Kim Jong Un Reportedly Cried Over North Korea’s Bad Economy – A video of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un crying about his country’s terrible economy while surveying its coast has reportedly made the rounds in the country’s leadership — and it could be a sign he’s ready to cave into President Donald Trump in negotiations. [aol]

Key North Korea Official Meets Pompeo In New York – The right-hand man to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has met US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in New York to discuss a historic summit. [bbc]

Ukraine Reveals It Staged ‘Murder’ Of Russian Journalist Arkady Babchenko –  A Russian journalist who was reported to have been shot dead in Kiev has turned up alive at a news conference in Ukraine. [guardian]

Trump Breaks Silence On Roseanne Barr Scandal – President Trump’s first public reaction to the cancellation of “Roseanne” is a shot at Disney CEO Bob Iger. [cnn]

Ambien Maker To Roseanne Barr: No, Our Sleeping Pill Doesn’t Cause Racism – Roseanne Barr just got some epic Twitter shade from… one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. [fort]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Chokes Up Over Child’s School Shooting Question – White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders spoke on everything from Roseanne Barr to the FBI during Wednesday’s press briefing, but it was a question by a child reporter named Benje Choucroun that rattled her most. [huff]

An Unprecedented Tour Of Seth’s Bar At Home – I never had a bar in my home until a few months ago. Now that we’ve ‘broken the seal’, as it were, we can’t get enough of it. [here]

Singapore Airlines: New 18-Hour, 45-Minute NYC Flight To Be World’s Longest – It’s official: The title for the “world’s longest flight” is coming back to the United States. [usat]

Sorrell Set For Comeback With New Advertising Venture – Sir Martin Sorrell is set for a return to the London stock market just weeks after leaving advertising giant WPP. [bbc]

F1: South African Pays Price For Horror Williams Start – Beleaguered Formula One team, Williams have confirmed that their head of aerodynamics, South African Dirk de Beer, has left the team. [s24]

One Million People In France Quit Smoking Last Year – Flaky pastries, fine wine and fashionable people smoking lots of cigarettes: Fair or not, this has been a cultural image of France for decades. [snn]

Tesla’s Autopilot Keeps Crashing Into Parked Cars. Here’s Why –  Another week, another Tesla crashing into a stationary vehicle that just came out of nowhere. [mash]

Search For Missing Plane MH370 Heads For One Last Spot Of Interest – Ocean Infinity vessel to investigate area where Chinese ship detected ultrasonic pulse. [guardian]

Microsoft’s Value Overtakes Alphabet For The First Time In Three Years – Microsoft briefly surpassed Google’s parent company Alphabet in market value for the first time in three years, suggesting a bounce back from a company widely regarded to have lost its way. [tele]

Latest ‘Most Visited South African Sites’ List Makes For Interesting Reading – The internet is a weird and wonderful place, and the same can be said of our South African sites. So, who has enough clicks to climb to the top? [here]

The Viral ‘Fetuses Recognize Faces’ Theory Is Wrong – Something else was at play, a new analysis argues. [beast]

Eight Million Bottles’ Worth Of Champagne Grapes Wiped Out By Freak Hailstorms –  Champagne has become the latest French wine growing region to feel the wrath of the heavens after freakishly violent hail storms wiped out the equivalent of eight million bottles of grapes and roughly €125 million (£110m) of fizz. [tele]

Drake Is ‘Deadbeat’ Father Who Had Kid With French Porn Star, Rapper Claims In New Diss Track – Drake is a “deadbeat” father who had a son with a former French porn star, rival rapper Pusha T claims in a new diss track targeting the Toronto rapper. [fox]

Kim Kardashian Heads To White House – Months of talks between Jared Kushner and Kim Kardashian is set to culminate in a meeting with President Trump, in which the reality-TV star will ask him to pardon a 62-year-old great-grandmother serving a life sentence without parole for a first-time drug offense. [vanfair]

Taylor Swift’s British Boyfriend Joe Alwyn – Treats the singer to fish and chips washed down with a pint of beer at a traditional London pub. [dm]

Amal Clooney Is Helping Meghan Markle Settle Into London Life: They Have A ‘Natural Friendship’ – Amal Clooney is more than just a wedding guest to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — she’s the new royal’s confidant. [people]

Emma Stone – wears red hot swimsuit while relaxing with eligible bachelor Justin Theroux in France. [dm]

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