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Harvey Weinstein Found Guilty Of Sexual Assault, Rape – Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of sexual assault and rape but cleared of the most serious predatory sexual assault charges. [timeslive]

Harvey Weinstein Set To Appeal Conviction Over ‘Judge’s Bias’, Withheld Evidence – At the start of the case in January, Weinstein’s legal team objected to which jurors were chosen and what evidence the jury was allowed to hear. [iol]

Black Monday On South African Markets: It’s A Bloodbath Out There – The JSE’s index of its 40 biggest shares may suffer its biggest daily loss since December 2008. [businsider]

Coronavirus: World Must Prepare For Pandemic, Says WHO – More cases of the virus, which causes respiratory disease Covid-19, continue to emerge, with outbreaks in South Korea, Italy and Iran causing concern. [bbc]

Mboweni’s Budget Unlikely To Stop SA’s March To Junk, Say Economists – Of 19 economists surveyed by Bloomberg this month, 14 expect Moody’s to downgrade the country to junk this year. [fin24]

Cape Town’s Premier Office Space Does Things A Bit Differently – There are plenty of spaces to rent an office in and around the Cape Town CBD, but not all are created equal. [here]

The Anti-Greta: A Conservative Think Tank Takes On The Global Phenomenon – How a group allied with the Trump administration is paying a German teen to question established climate science. [washpost]

Nasa’s InSight Lander Records Hundreds Of Marsquakes On Red Planet – InSight, which touched down in 2018, proves beyond doubt that Mars is seismically active. [guardian]

Car Plows Into German Carnival Parade ‘At Full Throttle,’ Injuring 10 – The driver – who witnesses said appeared to be targeting children – was arrested. [huffpost]

iPhone 9 Launch Date Leaked – Previous rumours suggest that the device will either be called the iPhone 9 or iPhone SE 2. However, according to an inside source, the new smartphone will simply be called the iPhone. [mybb]

Apple Investor Warren Buffett Finally Upgrades From A Flip Phone To An iPhone – He did not purchase an iPhone, but rather was gifted “several of them” by numerous people, including Apple CEO Tim Cook. [verge]

These New Laser Treatments Are A Real Game-Changer – As we get older, we all have a checklist of things that we wish we could improve. If one of the things on that list is your skin, there’s a laser for that. [here]

Hippos Linked To Pablo Escobar Spark Concern Among Residents In Colombian Town – There are fears people could be attacked by the potentially aggressive animals which walk down streets and approach homes. [sky]

Remembering Kobe Bryant: Michael Jordan And Beyonce Share Tributes To Lakers Legend – Jordan, considered by many to be basketball’s GOAT, recalled an up-and-coming Bryant calling him late at night, bothering him about intricacies of the game. [cnn]

Could The 2020 Tokyo Olympics Be A Victim Of COVID-19? – The next few weeks will determine whether containment efforts can prevent COVID-19 becoming the “black swan event”. [time]

Kirk Douglas Snubs Beloved Son Michael In $92 Million Will – Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas proved to be a charitable guy – unless you’re his famous son. [newsau]

A Ben Affleck Imposter Is Catfishing People On Raya, According To Ben Affleck – After Page Six reported Affleck was on the app, he insisted he’s never used it. [vice]

Kim Kardashian Is A Bronzed Goddess In Stunning New Desert Photos  – She sported the Everyday Plunge Bralette and High Waisted Thong from the collection, which dropped on Monday. [dmail]

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