AC/DC Drummer Phil Rudd Pleads Guilty – AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has pleaded guilty to charges of threatening to kill a former employee and possession of methamphetamine and marijuana. Rudd had originally pleaded not guilty to those charges last year. [time]
South Africa Violence: Zulu King Appeals For Calm – Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has asked for an end to violence after attacks against migrants in South Africa. [bbc]
King’s Crowd Boos Non-Zulu Speakers – Non-zulu guests who addressed an anti-xenophobia imbizo in Durban, spearheaded by King Goodwill Zwelithini, were booed by the crowd. [mg]
Murdoch Told Writers To Stop Labour Winning Elections – Rupert Murdoch berated journalists on his tabloid papers for not doing enough to stop Labour winning the general election and warned them that the future of the company depended on stopping Ed Miliband entering No 10. [ind]
Cirque Du Soleil Bought By US And Chinese Investors – The acrobats of Cirque du Soleil have been bought by TPG Capital and Fosun, the Chinese conglomerate, in a deal that values their troupe at about $1.5bn. [ft]
Why India’s Net Neutrality Activists Hate Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet.org philanthropy finds itself cast as the villain in India’s fight over Internet rules. [bloom]
Android Wear’s Biggest Update Ever Takes Aim At The Apple Watch – Android Wear is getting a new update today that’s easily its biggest yet. [verge]
Norway Becoming First Country To Eliminate FM Radio – Normay is going to eliminate FM radio in less than two years, the country’s government announced, becoming the first country in the world to do so. [npr]
Europe Grapples With Deadly Mediterranean Migration Crisis – European leaders are struggling to find a solution to a desperate surge of Mediterranean migration that appears to have claimed more than 1,500 lives so far this year, as poverty and war drive people to risk everything on rickety, overloaded boats. [lat]
Italy Is Finally Cracking Down On Slave Trade – How braggadocio helped police crack a smugglers’ ring “in which people are bought and sold like merchandise.” [beast]
Japan’s Maglev Train Breaks World Speed Record With 600km/h Test Run – The seven-car ‘magnetic levitation’ train hit a top speed of 603km/h less than a week after breaking a 2003 record of 581km/h. [guardian]
Has Google Found The Loch Ness Monster? – Google has used its Street View cameras to search for the Loch Ness Monster – and one image in particular will attract the attention of Nessie hunters. [tele]
Don’t Get Fired: This App Will Delete Your Embarrassing Posts On Social Media – If you’ve ever worried about old tweets or Facebook posts coming back to haunt you — but don’t have time to sift through years of posts to manually delete them — a new app may be able to help. [mash]
Airline Bans Researcher From Flight After ‘Joke Tweet’ – United Airlines banned a security researcher from a flight after he tweeted that he might be able to hack the aircraft’s systems. [bbc]
Gywn And Chris Getting Divorce For Realsies – Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin are now legally uncoupling. [eo]
Bobbi Kristina Remains Unresponsive and Her Brain Damage Is “Irreversible” – Bobbi Kristina Brown may no longer be in a medically induced coma, but she remains unresponsive, her grandmother Cissy Houston tells Us Weekly in a statement. [usm]
Hillary Clinton Playing Game Boy Makes An Excellent Desktop Background – A photograph of Hillary Clinton playing Game Boy, taken 22 years ago this month, is floating around the internet thanks to a post on the official Instagram account of the William J. Clinton library. [verge]
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