Volkswagen To Recall 8.5 Million Vehicles In Europe – Reacting to pressure from German regulators, Volkswagen on Thursday recalled its entire fleet of rigged diesel cars in Europe, as the carmaker scrambles to come up with a remedy for its emissions cheating. [nyt]

Relief As Rand Firms Against Dollar – The rand looks set to strengthen back to under R13 to the dollar as it continued its recovery on Thursday after breaching R14 to the dollar last month. [bdl]

OUTRAGE: Here Is The Staged Gang Rape Pic Posted By Hilton College Boys – In this day and age there are certain things you stay well clear off when cracking a joke with mates, rape being one such topic. [story]

Wikileaks Julian Assange Refused Safe Passage For MRI Scan – Julian Assange will be arrested if he leaves Ecuador embassy in London for medical tests, says Foreign Office. [tele]

IOL Closes Comments – News outlet Independent Online (IOL) on Thursday faced social media consternation after a decision to close comments on stories on its website. [tlive]

2 Lockerbie Bombing Suspects, Libyans, Sought By U.S. And Scotland – Scottish and American prosecutors are asking the Libyan government for help in tracking down two suspects in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the terrorist attack that brought down Pan Am Flight 103, killing 270 people. [nyt]

Italians Can Watch Porn During Their Lunch Hour Now – An Italian court declared that a Fiat plant worker in Sicily could not be fired for watching porn at lunch, the Local in Italy reported Wednesday. [huff]

German Hunter Pays £39,000 (R800k) To Shoot Largest Elephant In Africa For 50 Years – just three months after Cecil the Lion was slain [dm]

South Africa Will Consider National Interest in Beer Merger – South Africa’s National Treasury says it will consider the economic impact of a proposal by the world’s biggest beer maker to buy SABMiller — a company with South African roots. [abc]

Woman Caught Trying To Sell Baby On Gumtree – A 20-year-old woman has been arrested for trying to sell her baby for R5 000 on Gumtree, the Hawks said on Thursday. [n24]

Cell C Fights Rivals With ‘Cheaper’ iPhone 6s – Cell C is taking direct aim at rivals with its pricing of the latest iPhone is South Africa. [f24]

Waco Delays JSE Listing Over Bridge Collapse – Waco International Holdings, a South African building-equipment rental company, postponed its planned R3.5bn share sale following the fatal collapse of a support structure for a bridge being built over a Johannesburg freeway. [f24]

Travelling To Cape Town? Here’s Everything You Need – When you’re travelling there’s nothing worse than having to locate various services without the help of a hotel concierge. But, imagine you arrive in a city and with one message you can list all the services you require during your stay. [more]

Wits Fees Protest Intensifies – The Wits University fees protest spilled over into a second day as angry students disrupted traffic and continued to block campus entrances. [mg]

Kobe Bryant And Master P Duke It Our Over Lamar – Kobe Bryant isn’t taking Master P’s insults kindly — claiming the rapper’s decision to question his support of Lamar Odom was downright “insensitive.” [tmz]

‘Cecil’s Death Ruined My Life’ – A Zimbabwean hunter accused of failing to stop the killing of Cecil the lion said on Thursday his family and business had been destroyed amid the outcry that followed the lion’s death and that charges against him should be dropped. [iol]

Shame, you poor thing. 

17-Million-Rand Perlemoen Stash Uncovered In Philippi – Environmental officials worked overnight to count and bag a perlemoen (abalone) stash found in Philippi believed to have a street value of R17m. [n24]

Lamar Odom Blew $75k (R1million) at Nevada Brothel – Lamar Odom spent a fortune — $75,000 — at Love Ranch South in just over 3 days. [tmz]

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Earth Just Had Its Warmest September On Record — By A Long Shot – It’s virtually certain that in January 2016, the planet will set a new record for the warmest calendar year on record. A key data set that tracks global average surface temperatures, which comes from the Japan Meteorological Agency, shows a huge jump in temperatures in September as compared to average. [mash]

Jenny McCarthy Wants To Strip Down For Playboy One Last Time – Jenny McCarthy wants one more shot to bare all in the pages of Playboy. The 42-year-old former Playmate – who made her first centerfold appearance in the venerable men’s magazine in 1993 — was disappointed to learn this week that the perennially provocative periodical will no longer feature nudity beginning in March. [p6]

Facebook Heartthrob on Electronic Monitoring Allegedly Abducts, Rapes, and Impregnates 14-Year-Old – A 20-year-old Ohio man already on electronic monitoring for a previous conviction for abduction-related charges allegedly lured a 14-year-old girl to his home, where he kept her against her will and repeatedly raped her over a period of months. [gawk]

“Devastated” Khloé Kardashian Is Making Medical Decisions For Lamar Odom – According to a source close to the Kardashian family, Khloé is “inconsolable” as she makes medical decisions for her estranged husband in Las Vegas. [bf]

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