the couple said in a statement. “Both mother and baby are healthy and doing well. They are asking for privacy and subscribe to the No Kids Policy.” [eonline]
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