Flexi Hours To Ease Cape Town’s Traffic Jams – The city council is proposing flexi-time, compressed work weeks, staggered shifts and remote working for employees, as ways to reduce congestion on the roads. [iol]
MTN Hit By New Nigerian Charge – MTN has been accused of illegally repatriating about $14bn from Nigeria, the mobile network operator’s largest market. [bdl]
World’s First Baby Born Using DNA From Three Parents – The controversial “three-parent” technique allows parents with rare genetic mutations to have healthy babies. [sky]
Sam Allardyce Resigns As England Soccer Manager After Undercover Report – Sam Allardyce is no longer the manager of England. After just one match, a 1-0 win over Slovakia in a World Cup qualifier on Sept. 4, the 61-year-old resigned following an undercover investigation by the Telegraph. [washpo]
Facebook Ordered To Stop Harvesting Data On WhatsApp Users In Germany – The move follows the latter’s shock announcement last month that it would start sharing user data with its parent company, Facebook, including users’ phone numbers and last seen time in the app. Stated uses for the data includes marketing/ad targeting. [tc]
Donald Trump Claims Victory Despite Media Consensus That Hillary Clinton Won First Presidential Debate – Despite declaring victory in the first presidential debate, Donald Trump has said he might need to “go harder” in future debates by bringing up Bill Clinton’s history of infidelity. [tele]
Shimon Peres, Former Israeli Leader, Dies Aged 93 – Leading political figure served twice as prime minister, once as president and won Nobel peace prize. [guardian]
U.S. Announces $364 Million More In Aid For Syrians – The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it was providing an additional $364 million in humanitarian assistance to help Syrians caught up in the country’s civil war, bringing total U.S. humanitarian spending for Syria to about $5.9 billion. [reuters]
Noor Tagouri To Become First Muslim To Appear In Playboy With A Hijab – American journalist Noor Tagouri will appear in the October Renegades issue to “challenge preconceived ideas of how people should be and how they should live their lives”. [bbc]
Google’s Self-Driving Car Gets In Worst Accident Yet – One of Google’s self-driving cars was recently in a major accident, according to 9to5Google. [busins]
Table Mountain Cableway Hit By Pay Strike – The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company (TMACC) will reduce its hours of operation due to expected strike action by staff from Wednesday. [tlive]
There’s An Easy Way To Save Big Money On Your Next Apple Purchase – Chances are you (or someone you know) has an old Apple product lying in a draw gathering dust. Time you heard about trade in, trade up. [here]
Is This The Moment e-Sports Comes Of Age? – It is a deal that could mark the moment e-sports enters the big league. The US owners of a famous basketball franchise and investors in Premier League club Crystal Palace have snapped up two of the leading e-sports teams. [bbc]
Greenland’s Receding Icecap To Expose Top-Secret US Nuclear Project – Camp Century – part of Project Iceworm – is underground cold war network that had been thought buried forever, until climate change made that highly unlikely. [guardian]
Brad Pitt To Miss Voyage Of Time Premiere Due To ‘Family Situation’ – The actor says he does not want to distract attention from the ‘extraordinary’ film, which he encourages ‘everyone’ to see. [sky]
Jennifer Aniston’s Husband Comments On Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie Split – Following the news last week that Angelina Jolie was filing for divorce from Brad Pitt, one person was instantly thrust into the narrative on social media and the tabloids: Jennifer Aniston. [busins]
Barcelona’s Famous Christopher Columbus Statue Is Under Attack – Critics say the monument inappropriately celebrates the explorer’s colonial history [time]
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Donald Trump Told Miss Universe Alicia Machado: Do Sit-Ups Or You’re Fired – The medically overweight GOP nominee forced Machado to do sit-ups and jump rope in front of reporters to keep her Miss Universe job in 1997. Tuesday morning, 20 years later, he wouldn’t let it go. [db]
Here’s How The Super Rich Buy Mega-Yachts – The buyers showing up at the Monaco Yacht Show each year have so much money to spend on yachts that it’s almost absurd. [busins]
Here’s What It Takes To Be A Top Bree Street Restaurant Head Chef – If you want to rise to the top of the chef game you’ll need a love for fine foods, as well as the ability to constantly create the flavour of the season. [here]
Peter Goffe-Wood Keeps It Simple With His Latest Braai Recipe – If you’re in need of something a little different on the braai these days we have your back. Don’t worry, we’ve kept it nice and simple. [here]
Gigi Hadid Will Not Accept Street Harassment, And Neither Should You – The supermodel talks to Lena Dunham about her attack by a stranger outside a Milan fashion show. [lenny]
Rob Kardashian Tweets Kylie Jenner’s Cell Number – For once a tweeting celeb is not claiming to have been hacked. [cnn]
Kiefer Sutherland Praises Julia Roberts For Cancelling 90s Wedding – but doesn’t mention that she left him for his pal Jason Patric. [dm]
Lindsay Lohan Visits Syrian Refugees, ‘Loves The Work’ – “She spends time interacting with the kids,” the source said. “Listening to them, hearing their stories.” [p6]
Braless Kendall Jenner – Shows off her supermodel physique in tiny crop top and striped pants. [dm]
Amy Schumer Just Became the First Woman to Ever Make Forbes’ Highest Paid Comedians List – It’s already been a banner year for Amy Schumer, who, in 2016 alone, has published her first book, had her Emmy-winning sketch show renewed for a fifth season, and become the first female comic to headline Madison Square Garden. But on Tuesday, the Trainwreck star raised the stakes even further by becoming the first woman ever to be named to Forbes’ Highest Paid Comedians list. [time]
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