Elon Musk Has Removed Tesla And SpaceX’s Facebook Pages After Twitter Challenge – During a tweetstorm, Elon Musk has removed both of his companies’ Facebook pages after being challenged to do so by a few of his followers. The pages of both SpaceX and Tesla are now inactive. Each had around 2.6 million followers. [verge]
Zuma To Receive Official Summons To Be In Court In April – Former president Jacob Zuma is expected to be issued with a summons to appear in the Durban High Court in April on corruption charges. [mg]
Monday is D-Day For Gupta Brothers To Appear Before Indian Tax Authorities – Atul‚ Ajay and Rajesh initially had to appear on March 16‚ but the tax authorities granted them a 10-day extension. [tlive]
Smith, Warner Stand Down From Captaincy – Australia captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner have stood down from their respective leadership roles for the remainder of the third Test in Cape Town. [cricket]
Stormy Daniels Speaks Out On Spanking Trump, Threats To Her Life, And The Hush Money – Porn star Stormy Daniels dished saucy details of her alleged affair with President Donald Trump on ‘60 Minutes’—and told Anderson Cooper why America should believe her. [beast]
Melania To Stay At Mar-a-Lago Ahead Of Stormy Daniels Interview – First Lady Melania Trump will remain behind at Mar-a-Lago when the president returns to the White House on Sunday as an interview with a former porn star who claims a sexual relationship with her husband is expected to air on television. [nyp]
Former Bank Of England Guru Warns Trump’s ‘Economic Madness’ Will Lead World Into Recession – Donald Trump’s “economic madness” will push the US into a sharp recession that risks dragging the rest of the world down with it, one of Britain’s most senior economists has warned. [tele]
The World’s Biggest IPO Might Be Limited To Its 25th-Largest Stock Exchange – For the past two years, there’s has been a behind-the-scenes battle rumbling between New York, London, and Hong Kong to secure the public listing of Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company. In what promises to be a blockbuster IPO, the company would fetch a valuation as high as $2 trillion. (Apple, which is currently the world’s largest listed company, has a market cap of around $840 billion.) [qz]
Shopping Mall Fire In Russia Leaves At Least 37 Dead – The death toll at a shopping mall blaze in the Siberian city of Kemerovo on Sunday has risen to 37, Russian news agencies reported, citing local authorities. [huff]
New Timon App Gets To The Point – Dentists, Plumbers, Lawyers and even Springbok rugby legends are all available for on-demand chat on Timon – the gig economy app. Get to the point with immediate 1-on-1 chats and stop wasting money with 1-hour sessions in person. [timon]
Qantas Passes Aviation Milestone With Direct Perth-London Flight – Qantas Airways Ltd. is starting direct flights between Australia and London this weekend, passing a major milestone by reducing to 17 hours a trip that once took 12 1/2 days. [bloom]
‘R1m Bribe’ For Zuma Exposes Crisis Levels Of Abalone Poaching – DA – The R1m cash bribe allegedly paid to former president Jacob Zuma by an abalone dealer, in exchange for keeping Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Senzeni Zokwana in Cabinet exposes the murky world of abalone poaching, which has reached crisis levels, said the Democratic Alliance (DA). [n24]
Pyongyang Style? South Korea Wants Pop Star Psy To Play In The North – Seoul is seeking to include the Gangnam Style singer in a team of nine South Korean pop acts that are set perform in North Korea next week. [guardian]
Apple Is Hosting An Education-Focused Event, But No One Knows Why – As secretive as ever, Apple will be hosting an event on Tuesday focused on education. And, as predictable as ever, some forecasts have been made. [here]
Sebastian Vettel Stuns Lewis Hamilton To Win In Melbourne – Sebastian Vettel won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix against the odds after taking advantage of a Virtual Safety Car to beat Lewis Hamilton to victory. [espn]
Amazon Has Replaced Google Qs The Best Place To Work In The US – Amazon has knocked Google off the top spot as the best place to work in the world, according to LinkedIn. [qz]
The Queen Is Handing Her Powers Away. Is ‘King Charles’ Ready? – The queen is preparing to cede power to her son, even if the public wants the crown to bypass Prince Charles and go straight to a future King William and Queen Kate. [beast]
Paul McCartney Hails John Lennon As Stars Join US Anti-Gun Rallies – Ex-Beatle remembers murdered bandmate during March for Our lives protests across the country. [guardian]
Chrissy Teigen Leaves Snapchat, Explains Why In Brutal Tweet – Model and influencer Chrissy Teigen has dealt a major blow to Snapchat this weekend, by revealing that she no longer uses the platform. [hb]
J. Paul Getty Reportedly Had As Many Live-In Girlfriends As FX’s Trust Claims – The billionaire reportedly took sex drugs into his 80s, kept a small black book of conquests, and encouraged brawls amongst his many mistresses. [vf]
Flat-Earther Blasts Off Into California Sky In Home-Made Steam Rocket – A self-taught rocket scientist has blasted himself high into the California sky using a steam-powered contraption he built in his garage, the first step in his long-term aim of proving the Earth is flat. [tele]
Donald Trump Gets Brutally Honest With Himself In New ‘The Simpsons’ Short – The president takes a hard look in the mirror, but there’s a twist in the tale. [huff]
There’s An Extremely Relatable Hidden Message In The Title Of ‘Isle Of Dogs’ – Where were you when you realized that the title of Wes Anderson’s new movie, Isle of Dogs, is also “I love dogs?” [mash]
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