‘Cocaine King Of Milan’ Escapes From Prison In Uruguay Through Hole In Roof – Rocco Morabito and three other prisoners let themselves down by rope to an adjacent farm, where they robbed the owner. [guardian]

Group Of Ultra-Rich Americans Calls For Wealth Tax – A group of US billionaires including hedge fund manager George Soros and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has come out in support of a tax on the super-wealthy, as economic inequality emerges as one of the defining issues of the 2020 election. [ft]

Boris Johnson’s Tax Cut Would Benefit Richest 10% Most, Say Experts – Plan would cost £9bn and endanger promise to end austerity, according to IFS. [guardian]

She’s Not My Type’: Trump Dismisses Sexual Assault Accuser E Jean Carroll – E Jean Carroll, the celebrated advice columnist who has accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s, has said she is considering bringing a complaint to the New York police department. [guardian]

Disney’s Stock Falls After ‘Toy Story 4’ Box Office Sets Franchise Record But Was Well Below Forecasts – Shares of Walt Disney Co. DIS, -0.72% fell 1.1% in morning trade Monday, after the company’s “Toy Story 4” dominated the weekend box office, which broke records for the franchise, but came up well short of expectations. [mw]

Man Accused Of Murdering Tinder Date Slashes His Own Throat In Court – Chaos broke out in a Nebraska courtroom Monday when a man accused of suffocating and dismembering a woman who vanished after a Tinder date in 2017 slashed his own throat and collapsed. [nyp]

France 40C Heatwave Could Break June Records – France is braced for a heatwave with temperatures forecast to exceed 40C this week – potentially breaking the record for June. [bbc]

Seven Life Sentences For Cyprus Serial Killer – A Greek Cypriot army captain who murdered five women and two girls has been handed seven life sentences in an unprecedented serial killing case that has shocked the Mediterranean island. [rte]

Iran: New US Sanctions Target Supreme Leader Khamenei – US President Donald Trump has said he is imposing hard-hitting new sanctions on Iran, including on the office of the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. [bbc]

The Third-Generation Beekeeper Producing Jozi’s Finest Honey  – This beekeeper is making waves in the modern honey economy, which is an underappreciated but very important area of agriculture in South Africa. [here]

Pilot Killed As Two Eurofighter Jets Collide In Midair – Two Eurofighter jets crashed in midair in northern Germany on Monday, killing one of the pilots, according to the German air force. [cnn]

Shock Slump In JSE’s Share Price Wipes Out R1 Billion – Here’s What Happened – On Monday morning, JSE Limited, which operates Africa’s biggest stock exchange, warned that its profit for the six months to end-June will be up to 35% lower than in the same period last year. [busins]

Palazzolo – Italian Authorities Target ‘Mafia Banker’s’ SA Wealth – An intricate legal saga spanning more than three decades has culminated in Italian authorities starting to seize assets tied to Vito Palazzolo – and their relentless quest to see him pay up is zooming in on South Africa, which for years offered him sanctuary and shielded him from arrest. [n24]

Judi Dench Defends ‘Sex Predators’ Harvey Weinstein And Kevin Spacey And Urges The Public To Stop Airbrushing Them From History – Dame Judi Dench says people should still enjoy the work of alleged sexual predator Kevin Spacey, saying: “You cannot deny somebody a talent.” [sun]

Gangnam: The Scandal Rocking The Playground Of K-Pop – Earlier this year, the meticulously managed world of K-pop was rocked by scandal. [bbc]

iPadOS Preview – The iPad’s operating system has a new name — iPadOS — and today, Apple is letting anybody install a beta version of it. When it is officially released this fall, I think it’s going to be a huge upgrade for most people, significantly changing their opinion of what it’s capable of. [verge]

The Average Salaries In 10 Major Cities Across South Africa – Online job aggregator, Adzuna, has released an income map showing where the wealth is concentrated in South Africa. [btech]

Billie Eilish Fans Shut Down Trolls Who Bodyshamed Her – The 17-year-old emo-pop singer took a selfie with a fan while wearing a tank top, and someone was fast to call her, well, not skinny. [cnn]

McDonald’s Says Quarter Pounder Sales Up 30% Since Shift From Frozen To Fresh Beef – McDonald’s is finding Americans have a hearty appetite for fresh beef. [usat]

Hazies, White Whales, And Beer Walls: Read This If You Have No Idea What Beer Geeks Are On About – If you are going to take your beer super seriously, you should probably get a handle on some of the new terminology that’s doing the rounds. [here]

Bust In Budi Budi: The Day A Fisherman Hauled In $50m Worth Of Cocaine – How a remote atoll on Papua New Guinea’s eastern fringe was menaced by drug traffickers as illicit trade across the Pacific surges. [guardian]

Mysterious Explosion In A German Cornfield Was Probably A WWII Bomb – Residents of Ahlbach, Germany, were mostly asleep at about 4 a.m. Sunday when they were jolted by a sudden blast. [cnn]

No One Is Good Enough To Work For Beyoncé – A viral Twitter thread reminds us that not one mortal walking this Earth is qualified to collect a check from Queen Bey. [vice]

If Taylor Swift Can’t Have A No. 1 Pop Hit in 2019, Can Anyone? – As “Old Town Road” fends off another challenger for a 12th straight week at the top, the recipe for pop success is less clear than ever. [vanfair]

Gigi Hadid Wants To Rewrite Copyright Law Around Her Instagram Account – She says she can post paparazzi photos because she smiled in them. [verge]

Noel Gallagher ‘Forgot’ He Bought A R2m Car – Noel Gallagher “forgot” he spent R2m on a car which he can’t drive, and has kept it in a garage ever since he made the hefty purchase. [ch24]

Barack And Michelle Obama Hang With George And Amal Clooney Near Their Lake Como Home During Italian Getaway – The former president and first lady have been on vacation with former first daughters Sasha and Malia Obama., [people]

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