Virgin Active To List On JSE – Virgin Active has hired South Africa-based Standard Bank Group Ltd to list the British health and fitness chain on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, which may value the company at about £1,5 billion, Sky News reported. [ewn]

Family Won’t Drop Henri Van Breda – Henri van Breda’s family will not drop him, his uncle told the media after a memorial service for his parents and brother who were brutally murdered in their home last week. [n24]

Putin Has Asperger’s, Pentagon Report Says – The 2008 report, which has just come to light, says the Russian leader may have suffered an “insult” to his brain in infancy. [sky]

WhatsApp Testing Voice Calls On Android – WhatsApp may be getting closer to launching its voice calling features. The company is currently testing the feature with a “small group” of Android users, a spokesperson confirmed to Mashable. [more]

Pandora Stock Plunges More Than 20% On Revenue Miss – Pandora just announced its fourth-quarter earnings, and the stock is down more than 23% after hours on revenues that missed Wall Street estimates. [busins]

Taiwan Plane Crash Survivor Tells Of Ordeal – 72-year-old Huang Jin-sun said he ‘felt something was not right after the plane took off’ [tele]

Gary Glitter Trial: Singer Guilty Of Historical Sex Abuse – Gary Glitter has been found guilty of historical sex abuse against three young girls between 1975 and 1980. [bbc]

Press Club Mourns Sapa Closure – The imminent closure of the South African Press Association (Sapa) was a sad day for the media industry, the National Press Club said on Thursday. [iol]

Schoolboy Sodomised In Horror ‘Race Attack’ – A group of boys from an agricultural high school in the Northern Cape made a video of themselves brutalising a black pupil and sodomising him with a broom handle. [citpr]

Finland To Remove Cursive Handwriting From Education Curriculum – Cursive handwriting will be scrapped from the Finnish education curriculum and replaced by lessons in keyboard typing, it has been announced. [ind]

Images Of Child Abuse Found In Vatican City – Holy See’s prosecutor general says two cases involving indecent material came to light last year, along with other crimes. [guardian]

RadioShack Cuts The Cord After 94 Years, Files For Bankruptcy – RadioShack, after years of puzzling bottom-seeking stock investors on how it managed to stay in business, filed for bankruptcy on Thursday evening. [forbes]

Amy Pascal Lands In Sony’s Outbox – Amy Pascal, an old-style studio chief who was undercut by new Hollywood economics and bruised by the airing of private emails in a devastating cyberattack, said on Thursday that she would resign her post as the top film executive at Sony Pictures Entertainment. [nyt]

Man Accused Af Raping Women During Fake Sleep Study, Putting Video Of Attacks Online – Police say around 100 women in Japan who thought they were participating in a sleep study were actually drugged and raped, their attacks recorded and sold to porn sites. [cnn]

Pilot’s Body Found Still Clutching Joystick Of Crashed Taiwan Plane – The pilot of a doomed TransAsia plane, hailed as a hero for his actions in the final moments before a crash that killed 31 people, was still holding the joystick in the plane’s cockpit when his body was found, media reported on Friday. [huff]

L.A.’s Top-Selling Female Realtor Closed 150 Deals In 2014 – Tami Pardee started her career as actress Sharon Stone’s assistant. She’s now shaking up L.A.’s real estate industry. [fortune]

‘Fifty Shades’ Fans Not Permitted To Bring Props Or ‘Weapons’ To Theaters – It’s not the same as bringing a Harry Potter wand to opening night of The Goblet of Fire. [mash]

Family Gathering To Say Goodbye To Bobbi Kristina Brown – On Wednesday, four days after the 21-year-old was found unresponsive in her home, a doctor told her family that nothing more could be done. “Everyone is coming to the hospital to say goodbye,” says a family member. [people]

Confused Lamb Thinks It’s A Dog – We are all influenced by our surroundings, even our animal friends. [video]

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