Nintendo Shares Up 53% As Investors Try To Catch ‘Em All – Investment surge adds £7bn to firm’s worth as Pokémon Go transforms Japanese company from reluctant mobile gamer to augmented reality trailblazer. [guardian]
France ‘Has Identified Paris Attacks Leader’ – Newly published official documents show Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who police shot dead, played a lesser role. [huff]
Boris Johnson Is Now Britain’s Foreign Secretary: The World Reacts – The UK’s new Prime Minister, Theresa May, has given Boris Johnson one of the biggest roles in her new government. Newspapers and politicians around the world have been reacting to Boris Johnson’s appointment as UK foreign secretary. [bbc]
‘Ayanda Mabulu’s Latest Painting Is An Abuse Of Freedom Of Speech’ – ANC – Both the African National Congress (ANC) and its Youth League (ANCYL) on Wednesday took offence at Ayanda Mabulu’s controversial latest artwork called “#Zupta state capture”, labelling it a “grotesque act of vulgarity and disrespect” and “nonsense”. [mg]
Haha – “nonsense” – classic!
Olympian Told To Return Olympic Bronze Medal For Doping – Weightlifter Yuliya Kalina has been ordered to return her 2012 Olympic bronze medal over a doping offence. [bbc]
Call For Advertisers To Boycott SABC – A petition calling on advertisers to boycott the SABC has started circulating online. The petition, which has been liked more than 1000 times on Facebook, makes an appeal to Clientele Life, Black Label, FNB, Vodacom, and Chicken Licken to stop advertising with the SABC. [n24]
N2 Wild Cost Toll Road Plan Forges Ahead – The SA National Roads Agency is moving steadily towards building the controversial N2 Wild Coast toll road, despite an unresolved court challenge and question marks over whether the new route is affordable, now that KwaZulu-Natal has been “totally excluded” from what had been the original toll plan. [iol]
You Will Never Look At Skateboards In The Same Way Again [Video] – It’s 2016 and the gadgets keep coming thick and fast, although this looks like the coolest one we’ve seen in a while. Start your skate engines. [here]
Trump And Ex-Staffer Go To War Over Alleged Affair – The Donald claims his former aide Sam Nunberg broke confidentiality to dish on an alleged tryst between two campaign chiefs, Corey Lewandowski and Hope Hicks. [beast]
Police Hand Back Pulse Nightclub To Owner After Shooting – Law enforcement has released the Pulse nightclub in Orlando to its owner just a month after it was the scene of the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history. [time]
Did NASA Cut Space Station Video Feed When UFO Was Entering Earth’s Atmosphere? – NASA says there have been “no unidentifiable objects” seen from the International Space Station. [huff]
Too Afraid To Ask How A ‘Couples Vibrator’ Works? Here You Go [Suitable For Work Video] – Turning on the electric blanket is one way to beat the cold, but there’s another way to ensure things heat up in the bedroom too. [here]
Venezuela Is So Screwed – The Venezuelan military has seized control of the nation’s major ports and has been placed in charge of distributing food in an attempt to deter murderous, starving food bandits. That is not even the worst news. [gawk]
Trevor Noah On Balancing Comedy And Current Affairs – It has been 10 months since Trevor Noah took the helm at Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” but the South African comedian said he still agrees when people say he’s not ready to host the satirical late night news show. [enca]
Pokémon Go: The April Fools’ Joke That Became A Global Obsession – It began a mere week ago, but Pokémon Go has the world in a creature-finding craze. [washpo]
‘Sexually Violent Predator’ Found Playing Pokemon Go With Kids – A registered sex offender was arrested for allegedly playing Pokemon Go with children in Greenfield Wednesday. [rtv]
Pokemon Go Drama Over 9/11 Memorial – The popular virtual-reality game Pokémon Go is stirring up controversy as users have been caught playing the game in such inappropriate places as the Sept. 11 Memorial in New York and Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. [dm]
Rio Mayor Wants Pokemon Go In Brazil For The Olympics – Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes took an important stand on Facebook on Wednesday. Amid the myriad issues affecting Rio in the lead-up to the Summer Olympics, he decided that Brazil needs Pokemon. He commissioned some expert photoshoppers, too. [spill]
One Of The Biggest iPhone Features Is Broken – As our phones become more and more able to run every aspect of our lives, how is it that we still lag behind in one vitally important area? [here]
J.K. Rowling Reveals A Key Detail About A New Fantastic Beasts Character – J.K. Rowling just revealed another bit of Fantastic Beasts insight, and it totally involves Satan. [time]
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Here’s Audio Of What Sounds Like An NYPD Captain Pressuring An Officer To Target Black Men – When NYPD officer Michael Birch was summoned into a performance evaluation meeting with his commanding officer and a lieutenant one day in August 2012, he was expecting to hear more of what he’d heard in the past about the way he did his job. [gawk]
Best And Worst Dressed At The 2016 ESPY Awards – Ciara, Nikki Bella and More Stars Who Turned Heads. [eol]
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