Rand Tumbles As SA Downgrade Concerns Return – The rand weakened below R15/$ to the lowest in almost a month amid increasing expectations among economists that South Africa’s credit rating will be cut by the end of this year as growth falters. [f24]

Prince Had Percocet In His System: Reports – Music superstar Prince’s autopsy found the painkiller Percocet in his system, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and KSTP-TV reported on Thursday, citing sources close to the investigation. [huff]

Airstrike On Syrian Refugee Camp Kills At Least 28, Activists Say – An activist monitoring group says at least 28 people have been killed in an airstrike on a refugee camp in northwestern Syria, near the Turkish border. [time]

Turkish PM Davutoğlu Resigns As President Erdoğan Tightens Grip – The Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, has announced his resignation after 20 months in office, consolidating Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s position as Turkey’s unrivalled political leader and highlighting concerns about the country turning increasingly authoritarian. [guardian]

Zuma Demands Speaker Control Parliament – This after EFF MPs were thrown out of Parliament for trying to prevent Zuma from speaking and DA leader Mmusi Maimane referred to him as a “criminal”. [mg]

R135m Sea Point School Site Sale Stopped – Sea Point residents Thozama Adonisi and Sharone Daniels have hailed the Western Cape High Court’s decision to halt the sale of the Tafelberg Remedial School site by the provincial government as a “victory for the poor working class”. [iol]

Zimbabwe To Print Local ‘US Dollar’ As Cash Crunch Bites – Zimbabweans formed long queues outside banks on Thursday as a cash shortage prompted the government to announce plans to print a local version of the US dollar and limit withdrawals. [enca]

Zim On Course To Get Funding From The IMF – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday said Zimbabwe has met its commitments under the Staff Monitored Program (SMP) that ended at end-December 2015, and is now on course to receive funding in support of its development agenda. [f24]

Zimbabwe Is Selling Its Wildlife To Combat Crippling Drought – Faced with a massive regional drought, Zimbabwe is putting some of its excess wild animals up for sale. The country’s Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said Monday that the move is part of an attempt to preserve resources, Zimbabwean outlet NewsDay reported. [huff]

Paul Ryan To Donald Trump: This Is My Party – Now that Donald Trump is the Republican nominee-presumptive, leading GOP elites from Reince Priebus to Mitch McConnell have been flocking to endorse him. But House Speaker Paul Ryan broke sharply with the trend during on Thursday, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper that he was not yet “ready” to endorse Trump. [vox]

What To Know About North Korea’s First Party Congress In 35 Years – North Korea is set to hold its first Worker’s Party congress in over 35 years on Friday, in one of the biggest political events of Kim Jong-un’s young rule. This is just the seventh such meeting in the country’s history, and the only one not to occur under the rule of Kim Jong-un’s grandfather, Kim Il-sung. [huff]

TIME: Powerball Jackpot Shoots To $415 Million – The Powerball jackpot total will land on the top 10 list of largest U.S. lottery sums ever this Saturday at $415 million.It just reached the top ten list of largest lottery prizes ever in the country [time]

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Rolling Stones Tell Donald Trump To Stop Playing Their Songs At Events – The Rolling Stones have gotten no satisfaction from presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump using their songs at his campaign rallies. [fox]

Caitlyn Jenner Will Pose For Sports Illustrated Wearing Only Her Gold Medals And An American Flag – Caitlyn Jenner, Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete and star of Keeping Up with the Kardashians and I Am Cait, will pose on the cover of Sports Illustrated to celebrate the 40th anniversary of her gold medal win. [jez]

Obama Dances with Star Wars Robot R2-D2 and Storm Troopers – May the 4th Be With You [here]

Meet The New Han Solo: Alden Ehrenreich, Discovered By Steven Spielberg At A Bat Mitzvah – The 26-year-old actor, last seen in ‘Hail Caesar!,’ has been cast as the young hero in a Han Solo standalone film. And his ties to ‘Star Wars’ creator George Lucas run deep. [beast]

Taylor Swift Tops Billboard’s Top Money-Makers List of 2015 – The country star-turned-pop sensation added yet another milestone to her résumé in 2015 — top earner of the year — thanks to her 1989 World Tour, which included cameo appearances by Julia Roberts, Mick Jagger, Joan Baez and… Miami Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade. [bb]

Selfie-Taker Accidentally Smashes 126-Year-Old Statue Of Portuguese King In Lisbon – A 126-year-old statue is in shatters after a man attempting to take a selfie knocked it over on Tuesday. [ibt]

Oscar Winner Jodie Foster Finally Gets Hollywood Star – Actress Jodie Foster may have had to wait more than forty years for her star on Hollywood’s landmark Walk of Fame, but at Wednesday’s ceremony when she was finally given the honor, she said she was glad it was for her work as a director. [reuters]

Jamie Lee Curtis Writes About Drugs And Prince – So, awaiting final toxicology, it has now been reported in the New York Times that Prince was toxic. I can relate. I was toxic too. [huff]

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