Bitcoin Is Over $9,000 – Even as you recoup from attempting to explain Bitcoin to your family over dinner, the value of the cryptocurrency is growing at an increasingly hefty pace. As of the time of this writing, the value of a single Bitcoin was above $9,143, climbing nearly 6 points in the past 24 hours. [tc]

MUGABE AND ZIM

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe Cried When He Agreed To Step Down – Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe cried and lamented “betrayal by his lieutenants” when he agreed to step down last week under pressure from the military and his party after 37 years in power, the Standard newspaper said in its Sunday edition. [tlive]

Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe To Get $10m Payoff And Immunity For His Family – Ousted president was also promised that his salary would continue to be paid for life, reveals senior Zanu-PF official. [guardian]

Zimbabwe’s Next Leader Says Post-Mugabe Era Is ‘Full Democracy’ – Zimbabwe’s incoming president Emmerson Mnangagwa told adoring crowds in Harare on Wednesday that they were witnessing “unfolding full democracy” as he returned to take power after Robert Mugabe stepped down after 37 years in power. [mg]

Mount Agung: Bali Volcano Alert Raised To Highest Level – Fears of an imminent major eruption of Bali’s Mount Agung have increased and the evacuation zone around the volcano has been widened. [bbc]

Meredith, Backed By Koch Brothers Affiliate, To Acquire Magazine Publisher Time – U.S. media group Meredith has reached a deal to acquire Time, the U.S. publisher of Sports Illustrated and Fortune magazines, the company said Sunday evening. [cnbc]

Jeff Bezos’ Net Worth Surpasses 100 Billion Dollars – Bloomberg has been keeping an eye on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ net worth and notes that today, for the first time, it has exceeded $100 billion. [verge]

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Vladimir Putin Signs A Bill Letting Russia Classify International Journalists As Foreign Agents – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill allowing Russia to register international media outlets as foreign agents in a quid pro quo to the U.S. demand made to a Kremlin-funded TV channel. [cnbc]

Jubilation And Tears As Panayiotou Is Sentenced To Life – The Inggs family and friends first clapped joyously and then burst into tears as Christopher Panayiotou was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of their daughter Jayde. [n24]

Global Credit Ratings Agency Has Downgraded South Africa To Junk Status – Credit ratings agency S&P Global has downgraded South Africa’s credit rating to full junk status, while its counterpart Moody’s has placed the country on review for downgrade. [mg]

MultiChoice Must Release ANN7 Contracts – DA – The Democratic Alliance on Sunday called for MultiChoice to release the contracts it had entered into with news TV station ANN7. [n24]

Black Friday Set Record For Most US Gun Background Checks In A Day – Shoppers didn’t exactly bust down the doors to snag Black Friday deals. The number of visits to retail stores slipped just under 1 percent from the day after Thanksgiving last year, according to retail analyst ShopperTrak. [nyp]

Reviews And Ratings Mean Little To India’s Online Shoppers – Product reviews are an important part of e-commerce, helping consumers make informed choices. But Indians are increasingly distrustful of them. [qz]

Why Olivia Newton-John’s ‘Missing’ Ex—and the Stories About Him—Just Won’t Die – Each year, an Australian tabloid comes forward with new “evidence” that Patrick McDermott, who disappeared on a fishing boat in 2005, is still alive. And many believe he is. [beast]

Read that last one during your lunch break – fascinating. 

A Young American Dies In Paraguay: Mushroom Tea, Murder, Rape, And A Cover-Up – ‘I so badly wanted to hold him, I couldn’t believe it was my son lying on the table,’ she said. Then she asked to turn on the air-conditioning ‘to keep the flies away from my son.’ [beast]

Also a massive ‘page-scroller’…

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