Coronavirus: Russia Calls International Concern Over Vaccine ‘Groundless’ – Russia has dismissed mounting international concern over the safety of its locally developed Covid-19 vaccine as “absolutely groundless”. [bbc]

Trump Reverts To Stereotypes As Campaign Fumbles To Respond To Harris Pick – It took President Donald Trump less than two minutes to reach for the word “nasty” as he reacted to California Sen. Kamala Harris’ historic selection as the first Black woman to join a major-party ticket. [cnn]

Gold Settles Higher, A Day After Losing More Than 4% – Gold futures settled higher on Wednesday, recouping a small portion of the more than 4% drop suffered a day earlier, as U.S. Treasury yields traded off the day’s highs and the dollar edged lower, providing some support for the precious metal. [mw]

The Most Popular Robinhood Stocks Outperform Their Less-Traded Peers, According To A New JPMorgan Study – Do Robinhood traders move the market in the stocks that they buy? That’s the main question JPMorgan set out to answer in a research study that used data from Robintrack.net, which tracks the number of Robinhood accounts that own, buy, or sell a particular stock. [bus]

Les Wexner Agrees To Give Written Deposition In Epstein-Related Case – Billionaire fashion mogul Les Wexner has agreed to answer written deposition questions to prove he had no knowledge of an extortion scheme by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre in a legal battle between her and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. [nyp]

Scottish Passenger Train Derails, At Least 3 Dead Including Train Driver – The country declared a major incident as aerial footage showed carriages overturned and piled on top of each other on a steep wooded slope, and black smoke rising from the rural area. [nbc]

Facebook Admits Pandemic Meant Child Nudity Spread On Instagram – The company has admitted that it failed to detect images of child nudity due to content moderators working from home. [sky]

Read This Before Accepting Your SARS Auto-Assessment – If SARS issues you with an auto-assessment, usually done via SMS, you should first check that a few things are in order before accepting. [here]

Sumner Redstone, Billionaire Media Tycoon, Dead At Age 97 – Sumner Redstone, the media mogul who built his family’s drive-in theater chain into a multibillion-dollar empire encompassing CBS and Viacom and later became the center of a jilted lover’s lawsuit that nearly cost his family his financial legacy, has died. He was 97. [cnbc]

Deadly Clashes In India’s Bengaluru Over Facebook Post On Prophet – At least three dead in tech hub during violence over a reported derogatory post about the Prophet Muhammad, police say. [alja]

Facebook Bans Blackface And Anti-Semitic Stereotypes In Hate Speech Update – Facebook has expanded its ban on racist writings and imagery, with new rules specifically prohibiting depictions of blackface and statements or images suggesting that Jewish people control the world or major institutions. [verge]

Princess Diana Musical To Premiere On Netflix Before Broadway Debut – In an unprecedented move, postponed musical Diana will be filmed without an audience and shown on Netflix before its new official opening in 2021. [guardian]

Three Men Charged With Threatening R Kelly Accusers – Man suspected of setting fire to car in Florida among trio charged by US federal prosecutors in singer’s sexual abuse case. [guardian]

R750 For Jack And R650 For Richelieu: Booze Is Easy To Find In SA – But It’s Not Cheap – A thriving – and sometimes quite efficient – black market has emerged since South Africa’s second ban on booze sales, and it is thriving, with prices as high as five times what they were before lockdown. [busins]

John McAfee’s ‘Arrest’ Over Thong Face Mask Was All A Hoax – John McAfee said his viral claim that he was arrested in Norway for wearing a thong as a face mask was all a hoax. [nyp]

France’s Champagne Industry Goes Flat Amid Pandemic – A billion bottles have been left idle in cellars. Weddings and business jollies have been cancelled because of the pandemic. Ultimately, who feels like celebrating when there’s a potential virus on the lip of every cut-glass flute? [bbc]

CNN Reckons These Features Will Make The iPhone 12 A “Must-Have Product” – Apple’s hotly-anticipated iPhone 12, slated for release at some point in October, looks set to be one of the most futureproof smartphones in history. [here]

This Supercar Can Travel Up To 1,000 Miles On One Tank Of Fuel [Video] – The Hyperion XP-1 is a supercar that runs entirely on compressed hydrogen gas and can go from zero to 60 mph in a little over two seconds. [cnn]

EuroMillions Winner Adrian Bayford Can Finally Sell The £6.5m Mansion He Bought With £148m Jackpot – After council bosses let him keep state of the art games room he built with no planning permission. [dm]

Why Do So Many Adult Men Keep Their Mattresses On The Floor? – Despite most bed frames costing less than a month’s worth of cold brews, there appears to be an epidemic of grown-ass men refusing to hoist their mattresses onto one. We investigate. [vice]

Mia Khalifa Auctions Glasses From Her Adult Films To Support Lebanon – While sports commentator Mia Khalifa was only in the porn industry for three months, her impact has lasted years. [mash]

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