PayPal Penalised For ‘Deceptive’ Practices – The online payment service PayPal has agreed to pay $25m (£16.1m) of fines and compensation in the US after being accused of deceiving its customers.. [bbc]
Banks To Pay $5.6 Billion In Probes – Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Barclays, RBS and UBS to plead guilty to criminal charges. [wsj]
E-tolls To Stay But Costs Reduced – Despite widespread condemnation of Gauteng’s e-tolling, the system is here to stay, but motorists will pay less to use the freeways. [iol]
Spotify Adds Video, Original Programming – Streaming service also offers feature to match its app to a runner’s speed and play music at that tempo. [rs]
250 U.K. Celebs Accused of Child Sex Abuse – British police forces will have to sort through 1,433 suspects in over 100,000 cases of child abuse—almost double the amount of accusations from just three years ago. [db]
Janice Dickinson Sues Cosby For Defamation – Bill Cosby can add another lawsuit to the growing pile filed against him by women who claim he drugged and raped them in decades past. [usat]
Exclusive: China Warns U.S. Surveillance Plane – The Chinese navy issued warnings eight times as a U.S. surveillance plane on Wednesday swooped over islands that Beijing is using to extend its zone of influence. [cnn]
Dingaan ‘Rose of Soweto’ Thobela Arrested By Hawks – The Hawks Commercial Crime unit has arrested former boxing champion Dingaan Thobela over his funeral parlour business. [tlive]
California Declares State Of Emergency Over Oil Spill – California Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in Santa Barbara County following a coastal oil pipeline spill. [alja]
Lewis Hamilton And Mercedes To Continue ‘Making History’ – World champion and man to beat this season in Formula One, Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes team sent out a warning to their rivals Wednesday that they intend to keep “making history.” [cnn]
‘Father’ To Marry ‘Son’ With Court’s Blessing – A same-sex couple in their 70s used adoption as a path to legal rights. Now, they say they feel ‘enormous’ relief they can actually marry. [patch]
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Long Island Great Gatsby Mansion Put Up For Sale At $3.8m – The sprawling Long Island home in New York where literary genius F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote part of his best-known novel the Great Gatsby and learned that the rich are different from you and me is up for sale. [ibt]
Cannes: Amputee Stopped ‘For Not Wearing Heels’ – Producer Valeria Richter, who had part of her left foot amputated, tells Sky News she was stopped on her way into a premiere. [sky]
Mother Seeks Groom For Her Son In India’s First Gay Personals Advert – Message looking for husband for activist Harish Iyer subverts tradition after India re-criminalised homosexuality in 2013. [grdn]
Morph Returns To TV After 15 Years With New CBBC Show – The New Adventures of Morph – which first appeared alongside late artist Tony Hart – to be broadcast on children’s channel after 15-year screen break. [tg]
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s Mom Won a Chanel Handbag Over Paris Hilton at Cannes – Leonardo DiCaprio shelled out $13,620 for a Chanel Neoprene purse for his mom at a Cannes Film Festival charity auction. [cb]
No Wonder He’s Smiling! Robin Thicke, 38 – Can’t help but grin as he poses alongside his leggy model girlfriend April Love Geary, 20, at Cannes party. [dm]
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