Maddie Murder Police Lay Bare The Child Sex Crime Past Of Jaguar-Driving Wannabe Playboy – Who was actually a drug-dealing drifter and rapist – as it’s revealed he could be out of jail on parole in days. [dm]

Madeleine McCann: Police Receive 270 Calls And Emails After Appeal For Information About Latest Suspect – Scotland Yard says it is “pleased” with the information coming in – and is assessing and prioritising the new leads. [sky]

George Floyd: ‘Pandemic Of Racism’ Led To His Death, Memorial Told – A lawyer for George Floyd has told a memorial service that a “pandemic of racism” led to his death. [bbc]

Trainee Officer Charged Over Arrest Tried To Object, Court Told – J. Alexander Kueng was on his third day as a policeman when training officer Derek Chauvin placed his knee on George Floyd’s neck. [sky]

LinkedIn Employees Use Forum About Diversity To Defend Racism – The comments came during a town hall meeting amid the George Floyd protests. [verge]

Twitter Refuses To Rule Out Suspending Trump’s Account – Trump has relied on Twitter to get out his message without submitting himself to questions from reporters. His 81.7 million followers have made the @realDonaldTrump account one of Twitter’s 10 most popular. [ewn]

‘Can’t Quite Believe It’: New Zealand Tiptoes Towards Elimination Of Coronavirus – With an anonymous woman in Auckland the last confirmed case, scientists expect to be able to declare next week that the nation is virus-free. [guardian]

Cabinet To Appeal Judgment Declaring Lockdown Regulations For Levels 3 And 4 Invalid, Confident Of Another Outcome – Cabinet on Thursday announced it would appeal the high court judgment, which declared various regulations governing Level 3 and 4 of the nationwide lockdown as unconstitutional and invalid. [n24]

Great Idea – SA Retailer Offers Virtual Shopping Assistant – Reduced coronavirus risk – check. Shopping from the comfort of home in my pyjamas – check. An expert to help me choose the perfect product – check. What’s not to like? [here]

The Big Sweep: Pre-Dawn Raid Nets Rotten Cops In Clampdown On Corruption – The arrests mark the first significant swoop on corrupt high-flyers who have thrived within SAPS ranks. [mav]

Cabine du Cap Is Available This Weekend – Luckily for you, new alert level 3 rules mean that you are allowed to stay at Cabine du Cap – everyone’s favourite luxury mountain retreat, just 2,5 hours from Cape Town. [2ov]

Tourism Business Body Still Hopeful For Wider Opening By September – With an eye on preventing further severe job losses and business closures in the tourism industry, the Tourism Business Council of SA says it remains hopeful that a wider opening up of the industry is both possible and necessary. [f24]

Facebook Starts Labeling ‘State-Controlled Media’ Pages – Facebook has begun labeling media outlets that are “wholly or partially under the editorial control of their government,” following an announcement of the policy in 2019. It will start labeling ads from these outlets later this year, as well as banning state-controlled media from advertising inside the US. [verge]

FlySafair Will Let You Buy An Empty Seat For R750 As Part Of Social Distancing – Domestic airline FlySafair says it will offer customers the option to social distance by neutralising the middle seat in a row of three seats on an aircraft. [btech]

Fraudster Bernie Madoff Denied Early Release From 150-Year Prison Sentence – Infamous fraudster Bernie Madoff, who perpetrated the largest Ponzi scheme in history, was denied early release from prison Thursday after requesting a compassionate end to his 150-year prison sentence due to terminal kidney failure. [forbes]

Rafael Nadal On Racism, Coronavirus And Tennis Restarting – In a parallel universe, Rafael Nadal would be in Paris, competing for a 13th French Open title. [metro]

France To Transform Surplus Wine Into Hand Sanitizer – Paris: French winemakers will transform wine that went unsold during the country´s two-month coronavirus lockdown into hand sanitiser and ethanol to make room for the next harvest, a farming agency said on Thursday. [thenews]

Death Of Man After Face Mask Arrest Shines Light On Mexican Police Brutality – Video shows officers forcing man into a police truck as bystanders plead for his release. [guardian]

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Suffers Most Extensive Coral Bleaching – Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffered its most extensive coral bleaching event in March, with scientists fearing the coral recovers less each time after the third bleaching in five years. [mav]

These 1950s-Inspired Vespa Posters Are Very Cool – Few could have predicted that a small scooter produced in 1949 would become such a cultural phenomenon, and that history is once again being celebrated. [here]

Kylie Jenner Tops Forbes Magazine’s Highest-Paid Celebrities List – After earning $590m in one year… just days after publication revoked her billionaire status. [dm]

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Buy Any Product From Websites That ‘Don’t Ship To SA’ – One of our most exciting partners offers you a PO Box in US, UK or Hong Kong, for you to deliver overseas online purchases to. Postbox Courier handles it from there – getting the package to you in under a week. [more]

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