Pilot Killed As Firefighting Helicopter Makes Forced Landing At Cape Point [Video] – One of the country’s top helicopter rescue pilots has died while on duty fighting fires at Cape Point in the Western Cape. [enca]

Fire Fundraising Backlash As Steenberg Family Lose Uninsured Fully-Paid-For Home – Fundraising efforts for a family who ‘lost everything’ in the recent Cape fires, has turned somewhat controversial, with some of the community requesting donation refunds. [story]

MH370 Report: Underwater Locator Beacon Battery Had Expired – The first comprehensive report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 revealed Sunday that the battery of the locator beacon for the plane’s data recorder had expired more than a year before the jet vanished on March 8, 2014. [nyt]

Nemtsov Death Suspect Kills Himself – A sixth suspect in the shooting death of a top Russian opposition figure blew himself up after a standoff with police in the capital of the Chechen Republic, state-run television reported Sunday. [krgv]

Apple Ascends To Dow Jones Industrial Average – Apple Inc. will join the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a long-anticipated change that adds a global branding phenomenon and technology-industry standard-bearer to the 119-year-old blue-chip index. [wsj]

Boko Haram Declares Allegiance To Islamic State – Video purportedly by leader of Nigeria group posted after female Islamists suicide bombers kill at least 50 in coordinated attacks in Maiduguri. [guardian]

Shuttleworth ‘Wants To Boost His Public Standing’ – The phrase “pay back the money” caused a ripple of mirth among judges at the Constitutional Court on Tuesday during a case in which tech billionaire Mark Shuttleworth faced off against the Reserve Bank. [tlive]

Gavin Rajah Is Now Dressing Reese Witherspoon. Oh, Wait.. – Anyone with their finger on the fashion pulse would have instantly recognized a dress from Gavin Rajah’s latest ‘Resort 2015′ range, being worn by Hollywood superstar, Reese Witherspoon. But perhaps everything isn’t as it seems.. [story]

Vatican Gets Ransom Demand For Michelangelo Letter – A Vatican spokesman admitted Sunday that a letter written by Michelangelo was stolen from their archives in 1997, and they recently received a ransom demand for its return. [cbs]

Bangladeshis Find 170 Gold Bars On North Korean Diplomat – A North Korean diplomat was found carrying $1.4 million worth of gold bars at the international airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh, customs officials said Friday. [lat]

China’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Documentary About The Airpocalypse – A film produced by a Chinese investigative journalist and environmental activist has gone viral. The Communist Party first let that happen, now wants to shut it down. [beast]

Divorce By SMS: How Graeme Smith Lied To His Wife – Shocking details about the break-up of cricketer Graeme Smith’s marriage emerged this week as close friends of his wife, Morgan Deane, lashed out at the former Proteas captain. [tlive]

Biff Hits Back At Divorce Reports – Former Proteas skipper Graeme Smith has hit back at reports that he mistakenly informed Morgan Deane of their divorce on Sunday. [s24]

Doping Culture In Cycling ‘Still Exists’ According To Circ Report – Cycling continues to struggle with widespread doping, according to a landmark report into the sport’s troubled recent history. [bbc]

This Private Plane Will Take You And 7 Mates From CPT To JHB For R19,995 – Unfortunately there comes a time in every person’s life when, for whatever reason, they are forced to fly from Cape Town to Johannesburg. We’ve all been there, we can share the pain. [story]

Swiss Pilots Attempt First Around-The-World Solar Flight – Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will take turns piloting the single seater Solar Impulse 2 plane that is propelled solely by the sun. [guardian]

‘Chappie’ Tops Slow Weekend, ‘Unfinished Business’ Tanks – Neither a hyper-intelligent robot nor Vince Vaughn could save the box office this weekend, which is down 38.5 percent from the same weekend last year, according to Sunday estimates from box office firm Rentrak. [yahoo]

‘Strong Evidence of Foul Play’ in Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Drowning, Aunt Says – Boyfriend “is under investigation for the attempted murder of my niece Bobbi Kristina Brown,” Leolah Brown claims. [time]

‘Kanye Is The Black Madonna,’ According To Madonna – Madonna has been talking an awful lot about Kanye West lately, as the rapper produced songs on her forthcoming album, “Rebel Heart.” Most recently, the “Living For Love” singer told the Daily News: “Kanye is the new Madonna. Kanye is the black Madonna.” [huffpo]

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