Police Issue Warrant For Soccer Superstar Ronaldo’s DNA In Rape Case – After discovering DNA on dress of alleged victim, Las Vegas police want to know if it matches Ronaldo’s. [wsj]
How An Experimental Billion-Dollar Privacy Lawsuit Could Clobber Facebook – What if law enforcement was outsourced to class action attorneys? Don’t imagine. It’s happening as the Cambridge Analytica scandal becomes Mark Zuckerberg’s legal nightmare. [hollyrep]
Jaguar Land Rover Set To Axe 4,500 Jobs – Brexit-facing Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will axe around 4,500 mostly UK jobs, the Indian-owned car maker said on Thursday, after a slump in Chinese sales and as buyers dump diesel cars for electric. [busday]
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Claimed Instagram Makes You Feel ‘Terrible’ And Snapchat Doesn’t. But Data Suggests He’s Wrong. – It’s no secret there’s bad blood between Snapchat and Facebook-owned Instagram. [busins]
Pick N Pay Product Dubbed The Most Cape Town Thing Ever – Just when you think you’ve hit peak Cape Town, Pick n Pay comes along and delivers the goods. You can’t help but laugh, really. [here]
Giant Gold Coin Trial Opens In Berlin – Four men have gone on trial in Berlin, accused of the notorious theft of a huge solid-gold coin from the German capital’s Bode Museum in 2017. [bbc]
Judge Dismisses Ashley Judd’s Sex Harassment Claim Against #HarveyWeinstein – A federal judge in Los Angeles on Wednesday dismissed actress Ashley Judd’s sexual harassment claim against movie producer Harvey Weinstein but said she could proceed with a defamation claim against him. [iol]
Game Of Thrones Star Sophie Turner Hits Out At Piers Morgan Over Mental Health Tweet – The star says jokes and criticism about those who discuss mental health add to the stigma and will “shun them back into silence”. [sky]
Hallucinations And $100,000: The Poker Player Who Shut Himself In A Pitch-Black Room For Weeks – Rich Alati had a six-figure sum in his sights. As long as he could survive 30 days in the dark with no human contact. [guardian]
Andy Murray Says He Will Retire After Wimbledon – Still struggling with a hip injury that has limited him since June 2016, Andy Murray announced Friday that he would retire after this year’s Wimbledon — if not sooner. [nyt]
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Ex-Husband Came Along On Her Honeymoon – Gwyneth Paltrow shared during an appearance on “Live with Kelly and Ryan” on Wednesday that her ex-husband, Coldplay front man Chris Martin, came along on her recent honeymoon with new husband Brad Falchuk. [cnn]
Apple Boss Tim Cook Made Nearly R1.9 Billion In 2018, Including A R220 Million Bonus – It’s good to be Apple CEO Tim Cook.The leader of the iPhone giant made over $15 million in 2018, the equivalent of around R220 million, according to a new filing with the American SEC. [busins]
Amazon Is Building A Cloud Gaming Service – It sure looks like Amazon wants to stream games to your home. No, not the kind of streaming where you watch somebody play games over the internet — Amazon already owns Twitch — but the kind where you can play games without waiting for a download or buying a disc, because they’re actually running on powerful servers that live far away from your house. [verge]
Police In Spain Break Up Tennis Match-Fixing Ring ‘Involving 28 Pros’ – Ring alleged to involve 28 professional players including one who played in last US Open. [guardian]
UK Girl, 17, Detained For Life After Stabbing Boy To Death At Party – The girl, who was pregnant, high and drunk during the attack, will spend more than 15 years behind bars. [sky]
Uber’s ‘Year In Review’ Shows Most Popular Destinations And Food Trends – Here’s everything you need to know about where we travelled and what we ate in 2018, as well as what to expect in the year to come. [here]
Lady Gaga Breaks Her Silence On R Kelly – Lady Gaga has apologised for working with embattled R&B star R Kelly, and vowed to remove their duet, Do What U Want, from streaming services. [bbc]
‘Fireball’ Over New Zealand Was Satellite, Russia Confirms – TV cameras at cricket match captured missile early warning satellite during its descent. [guardian]
‘The Sopranos’ Turns 20: David Chase, Cast Share Memories of James Gandolfini – David Chase, Edie Falco and more ‘Sopranos’ alumni gathered to remember the erstwhile Tony Soprano. [hollyrep]
‘I Killed JonBenét Ramsey!’ – Convicted pedophile Gary Oliva has confessed to the murder of six-year-old pageant princess in prison letters to his friend – claiming it was ‘an accident’ [dm]
The New Rules Of Eating Al Desko – Is there a right and wrong way to lunch at your desk? Should you even be doing it at all? Experts and office workers weigh in. [guardian]
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